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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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I can't believe they're actually trying "trans people never had human rights in the first place". It's like something out of 1984

submitted 13 hours ago • 32 comments

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

organizing a bunch of scattered fragments of stories half-begun into one place. i've got nearly 50. just from the last few years, just the ones i actually started writing, some a phrase, some 1000 words or so. ideas are infinite. you don't need a fuckin ai gremlin to give you ideas

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Not excited at the third case being taken up at ALL. It comes out of a series of legal victories over the past few years which have found that private prison companies are violating trafficking laws by forcing ICE detainees to work for $1/day through threats. GEO Group wants those lawsuits stopped.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Walnut flowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

100% getting this book.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

More Gilead shit right here.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

More of this please!

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Dead man's fingers #fungi

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Atlanta's Stone Mountain is the world's largest granitic extrusion, 2/3 the size of Uluru. It's also the site of the largest war memorial in the USA—but not for US soldiers. It's a memorial to the CSA, commemorating where the KKK was re-founded in 1915. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/hiker-f...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, rabbit hole.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I see news of "fights in the White House!" pumped up in the media, complete with a black eye that could have been covered with makeup flaunted in the West Wing, I remind myself Linda McMahon is a cabinet member. Do y'all still think WWE is real? Seriously?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is so funny

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

I thought the future would be flying cars and cool metallic clothes, not just going to work every day during ethnic cleansing

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

There were a bunch of tells that the HHS report on trans care also used AI but the credulous press bought it because they hate trans people. Now it's a problem because the hackery is focused on cis people.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The Mortality Rate for Bird Flu is 50% in Asia They just cancelled the contract with Moderna who was working on a Bird Flu vaccine We can afford a 95 Million Military Parade but not a vaccine for Public Health?

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments