Karen from Canada

(she/her/y’all) Adoptive Mum. Nursing Home Administrator. Canadian ex-pat. NOLA adjacent.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@AccidentalCajun Not my proudest question. Do you use crab shells that were previously boiled?

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@BayouFilmProf In addition to goat, is there anything else you regularly pick up?

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

How is this being treated as normal?

A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

#CCC #fqf

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on.

John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks, and he ain't stupid. He comes from a long line of southern elites.

His great-great-great-grandfather Sanders Neely once enslaved 120 people on the Eutaw Planation in east Mississippi.

His other great-great-great-grandfather Oswell Neely enslaved 55 people on the LaVacca Plantation in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

And his other great-great-great-grand-grandfather Nathan Calhoun enslaved 65 people on his farm in South Carolina.

Nathan's son, Dabney Calhoun (Kennedy's great-great-grandfather) was a physician who enslaved 22 people.

Dabney's son, Leonidas Calhoun (Kennedy's great-grandfather), was also a physician and inherited all that land after the Civil War and worked it with the cheap labor of Black farmers.

Leonidas' son, William Calhoun (Kennedy's grandpappy on his mama's side), was a state lawmaker whose birth brought these various enslaving family branches together and it was he who inherited the LaVacca Plantation.

Kennedy's mama was born and raised on the LaVacca Plantation and Kennedy, himself, was named an inheritor of that land passed down all the way back from his slaveholder great(x3)-granddaddy.

John Kennedy was born into an elite family. He was born into wealth.

He graduated as a co-valedictorian of his high school class.

Then he graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt.

Then he graduated at the top of his class at University of Virginia School of Law, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Law Review.

Then he took his happy ass over to England and graduated from Oxford with a first class honours degree in civil law.

Folks... this performance he puts on, all of it, the whole thing, is a political brand.

It's a costume. He is committed to the bit.

Go back and look at old videos of his interviews early in his political career.

There's a slight accent there, but it ain't the heavy, drippy, molasses-in-my-mouth, aw shucks, "all I need in this cruel world is a watering hole and muh fishin' pole" patter he does these days.

It's all a performance, and it's utterly shameless.

So, for this elitist prick to pretend he's not overeducated and not elitist and just one of the good ole boys--while he's pushing policies that completely fuck over working class families in Louisiana--is pretty goddamn pathetic.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@AccidentalCajun I loved every moment of our visit. Darling daughter loves Elvis (she’s 12)

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@SprtsDrnk Neighborly is never a bad idea. It certainly doesn’t always work, but should be the first attempt. Best of luck.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

Lots of folks don’t know, but New Orleans has no public schools. When I moved to Louisiana to be in New Orleans, I had a toddler. I chose to live New Orleans adjacent, rather than try to navigate the system. Darling daughter attends one of the best public schools in the state.

[WWL-TV @WWLTV]

Two decades after Katrina, New Orleans remains nearly all-charter. Educators, researchers, and advocates reflect on how the system has evolved—and who it serves. https://t.co/MIjcp0z8y0

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@GeauxGabrielle #FWP
As we say on my job, there are OK white people, and then there’s the FWP.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@BayouFilmProf I don’t know, friend. Given the current political state of the world, an older white dude who wears a Springsteen shirt is really only a couple of steps away from wearing a BLM or Juneteenth shirt.

All forward motion by older white dudes should be regarded.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@USFWS What about the ROUSs? I don’t think they exist.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@GeauxGabrielle How do you want me to frame it?

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@AccidentalCajun How will you know what supplies & equipment you’ll need?

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@CommissionsbyGe I already have a sketch to base it on. There is only one level.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

I need someone who can red-do the floor plan for my nursing home. Nothing too detailed, just something to draw on and post for emergency preparedness. Who can help? #nola

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@JimmyNoSense @KellyScaletta Well, you seem nice.

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@WaveProfesora I didn’t know this book existed. Her story has always fascinated me, and I like Bourdain’s other books. Thanks for the rec, I just borrowed it from the library!

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

@MerriamWebster I like ‘cheese & rice’, myself.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Q: How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber?

A: Ask them to pronounce the word 'unionized.'

[Karen from Canada @hailavalon]

I just thought I had read the dumbest thing to come out of #lalege this session. Moments ago, I retweeted. It has already been surpassed.

[Piper Hutchinson @ByPiperHutch]

SB 19, the bill to make Ivermectin available over the counter, passes Senate Health and Welfare on 6-3 party line vote. It will next be discussed on the Senate floor. #lalege #lagov

https://t.co/uhGbm3KvMz