Janet Hulstrand
@janetjoy.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Writing Coach, Teacher. Minnesotan, Francophile.
Author of Demystifying the French; and A Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the Heart of France.
https://linktr.ee/JanetHulstrand
Author of Demystifying the French; and A Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the Heart of France.
https://linktr.ee/JanetHulstrand
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A decade after the November 13 terrorist attacks, survivors are still trying to put the pieces of themselves — and their society — back together.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Mark Greenside writes about his part-time life in France with deep affection for his #French neighbors and a self-deprecating (& often laugh-out-loud) sense of humor. We discuss his part-time life in Brittany TODAY with the wonderful Federation of Alliances Francaises USA via Zoom! Want to join us?
Finally French: Mark Greenside’s Adventures in Brittany
Event begins at 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET Join us for a lively online conversation with acclaimed author Mark Greenside, as he presents his long-awaited new book, I Am Finally, Finally French....
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November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Mark Greenside writes about his part-time life in France with deep affection for his #French neighbors and a self-deprecating (& often laugh-out-loud) sense of humor. We discuss his part-time life in Brittany TODAY with the wonderful Federation of Alliances Francaises USA via Zoom! Want to join us?
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In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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These are the four Senators most likely to flip back with enough pressure. You know what to do.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These are the four Senators most likely to flip back with enough pressure. You know what to do.
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This isn't over! Contact your Members of Congress RIGHT NOW and tell them not to vote for anything that doesn't cancel the GOP healthcare cuts!
Tell Congress: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown
Contact Congress today!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This isn't over! Contact your Members of Congress RIGHT NOW and tell them not to vote for anything that doesn't cancel the GOP healthcare cuts!
Let them know how wrong they are, and how angry we are!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Let them know how wrong they are, and how angry we are!!!
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
Yes. 😍
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Yes. 😍
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My hypothesis: Not a single person at this party has actually read Great Gatsby.
Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it.
It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds.
Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval
Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it.
It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds.
Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My hypothesis: Not a single person at this party has actually read Great Gatsby.
Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it.
It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds.
Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval
Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it.
It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds.
Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval
Susan Coll is one of the wittiest writers I know. Always a pleasure to read her work & her new book, The Literati, is no exception. 😂 ♥️ 📚 #books #fiction #novels #humor #literature bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Literati
Check out The Literati - <p><strong><strong>"Like <em>Bookish People</em>, the novel sparkles with kooky details plucked from literary culture. A comedy of errors that gets it just right." --<em>Kirku...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Susan Coll is one of the wittiest writers I know. Always a pleasure to read her work & her new book, The Literati, is no exception. 😂 ♥️ 📚 #books #fiction #novels #humor #literature bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
This is outrageous. Fight it! Pick up the phone. Keep the pressure on. It can work. It has to!
One example of the price increases on the horizon. People are literally about to be priced out in the same way landlords price people out of apartments. It won’t stop here either
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable
So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is outrageous. Fight it! Pick up the phone. Keep the pressure on. It can work. It has to!
Five minutes well worth watching. Despite the "scare" headline there is much in here about what we CAN do to counteract the misinformation, disinformation & general damage the current administration is causing--and what is already being done in California & its neighboring states.
“I Fear We Will Not Have An Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up” - Gov. Gavin Newsom
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Five minutes well worth watching. Despite the "scare" headline there is much in here about what we CAN do to counteract the misinformation, disinformation & general damage the current administration is causing--and what is already being done in California & its neighboring states.
A clear look at the true implications of the theft at the Louvre. "...the stolen jewels are not the real story. The real story is what the theft exposes: the slow vandalism by the French state of its own cultural foundations." #Louvre #heist #jewels newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
Even Before the Heist, the Louvre Had Been Robbed
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
newlinesmag.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A clear look at the true implications of the theft at the Louvre. "...the stolen jewels are not the real story. The real story is what the theft exposes: the slow vandalism by the French state of its own cultural foundations." #Louvre #heist #jewels newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
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This week's Labor Radio Podcast DAILY goes on the air at 7:15 AM Eastern on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC.
Listen at wpfwfm.org/radio/
#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod
Listen at wpfwfm.org/radio/
#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This week's Labor Radio Podcast DAILY goes on the air at 7:15 AM Eastern on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC.
Listen at wpfwfm.org/radio/
#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod
Listen at wpfwfm.org/radio/
#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod
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Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
Paris as seen through the eyes of intrepid, imaginative travelers from the 18th century to the 21st. The adventure begins November 7—anyone want to join us? #onlineclasses #literature #travel #France #Paris #Brittany #Moscow #Belfast #Kerouac #Sterne #Duncan
ONLINE CLASS: Armchair Travel: Quixotic Adventures in Paris and Beyond (25119)
politics-prose.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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❌👑🐸Be Safe Everyone please💙💙💙💙
October 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
❌👑🐸Be Safe Everyone please💙💙💙💙
Wonderful to see millions of people turning out and standing up for democracy. Now we need to keep the momentum going. Here's one way. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings
No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...
www.mobilize.us
October 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Wonderful to see millions of people turning out and standing up for democracy. Now we need to keep the momentum going. Here's one way. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Me: "What happens is that everybody looks for somebody else to stand up and to defy the authoritarianism. But once you get enough people doing it, it becomes safe to do it. You become excited about doing it. And that's what I think is going to happen this weekend with the #NoKings rallies."
WATCH: “It seems like the harder that MAGA leans into the authoritarianism, the more people are finding the voice to push back,” says Chris Hayes. George Conway and Invisible's Ezra Levin join to discuss.
‘The no’s are piling up’: MAGA overreach REJECTED by airports, colleges, jurors
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Me: "What happens is that everybody looks for somebody else to stand up and to defy the authoritarianism. But once you get enough people doing it, it becomes safe to do it. You become excited about doing it. And that's what I think is going to happen this weekend with the #NoKings rallies."
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You don’t need a sign or a speech. You just need to show up and look like the future they’re afraid of.
Dear Normies: Time to Stand Up - Truthdig
For people who’ve never been to a protest in their lives, Saturday’s "No Kings" rally is a good place to start.
www.truthdig.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
You don’t need a sign or a speech. You just need to show up and look like the future they’re afraid of.
October 18. All stand together. Stand up, speak out. Defend our democracy, and each other.
On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
October 18. All stand together. Stand up, speak out. Defend our democracy, and each other.
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The Washington Post deserves to go out of business.
Reminder that a billionaire owns what is now this rag outlet & his only goal is to stroke Trump's ego so Trump helps him become a trillionaire.
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Cancel these rag media outlets & invest in people committed to actual justice. No paywall. Paid sub is entirely optional:
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October 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Washington Post deserves to go out of business.
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Today’s chalking. Just trying to balance my outrage with joy. Cuz MAGA and this regime hates joy.
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Today’s chalking. Just trying to balance my outrage with joy. Cuz MAGA and this regime hates joy.
Anyone want to join me on this #online #literary adventure? politics-prose.com/list/online-... #Sterne #Kerouac #travel #France #Paris
ONLINE CLASS: Armchair Travel: Quixotic Adventures in Paris and Beyond (25119)
politics-prose.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM