Jeanna Kadlec

i am not an educator so maybe this is dumb, but can we not just like, go back to readings and class discussions?

i did most of my upper division and graduate work in college out of sheer fear of the socratic method

Saying what needs to be said. This is how we dismantle our biases, disentangle ourselves from WSC, and start making the truest art we can to envision a new way.

BRIDGET 😭

the artist's way is super christian, actually and we need to talk about it

finally did the deep-dive on how THE ARTIST'S WAY is super problematically christian, actually

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After detainments and deportations, the lives left behind in Minnesota From abandoned possessions to unpaid rent, many Minnesotans had to lean on family, friends and community organizations for help with their unfinished business.

"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

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LISTEN it is not all it’s cracked up to be !!!!

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the artist's way is super christian, actually and we need to talk about it

"Part of what makes The Artist’s Way seem “spiritual” and not overtly religious is that in an elegant sleight of hand, Cameron asserts that readers can simply substitute “universe” for where she uses the word God.

But this doesn’t work."

jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/the-artist...

the artist's way is super christian, actually and we need to talk about it

finally did the deep-dive on how THE ARTIST'S WAY is super problematically christian, actually

jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/the-artist...

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

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I once interviewed an expert on oil consumption that focused on consumers. He said low gas prices are a religion for Americans and they will do absolutely nonsensical things to access them, like drive miles and miles out of their way.

If you wanna lose votes as fast as possible, raise gas prices.

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

ICE Deaths in Custody | UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project works to increase transparency and accountability in the US carceral system by compiling and researching data on deaths in custody.

new dataset tracking every ICE detention death since 2003 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

Happy international womens day!

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.

The article covers newly released discovery in the case.

Here’s what discovery confirmed:

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it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think

an actually insane take

extremely behind on both word count AND inbox because i had a bad fall, hurt my hand, and am now dealing with an infection lolsob anyway typing/writing has become extremely difficult this is a writers' nightmare

i need establishment democrats to stop sending fundraising emails and try actually doing shit

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

THIS

I had a daydream that Mackenzie Scott started a media company and opened 30 local newspapers in midsized cities and 10,000 people got jobs and it cost exactly the amount Bezos should have paid in taxes on purpose.

I know journalism is a rapidly deteriorating industry, but it also feels like fighting a losing battle when folks on here are mostly sharing articles to dunk on them, rather than solid pieces from journos and critics out here trying our best every day to stay working and writing

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now