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Janet Hulstrand

@janetjoy.bsky.social

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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

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 3d

This is outrageous. Fight it! Pick up the phone. Keep the pressure on. It can work. It has to!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

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

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 22h

I think your hypothesis is well-taken. Idiots, all of them. Disgusting idiots.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22h

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

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

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)

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 23h

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 - "Like Bookish People, the novel sparkles with kooky details plucked from literary culture. A comedy of errors that gets it just right." --Kirku...

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 3d

This is outrageous. Fight it! Pick up the phone. Keep the pressure on. It can work. It has to!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 5d

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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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 8d

Better late than never I guess. (Yes. Better late than never. This is good.)

Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 10d

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

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The Labor Radio Podcast Network @laborradionet.bsky.social · 10d

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

Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 10d

Finally they notice SMH :-(

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 11d

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)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

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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Ro @ramblinro.bsky.social · 15d

❌👑🐸Be Safe Everyone please💙💙💙💙

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 14d

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

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16d

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."

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 16d

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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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 16d

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

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 17d

October 18. All stand together. Stand up, speak out. Defend our democracy, and each other.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18d

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

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 21d

The Washington Post deserves to go out of business.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21d

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.

Cancel these rag media outlets & invest in people committed to actual justice. No paywall. Paid sub is entirely optional:
www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 23d

Today’s chalking. Just trying to balance my outrage with joy. Cuz MAGA and this regime hates joy.

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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 24d

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)

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 28d

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NO KINGS NYC
MARSHALS NEEDED

Sign up to be a marshal:
tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

Sign up for marshal training:
Thursday, October 9
Saturday, October 11
www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib...

No Kings NYC, 10/18/25, 11am, Marshals Needed!

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29d

Kudos To JB Pritzker: Calls For Trump To Be 25th Amendment'd

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Kudos To JB Pritzker: Calls For Trump To Be 25th Amendment'd | Crooks and Liars

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American Demands dot com @americandemands.bsky.social · Oct 2

Enough. Stephen Miller and the rest of the administration keep trying to push authoritarianism on a country that just isn’t interested.

Follow @americandemands.bsky.social and help send the message loud and clear: Americans deserve better.

#DemandBetter

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · Oct 1

I’ve been working on this for a WHILE and would be so grateful if you could check it out and share—Dems need a vision, and they keep missing the mark. We built it for them, grassroots, and have a plan to make it happen.

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American Demands dot com @americandemands.bsky.social · Oct 1

What if we could channel all our frustrations over our country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism into advocacy for policies that work for all of us?

We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Oct 1

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Oct 1

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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