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vijay iyer

@vijayiyer.bsky.social

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music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · Sep 5

THEREUPON

the new album by

FIELDWORK (Steve Lehman / Vijay Iyer / Tyshawn Sorey)

is OUT NOW on all platforms, streaming, download, CD, & vinyl!

(but please don’t use spotify!)

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Fieldwork - Thereupon

Listen to Thereupon by Fieldwork.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22h

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Far From Over by Vijay Iyer Sextet

Preview, download or stream Far From Over by Vijay Iyer Sextet

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

Please enjoy this new video of "Torque," my 2018 composition for mallet quartet, performed by Sō Percussion

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uq...

Sō Percusssion performs Vijay Iyer's Torque

YouTube video by Sō Percussion

www.youtube.com

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

genocidal fascism is here

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

"we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation."
- six former US surgeons general (in a paywalled WaPo op-ed)

archive.ph/DNPUh

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

me with Mr. Baraka at Harlem Stage, 2012

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”

--Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014)

(blurry photo by me)

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

The UN has sent peacekeepers in for less

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with Mark Bray. Purging academia of scholars of antifascism is just the first step in establishing fascist ideological orthodoxy.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

speaking tomorrow at Wellesley

www.wellesley.edu/events/fall-...

Fall 2025 Herrmann Lecture: Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer is a MacArthur Fellow and Grammy-nominated composer and pianist.

www.wellesley.edu

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

🙏🏾

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 5d

It’s all good! Thank you for your very kind words.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 6d

Please call Cook County DA and ask them to drop charges against the group of protesters arrested in Chicago yesterday: (312) 603-1880

This is particularly for Illinois residents, but national calls couldn’t hurt.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you 🙏🏾 Happy anniversary to us.

(btw, I’m not connected to any “jazz program”)

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 6d

Jazz OTD: Pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa - now faculty in the jazz programs, respectively, at Harvard and Princeton - recorded "Raw Materials," a terrific album of energetic, inspiring duets, on October 4, 2005. #jazzsky

Forgotten System

YouTube video by Vijay Iyer - Topic

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