kelly leita

Oh to be a mousegirl returning to facebook after a 2 month hiatus

Venus and Jupiter over the ocean

My advice to disaffected young men is to get a squire p bass and join a band and your whole women only date rich guys reactionary politics vibe will seem pretty silly when a lady breaks up with her real estate boyfriend to date your broke ass

man standing up at meeting saying 'BEING 'HEAVY HANDED' WITH THE MESSAGE OF YOUR ART ISN'T INHERENTLY BAD AND PEOPLE AUTOMATICALLY SAY THAT IT IS WITHOUT CRITICAL THOUGHT BECAUSE THEYVE BEEN SUBCONSCIOUSLY AND DIRECTLY TAUGHT FOR YEARS THAT THE MEASURE OF 'GOOD' ART LIES IN HOW WELL IT HIDES ITS POLITICS

BIG thing i get teased about over the years (in playful ways, it is fine buckaroos, but a light tease none the less) is the DIRECTNESS of my titles. many who stumble upon my books will immediately comment 'the title is so long it just says what happens'. here are some of my thoughts on that...

'We are in the middle of being bullied': 9 members of Child Protection Team call for end of 'toxic' work environment Nine members of the First Coast Child Protection Team are calling for child abuse pediatrician Dr. Barbara Knox to be removed from the team.

Fire Barbara Knox.

I work for a child protection team. This means I see kids who have been SA’d, victims of and witnesses to DV ranging from yelling all the way to homicide, and more. This job is fucking tough.

What makes it tougher: the general apathy of anyone in leadership of nonprofits.

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program

learn about the Zapatista uprising

learn about Jane

learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union

learn about STAR

learn about Act Up

learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain

learn about the Spanish Civil War

we are not the first

The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness.

If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.

If you see something (horses), say something ("horses")

it’s crazy it took 248 years for a president to realize he can do anything illegal and it doesn’t really matter too much. you can sort of just do whatever, it’s chill

i’m way too excited about a bluesky-based instagram replacement. i just really want musk / zuckerberg / all evil rich billionaires that control all online spaces to lose everything

the onion has been the paper of record for 25 years for the secret masters of the earth. the grey lady spews forth her folly whole but the onion peels back the layers

the onion has been the paper of record for 25 years for the secret masters of the earth. the grey lady spews forth her folly whole but the onion peels back the layers

Your reminder that Biden very quietly killed the BLM movement through mass surveillance and RICO charges for activists, organizers, and journalists, while leaving the previously assembled masses to grind and die for capitalism during a pandemic. His tenure saw record numbers murdered by cops.

What if the microplastics are actually keeping us beautiful into our 30s as opposed to those guys from like 100 years ago who looked busted as hell at that age

sometimes when Ariel scampers across my keyboard it seems as though she is tapdancing

NEXT WEEK
from the frontlines: class struggle and class war in the US southeast w/ cecilia guerrero

United Kingdom from space Credit:NASA

Well, at least Pete Hegseth is cured of his alcoholism.

Wish more filmmakers understood that we want to be confused

Democrats thinking that tiktok is what radicalized everyone under 40 to be against neoliberal capitalism and not their own actions and inactions is really something to see for a generation that has continually told us we are dispensable or “acting like children” for being anti genocide and austerity

Buzzfeed News was an actual newsroom and they shuttered it in favor of ai slop so they wouldn't have to pay writers. Naturally papers of record are following in their footsteps