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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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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A Brazilian woman who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by ICE
Mother Of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Is Detained By ICE
The Brazilian overstayed a tourist visa and is in “removal proceedings,” Homeland Security told CNN.
www.huffpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A Brazilian woman who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by ICE
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
The only acceptable Mother Jones article on the subject of RFK Jr.'s sex appeal should be entitled "RFK Jr. is Not Sexy: His Face Looks Like He has Been Sitting in a Sauna Since 1982, Experts Say"
I mean what are we even doing here
I mean what are we even doing here
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The only acceptable Mother Jones article on the subject of RFK Jr.'s sex appeal should be entitled "RFK Jr. is Not Sexy: His Face Looks Like He has Been Sitting in a Sauna Since 1982, Experts Say"
I mean what are we even doing here
I mean what are we even doing here
I'd demand Tony Gilroy team up with David Simon for a reboot of The Wire
(David Simon wouldn't want to do it, I bet, but I am a *despotic* president after all, aren't I?)
(David Simon wouldn't want to do it, I bet, but I am a *despotic* president after all, aren't I?)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'd demand Tony Gilroy team up with David Simon for a reboot of The Wire
(David Simon wouldn't want to do it, I bet, but I am a *despotic* president after all, aren't I?)
(David Simon wouldn't want to do it, I bet, but I am a *despotic* president after all, aren't I?)
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sorry to belabor this but
a little birdie* told me that all VUP titles will be 50% off the rest of the year starting on Monday 11/24
*mass marketing email
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
*mass marketing email
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
From Dixie to Rocky Top – Vanderbilt University Press
Listen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify. The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally impo...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
sorry to belabor this but
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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one of my unique skills that I bring to the pro-housing movement is a strange ability to post relatively anodyne statements that, for some reason, drive NIMBYs to utter madness, which negatively polarizes normies in favor of pro-housing policies
Sometimes I’m like “maybe I can tell my wife about online” and then I realize some of online is like “the Netflix comedy lady’s villain origin story is being furious at Jeopardy Sam for supporting building more housing” and then I’m like nah.
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
one of my unique skills that I bring to the pro-housing movement is a strange ability to post relatively anodyne statements that, for some reason, drive NIMBYs to utter madness, which negatively polarizes normies in favor of pro-housing policies
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Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
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Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
ED Reaches Consensus On Loan Caps
A very limited number of degree programs would have access to the highest level of loans under a new set of regulations that the Department of Education and its negotiating committee signed off on Thu...
www.insidehighered.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
Why I became a musicologist:
On the record? The sense that musicology and ethnomusicology were dealing with the big questions about music, culture, politics
Off the record? Embarrassingly, I was taken by a heavily romanticized portrayal of a musicologist in Robertson Davies' *The Lyre of Orpheus*
On the record? The sense that musicology and ethnomusicology were dealing with the big questions about music, culture, politics
Off the record? Embarrassingly, I was taken by a heavily romanticized portrayal of a musicologist in Robertson Davies' *The Lyre of Orpheus*
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Why I became a musicologist:
On the record? The sense that musicology and ethnomusicology were dealing with the big questions about music, culture, politics
Off the record? Embarrassingly, I was taken by a heavily romanticized portrayal of a musicologist in Robertson Davies' *The Lyre of Orpheus*
On the record? The sense that musicology and ethnomusicology were dealing with the big questions about music, culture, politics
Off the record? Embarrassingly, I was taken by a heavily romanticized portrayal of a musicologist in Robertson Davies' *The Lyre of Orpheus*
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According to Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender, this AI scam problem is “symbolic of how little these tech people give a fuck about actual music and the people who make it.”
Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?
And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
www.hearingthings.co
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
According to Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender, this AI scam problem is “symbolic of how little these tech people give a fuck about actual music and the people who make it.”
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Tip for any ambitious capitalist out there. You know what there’s going to be an ENORMOUS market for in the near future? Authentic human expression. Most normal people fucking hate AI slop and there’s already emerging a significant backlash against it.
According to Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender, this AI scam problem is “symbolic of how little these tech people give a fuck about actual music and the people who make it.”
Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?
And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
www.hearingthings.co
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tip for any ambitious capitalist out there. You know what there’s going to be an ENORMOUS market for in the near future? Authentic human expression. Most normal people fucking hate AI slop and there’s already emerging a significant backlash against it.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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30 years ago today, Casino (1995) hit theaters—a brutal, opulent Scorsese epic about power, greed, and the fall of a Vegas empire.
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cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/
#Filmsky
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cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/
#Filmsky
Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect of one story out of Vegas for the past ...
cinephiliabeyond.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
30 years ago today, Casino (1995) hit theaters—a brutal, opulent Scorsese epic about power, greed, and the fall of a Vegas empire.
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cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/
#Filmsky
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cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/
#Filmsky
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Please don't use the word "lynching" to describe the mere derailing of a Senate career
Franken is fine. Maybe he doesn't get to be in national politics anymore, but I'm sure he's pulling through
Which is more than you can say for anyone subject to the summary execution by Klan mob in the 1930s
Franken is fine. Maybe he doesn't get to be in national politics anymore, but I'm sure he's pulling through
Which is more than you can say for anyone subject to the summary execution by Klan mob in the 1930s
Sorry, no….its not. Many of us will never forgive her for lynching Al Franken. That was a contrived right-wing hit job pushed by a disingenuous partisan hack former model who decided to weaponize a joke photo from decades ago. We lost a progressive warrior because of Dem self flagellation.
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Please don't use the word "lynching" to describe the mere derailing of a Senate career
Franken is fine. Maybe he doesn't get to be in national politics anymore, but I'm sure he's pulling through
Which is more than you can say for anyone subject to the summary execution by Klan mob in the 1930s
Franken is fine. Maybe he doesn't get to be in national politics anymore, but I'm sure he's pulling through
Which is more than you can say for anyone subject to the summary execution by Klan mob in the 1930s
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In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
It is good to see the pushback on Trump lead to real losses for him. But it's hard to be optimistic when he still wields the enormous power of the presidency. ICE is still rampaging, HHS is harming people, the U.S. may be about to sell out Ukraine, the boat strikes...he's still doing so much damage.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
Relatedly, imagine being one of those centrist pols who spent the last weeks of the mayoral race hammering away at Mamdani in the hopes that it would distance you, or your party, from anything likely to provoke Trump
Then Trump turns out to like this guy more than Roy Cohn and Kim Jong Un combined
Then Trump turns out to like this guy more than Roy Cohn and Kim Jong Un combined
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Relatedly, imagine being one of those centrist pols who spent the last weeks of the mayoral race hammering away at Mamdani in the hopes that it would distance you, or your party, from anything likely to provoke Trump
Then Trump turns out to like this guy more than Roy Cohn and Kim Jong Un combined
Then Trump turns out to like this guy more than Roy Cohn and Kim Jong Un combined
If you see this QTP with a GIF of your favorite wild animal
Gotta go with the classics
Gotta go with the classics
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you see this QTP with a GIF of your favorite wild animal
Gotta go with the classics
Gotta go with the classics
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attn Brooklyn:
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
attn Brooklyn: