jerrianneh.bsky.social
@jerrianneh.bsky.social
Writer, Author of “Valiant Vel” and “Anatomy of a Trial”
THANK YOU, Rochelle Melander, for this great blog post: "Today’s tip features an interview with my friend and critique partner Jerrianne Hayslett, who’s brand new book, Valient Vel, illustrated by another friend, Aaron Boyd, will inspire you to persist."

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April 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Rule of Law in the US has become the Rule of Trump.
April 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Has the Rule of Law in the USA become the rule of Trump?
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Add kidnapping and human trafficking to Don the John’s already long list of felonies.
April 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Wonder if Zelon will put a stop payment on the $million checks he gave to Wisconsin voters.
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
apnews.com/article/trum... executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' Get outta there, zebras, Black History Museum!
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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March 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Only the second time I can remember ever agreeing with the smashed pumpkin: lifting the HF ban in on Pete Rose.
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Krasnov’s and fElon’s idea of fraud waste and abuse is everything that doesn’t benefit them or that can’t be exploited for their own financial or political gain.
March 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Trump has joined the communists.
March 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Elon Muskovite praised Don the john’s cabinet today as the finest in US history. My question: How a man born & raised in apartheid South Africa, heir of a gem mine & no scholar of US history, civics or govt could possibly know a thing about past presidential cabinets?
February 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Artist Aaron Boyd, lawyer Michael Phillips and I launched our book "Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the Fight for Fairness and Equality" at Milwaukee Public Library last Saturday.
Huge thanks to library staff, Boswell Book Company, Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
February 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trumpo … says Musk is not a DOGE employee and has “no actual authority to make government decisions himself. ”
What? FElon Musk isn’t the head of DOGE and doesn’t make decisions re: his DOGE’s operations? Did the great orange one tell his little musky to git along little dogeys?
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Here's a link to an interview"Valiant Vel" illustrator Aaron Boyd and I did this am on the local affiliate of NBC "The Morning Blend" show. www.tmj4.com/shows/the-mo...
Valiant Vel: The Fight for Fairness and Equality
At this engaging launch event, author Jerrianne Hayslett and illustrator Aaron Boyd will discuss the making of Valiant Vel.
www.tmj4.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Great review of “Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the Fight for Fairness and Equality” by Jim Higgins in today’s online Milwaukee Joirnal Sentinel. It’s scheduled to run in Sunday’s paper edition. www.jsonline.com/story/life/2...
'Valiant Vel' recounts how courageous Vel Phillips persisted in advocating fair housing
A new biography for young readers of public servant Vel Phillips focuses on her fight for a fair housing ordinance in Milwaukee.
www.jsonline.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight
The move comes a day after the watchdog's office warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in humanitarian funds.
White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say
The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The interview Michael Phillips' and I had about our book "Valiant Vel" with WUWM Lake Effect's Joy Powers will air today during Lake Effect's noon program. On the radio at 89.7 FM, streaming at www.wuwm.com/listen. Hope you can listen.
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February 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Michael Phillips and I had a great interview today about our book “Valiant Vel” with WUWM Lake Effect’s Joy Powers.
February 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
With GOPers citing National Defense as the United States’ number one priority and responsibly, strange that they have put someone in charge of it who is the least experienced, the most morally challenged and a known substance abuser of any secretary of defense in the country’s history.
January 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The official launch of my new book "Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the Fight for Fairness and Equality" is planned for February 15 at the Milwaukee Public Library at 1 p.m.

The book’s illustratorAaron Boyd and Vel's son Michael Phillips who wrote the Afterword are joining me.
January 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
So old man trump and crowd promise an earthquake, a seismic shift and to turn things upside down in this country. Given the devastating destruction most earthquakes of note cause, the MAGA party's plans don't bode well for Americans.
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Trump promises to turn Washington upside down. He’s being welcomed back anyway
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fireplace was crackling in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning as President Joe Biden shook hands with Donald Trump and congratulated him on his election victory. “Welcome ba…
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November 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 4:32 AM