Dale Chapman
@decmusicology.bsky.social
Professor of Music, Bates College
*The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (University of California Press, 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly with Elbows Up
he/him
*The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (University of California Press, 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly with Elbows Up
he/him
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i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
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Just got back from the federal building in downtown San Diego where our local bishop and other church leaders were leading a vigil for the immigrants unjustly incarcerated there. The leadership the church has shown on this issue is inspiring.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Just got back from the federal building in downtown San Diego where our local bishop and other church leaders were leading a vigil for the immigrants unjustly incarcerated there. The leadership the church has shown on this issue is inspiring.
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After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
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Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield awarded the AMS Otto Kindledey Award
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield awarded the AMS Otto Kindledey Award
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
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Don’t think Ella is a fan #SD43Fauna
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Don’t think Ella is a fan #SD43Fauna
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Remember when Roger Sterling had a mustache? It's important that we not let this kind of image slip from our collective memories.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Remember when Roger Sterling had a mustache? It's important that we not let this kind of image slip from our collective memories.
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"Look, every word the president just said is a lie."
-- Me, telling the truth.
-- Me, telling the truth.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Look, every word the president just said is a lie."
-- Me, telling the truth.
-- Me, telling the truth.
Ah, Russell and Rhys.... we'll hopefully bring those crazy kids back together at some point. What's on everyone's wish list for a second project featuring the two of them?
Netflix has new seasons of TV with Keri Russell (Diplomat) and Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me) within the same month, while Sarah Snook (All Her Fault) and Matthew Macfadyen (Death By Lightning) have new streaming shows dropping this week. Co-stars staying in close proximity.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ah, Russell and Rhys.... we'll hopefully bring those crazy kids back together at some point. What's on everyone's wish list for a second project featuring the two of them?
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A few years ago I decided to experiment to come up with a design that you could use to make a bar stool with a few simple hand tools and a single 8 foot 2x4 from the local Home Depot.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A few years ago I decided to experiment to come up with a design that you could use to make a bar stool with a few simple hand tools and a single 8 foot 2x4 from the local Home Depot.
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My favourite Harrison Ford interview www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/harr...
November 24, 2024 at 11:42 AM
My favourite Harrison Ford interview www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/harr...
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Every now and then I'll re-read this Steve Albini article from 1993 thebaffler.com/salvos/the-p...
its terrifying
But a tiny part of my broken self is chasing a twisted sense of 'validation' from being a 'global success' and I'm not sure what horrifies me more, the music industry or myself.
#music
its terrifying
But a tiny part of my broken self is chasing a twisted sense of 'validation' from being a 'global success' and I'm not sure what horrifies me more, the music industry or myself.
#music
The Problem with Music | Steve Albini
How record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions
thebaffler.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Every now and then I'll re-read this Steve Albini article from 1993 thebaffler.com/salvos/the-p...
its terrifying
But a tiny part of my broken self is chasing a twisted sense of 'validation' from being a 'global success' and I'm not sure what horrifies me more, the music industry or myself.
#music
its terrifying
But a tiny part of my broken self is chasing a twisted sense of 'validation' from being a 'global success' and I'm not sure what horrifies me more, the music industry or myself.
#music
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In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
It still warps my brain to imagine that when I was in college in Toronto he was at Queens, just a couple hundred clicks up the road -- that we theoretically inhabited the same space-time continuum
I wonder if his classmates knew he was destined to become a Bond supervillain
I wonder if his classmates knew he was destined to become a Bond supervillain
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
It still warps my brain to imagine that when I was in college in Toronto he was at Queens, just a couple hundred clicks up the road -- that we theoretically inhabited the same space-time continuum
I wonder if his classmates knew he was destined to become a Bond supervillain
I wonder if his classmates knew he was destined to become a Bond supervillain
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@joycecaroloates.bsky.social ma'am, can I introduce you to "I gotta get the hell out of here" theory? youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social ma'am, can I introduce you to "I gotta get the hell out of here" theory? youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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FRIDAY IN PROVIDENCE:
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
FRIDAY IN PROVIDENCE:
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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While the US cuts essential benefits and arts & culture get decimated, the Irish government built a permanent UBI program for musicians. A better and more sustainable music industry is possible! US lawmakers must give more public funding for the arts and protect artists and workers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
While the US cuts essential benefits and arts & culture get decimated, the Irish government built a permanent UBI program for musicians. A better and more sustainable music industry is possible! US lawmakers must give more public funding for the arts and protect artists and workers.
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Pritzker gets it.
Why can't the Senate caucus get it?
Why can't the Senate caucus get it?
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Pritzker gets it.
Why can't the Senate caucus get it?
Why can't the Senate caucus get it?
The best have lost all conviction,
The worst are filled with passionate intensity
The worst are filled with passionate intensity
NEW: A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office.
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The best have lost all conviction,
The worst are filled with passionate intensity
The worst are filled with passionate intensity
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We had all the momentum
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We had all the momentum
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down