Jane B. Kulow

[Exit Murderer.]

I'd like to go one fucking week without another peace.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

balloons

Beware of a political party that is more focused on keeping people from voting than winning their vote.

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

Joy as an Act of Resistance. Thank you Will McGrath for your carpooling and other acts and thank you even more for your essay. "We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all."
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just to be clear there is SO MUCH precedent for arresting a senior royal. just not any precedent where it ends well for them

watching this a few times today

Minneapolis breaking the Trump regime is such an incredible testament to the resolve and courage of the people who live there and I hope they know that they are an inspiration to all of us.

great thread. sometimes the good prevails

Following @andreapitzer.bsky.social’s lead, let’s call them what they are: concentration camps

Is Vitae/Omakase now closed?

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Calling out fascism is not threatening to anyone but fascists.

Thank you so much! Loved it and appreciate the explainer

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

oh so like they’re literally ALL in those files

He was on my list of must-reads every Sunday, no matter the particular topic.

#Virginia

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

very powerful. the moment where the audience murmurs because they get it—wow

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

You can't even say "women" anymore

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Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

Here to co-sign Storygraph.com. I exported decades of reading lists from Bezos-owned GoodReads to migrate to SG and have never looked back

I’ve never heard soul force explained quite this way and I really like it.

“You cannot reform a secret police force.”