AMS/SMT folks: Come hear my paper about women’s clubs’ promotion of women composers before 1950 in Great Lakes C at 4 pm—the sheer numbers of composers and club events will astonish you!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

“This is another instance in which Trump has said one thing — that the East Wing would not be altered — and he’s altering it,” historian Alexis Coe said. The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House. https://bit.ly/3JeAneF

Halloween costume: dressed as Ibid. looking for a job, since I have been dumped from the Chicago Manual of Style.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

👏👏👏 Big win here! Congrats to everyone who worked on this local effort. Judge halts removal of material from State Historical Society’s Iowa City facility. #iowa

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

It's also hard to convey just how much ICE is *everywhere*. The city, the suburbs, in and out in the blink of an eye. A crew doing smash and grab jobs across a massive expanse of distance. Part of the reason whistle distro is so important is because you will never know where/when you will need it.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

#NoKings Iowa City.

If you see someone trying to covertly take pictures or video of protesters, do not engage with them. Take thier picture and give it to the police for evidence of Doxxing, which is illegal in #Iowa under 2025 legislation that expands the definition of harassment. share.google/SAw0QRvLhMd6...

Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅 www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

gene kelly is antifa

Updated, with new links! My list of resources outlining some of the many reasons GenAI is bad news: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

An important additional detail: Most of the Unpresidented Band to which Korol belongs perform IN BANANA COSTUMES This shit is indeed bananas

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Still wishing hats would make a comeback.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I don't mean to be shamelessly self-promoting today, but it's the birthday of one of my heroes—Eleanor Roosevelt. Here's my article about women's peace songs sent to her in the 1930s, made possible by the FDR Library and the National Archives system: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mp/article/i...

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 site offers students an incredible window into the coverage & causes of Red Summer. Highly recommend as a classroom resource or a basis for all kinds of student projects.

🧵🧵🧵 As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

My daughter is on a junket to New York with her online peeps. She sent me this poster from the Ripped Bodice:

If you'd like to sign the petition, it's here: www.change.org/p/save-iowa-...

Eastern Music Festival was a crucial experience for me as a teenager. I'm sad to see its end.

Today is the day they start to dismantle the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City—the library that jumpstarted my forthcoming book—despite a petition with 7K signatures on it. There is yellow tape around it and 2 sheriffs standing behind it—because what is happening is a crime.

Things to consider: Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed You are a witness. Expose it.

When I call my senators' voice mails I have to delete the first (and sometimes second) message and record another one because the first one contains too many obscenities.

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Tell me you don't know who Mendelssohn was without telling me you don't know who Mendelssohn was.

Check out this program! Richmond is going to be an amazing conference 😍 www.american-music.org/page/RIC2026...

spread this far and wide…

If your loved one has been disappeared, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances immediately. It is very easy to do and can produce important evidence: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Today's historic find. 1908. San Diego. Amphion audiences are requested to wait until the last note finishes to begin clapping, as often the last note is most exquisite.

Concert #2. The annual Longfellow Front Porch Music Festival, this year with two brand new pieces by Michael Kimber for viola and cello.

First of a 2-concert afternoon: Orchestra Iowa’s chamber concert that includes PDF Bach’s Sinfonia from his Cantina, based on “In Heaven There is No Beer.”

Today's historic find. 1925. "Says Music Crime Cure. Even Saxaphone [sic], He Declares May Prove Blessing in Disguise." Glen Woods of Oakland, CA, Public Schools tells National Federation of Music Clubs "Teach a boy to blow a horn and he will be too busy to blow a safe."

Education is more than job training.

Today's historic find. From A System of Elocution (1841): "postures unfavorable to vocal delivery." For #8 just replace the book with a phone.

They told me to make myself at home, so I covered every available surface (except the kitchen counters) with books.