Gabrielle Cornish
Assistant Professor of Musicology at UW-Madison. Lover of all things Slavic and sonic (bonus points if they’re noisy or electronic). Views my own, not my employer’s.
Read some words at www.gabriellecornish.com
- More proof that music education is so important, because if you don’t give awkward moody white boys guitars and a spiral notebook for lyrics they will become fascists.
- Love to think of the top-five vocab lookups on @merriam-webster.com as a little snapshot of American life right now: two searches for the longest place name in the US, fascism, rizz, and then those who played the NYT's Strands game this morning.
- Built a tray table for the times when I still need to write (always) but want to be cozy on my couch (also always)
- Sorry I missed your call, I was busy listening to a Sakha Midwest emo band that only sings in Yakut and also only releases certified bangers youtu.be/NMYxhr4mQNM?...
- Fell into an open manhole while walking on the sidewalk in Siberia. I wouldn’t say my life flashed before my eyes, but I do remember distinctively thinking to myself, “I could have studied Spanish or French or Italian, but instead I studied Russian and am now here.”
- Chuck Schumer wants to be watching videos of America’s secret police violently murdering and assaulting people in hi def so he can add some real atmosphere to his strongly worded letters
- Imagine listening to Kid Rock and someone named “Brantley” when you could be salsa dancing to “Baile inolvidable” you almost have to feel sorry for these stupid fascists
- A mashup of One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme called “One Paddle After Another” is this anything
- Smdh you work your whole adult life studying a language, living in a country, and learning it’s history and the Russian intelligence apparatus completely ignores you and hires a random senator from Hawaii to be a sleeper agent 😭 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- I have a lot of resentment for my middle school health class teaching us to not smoke cigarettes primarily because “no one looks cool smoking.” This is demonstrably false: anyone instantly looks five times cooler while smoking.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornish8. I would be remiss if I did not mention that the Epstein files shows the extent to which old political alliances are compromised. It’s depraved. It is also unfortunately capitalism. Tech elite has the money to shape public opinion and intervene in state law because of that cabal of exploitation.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornish“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
- Phew, thank god they found him. This guy and George Soros both owe me a TON of money for all those protests.
- 🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishProfessional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org
- “Measles outbreak at family detention center” might be the most terrifyingly American headline I’ve read all year.
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
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- The Chotiner interview with the Melania cinematographer might be his most devastating yet, despite all the “gotcha” moments very much flying directly over the interviewee’s head.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishjosh shapiro is a loser and if you like him you’re a loser too.
- I look forward to absolutely not watching this!
- HBO Is Making A Police Version Of ‘The Pitt,’ ‘American Blue www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
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- High of 23°F today, Madison we are so back
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishstraight up Gestapo shit
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishThey aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- I can think of one particular forcibly “imported foreign labor class” the fourteenth amendment was designed to enfranchise, and I’m pretty sure Miller is pissed off about that one, too.
- Don’t even know what this is in reference to but it’s always true
- To all the brave critics watching the Melania documentary and excoriating it in reviews, I salute you 🫡 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishNot the Jeffrey Epstein school of film music composition 😹😹😹
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornish4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
- Vaxxed?
- Wait, what do people think Voice of America was designed to do..?
- Critics say U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake risks making Voice of America sound like a propaganda outlet in her remarks on the air praising President Trump. n.pr/46eFnIj
- You know things are bad when I have to root for Don Lemon.
- He’s dressed like Leap Day William from 30 Rock
- Lord, I see what you have done for other countries* *given them a real fucking opposition party
- Yes, when I think of people who simply lack access to the transformative work of universities, I too think of David Brooks.
- Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1. Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishThe Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished
- Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1. Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
- This is actually a completely sensible way for Kristi Noem to hold an AR when you realize there’s a dog standing on the balcony above her
- One fun thing about our current political moment is that I’m going to a Know Your Rights workshop tonight and feel the need to bring my trauma kit, just in the very slim case some psychopath decides he’s going to take out his fascist ideology and male frustration on us.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishfriend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishBREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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- Stanford was wonderful but I have now spent more time in airports than I did in the state of California and I’m maybe going to lose it.
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishSomething I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishone of the funniest things i’ve ever seen
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishWe are proud to introduce Whiskey Everyday with Joseph Goebbels
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishTimberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti
- Stop telling people they’ll be on the “wrong side of history” and start telling them they’ll be on the wrong side of the gallows. (After a fair trial and due process, of course.)
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishThis administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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- The dems are really out here lobbying for a better-trained SS instead of the drunken bros of the SA.
- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishdemocratic commitment to preserving and reforming a nightmare state security organ that’s less than 25 years old *even now* is both craven and betrays such a profound impoverishment of ideas beyond a nonnegotiable given of a withdrawing state where only a giant repressive apparatus can and must grow
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- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Had my first panic attack in a long time this afternoon, but I now realize that is the most human, reasonable reaction to the videos I saw and what I am seeing unfold in Minneapolis and around the country today.
- They shot him in the back after the removed his (legal) firearm and while he was pinned down by multiple agents. And they shot him again and again, even after he lay motionless on the pavement, firing ten shots in total. They shot an unarmed man in the back. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
- So close, Ro—you should have stopped at “tear it down.”
- Argue for peaceful protest if that’s what you believe in, but not because you think it’ll forestall additional state violence. Trump has already shown he needs no excuse to issue authoritarian orders, and he won’t wait for a “real” cause to invoke the insurrection act if he decides he wants to do so
- Reposting this to remind folks that if I am ever executed in broad daylight by armed agents of the state, I do not want you to fucking “peacefully protest” about it.
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- Everyone keeps rightfully saying we need another Nuremberg, but I want to remind folks that only 24 Nazi leaders were indicted at the (main) international military tribunal and only 19 convicted. Here’s hoping our indictment and conviction numbers are far, far better this time around.
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishFederal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishOur initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
- Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- I wish for them precisely what they wish for us
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishDemocrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishHey, does anyone know of a document that lays out what to do if a ruler quarters large bodies of armed troops among us, protects them for any murders which they should commit on us, abdicates government by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us?
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- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishIt's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
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- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishWoman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishMinneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
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- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornishexecutions in the street.
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- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishWhy are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishWitnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
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- Reposted by Gabrielle Cornish🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
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- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.
- The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishThere’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested
- Reposted by Gabrielle CornishPer this report ICE has detained several witnesses
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
