Todd Dupler

Standing up for creators' rights since 2012 | Chief Advocacy Officer @RecordingAcad @GRAMMYAdvocacy | @Baylor Alum&Dad | Personal Account

[WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom @CapPressRoom]

Legislation in New York would limit when a criminal defendant's creative expression - such as their original music - can be used against them in a trial.

Our guest is @ToddDupler of @RecordingAcad.

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@willcollier Me right now.

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@SonnyBunch @nick_field90 You’re completely right (dang) and yet even so that’s still a lot of money (which again proves your point, dang!)

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#SicEm rebounds.

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

Happy 10 year anniversary to Taurean Prince talking about rebounds

[Weapon 𝕏 @HellRaz0r1776]

Big weather system coming through.
Here's what we know so far.

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Ed!

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

that canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about…

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@mattleeanderson @MikeCosper To be fair, decent films about faith are far and few between (and no one has ever accused me of being a "hip evangelical")!

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@DanIsett Hey, I’d have happily traded the season we had for an Orange Bowl playoff loss.

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And Steve Harrington…

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A most heartbreaking, beautiful, and true thing to read this Christmas.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

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@SonnyBunch I haven’t seen Eddington. But I didn’t think anyone comes out looking “good” in OBAA except maybe Benicio’s character (which reinforces your point). And to the extent Leo’s character is “good” it’s because he’s almost completely apolitical and just wants his daughter back.

[John Garamendi @RepGaramendi]

Today my staff met with @RecordingAcademy to discuss the dangers of AI companies exploiting music and art.

American music is a cornerstone of our culture and must be protected. 

I’ll always fight for our artists and culture.

#MusicAdvocate

[CeCe Winans @cecewinans]

Today is Music Advocacy Day!

🎤✨ @recordingacademy members from across the country are meeting with lawmakers to champion creators and ensure music continues to thrive. Add your voice and take action at https://t.co/5anT3rWjfw.

#MusicAdvocate #SupportMusic

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Gadzooks @BUFootball! #SicEm!!

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@Travis_Roeder 👀

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@DanIsett I only see Tech and SMU. I don’t see any other SWC schools on there that I recognize or acknowledge. I checked it multiple times. I only see those two schools.

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@DanIsett @awfulannouncing How about almost any BUTT bowl from the 2010s tho.

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@DanIsett I assume the desk was made of shiplap.

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@SonnyBunch I appreciated that Fantastic Four found a way to turn the evacuation trope into a fun bit.