Jane Burns
@janeburns.bsky.social
Journalist who has covered pretty much everything, which is why one day my memoir will be called “Cheese and Basketball: Stories From a Reporter Who Has Covered Everything.” Writing about girls' and women's sports in Iowa at https://janeburns.substack.com
New band name: Airport Pajamas
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New band name: Airport Pajamas
Some academic needs to do a study of why people are afraid to ring a bell when a sign says “Please ring the bell.” Yet they are completely unafraid of walking right in and wandering aimlessly around an office scaring the hell out of the people who work there
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Some academic needs to do a study of why people are afraid to ring a bell when a sign says “Please ring the bell.” Yet they are completely unafraid of walking right in and wandering aimlessly around an office scaring the hell out of the people who work there
If the Boy Scouts are too woke then I’m a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If the Boy Scouts are too woke then I’m a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
Now this was a business that offered some variety
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Now this was a business that offered some variety
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The women abused by Justin Tucker and Art Briles have to carry those scars for the rest of their lives. It’s not to much to ask that Tucker and Briles should, too, rather than being given chances at redemption.
Art Briles, Justin Tucker getting second chances they don't deserve
If our society valued women, Justin Tucker and Art Briles would be pariahs. Instead, they're enjoying second chances despite the harm they've caused.
www.usatoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The women abused by Justin Tucker and Art Briles have to carry those scars for the rest of their lives. It’s not to much to ask that Tucker and Briles should, too, rather than being given chances at redemption.
Lots of universities have wealthy backers who get buildings named after them and such. But Dan Finney writes about a man who lifted a school by investing in its neighborhood and was there to help on its darkest day. Just an outstanding tribute.
open.substack.com/pub/paragrap...
open.substack.com/pub/paragrap...
The night that tested a neighborhood — and the man who refused to let it fail
How the Drake Diner murders shattered Des Moines, and how Bill Knapp helped rebuild hope out of horror.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lots of universities have wealthy backers who get buildings named after them and such. But Dan Finney writes about a man who lifted a school by investing in its neighborhood and was there to help on its darkest day. Just an outstanding tribute.
open.substack.com/pub/paragrap...
open.substack.com/pub/paragrap...
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
And destroyed so many lives. It certainly upended mine, as I was DOGEd in March. So much damage done, to people and institutions
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
And destroyed so many lives. It certainly upended mine, as I was DOGEd in March. So much damage done, to people and institutions
How you know old people live in my building: Three newspapers outside. Yes, one of them is mine.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How you know old people live in my building: Three newspapers outside. Yes, one of them is mine.
If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you every step of the way
I would only be in your way
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you every step of the way
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you every step of the way
I would only be in your way
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you every step of the way
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hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out
December 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM
hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out
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The baby that Madonna kept in “Papa Don’t Preach“ will be 40 next year.
a woman with short blonde hair looks down at something
ALT: a woman with short blonde hair looks down at something
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The baby that Madonna kept in “Papa Don’t Preach“ will be 40 next year.
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for everyone’s who’s asked; I now have signed copies available for pre-order, via @strandbookstore.bsky.social! hit the link 🔗: www.strandbooks.com/art-but-make-it-sports-epic-matchups-where-art-and-sports-collide-9781797236834.html
Buy Art But Make It Sports: Epic Matchups Where Art and Sports Collide Hardcover by LJ Rader Online
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November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
for everyone’s who’s asked; I now have signed copies available for pre-order, via @strandbookstore.bsky.social! hit the link 🔗: www.strandbooks.com/art-but-make-it-sports-epic-matchups-where-art-and-sports-collide-9781797236834.html
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Hlas column: The journey really does matter more than the destination, and the people are more important than the scoreboard. A personal story as the final football game I cover at Kinnick Stadium for the Gazette nears. www.thegazette.com/sports/my-fi...
My first football interview was with a hitchhiking receiver. Now my ride here ends.
The journey really does matter more than the destination, and the people are more important than the scoreboard.
www.thegazette.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Hlas column: The journey really does matter more than the destination, and the people are more important than the scoreboard. A personal story as the final football game I cover at Kinnick Stadium for the Gazette nears. www.thegazette.com/sports/my-fi...
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The biggest beneficiary of transgender athletes collectively and Lia Thomas specifically is Riley Gaines.
Had Thomas not been in that race, Gaines would’ve finished an irrelevant fourth instead of an irrelevant fifth, and probably would be working in a Walmart right now.
Instead she’s cashing in.
Had Thomas not been in that race, Gaines would’ve finished an irrelevant fourth instead of an irrelevant fifth, and probably would be working in a Walmart right now.
Instead she’s cashing in.
An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The biggest beneficiary of transgender athletes collectively and Lia Thomas specifically is Riley Gaines.
Had Thomas not been in that race, Gaines would’ve finished an irrelevant fourth instead of an irrelevant fifth, and probably would be working in a Walmart right now.
Instead she’s cashing in.
Had Thomas not been in that race, Gaines would’ve finished an irrelevant fourth instead of an irrelevant fifth, and probably would be working in a Walmart right now.
Instead she’s cashing in.
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It’s like they were hoping no one would notice the change but shifted back when they were caught.
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www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s like they were hoping no one would notice the change but shifted back when they were caught.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today in uninformed know-it-all basketball fans: A top recruit chooses Texas over Iowa and someone in the comments can’t believe she’d pick a school with no women’s basketball tradition.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today in uninformed know-it-all basketball fans: A top recruit chooses Texas over Iowa and someone in the comments can’t believe she’d pick a school with no women’s basketball tradition.
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Can we tell the pro women’s sports people that it would be absolutely ok if the players are fulfilling their own dreams and not just “doing it for the next generation?” I wrote about this once lol
Haterade: "do it for the little girls" is just sexism by another name
also, some bonus links!
www.thefrankiedlc.news
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Can we tell the pro women’s sports people that it would be absolutely ok if the players are fulfilling their own dreams and not just “doing it for the next generation?” I wrote about this once lol
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This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
My sister died a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t a post for sympathy but to share some advice. She had been sick for years and it’s crazy, and infuriating, how many people tell me “I should have gone to see her.” It’s all I can do to not scream “YES YOU F***ING SHOULD HAVE.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My sister died a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t a post for sympathy but to share some advice. She had been sick for years and it’s crazy, and infuriating, how many people tell me “I should have gone to see her.” It’s all I can do to not scream “YES YOU F***ING SHOULD HAVE.”
Not a new photo but a favorite: Some pissed off turkeys on the east side of Madison, presumably headed just down the street to the Jenifer Street Market to rescue some friends.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Not a new photo but a favorite: Some pissed off turkeys on the east side of Madison, presumably headed just down the street to the Jenifer Street Market to rescue some friends.
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Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was weak, crass and of no strategic benefit to America, the Editorial Board writes.
Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was weak, crass and of no strategic benefit to America, the Editorial Board writes.
Yoko knows.
(This isn’t new today, just something I saved. But it’s pretty timeless)
(This isn’t new today, just something I saved. But it’s pretty timeless)
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yoko knows.
(This isn’t new today, just something I saved. But it’s pretty timeless)
(This isn’t new today, just something I saved. But it’s pretty timeless)
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Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.