Stuart Chapman Hill
@stuchapmanhill.bsky.social
Musician, teacher, &c. Professionally confused. Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at Michigan State University.
http://www.stuartchapmanhill.com
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Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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For all of us battling our AI demons
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
For all of us battling our AI demons
“Throw the bums out” but it’s (former) hotshot journalists
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Throw the bums out” but it’s (former) hotshot journalists
An email auto-responder, but it waits 3–4 days, sends a reply that says "Sorry for the delay; I'm swamped this week but can respond more substantively once I play some catch-up"—and does so with every email I ever receive.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
An email auto-responder, but it waits 3–4 days, sends a reply that says "Sorry for the delay; I'm swamped this week but can respond more substantively once I play some catch-up"—and does so with every email I ever receive.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Charter schools are not good. Sorry.
Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Charter schools are not good. Sorry.
This essay: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party’s establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This essay: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
One of the greatest crimes of American civics miseducation is convincing people the filibuster is some wisely invented tool of bipartisanship and deliberateness. It is an accident of parliamentary procedure! It is not good!
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One of the greatest crimes of American civics miseducation is convincing people the filibuster is some wisely invented tool of bipartisanship and deliberateness. It is an accident of parliamentary procedure! It is not good!
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Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
I am once again asking Spelling Bee to please take a music appreciation course.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I am once again asking Spelling Bee to please take a music appreciation course.
Spartans, WTF.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Spartans, WTF.
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would you like to live multi-modally?
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
would you like to live multi-modally?
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I've seen a lot of "It's hot in October b/c you're using ChatGPT to write emails" posts, and while I love and support anything that craps on AI, FWIW it's my understanding that the single most impactful thing an individual can do to lessen emissions is still to eat less meat
October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I've seen a lot of "It's hot in October b/c you're using ChatGPT to write emails" posts, and while I love and support anything that craps on AI, FWIW it's my understanding that the single most impactful thing an individual can do to lessen emissions is still to eat less meat
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
Any rapture updates?
September 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Any rapture updates?
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Never forget how many more of us there are than them.
Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.
Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Never forget how many more of us there are than them.
Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.
Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.
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They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.
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Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.
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Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
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“We are going to have to live here with each other” sounds good in a vacuum. But it reveals itself to be a remarkably naïve and/or disingenuous proposition as soon as we move from abstract notions of “our disagreements” to asking: What are we disagreeing over, exactly?
September 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“We are going to have to live here with each other” sounds good in a vacuum. But it reveals itself to be a remarkably naïve and/or disingenuous proposition as soon as we move from abstract notions of “our disagreements” to asking: What are we disagreeing over, exactly?
While democracy crashes to the ground, Ezra Klein writes *that* column and has Ben Shapiro on his show, and Kara Swisher books Joe Manchin? Were cooked.
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
While democracy crashes to the ground, Ezra Klein writes *that* column and has Ben Shapiro on his show, and Kara Swisher books Joe Manchin? Were cooked.