Ken Kelly

Depression survivor - ADD adventurer. If I retweet a gif, you can assume it made me smile, snort, or mutter 'What the hell?'

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@Hot_Pepper76 Surely “Those were the days”?
That’s the only one I can see any evidence for.

[Andrew Lynch @andrewglynch]

if a toddler puts a sticker on you, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture

[“paula” @paularambles]

you’ll ask chatgpt for a pickle recipe and it will hit you with “one thing i often do” and “i've never found this necessary.” brother you are a large language model. you have never pickled a cucumber in your life.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

One day after the U.S. signed a deal with the Islamic Republic، the regime in Iran, handed Parastoo Ahmadi 74 lashes for singing on YouTube.

They call America the Great Satan. And then they flew to the table and signed a deal with the «Devil«. But a woman’s voice scared them more than any superpower ever could.

A regime that whips women for showing their hair and singing, there’s not a normal government.
This is called apartheid against women.

[🇨🇦🍁Maple🍁🇨🇦 @1414Maple]

Done ✅ doing it

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

Those who think russia is too weak/overstretched to attack anyone else beside Ukraine misunderstand the logic/goal of such an attack— it’s not to conquer more territory conventionally but to cause chaos/dissent within Europe thus forcing the collapse of NATO/EU and somehow…

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@Will_W_Welker @FrankLuntz Nonsense.
500,000 reported cases and 400-500 deaths per year immediately before the vaccine.

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Ontario and Yukon advancing small modular reactor deployment in the Yukon 👇
Honestly nuclear is a great choice for remote communities and I’m so glad they’re pushing the concept forward

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Russia has committed many horrific crimes in its war against Ukraine, but the abduction of Ukrainian children stands among the gravest.

Thousands of children have been taken.
Every single one of them must be returned.

On 11 May in Brussels, @andrii_sybiha, @AnitaAnandMP, @MartaKosEU and I will host the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children.

Our objective is to bring them home and hold those responsible accountable.

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Humanitarian catastrophe in Russian-occupied Oleshky, the Kherson region.

A sustained drone siege.

Thousands of civilians trapped without food, water, medicine, electricity, heating.

No evacuation corridor.

🧵based on 2 months of my reporting.

https://t.co/lUnngObzY2

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@Sublimator2000 @RadioGenoa She never flipped. She has steadfastly supported Ukraine from day one.

https://t.co/zvL2QgIlEC

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@alealefrank @RadioGenoa Meloni has staunchly supported Ukraine since the day Russia invaded. Why lie about something so easy to check?
Meloni’s speech at CPAC 2022:

https://t.co/G7kdF5LX08

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She was missing for eleven years.
She was taken first. She suffered the longest. When another captive gave birth in that house with no doctor, no hospital, no help — she was the one who delivered the baby with her bare hands and saved two lives.
And yet, when she finally walked free in May 2013, almost no one knew her name.

In August 2002, a 21-year-old woman named Michelle Knight disappeared from Cleveland, Ohio. She had been struggling — poverty, housing instability, a life that hadn't been easy. When she vanished, investigators assumed she had simply left on her own. Her case received almost no follow-up. No search was organized. No vigils were held. No one distributed flyers with her face.
She simply… ceased to matter to the world outside that house on Seymour Avenue.
More than a year later, 16-year-old Amanda Berry was taken. Then 14-year-old Gina DeJesus. Their families refused to give up. They organized. They campaigned. They kept their daughters' faces in front of the public for years. The cases became known. The world was watching — for two of the three.
Inside that house, Michelle endured the most severe abuse of all three women. She suffered forced miscarriages. She became a quiet source of strength for the others in ways that would only emerge later. When Amanda went into labor, it was Michelle — untrained, frightened, determined — who delivered the baby and breathed life into a child born in the darkest of circumstances.
Then came May 6, 2013. Amanda Berry broke free and called 911. The door to that house finally opened.
The world erupted in relief and celebration. Amanda and Gina were welcomed home by families who had never stopped fighting for them. Their reunion was broadcast globally. Their names became symbols of survival and hope.
Michelle walked out of the same house, into a different kind of silence.
She had no equivalent homecoming. The media coverage that followed focused overwhelmingly on the two younger women — teenagers when taken, from stable homes, with families who had publicly and visibly never stopped searching. Michelle's story was mentioned, then moved past. Even the support systems established for survivors were not equally accessible to her.
In the years that followed, she spoke and wrote about this openly. Not with bitterness, but with clarity. In her memoir, she described not just eleven years of captivity, but the quieter, ongoing pain of being treated as less worthy of rescue — both before and after.
She eventually made a decision that said everything.
She changed her name. Legally, permanently. She became Lily Rose Lee — a name she chose herself, a self she reclaimed on her own terms, because no one else had thought to protect it.

Today, Lily Rose Lee advocates for missing persons and abuse survivors — specifically those who fall through the cracks. Those with complicated backgrounds. Those who don't inspire immediate sympathy. Those whose absence is explained away rather than investigated.
Her message is simple, and it should be obvious, and it isn't said nearly enough:
Every missing person deserves to be searched for. Not the ones who fit a certain image. Not just the ones with families who can organize. Every single one.
Three women were held in the same house. Three women endured the same suffering. Three women deserved the same fight to bring them home.
We got it right for two of them.
Lily Rose Lee has spent her life asking — gently, persistently, powerfully — why that was ever acceptable.
It's a question worth sitting with.

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@aglassbrightly1 @bcurtin0 @NewReaganCaucus For Westerners, yes.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Los Angeles is actually an active oil pumping field. By 1930, California provided 25% of all the oil in the world. It's still pumping today, they just hide the many derricks in boxes and pretend they aren't really there.

[Ken Kelly @_KJKelly]

@canadavsengland @NickKristof That is the statement that Trump wants to prosecute CNN for reporting.