Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a... H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history. The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

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This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

finally meaningful bipartisan legislation

Hi I fixed it. (seriously extremely grateful, always, for the HUMANS who peer review academic books)

RIP Raul Malo youtu.be/QVcZALxO7f8?...

#BandcampFriday reminder. Musicians can use the support.

This is absolute perfection. And also, it Linda Shaver-Gleason would have loved this.

Getting my house prepped knee surgery recovery and why do medical supplies sound like they were branded by Homer Simpson?

Nothing makes you feel like you’re back in NYC quicker than passenger pickup at JFK on a Saturday night.

Congratulations to Anabel Maler, whose book Seeing Voices, Analyzing Sign Language Music won SMT’s Emerging Scholar Book Award! @oupacademic.bsky.social

Congratulations to Thomas Forrest Kelly on his new book Melisma @oupacademic.bsky.social !

Congratulations to author James O’Leary (and editor @normhirschy.bsky.social) on the publication of The Middle Brow Musical @oupacademic.bsky.social!

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25

Me at AMS/SMT conference repping Grove Music and OUP. Stop by!

I’ve just started this and it’s fabulous so far! I can’t wait to read more.

Congratulations to Tim Carter on his new book, Mozart: A Tale of Two Keys! Come see it at AMS/SMT at the OUP booth @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Congratulations to @burnschelsea.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home! See it in person at AMS/SMT at the OUP booth. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Congratulations to Claudio Vellutini on his new book Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange Between Vienna and the Italian States After Napoleon! Check it out at the OUP booth at AMS/SMT! @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

AMS/SMT attendees: come see @oxfordacademic.bsky.social’s latest books in the Exhibit hall!

NEW: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and a state assemblymember, will become New York City’s next mayor, The Associated Press reports. He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at age 34, ties the record for the youngest person to hold the office. https://to.pbs.org/4ovh28q

Well done, Virginia!

Fellow New Yorkers, there is a lot on the ballot tomorrow, particularly with proposals aimed at increasing affordable housing. If you, like me, are struggling to sort out the details from propaganda, may I recommend reading this?: lwvnyc.org/proposals-20...

Everyone, the most important website of the musicology season is now live! amsafterdark.neocities.org Please consider joining us for the TENTH AMS Afterdark celebration to be held in Minneapolis at the joint conference in November!

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

To be crystal clear: trump is talking about taxpayers paying him millions of dollars as some sort of restitution because he was investigated for sending a mob to the US capitol on Jan 6th to overthrow the 2020 election. That might just be he most f*cked up thing he’s done since Jan 6th…

The cat sign is one of my faves from the day.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Here's my essay about how one concert program in the State Historical Society of Iowa—now being dismantled—changed my life: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t....

This story rounding up the autocratization of American government & society makes my blood run cold www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“This is not sustainable”

Possible Time Machine: The big white Ford Econoline just rolled by my Brooklyn stoop, blasting Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” while its driver and passengers sang along at the top of their lungs.

ICE's Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

An ICE agent was caught on a bodycam last week saying he teaches his children that nonwhite immigrants are "animals", and the frequency with which ICE throws grenades at children is evidence of how widespread that belief is.

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness! In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Available now at musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxf...

I hate them. And the people who let it happen again. 💔

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.