Kelly Brest van Kempen

@kellybrestvankempen

Unabashed liberal Democrat with a streak of mellow.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙

Jan 26

It’s great to see so many people leaving X. I had almost 300,000 followers there; a wonderful community of people who were speaking up about what’s happening to the NHS. But it became impossible to operate in that environment because of changes Musk made. Lovely to connect again (and find others) here and elsewhere!

Kelly Brest van Kempen

Nov 22

I’ve been writing down a series of vignettes for my family. Here’s the first one:

JFK

November 22, 1963. Sixty-one years ago today. I was on the second floor of the Saville Bookshop in the Georgetown section of Washington DC. I was a junior majoring in French at George Washington University, and the Saville’s second floor was devoted entirely to French books, so I was searching for something that looked interesting (and that I could afford). There was an African diplomat there as well, …

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Kelly Brest van Kempen

Oct 21

To anyone paying attention, it is clear that Trump is not in any shape to manage the government of the United States of America. He is canceling interviews and botching the ones he does sit for, while falling asleep at events where he is not actually speaking. He lies incessantly even when hosts point out that his claims have been debunked, and cannot answer a question or follow a train of thought. And his comments of the weekend—calling the vice president a “sh*t vice president,” telling a woman to get “your fat husband off the couch” to vote for him, and musing about a famous golfer’s penis—indicate that he has no mental guardrails left.

Heather Cox Richardson