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Isaac Gottesman

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historian of education doing professor things and listening to music in fascist times.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 9h
Top five new tracks for September. Boy Harsher - Faulty Amalie Dahl's Dafnie - Wavelet (Live) Kris Davis Trio - Subtext Fluisteraars - Condities der Afstraffing Freak Slug - Wishing Bone
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Top five new tracks for August. Abyssal Rift - Relics of Great Ash Apollo Brown and Skyzoo - No Discount The Cramps - Rock in My Pocket Czarface - All it Takes is One Bad Day E-40 - Trunk is Alive
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP Cassandra Wilson
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Top five new tracks for July. ALA.NI & Adrian Younge - Proud of Me Boy Harsher - Hard Beat The Carp - Modern Man is So Ungrateful Parliament Ruins - F*ck Your Flag Warlock Corpse - Three Corpses by the Road
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Top five new tracks for June. Defcee & Spectacular Diagnostics - Nathan Summers Finale - Almes Perdidas Gimic - The Devil's Rose Mirage - Motore Di Corrosione Parallel Thought feat. Fatboi Sharif - Ghettostarlight
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Top five new tracks for May. Blow Dry - Mr. Big Thee Marloes - Harap Dan Ragu Raekwon & Statik Selektah - Glenfiddich Sabotør - Jerngrepets Inntog Sweeping Promises - Shooting Shadows
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIP Sonny Rollins
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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Top five new tracks for April. Chariots Overdrive - The End of Antiquity Bel Cobain - Change Friction Tape - Hours and Hours La Peste - Black Spont Ar Stad - An Amzer
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Task Force Publishes Report on Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias and Restoring Religious Liberty
Today, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias published a report detailing how the Biden Administration’s prosecutions, policies, and practices revealed deep-seated anti-Christian bias throug...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As of a couple of weeks ago, it's been 10 years since I published my book The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race. www.routledge.com/The-Critical...
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The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race
The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the...
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Top five new tracks for March. Downtown Boys - No Me Jodas Dropkick Murphys - Always By My Side Haywire - Hang Up The Telephone Ohkami No Jikan - Dwarf Shop Talk - Love Dart
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Top five new tracks for February. Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Damocles Casual - Nobody Orsini - Somos Owelu Dreamhouse - Niger River Skumhammer - Skumhammer
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Top Five New Tracks for January. Elucid & Sebb Bash - First Light Imported Goodz & Rome Streetz - Jasons Machete Kim Gordon - Not Today Angelika Niescier - Rejoice, Disrupt, Resist Welt Star - Badehaus
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Top five albums for 2025 Lena Bloch - Marina Fugitive Bubble - What Will Happen if We Stop? Little Simz - Lotus Rothadus - Töviskirt... a Kísértés krök ézerte... lidércharang Super Grupa Bez Falszymwej Skromnosci - The Book of Job (rerelease, 1985)
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Top five new tracks for December. Bleakness - Dead of Night Doom Club - Love Connection Nahokimama and Toshiki SoeJima - Ash Nusantara Beat - Tamat The Pale Horse Ritual - Bloody Demon
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
RIP Steve Cropper.
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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon To Kick Off National “History Rocks!” Tour
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced the U.S. Department of Education’s (the Department) History Rocks! Trail to Independence Tour.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Top five new tracks for November. Lena Bloch - Marina Benjamin Epps - Adieu L'été Angélica Garcia - Butterfly Home Front - Between the Waves Tee Vee Repairmann - Bad News
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Top five new tracks for October. Charlie Bereal - Together Hit-Boy and The Alchemist - Business Merger Myka 9, Blue, Mono En Stereo, Ellay Khule - B-Boys Split System - No Cops in Heaven Taylor Williams - Dreaming
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
RIP Jack DeJohnette.
nytimes.com
Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This just in: Today, we’re releasing our response to the weaponization of antisemitism by the Trump administration and Project Esther. The Shofar Report is a new blueprint for combating antisemitism while defending democracy.
