The Real Kelli Dade

“Women should be having more children.” But also, “F them kids.” The whiplash is intense. So is the disrespect.

Families could start losing access to Head Start if shutdown continues If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families.

If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. n.pr/4hy0p96

But we knew that was coming when he was cast in that role. My eye roll was audible.

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How to be a writer, no. 1256899
1. Write
2. Think about writing
3. Worry about writing
4. Write some more
5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle
6. Tea

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Harriet Tubman was real. Anne Frank was real. Harvey Milk was real. Each of these people contributed to the global zeitgeist.

The Orange administration, by contrast, has contributed nothing but a large market upswing in the purchase of Advil.

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Everything I know about this uneducated, limp, bald loser is information I learned against my will.

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ALEC Sets Sights On New Anti-Voting Bills in States Read more here.

NEW: ALEC — a right-wing think tank known for drafting controversial anti-voting legislation like the SAVE Act — is launching a new task force that will focus on pushing a new slate of state-level voter suppression bills.

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Because the holiday weekend calls for a little levity.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Many of the CDC's newsletters have stopped being distributed

Health alerts about disease outbreaks, previously sent to health professionals subscribed to the CDC's Health Alert Network, haven't been dispatched

Social Media channels not posting new content in a month

he's so unpopular, there's a Black Democratic mayor in Omaha today. i do not understand how the national media is not clocking this.

41% of babies' births are covered by Medicaid.

The Christian nationalist Republican Party attacks women's freedom to force us to give birth.

But pregnancy & giving birth require expensive health care.

So why are Republicans cutting Medicaid coverage for ⚠️41%⚠️ of births?

Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and tell them: #HandsOffOurMedicaid

The list is growing & those ate just ones that begin with the 2 words.

There are plenty more

Tonight, our coalition members across the US are having watch parties for the Canadian election results. We’re hoping for the best! 🙏 Elbows up! 🇨🇦❤️

Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

White House Swaps Obama Portrait With One of Trump From Assassination Attempt (Gift Article) While the shuffling of artwork in the president’s residence drew criticism, that kind of rotation is common with the change of administrations.

What dictators do, not presidents: “the new, striking artwork depicting Mr. Trump drew criticism from some presidential historians, who could not recall another president hanging a painting of himself during his term in the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

READ THIS.

Unless you have dangerously high blood pressure, because this will raise it.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DISSOLVING SOCIAL SECURITY.

Call your legislators, hammer on their doors, REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS.

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Aside from being illegal

Improperly listing 6,100 people as dead will almost certainly make it easier to “disappear” them

Because now they’ve been “erased”

And you can be damned sure that American citizens will mistakenly be included as dead

Come to think of it

That’s probably no mistake at all

Apparently we should all have enough liquid assets to short the market at any point, or what are we really doing?

Me, getting ready for the day: 🧼🪥👚👖🧥🪮👩🏽‍💻
Weather: 🌤️
Weather, as I’m leaving for appointment: ☔️
Weather as I’m leaving appointment to head home: ❄️💨
Weather once I’m home: 🌤️🌨️

WTF, Michigan? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Claude Monet has his own BlueSky account. Imagine that.

Don't forget your daily joy.