Laura Kendall

There might be an essay in this issue where I meditate on the idea of motherhood, and loss, and my hometown serial killer. Just maybe 😉

@davebangert oh dear. Saw Sheila and Kevin Klinker this morning and had no idea. ❤️

Sorry to hear news that Vic Klinker died Friday. He always joked he was "Mr. Sheila Klinker." But you always knew you were in the room with Vic, whether at the Lafayette Parks Board or a game at Crawley Center. Found this in an old J&C, in his post Lafayette Jeff/college days.

I'm out! go find me and my shop elsewhere.

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October. It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth. It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash. We must get big money out of our politics.

Stop buying books from this man.

If they had a lick of sense and an ounce of bravery they would go scorched earth in these final months. Lost the presidency and the senate? Just do it. But I don’t think they have it in them.

@IvonneSpinoza was thinking the same. like, I always wanted kids, but today I'm glad I never did.

Yup, not having children was 💯% the right call. This world is cooked beyond repair (literally and figuratively) 🫠

@AmandaAnnKlein I like to think there's more ignorance than hate, but maybe that too optimistic.

To all the young trans people who are understandably scared right now, my best advice is to learn your history. Read everything you can. Read about all the awful and terrible ways this country has tried to suppress us and read about all the ways we've survived in spite of it all.

If you're experiencing a crisis and need immediate support: National Suicide Prevention Hotline *Call 988* or (800) 273-8255 LGBTQ Trevor Project Lifeline: (866) 488-7386 or text "START" to 678-678 National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233

Stay alive. Even if it’s out of spite, stay alive. Be present. People care about you, even if your country doesn’t.

There are a lot of people that are terrified right now. Yes, that includes me and my family…what I’m saying is hang onto each other and be there for each other. We are all processing this.

@SpectralAurora_ @KaylaAncrum yes

is the reason election day isnt a federal holiday literally just voter suppression

I feel sick.

BREAKING - Over 40 different fake bomb threats have now been called into Democratic-leaning polling places And they're coming from RUSSIA This should literally be THE story right now -- it is blatant and brazen election interference to steal the election for Trump

No matter what happens, it saddens me deeply that rape, felonies, trying to overthrow our democracy, misogyny, racism and transphobia are somehow not deal breaks for 10’s of millions of Americans.

If your vote didn’t matter, there wouldn’t be fake bomb threats.

I’m just a girl, standing in front of the world, asking for a President who isn’t a rapist.