Kristen Turner
@kristenmturner.bsky.social
Mom of 3 grownups, musicologist, loves the archive and a good romantasy, almost done with The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Stage. Host of New Books in Music
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This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
"Things happen" -- Khashoggi was brutally murdered and dismembered by an authoritarian regime, probably at MBS's orders. He sounds like a mob capo sucking up to the boss.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Things happen" -- Khashoggi was brutally murdered and dismembered by an authoritarian regime, probably at MBS's orders. He sounds like a mob capo sucking up to the boss.
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Just another day in the Trump administration's campaign to erase any reminder that African Americans are part of our history. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
The Netherlands American Cemetery previously had two displays honoring Black American soldiers’ experiences in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just another day in the Trump administration's campaign to erase any reminder that African Americans are part of our history. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
He'll destroy anything, break any law, trample any norm. This is exactly what he's doing to the rest of the government. We can just see this more easily.
The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it
October 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
He'll destroy anything, break any law, trample any norm. This is exactly what he's doing to the rest of the government. We can just see this more easily.
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Calling HBCU faculty in the humanities and social sciences! Apply now to the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program, with grants up to $10K and fellowships up to $50K. Apply by Nov. 5, 9 PM ET: https://bit.ly/45tc8QX
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Calling HBCU faculty in the humanities and social sciences! Apply now to the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program, with grants up to $10K and fellowships up to $50K. Apply by Nov. 5, 9 PM ET: https://bit.ly/45tc8QX
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I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:
September 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:
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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
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As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News
Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...
kffhealthnews.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
That's not scary at all.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
That's not scary at all.
Michael Broyles is one of the giants of American musicology. In this book, he breaks down important inflection points in US music -- jazz, rock & polkas? Here us talk about it on New Books in Music: newbooksnetwork.com/revolutions-...
June 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Michael Broyles is one of the giants of American musicology. In this book, he breaks down important inflection points in US music -- jazz, rock & polkas? Here us talk about it on New Books in Music: newbooksnetwork.com/revolutions-...
Gwynne Kuhner Brown and I had a great conversation about her biography of William L. Dawson (from @illinoispress.bsky.social). A composer, conductor, and pedagogue who is one of the best of the mid-twentieth-century US composers. Check it out!
newbooksnetwork.com/william-l-da...
newbooksnetwork.com/william-l-da...
Gwynne Kuhner Brown, "William L. Dawson" (University of Illinois Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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June 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Gwynne Kuhner Brown and I had a great conversation about her biography of William L. Dawson (from @illinoispress.bsky.social). A composer, conductor, and pedagogue who is one of the best of the mid-twentieth-century US composers. Check it out!
newbooksnetwork.com/william-l-da...
newbooksnetwork.com/william-l-da...
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Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.
NRPF Grants: 2025 Call for Proposals
www.recordingpreservation.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.
That was the Dillingham Commission's argument.....in 1911.
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
That was the Dillingham Commission's argument.....in 1911.
I wonder how Aaron Sorkin would write The West Wing now?
I just rewatched the episode when everyone was panicked that CJ made a small factual error during a press briefing. It's quaint.
I just rewatched the episode when everyone was panicked that CJ made a small factual error during a press briefing. It's quaint.
May 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I wonder how Aaron Sorkin would write The West Wing now?
I just rewatched the episode when everyone was panicked that CJ made a small factual error during a press briefing. It's quaint.
I just rewatched the episode when everyone was panicked that CJ made a small factual error during a press briefing. It's quaint.
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Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
April 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
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LOL replace in your brains! This is some next-level thought policing.
The Justice Dept is asking people to auto-replace (in their brains) the word "gender" with "sex" when reading agency filings that pre-date Trump Administration
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May 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
LOL replace in your brains! This is some next-level thought policing.
I'm all in for the Dems -- but, treating voters like we are six and need to have the hard words defined for us is f*cking annoying.
When he was six years old, Leader Jeffries’ son Joshua explained that “debacle” means “something bad.”
On today’s Democratic Daily Download, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social explains how the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have been a debacle for the American people.
On today’s Democratic Daily Download, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social explains how the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have been a debacle for the American people.
May 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm all in for the Dems -- but, treating voters like we are six and need to have the hard words defined for us is f*cking annoying.
The folks who work at NEH are committed to the humanities. It must make them sick to be involved with this mess.
“the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is pleased to announce a special funding opportunity to support the design and creation of statues of important American historical figures for the planned National Garden of American Heroes.” bit.ly/42KlpCz
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
bit.ly
April 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The folks who work at NEH are committed to the humanities. It must make them sick to be involved with this mess.
Literally any use for NEH money would be better than this.
They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.
“the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is pleased to announce a special funding opportunity to support the design and creation of statues of important American historical figures for the planned National Garden of American Heroes.” bit.ly/42KlpCz
April 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Literally any use for NEH money would be better than this.
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The AMS is launching a “Coalition of Music Organizations,” a voluntary association of music organizations, publishers, programs, and cultural institutions designed to provide access to small grant funding, outreach support, and opportunities for cooperation. www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
Coalition of Music Organizations to Help Address Lost Grant Access
The AMS launches a voluntary association of music organizations designed to strengthen the music and education sector.
www.amsmusicology.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The AMS is launching a “Coalition of Music Organizations,” a voluntary association of music organizations, publishers, programs, and cultural institutions designed to provide access to small grant funding, outreach support, and opportunities for cooperation. www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
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The State Department is "streamlining" its human rights reports.
They are cutting any mentions to:
-political prisoners.
-restrictions on "free and fair elections."
- asylum-seekers being sent to a home country where they may face torture
- gender-based violence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
They are cutting any mentions to:
-political prisoners.
-restrictions on "free and fair elections."
- asylum-seekers being sent to a home country where they may face torture
- gender-based violence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
April 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The State Department is "streamlining" its human rights reports.
They are cutting any mentions to:
-political prisoners.
-restrictions on "free and fair elections."
- asylum-seekers being sent to a home country where they may face torture
- gender-based violence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
They are cutting any mentions to:
-political prisoners.
-restrictions on "free and fair elections."
- asylum-seekers being sent to a home country where they may face torture
- gender-based violence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
This question is what my book is about, too.
I tell my undergrads that my 20th c lecture course revolves around two big questions — what is America and who counts as American?
this was more or less my conclusion from my undergrad lib arts degree:
April 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This question is what my book is about, too.
This is diabolical
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is diabolical
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In a functioning democracy, these comments alone would be grounds for impeachment.
Trump brags about his shakedown of major law firms: "We have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money... they paid $100m on average... hopefully I won't need that many legal fees. I may. Who knows? After it ends. After I leave maybe I'll need it, but if I do it won't be very pleasant."
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In a functioning democracy, these comments alone would be grounds for impeachment.
I regret to say this is actually true. Between wrecking the world economy and destroying long-standing alliances, Trump took time out to complain about the water pressure in his shower.
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I regret to say this is actually true. Between wrecking the world economy and destroying long-standing alliances, Trump took time out to complain about the water pressure in his shower.