Stuart Chapman Hill
@stuchapmanhill.bsky.social
Musician, teacher, &c. Professionally confused. Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at Michigan State University.
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
Name a person more embarrassing than Marco Rubio.
January 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Name a person more embarrassing than Marco Rubio.
Amazing to see how openly he crows about the oil part. GWB and company, some of the most sinister politicians in US history, wouldn’t have been caught dead admitting to the oil interests driving their quagmires.
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Amazing to see how openly he crows about the oil part. GWB and company, some of the most sinister politicians in US history, wouldn’t have been caught dead admitting to the oil interests driving their quagmires.
I am waiting for statements from @slotkin.senate.gov and @peters.senate.gov condemning Trump's lawless actions. The fact that it's almost 10a ET and they remain silent is alarming. There's nothing to monitor or consider here: this is illegal under the Constitution and international law. Say so. Now.
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I am waiting for statements from @slotkin.senate.gov and @peters.senate.gov condemning Trump's lawless actions. The fact that it's almost 10a ET and they remain silent is alarming. There's nothing to monitor or consider here: this is illegal under the Constitution and international law. Say so. Now.
“Secure the blessings of liberty“
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 AM
“Secure the blessings of liberty“
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Happy New Year to my fellow vaccinated people who made it to 2025
January 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy New Year to my fellow vaccinated people who made it to 2025
Every year I try singing along with "Once in Royal David's City"; every year, the lump in my throat prevails and I boo-hoo through most of it. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Every year I try singing along with "Once in Royal David's City"; every year, the lump in my throat prevails and I boo-hoo through most of it. #9LC
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The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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every trans kid brings more value to the world than any chickenshit politician willing to sacrifice them for political points
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
every trans kid brings more value to the world than any chickenshit politician willing to sacrifice them for political points
"I asked all my best friends if they like me, and they mostly say yes!"
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"I asked all my best friends if they like me, and they mostly say yes!"
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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For all of us battling our AI demons
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
For all of us battling our AI demons
“Throw the bums out” but it’s (former) hotshot journalists
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Throw the bums out” but it’s (former) hotshot journalists
An email auto-responder, but it waits 3–4 days, sends a reply that says "Sorry for the delay; I'm swamped this week but can respond more substantively once I play some catch-up"—and does so with every email I ever receive.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
An email auto-responder, but it waits 3–4 days, sends a reply that says "Sorry for the delay; I'm swamped this week but can respond more substantively once I play some catch-up"—and does so with every email I ever receive.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Charter schools are not good. Sorry.
Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Charter schools are not good. Sorry.
This essay: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party’s establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This essay: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
One of the greatest crimes of American civics miseducation is convincing people the filibuster is some wisely invented tool of bipartisanship and deliberateness. It is an accident of parliamentary procedure! It is not good!
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One of the greatest crimes of American civics miseducation is convincing people the filibuster is some wisely invented tool of bipartisanship and deliberateness. It is an accident of parliamentary procedure! It is not good!
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Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.