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Rob Deemer

@robdeemer.bsky.social

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Composition professor, Chair of Theatre & Dance, & Senate Chair at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · Oct 21

Here are six highlighted charts from our recently launched ICD Orchestra Repertoire Report. You can read and download the entire report below!

www.composerdiversity.com/orchestra-re...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 1d

@normornstein.bsky.social…as a full professor at SUNY Fredonia, I second this request!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

So far, polls unanimously find voters are blaming Republicans more than Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

All the polls on the government shutdown so far | Weekly roundup for October 5, 2025

Also this week: Dems lead in Virginia election polling; economic sentiment is down; people are turning against sports betting; + more!

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 4d

Michael Caine: something something world burn something something 🔥

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 4d

Ouroboros should be a palindrome.

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 5d

It's finally here!! Avril Coleridge-Taylor is getting the first album ever dedicated entirely to her works. My post this week is about why Avril, her music, and the album matter

"Her compositions tell both one woman’s story, and a whole social history too."

leahbroad.substack.com/p/avril-cole...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 10d

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 11d

I feel the same way…hard to get a clear sense of anything here.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11d

get this guy an agent, every team in the NFL would kill to have him as a wide receiver

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

The Department of Education followed Bondi’s memo with a demand for new admissions data on the racial makeup, standardized-test scores, and GPA of applicants and admitted students for all institutions that receive federal student aid. Justin Driver, a Yale Law professor and the author of The Fall of Affirmative Action, told me that he expects any elite college that doesn’t start enrolling fewer Black students to be accused by the Trump administration of breaking the law.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 12d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13d

It used to be that the vast majority of people in ICE custody who had no criminal convictions or charges were there after being stopped at the border by the Border Patrol.
No longer. Non-criminal detentions by ICE are up 2000% year-over-year.
www.pbump.net/o/all-the-pr...

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating thread about a woman who saw our present in the late 90s tech scene.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16d

NEW

Oklahoma’s School Superintendent Ryan Walters Is Considering Resigning

Full Story: bit.ly/4nnQeq3

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure how I missed this, but on Friday we got a nice big win in the @aclu.org 's lawsuit against the NEA -- a permanent block on the agency enforcing Trump's "gender ideology" exec. order.

storage.courtlistener.com

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 17d

More of this, yes.

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 17d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 19d

NEW POST

This week I'm thinking about the role of music in political conflict.

Meet French Resistance composer Elsa Barraine, whose compositions responded to the rise of fascism in Europe

"Music would become Barraine's mode of resistance"

open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

The composer who defied the Nazis

Eight pieces to start listening to French Resistance composer Elsa Barraine

open.substack.com

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Patricia, Wailing "AHH!!!" 👻 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 19d

Long Beach Opera makes fairly consistent Money Moves, and this is no exception

San Diego Live Data @619sdld.bsky.social · Feb 11

Long Beach Opera to Spend Entire Season Spotlighting Musical Visionary Pauline Oliveros

The Long Beach Opera will dedicate its entire season to the works of Pauline Oliveros, an influential experimental musician and composer. Known for her "deep listeni…

Long Beach Opera to Spend Entire Season Spotlighting Musical Visionary Pauline Oliveros

The legacy of Pauline Oliveros is particularly strong in Southern California, where she co-founded the Department of Music at the University of California, San Diego in 1967.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 21d

Deadline is October 3 at midnight.
www.nats.org/Mentoring_Pr...

Mentoring Program for Composers | National Association of Teachers of Singing

www.nats.org

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 21d

This is probably a lot more effective than cancelling your Hulu subscription tho of c you can do both.

Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 21d

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Tweet from Dan Satterfield

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.
Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years.
Nothing you do will have greater impact.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 22d

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

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amycatron.bsky.social @amycatron.bsky.social · 27d

Current events in Mississippi

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 29d

insane-making overt and malicious racism

FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 29d

Trump administration ending grants for colleges with large minority student populations

The Education Department announced Wednesday it is ending discretionary funding to multiple Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) grant programs.

myfox8.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Feb 28

This is actually really shocking. Brian Harrison, a white Republican state rep, left the black, Republican-appointed chair of the Texas Water Development Board reduced to tears over DEI. She has two engineering degrees.

It's so bad Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick had to publicly defend her.

Michelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · Feb 28

Y’all. It’s really bad. Like really, really. #txlege

Rep. Harrison asks questions of the Texas Water Development Board on their hiring practices

YouTube video by Texas Impact

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