Kim Kelly

✨ And now, for my next trick… ✨ This is the book I was born to write. Growing up with a rare disability, I often felt all alone in the world—until I found the sideshow and the disabled performers who brought it to life. I can’t wait to share their stories—and mine—with you.

They think the conductors make too much and the engineers make too much and the sanitation workers make too much and the teachers make too much but YOU - who sits on a laptop making Line Go Up - are totally safe. They'll never come after you. Promise

so interesting to see which jobs are seen as deserving of high wages

@ettingermentum This is the best one I’ve read about them, really digs deep into their family life and legacy in North Carolina too! npr.org/2018/04/02/598…

@GrimKim Ohhhh what’s the lore

Just learned that the original Siamese twins from Siam became antebellum slaveowners with 21 kids between the two of them

@thiccassbutt dudes rock

Primitive man brought all of this to play a free show on a sidewalk in Denver today

@bikemamadelphia Always worth a second look for sure!

@GrimKim Yeah 3 dudes all white showing up together. And I was like 👀

I don’t know if sharps are still a thing. But in the year of our lord 2026 if you dress like a skinhead and shave your head as a skinhead does. especially when you are a white dude. I don’t trust you and I’m leaving that place.

The Trump admin is hacking away at the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. “Every day of delay is another death sentence for our communities,” said Rebecca Shelton of @AppCitizensLaw. @GrimKim reports the story. inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…

@thetolerantweft Meeee

who all is going to Labor Notes 🕴️

@jescross @peygayparade FWIW I went there for a super basic trim and they were really sweet about it, even charged me less because it was a simple job

@peygayparade @GrimKim My hair style isn't edgy enough foreavy metal tbh. I went there once years ago and they were determined to give me a fashion mullet and bitch that ain't me

I need a new hairdresser. Qualifications: 1. Doesn't charge me $100+ to trim my 9 strings of hair 2. Isn't a cunt 3. Doesn't talk at me, especially about bad music like Bring me the Horizon 4. Preferably LGBT+ 5. S Philly or CC preferred. Recs anyone?

The Trump administration says it “digs coal.” Meanwhile, it has delayed a silica dust rule, gutted a mine safety review agency and left coal miners facing greater risk of injury, disease and death. @grimkim reports: inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…

@mags_mclaugh ooooh one of my ancestors was a Fille du Roi!

I’m already in the theater, waiting

On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner and closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes. @grimkim reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work: inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…

@Ryan_Crosswell This kind of gross classism is disqualifying

Voters and community leaders from across the Lehigh Valley are speaking up. They're upset with the heavy hand of political insiders to prop up a flawed candidate in this primary. And they're uniting around the belief that I am the best prepared to beat Ryan Mackenzie in November and to serve our district in what will be the most tested Congress in history. Please keep speaking out. Please keep working. We’ve got five more days to tell the dark money insiders in both parties they can’t buy this seat.

Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.

@bikemamadelphia what in the world even is that

TIL that Penn students call it "Gray Station", I can't imagine using her government name like that.

‘Society Is Built to Keep Us in the Gutter’: Sex Workers in Montreal to Strike During F1 Weekend This latest “whoreganization” effort is part of sex workers’ fight for labour rights and decriminalization. A collective of Montreal sex workers is calling on strippers and erotic masseuses to go on strike during the Grand Prix weekend. While the F1 weekend is a lucrative time for club management, sex workers say that it’s synonymous with rowdy, cheap clients, steep bar fees and higher rates of assault. On Saturday, May 23, the throngs of tourists who flock to Montreal for more than just fast cars might not get their fix of scantily clad dancers, lap dances or happy endings. On that day, Montreal’s Sex Work Autonomous Committee is inviting sex workers and allies to participate in activities and a protest — and encourage sex workers to deprive the city of their services. Their demands? Abolishing the bar fee in strip clubs. Gaining worker status with Quebec’s labour board, the CNESST, to get protections like sick leave, disability, Employment Insurance, and a way to report unjust or unsafe labour practices. Fully decriminalizing sex work. And eventually, even a wage. Read more: therover.ca/society-is-bui…

@daveweigel @nick_field90 god I hope so

Complete collapse, which may gift wrap the seat for Chris Rabb (campaigning w AOC tomorrow)

@ahlmanforne Get their asses

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people. Let’s take Nebraska back.