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Ian Power

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Composer & performer of unrestrained, unambiguous, emphatic music and music theater. Assoc. Prof. & Director of Arts Production & Management at University of Baltimore. he/him. Los Angeles/Baltimore ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com ianpowerOMG.com

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Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have a new album coming out, called Brace. It's available for pre-order on Bandcamp (Friday) today, and will be released on streaming (and mailed out for CD orders) on November 6.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 3h

I guess

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 1d

For years, I had this vision of having a child and playing "Send it On" to them while I made breakfast in the morning. I got to do that, over and over again. How do you properly thank someone for providing that sort of soundtrack, for gifting you those sorts of memories? Man, what a loss.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 1d

is this user who has no mental health problems in the room with us now

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 1d

Believe me they already have

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 2d

I LOVE A Little Life and I think the criticisms of it misunderstand the nature of ART completely

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 4d

On the Transmigration of Sales

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god dude

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 5d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 6d

Defector did this months ago defector.com/meet-the-civ...

Meet The Civil Servants Under Attack By The Trump Administration | Defector

Soon after inauguration, the Trump administration announced plans to slash the size of the federal government, seemingly by any means necessary. The administration enlisted Elon Musk’s Department of G...

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 6d

Back then, as much as I admired the ambition of his work, I found it cynical for how it leveraged authenticity (I'm a Deleuze fan after all). But now turning his work on how I *myself* construct my reality... it makes me feel heard I suppose, at the very least.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 6d

The one aspect of Baudrillard I perhaps didn't understand back then is how implicated the reader even is. I've realized lately how having a grasp on reality is a *social* phenomenon, buttressed by community, no matter how smart you are.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 6d

When the Biden presidency was funding food aid to Gaza in order to help the people the Biden presidency was helping to bomb... what is that other than This War Is Not Taking Place? When Trump supporters told me eggs were cheaper when I saw with my own eyes they were more expensive... that shook me.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 6d

Like a lot of my peers I had a skeptical relationship to much of Baudrillard's work (especially on America ironically). But the past three years (since the start of the latest Gaza war really) I have found myself reaching to him for these feelings I can't quite describe.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 6d

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.

A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.

Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 8d

Wait, Sontag may have read Gawker??

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 13d

Girl

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 13d

NEW📝: A flood of billionaire money in elections started after the SCOTUS #CitizensUnited decision.

Since 2010, billionaire 💰💰 in elections has grown 160x, giving the wealthy huge power over policy while regular voters lose influence. 🧵1/3

Graph showing billionaire spending in Presidential elections before and after Citizen's United.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 13d

I've largely retired from posting news for the sake of it, but I think this truly insane ICE raid in Chicago last night is not getting enough attention: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 15d

The Baltimore Beat, which comes out every other week distributes 20k (free!) papers (when I was working there; maybe its circ has increased). So the Sun currently distributes less than double what the Beat distributes. Useful data points for understanding actual reach in the current news ecosystem.

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 16d

This is a trojan horse, but it also reminds me of most of music history

Amy Ferrell @amyshadow.bsky.social · 16d

It’s a perfect Trojan horse: worship music as the dominant form of white culture, scrubbed clean of the Black and brown traditions it stole from, is now carrying into the bloodstream of the body politic a theology and a praxis of domination.”

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 16d

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Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 20d

i know it's fb, but i also feel like the slightest amount of moderation could keep all their fb comment sections from being 100% unadulterated nazis

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 22d

"Smithers, I'm enjoying this so called 'minor league football'"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28d

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 28d

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

There are many problems with this statement, but Klein’s fundamental error reveals something much more dangerous: he’s mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

Ian Power @ianpoweromg.bsky.social · 29d

Thread about how AIs in schools are not being used to teach, but actually thinly disguising using students' time and skill to train the models to make them more marketable.

Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · Sep 9

My daughter has always used a tablet-based platform for standardized testing here in Idaho and most weeks they do some work on it, with monthly metrics testing and an annual exam. It sucks and we talk a lot as a family about standardized testing, but that's not what this is about. It's about AI.