Jane B. Kulow

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

Musk lied, people died — again.

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

Democrats need to run hard against Elon Musk. They need to warn the public that the world's richest man is spending $276 million to attempt a hostile takeover of our government.

Monsters.

Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.

What an amazing essay. “Of course everyone is striving all their life. And no one wins against mortality.”

Amen! "I wonder why he thinks so little of readers’ ability to engage beyond their own experiences. Books don’t discriminate. You don’t have to be Black, Palestinian, or queer to enjoy literature created by writers who are, any more than you need to be a dragon rider to binge a romantasy series."

“Collectively, these cases show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens too.” ProPublica with the receipts.

Holy shit.

Hey Cville folks! You, too, can get CDs at 50c, DVDs for a buck, loads of books at 1$ or 2$, at the JMRL Friends used book sale, 10am-7pm til Oct 11. Albemarle Sq, in the old Northside Library space. (Twice a year, Oct & April; proceeds support JMRL public programming)

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Literally all we will hear about from this administration is trans panic while (1) millions lose health insurance, (2) prices continue to rise, (3) we’re in a war we cannot get out of, and (4) people are being disappeared by our federal government.

An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House

Fortify your eternal spirit today, whether through hot coffee, song and dance, prayer, or revenge. Six of one, as it were.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

It's always a good time to share this.

ICE flights. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, an average and terrible day. 75 total flights, at least 16 removal flights — Cambodia, Costa Rica*, Ecuador*, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Israel*, Jamaica*, Laos, Mexico (4), Nicaragua*, & Vietnam. *suspected third-country removal

Excellent work by @radleybalko.bsky.social “We’re here because we didn’t listen to the civil libertarians. It’s not too late to start.”

Thank you for this, about much more than Gloria Steinem. “The grieving do not owe us a dissertation accounting for every contradiction in a relationship before we allow them to say, this person meant something to me, and now they are gone, and it hurts.”

Wild because NIH's entire budget is like a weekend of DoD bombing bullshit

Republicans who see Canada as an enemy has leapt up this year, similar to how Republicans’ approval of Putin shot up in 2016. Virtually no anti-Canada US constituency before this year, and virtually no pro-Putin constituency before 2016. Out of nowhere. Now millions say that’s their position.

“It might be necessary to go beyond stated claims and apply a little bit of moral clarity and notice who is and who isn't murdering civilian fishermen and zip-tying children.”

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

How dare you smear Dolly Parton as "neutral in the culture wars"? There's nothing neutral about her Imagination Library, her support for LGBTQ+ people, her fierce devotion to Black communities in Nashville, her vaccine funding, her nondiscriminatory love for all, &&&. She just refused their games.

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

You know who trades a lot with Canada? Michigan, Maine, Iowa, and Alaska, all of which have close Senate races this November. As @gregsargent.bsky.social argues, Trump’s stupid, entirely unnecessary fight with Canada makes it more likely his party loses control of Congress.

Least surprising sentence in Carney’s letter: “However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”

“Mr. Linvill of Clemson described the spread of the claim as a textbook case of narrative laundering, a tactic that propagandists use to seed and then shuffle falsehoods through enough sources to make them seem authentic.”

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

In memory of Heather Heyer Murdered by white supremacists 9 years ago today 🕊🕯

Number of WNBA stories that the Heritage Foundation newsletter has covered in last 2 weeks: ~7 In the 20 years prior to that: ~0

Library funding is tied to usage.

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org