vijay iyer
@vijayiyer.bsky.social
music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
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VIJAY IYER QUARTET
w/ ADAM O’FARRILL, YUNIOR TERRY, & TYSHAWN SOREY
THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
NOVEMBER 4 - 9
🎫👇🏾
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“This weight presses on me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“This weight presses on me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Their previous album from 2008 also recommended.
Door, by Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey
11 track album
fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Their previous album from 2008 also recommended.
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monstrous, monumental evil
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
monstrous, monumental evil
The Kominas Sharia Law in the U S A
YouTube video by ParisMelancholy
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The Vijay Iyer quartet at Vanguard this week is a whirlwind of awesome. He's splitting time between grand piano and Rhodes and Adam O'Farill adding effects on his trumpet creates a many-textured thing and the improv, held down by Sorey on drums, is a real […]
[Original post on shakedown.social]
[Original post on shakedown.social]
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Vijay Iyer quartet at Vanguard this week is a whirlwind of awesome. He's splitting time between grand piano and Rhodes and Adam O'Farill adding effects on his trumpet creates a many-textured thing and the improv, held down by Sorey on drums, is a real […]
[Original post on shakedown.social]
[Original post on shakedown.social]
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@vijayiyer.bsky.social at the start of the first set at The Village Vanguard tonight:
"It's my favorite time of year...
Regime change!"
"It's my favorite time of year...
Regime change!"
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
@vijayiyer.bsky.social at the start of the first set at The Village Vanguard tonight:
"It's my favorite time of year...
Regime change!"
"It's my favorite time of year...
Regime change!"
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Fox & Friends displays a graphic of the 40 airports where flights will be reduced starting today during interview with Sean Duffy
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Fox & Friends displays a graphic of the 40 airports where flights will be reduced starting today during interview with Sean Duffy
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Still some tickets left for 10pm shows Wed/Thurs/Sun!
NYC: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW
VIJAY IYER QUARTET
w/ ADAM O’FARRILL, YUNIOR TERRY, & TYSHAWN SOREY
THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
NOVEMBER 4 - 9
🎫👇🏾
vv.squadup.com/artists/vija...
VIJAY IYER QUARTET
w/ ADAM O’FARRILL, YUNIOR TERRY, & TYSHAWN SOREY
THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
NOVEMBER 4 - 9
🎫👇🏾
vv.squadup.com/artists/vija...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still some tickets left for 10pm shows Wed/Thurs/Sun!
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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100%
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
100%
may it rain down their eyebrows
The level of elite ghoul flopsweat going on over the NYC election is pretty unprecedented
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
may it rain down their eyebrows
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
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I don't know why people are mad at the pull-quote here, it's descriptive not prescriptive and is accurate: nobody ever asks Democratic leadership to condemn anti-Muslim sentiment publicly. A Democratic senator of NY called Mamdani a jihadist and wasn't condemned by any of her peers publicly.
New York City is home to about a million Muslims—nearly a quarter of the country’s entire Muslim population. Yet epithets such as “extremist” and “jihadist” are used to describe Zohran Mamdani with such regularity that they’re hardly notable anymore.
What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
The Islamophobic attacks on the candidate carry the weight of history and the urgency of the present.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I don't know why people are mad at the pull-quote here, it's descriptive not prescriptive and is accurate: nobody ever asks Democratic leadership to condemn anti-Muslim sentiment publicly. A Democratic senator of NY called Mamdani a jihadist and wasn't condemned by any of her peers publicly.
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
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NYC -- see you this week!
NYC: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW
VIJAY IYER QUARTET
w/ ADAM O’FARRILL, YUNIOR TERRY, & TYSHAWN SOREY
THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
NOVEMBER 4 - 9
🎫👇🏾
vv.squadup.com/artists/vija...
VIJAY IYER QUARTET
w/ ADAM O’FARRILL, YUNIOR TERRY, & TYSHAWN SOREY
THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
NOVEMBER 4 - 9
🎫👇🏾
vv.squadup.com/artists/vija...
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NYC -- see you this week!