on the off chance anyone else from AE is On Here, a petition to cancel Avondale Estates' contract with Flock: c.org/GGV4txkHRk
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Cancel the Flock Contract in Avondale Estates, GA
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Kate McNeely
@fromawildkate.bsky.social
Nonprofit & philanthropy, cats/dogs/plants, equity, community, and words. She/her primary pronouns; she/they rising. Opinions here are my own, obv.
today's win was taking the nephew to H-Mart and letting him loose in the snack aisles
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
I am learning to make espresso drinks with my new machine. Wish me luck, and congratulations to @vcbrannen.bsky.social for marrying me.
my kingdom for a voter guide that explains circuit court candidates so i don’t have to talk to lawyers to find out
I wonder if my childhood friend Sara Beth ever thinks of me. I think of her every time I make the beautiful monstrosity that is a cheese and jelly sandwich.
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Just found out my parents met in a philosophy class. (I knew they met in college but assumed history.) This explains so much about my family's pondering ways.
Times when MARTA is most delightful: - Labor Day weekend with Black Pride Weekend, Dragon Con, and a bunch of sports fans - Before a protest 🚫👑🚫 🐸
Today's read about the criminalization of poverty, how for-profit companies benefit, and the conditions in Georgia that make the system particularly hard to escape. From @thesoutherncenter.bsky.social
Criminalizing Poverty through the "Market in Incarcerated People"
How the Legal System Profits Off Those Who Can Least Afford It
thesoutherncenter.substack.com
The Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network launched a similar effort to virtually attend and monitor hearings at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. GAIN is looking for volunteers for it's virtual court watch program.
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Happy Pride y'all
vc@vcbrannen.bsky.social · last yr.so @fromawildkate.bsky.social and I went to vote after work today, and as we go through the checkin process: checkin volunteer: "Are you two related?" me: "We're married!" vol: "Oh! I thought you might be sisters, you look a little alike!" me: "Nope! That would've made the wedding pretty awkward."
Mad about Lady Sybill and pleased about Dianna Troi openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz results
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perils of the double nonprofit household: I mentioned today that there is a particular lyric in Charli xcx's Von Dutch that scans oddly so it always sounds to me like "LYBUNT," and now @fromawildkate.bsky.social can't unhear it either
I had the honor of working locally under Cecile's national leadership and planning a gala with her as the honoree. She was brilliant and somehow managed to also take the time to be kind. Her passing is a great loss.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2y agoBreaking: Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, has died
@vcbrannen.bsky.social, working on a project in the bathroom: "I mean, we are wildly inconsistent with the metals in this room." Me: sees this for the first time ever and agrees VCB, looking at me with heart eyes anyway: "it's because I let you pick."