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Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response.
Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded, the Forward’s guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno Rosenfeld.Most American Jews have taken a...
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Top five new tracks for September. Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful eX-Tradition - Obsidian Silence Home Front - Light Sleeper Sympathy Flowers - Betrayal TV Cult - Overpressure
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 03/10/2025
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
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KLCC | NPR for Oregonians @klccoregon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Oregon On The Record talked with the professor and students of the historic U of O Forensics program facing elimination due to budget cuts. #klcc #debate #UofO #forensics
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No debate - literally. U of O may cut historic forensics program
On this edition, we talk with Trond Jacobson, head of the University of Oregon Forensics Program and student debaters Dylan Kussman-Carter and Lorelei Sassenfeld about the potential removal of the pro...
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Upsetting news. Especially devastating for students in the program and for speech and debate in Oregon. UO has been an anchor for competitive high school forensics in the state for as long as there has been competitive speech and debate. Many hard at work trying to save the program.
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University of Oregon Speech, Debate, and Mock Trial Program Shuttered After Nearly 150 Years of Excellence - Oregon Forensics
EUGENE, Ore. 9/17/2025 After nearly 150 years of shaping leaders, innovators, and public servants, the University of Oregon has announced the cancellation of its historic speech, debate, and mock tria...
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Top five new tracks for August. Cellar Messiah - Gutterings Dark Thoughts - Sparkling Water Rhazula - Grind Me Up Serial Killer Glasses - Terror Children Void - Gateways of Stone
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Top five new tracks for July. Carlos Dafé and Adrian Younge - Bloco da Harmonia Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (feat. Anderson.Paak) - Ensalada NFUE - Rubami La Liberta La Otra Gente - Cemento TTSFU - Call U Back
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Successful weaponization of antisemitism in project to destroy higher education. More success likely to follow. Not good.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
RIP Prince of Darkness www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...
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BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Top five new tracks for June. Lame - Habra Tormenta Little Simz - Thief Mya - Give It to you Rancoeur -D'ou Je Viens Ou Je Vais Upchuck - Plastic
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
RIP Lalo Schifrin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhX...
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Bullitt (Main Title)
YouTube video by Lalo Schifrin - Topic
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RIP Sly
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Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Top five new tracks for May. Blackbraid - Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of My Death Erika de Casier - Delusional Clipse - Ace Trumpets Masta Killa, Raekwon & Cappadonna - Eagle Claw Press Club - Tightrope
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
RIP Sacha Jenkins. www.okayplayer.com/originals/sa...
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Sacha Jenkins on the Importance of Documenting Hip-Hip's History
We talked with Sacha Jenkins and spoke about the power of storytelling, helming the Mass Appeal’s #HipHop50 initiative on Showtime, and more.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Top five new tracks for April. Desinteresse - Silhouet The Hot Blood - Expensive Taste Rick Hyde (feat. Benny the Butcher and Lo Pro) - Minimal Effort Sexverbot - ERROR/TERROR Träume - Idz i Patrz
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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whitehouse.gov
Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Top five new tracks for March. Cinephonic - La Cité Engloutie Exo - Butterfly L.A. Witch - The Lines Little Simz - Free The Serfs - Bodies in Water
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M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In which I try to put it all together. The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Antisemites weaponizing antisemitism to destroy higher education. 59 more schools on the March 10 Department of Education list. Not good.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
RIP Roy Ayers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvn1...
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We Live In Brooklyn, Baby
YouTube video by Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Topic
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
RIP David Johansen, the last of the Dolls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdq...
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Personality Crisis - New York Dolls | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Top five new tracks for February. H.A.L.T. - Forever Dead Kamaiyah - The Flood Motorbike - Currency Sophia Djebel Rose - Sécheresse Emma-Jean Thackray feat. Kassa Overall - It's Okay
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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thoroughly disgusted former resident of Iowa.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.
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We’re dealing with actual Nazis
Musk and his young mercenary are anything but subtle.
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