Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
Thanks to my editor, Kate Parrish, and Carl Fischer Music for the beautiful publication and recording of my latest string orchestra piece, Starlit Night.
#stringorchestra #carlfischer
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
Slashes and triangles in your sheet music? What's up with that?
Honored to be included among these remarkable composers!
A little taste of Spring, just out from Theodore Presser.
Of course they would! Those officers who committed misconduct are their pals.
"They were stripped of their passports and most of their cellphones, they said, and then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers and told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...?
The ad has two halves. On the left is says Who’s running this country which a picture of Musk head back laughing behind a superimposed White House. Underneath is says “Donald Trump or Elon Musk. On the right is a photo of a stern looking Musk with the words: No one elected Elon Musk to any office. Is says Learn More at firemusk.org
NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
Do not obey in advance. Those who do are running into the arms of fascism.
My opera THE MENSCH is now officially registered with the United States Copyright Office.
UGH!
Music is for everyone -- amateurs, professionals, students, you name it. Here's Patrick Casey conducting the Alumni Band at the University of Central Missouri as they perform my Heart of Fire.
Sheet music with notes and the lyrics, "Hitler plans to annihilate all the Jews of Europe. The Jews of Lithuania are fated to be the first in line. Let us not got like sheep to the slaughter!"
In recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I share a page from my opera, THE MENSCH. Here, I set a translation of a text by resistance fighter Abba Kovner, as he announces that the torment and murder of Jews in Vilnius, Lithuania was actually part of a much larger plan.
A tweet by Kyle Griffin. The tweet reads: 'Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty for her role in the Capitol riot and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, has refused her Trump pardon: "Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation." "I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative." bbc.com/news/'.
One of them has seen the light and walked toward it.
Looking forward to my upcoming composer residency at the University of Toledo!
In my new opera, THE MENSCH, I quote Abba Kovner's manifesto urging resistance against Hitler and his henchmen.
Metropolitan Opera trombonist Denson Paul Pollard and pianist Kim Carballo rocking the Tango movement of my Two Latin Dances at the IU Jacobs School of Music.
#trombone #basstrombone #IUJSoM #TheodorePresser
Pleased to see that my Sonata for Solo Violin was chosen for the UIL PLM (that's the University Intersholastic League Prescribed Music List.)
www.presser.com/144-40753-so...
My first-ever BlueSky post:
Here's a 3-minute trailer to my new opera, THE MENSCH.
youtu.be/px9cUpUeInU?...
