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DeKalb County (GA) Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor. Author of 12 books. Mother of Ches. My publisher pal advised me to rebuild my social media presence before pitching this half-written scifi novel, and I haven't written much since. Sigh.
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Looks like not all of the Inflation Reduction Act has been frozen by the South African! 😁😁😁Thanks to advocacy by the National Organization of Conservation Districts, the first tranche of IRA funding for farmers has been released! In your weird plastic face, Elon. www.nacdnet.org/newsroom/nac...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Stop doomscrolling for a minute and enjoy some cosmic horror.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I bet 70% of District Supervisors are Republican, but we’re all in this to feed the country without exhausting its natural resources. “The National Association of Conservation Districts calls for immediate action to mitigate the effects of freezes and layoffs” www.nacdnet.org/newsroom/nac...

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Sometimes I think about how Bolsonaro, who inherited the fashy coup government of Brazil from charisma-free Michel Temer, was backed Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Ali Alexander, and other Trump kids and aides who went there to secure the world's ~10th largest economy. apnews.com/article/bols...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Armando leaves his home at 4am to work pruning grapes near Merced CA. He earns 40 cents for each vine he prunes and some days falls short of the quota but he is grateful for any work during the winter. #WeFeedYou

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

The GACD District 1 meeting covers reps from Northwest Georgia, 38 counties and 14 Districts (the same as USDA Districts), running from Dade, Walker and Catoosa Counties on the TN/AL border down to DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Clayton in Atlanta Metro. So we have wildly different priorities.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I’m at the GACD Group 1 meeting in beautiful Acworth, wondering how (or if) a deeply conservative, agriculture-oriented government body created by FDR to derail future Dust Bowls is going to address all the DOGE chaos. I’ll take notes on paper and post about it later.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If sci-fi is commentary on the problems of society, economics, and politics, stories coming out of Argentina should be amazing.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

You can download most of your books in the .azw3 format, and there are tools online to convert those to epub or even pdf. You've got 1 week to do it.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Rural GA complained nonstop about Biden's Helene response, but at least his FEMA showed up. "It has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested ... is not warranted," acting FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton wrote in a letter to Kemp." www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2927 comments

If you are a VA or other federal employee in the Middle Tennessee area who has lost your job, please send me an email, [email protected], and tell me your story.

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submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

So depressing. Had a Soil & Water Conservation District meeting today, where the NRCS told us they'd lost all probationary employees and IRA funding that covered some activities. All their EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentives Program) loans are still covered, despite the meme going around. But the

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments