Kerry Madden- Lunsford
@kerrymadden.bsky.social
I write books for kids and teach creative writing at UAB. My new novel is called WEREWOLF HAMLET with Charlesbridge Moves in 2025. Happily married to Kiffen with three beautiful grown kids and a grandchild, Bonnie Alfred. https://www.kerrymadden.com/
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🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached.
You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”
You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”
December 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached.
You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”
You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”
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Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers. Don’t click on their email; do send it to spam:
Alex Victory
Amanda Honour
Artcus Technical Par.
Mirabell Prosper
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting
Alex Victory
Amanda Honour
Artcus Technical Par.
Mirabell Prosper
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers. Don’t click on their email; do send it to spam:
Alex Victory
Amanda Honour
Artcus Technical Par.
Mirabell Prosper
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting
Alex Victory
Amanda Honour
Artcus Technical Par.
Mirabell Prosper
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting
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My cousins 🦋🍀💚 how are they gone?
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My cousins 🦋🍀💚 how are they gone?
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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#writer #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Authors
“The process of becoming a writer involves discovering how to use the accumulated wisdom of our guild, all those tricks of the storytelling trade that have evolved around the campfire over the past…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
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Why Woolf?
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
Why Woolf?
On Mark Hussey’s ‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel’
www.metropolitanreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Why Woolf?
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
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Hunger doesn’t seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders alabamareflector.com/2025/11/10/h...
Hunger doesn't seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders | Alabama Reflector
When Alabama leaders see an emergency, they act fast. Which makes their passivity as 726,000 Alabamians face hunger more striking.
alabamareflector.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hunger doesn’t seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders alabamareflector.com/2025/11/10/h...
Why Woolf?
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
Why Woolf?
On Mark Hussey’s ‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel’
www.metropolitanreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Why Woolf?
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?...
A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social
"In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."
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Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.
Insane
Insane
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.
Insane
Insane
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FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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I know cruelty is the point but I never want to become numb to it and this is heartbreaking.
Kids are going to go to school with empty tummies.
Kids are going to go to school with empty tummies.
NOT MY PROBLEM! @govbilllee says he won’t touch Tennessee’s $2 BILLION savings account to feed 700,000 children, low-income working parents & disabled Tennesseans if the #TrumpShutdown continues into November
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I know cruelty is the point but I never want to become numb to it and this is heartbreaking.
Kids are going to go to school with empty tummies.
Kids are going to go to school with empty tummies.
Magic City Acceptance Academy and the cost of state-sanctioned bigotry alabamareflector.com/2025/10/20/m...
Magic City Acceptance Academy and the cost of state-sanctioned bigotry | Alabama Reflector
A school that opened to serve LGBTQ+ students could only survive by getting away from its original mission.
alabamareflector.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Magic City Acceptance Academy and the cost of state-sanctioned bigotry alabamareflector.com/2025/10/20/m...
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To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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In her own words... Dolly Parton is just fine! 🙏🏾✨ #DollyParton
BREAKING
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In her own words... Dolly Parton is just fine! 🙏🏾✨ #DollyParton
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🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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October 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Opinion | I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Alabama’s state library board seems hostile to literacy alabamareflector.com/2025/09/29/a...
Alabama's state library board seems hostile to literacy | Alabama Reflector
The Alabama Legislature is trying to raise reading scores as the Alabama Public Library Service is trying to limit what you can read.
alabamareflector.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Alabama’s state library board seems hostile to literacy alabamareflector.com/2025/09/29/a...