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vijay iyer

@vijayiyer.bsky.social

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music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · Sep 5

THEREUPON

the new album by

FIELDWORK (Steve Lehman / Vijay Iyer / Tyshawn Sorey)

is OUT NOW on all platforms, streaming, download, CD, & vinyl!

(but please don’t use spotify!)

pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon

Fieldwork - Thereupon

Listen to Thereupon by Fieldwork.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 11h

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1h

Please enjoy this new video of "Torque," my 2018 composition for mallet quartet, performed by Sō Percussion

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uq...

Sō Percusssion performs Vijay Iyer's Torque

YouTube video by Sō Percussion

www.youtube.com

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 8h

genocidal fascism is here

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 9h

"we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation."
- six former US surgeons general (in a paywalled WaPo op-ed)

archive.ph/DNPUh

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 11h

me with Mr. Baraka at Harlem Stage, 2012

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 12h

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”

--Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014)

(blurry photo by me)

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 12h

The UN has sent peacekeepers in for less

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 12h

Solidarity with Mark Bray. Purging academia of scholars of antifascism is just the first step in establishing fascist ideological orthodoxy.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12h

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 19h

speaking tomorrow at Wellesley

www.wellesley.edu/events/fall-...

Fall 2025 Herrmann Lecture: Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer is a MacArthur Fellow and Grammy-nominated composer and pianist.

www.wellesley.edu

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 23h

🙏🏾

pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all good! Thank you for your very kind words.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 4d

Please call Cook County DA and ask them to drop charges against the group of protesters arrested in Chicago yesterday: (312) 603-1880

This is particularly for Illinois residents, but national calls couldn’t hurt.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🙏🏾 Happy anniversary to us.

(btw, I’m not connected to any “jazz program”)

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 4d

Jazz OTD: Pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa - now faculty in the jazz programs, respectively, at Harvard and Princeton - recorded "Raw Materials," a terrific album of energetic, inspiring duets, on October 4, 2005. #jazzsky

Forgotten System

YouTube video by Vijay Iyer - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

Since I’ve spent the last couple of days in airports and hotels, I’ve gotta say… it’s staggering to not just see all the ICE recruitment commercials but also the frequency with which they’re being run. It’s even more intense than political ads during election season.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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