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Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 18

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The decline in long-form reading and thinking is already manifest in doctoral programs where students no longer read “whole books” and extended arguments. This author portrays a “post rational age” and its dire consequences for societies already in evidence.

Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o... Good to know that some professors and their students are resisting the uncritical use of AI and keeping the “humane” in the humanities.

NO KINGS! National Day of Mobilization Hyannis · Mobilize

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! National Day of Mobilization Hyannis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

We the people say NO KINGS! National, peaceful day of defiance We are the many, they are the few. Date: Saturday, June 14th Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM Location: Hyannis Airport Rotary (details about parki...

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · May 3

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Where is the great anti-Trump protest song?

Once a staple of pop music, protest songs are harder to find these days. But political statements aren’t

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 15

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u.... A crucial move on behalf of academic freedom that should stiffen the spine of educational institutions.

But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... A chilling picture of the current US regime.

Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 30

My plan for the next four years

Podcast 95 - "Life is good once you master the art of Deletion."

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Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 17

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u... The lawlessness of the Trump administration continues.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 8

Multistate lawsuit seeks to reverse Trump admin purge of federal workers - The Washington Post The cruelty and chaos engendered by mass layoffs, firings, and terminations from the federal workforce is now being resisted by state attorneys general. This is a welcome development.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 1

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

The Violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s Tactic to Oppose Trump’s Agenda: Cancel Concerts

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 1

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a... Christian Tetzlaff’s principled decision to oppose Trump’s policies by canceling his US concerts highlights the tragedy unfolding in the country and the relative “quietness” of cultural subversion in the country.

Christian Tetzlaff said he was disturbed by the president’s embrace of Russia and other policies. “There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” he said.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 26

This needs to be amplified.

Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 25

It is almost subversive now to insist that one’s teaching and learning constitutes a “technology-free” and entirely human process. Music offers the possibility of a wonderful break from the constant technology and allows people to interact entirely personally with voices and acoustic instruments.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ifill’s observation is important. Four star heads of the Coast Guard, Army, and Navy—two women and a black man regarded as DEI hires were fired and an unqualified retired three star general was nominated as Chair of the Joint Chiefs. A shameful politicization of the armed forces leadership.

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 22

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 16

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
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Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o... Beyond Trump’s desire to control the arts, is his dismissal of the importance of academic scholarship and federal influence in education more broadly.

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 13

How not to describe the Trump presidency

Friends,

Music Center Update: February 2025

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 13

Tragic to think of past European allies needing to make a statement in defense against Trump and Putin.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 11

sarasotaorchestra.prospect2.com/index.php?ac.... A new music center built specifically for acoustic instruments is being planned for the Sarasota Orchestra, thanks to a generous gift of $60 million USD. This center will serve musical and educational needs in Sarasota and West Coast Florida.

We're celebrating a...

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Trump Names Himself Principal Ballerina of Kennedy Center Ballet

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 10

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... This comedic post illustrates the problem for the Kennedy Center and the nation.

Trump took to Truth Social to announce a purge of the company's ballerinas.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 9

The notion of Trump chairing the board of the Kennedy Center is preposterous and should be strenuously opposed by the board, musicians and artists, and the public. The mind boggles at the thought of POTUS opining on anything artistic from the depths of his ignorance.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 8

Masha Gessen marshals five powerful arguments that lead people to obey in advance, and one even more powerful argument not to obey. The choice for musicians and educators today who are lovers of liberty needs to be “not to obey” and to subvert or oppose.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 8

Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.