Paul Schleuse (@pschleuse.bsky.social)

Paul Schleuse

@pschleuse.bsky.social

Musicologist. Historian. Democrat. democrat. Runner. Caregiver. Texan. New Yorker. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇳⚖️📚🎵 Writing about music, culture, and class in early-modern Italy and 20th-century Houston.

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Christopher Moore

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5 Apr

Quite a contrast to start my feed this morning.

Paul Schleuse

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3 Apr

For Good Friday, let this music destroy you. open.spotify.com/track/6U4QTX...

open.spotify.comStabat Mater, Op. 53: VI. Christe, cum sit hinc exire / Chrystus niech mi bedzie grodem: Andante tranquillissimo

Paul Schleuse

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21 Mar

“JudeaFK” ?!? @pbsnews.org @wsj.com

Paul Schleuse

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17 Mar

Paul Schleuse

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26 Feb

Trump flunkie Paul Perez of the Border Patrol on PBS NewsHour. “Ass batons”?!?

Paul Schleuse

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16 Nov 2025

Musicologists: as you may know, the American Musicological Society is in a leadership crisis. This petition outlines concerns about staff, board, and financial matters. So far it has more than 130 signers, and if you are an AMS member I urge you to sign it too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comAMS Petition 2025Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...

Paul Schleuse

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18 Oct 2025

Philly

Paul Schleuse

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4 Apr 2025

Shit. Not in the least surprising, but still. When the “American” government cuts off the study and promotion of AMERICAN music, you have to wonder what they really stand for. Please support the AMS if you can.

Paul Schleuse

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1 Apr 2025

"Maybe Jesus will save her from those Buddhists" is this year's "Please, these gays, they're trying to murder me." #WhiteLotus

Paul Schleuse

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15 Mar 2025

It will take decades for the USA to recover its former moral standing in the world, if it ever can. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comOpinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Paul Schleuse

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14 Mar 2025

I guess it's nice that they're giving him something to do? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/a...

nytimes.comJD Vance Is Booed at a Kennedy Center Concert After Trump’s TakeoverThe vice president and his wife were booed as they took their seats for a National Symphony Orchestra concert of music by Shostakovich and Stravinsky.

Paul Schleuse

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13 Mar 2025

If you voted for Trump, you voted for this.

Paul Schleuse

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17 Feb 2025

The more I hear Sabrina Carpenter, the more impressed I am. Can she hold her own with Paul Simon on "Homeward Bound"? Yes she can.

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Alt National Park Service

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14 Feb 2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Paul Schleuse

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13 Feb 2025

Jaw. Dropped.

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Aaron Rupar

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8 Feb 2025

aging well, sadly

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Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.

Paul Schleuse

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8 Feb 2025

Category is: the status of High Culture in Late Capitalism

Paul Schleuse

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6 Feb 2025

Just in: the NEA will only be funding flag-waving propaganda. It’d almost be better to axe it altogether.

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Paul Schleuse

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4 Feb 2025

Actual footage of the Trump/Scheinbaum meeting.

Paul Schleuse

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4 Feb 2025

NASM takes on Trump. I don’t know how it will end, but it will be verbose and opaque.

Paul Schleuse

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4 Feb 2025

Also the takeaway here is basically “we don’t know anything now; if you have questions please don’t ask us.”

Paul Schleuse

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4 Feb 2025

NASM takes on Trump. I don’t know how it will end, but it will be verbose and opaque.

Paul Schleuse

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4 Feb 2025

As usual, NASM writes in Byzantine legalese, but confuses restrictive and nonrestrictive pronouns.

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This is so good.

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2 Feb 2025

Watch how @nytimes.com (knowingly or not?) abets and amplifies Trump's aggro-masculinist worldview.

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Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

Here I am at Wegmans on the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and so far three middle-aged white ladies have complimented my shirt. Is it possible this statement is susceptible to a 180-degree misreading?

Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

UPDATE: I also noticed a Black guy clocking the shirt and nodding approvingly. So the generous (and correct) reading is still available in these fractious times.

Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

Not casting asparagus at the White Ladies of Wegmans. But despite their milk-like complexions, they are not a homogenous group.

Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

Celebrate Black History Month! (BHM originated as Negro History Week 99 years ago.) The Houston Informer, January 27, 1927, p. 5

Paul Schleuse

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1 Feb 2025

Source: texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/m...

texashistory.unt.eduThe Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1927Weekly African-American newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Paul Schleuse

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29 Jan 2025

“It’s all going to be based on merit.” ~~ Donald J. Trump

Paul Schleuse

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29 Jan 2025

Millions of people will die of AIDS because Trump doesn't like Tony Fauci. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

npr.orgTrump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patientsAs a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

Paul Schleuse

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29 Jan 2025

Update: Marco Rubio saves Bush’s legacy. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

reuters.comUS issues new waiver for humanitarian aid amid freezeU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver on Tuesday for life-saving humanitarian assistance during a 90-day pause in foreign aid while Washington undertakes a review, according to a State Department memo seen by Reuters.

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The New York Times

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28 Jan 2025

The Trump administration instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.

nytimes.comTrump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor CountriesPEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

Paul Schleuse

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13 Jan 2025

I guess it needs saying: I’m not going to follow you if I can’t figure out who you are.

Paul Schleuse

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12 Jan 2025

Opera hivemind: On the DVD of LA Opera's 2007 Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone get big ovations when they first appear onstage, Broadway style, before they've sung a note. Are there "regular" opera singers who get that kind of reaction anymore?

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