Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛

Current events & pop culture; photographer, gardener, seamstress, soap-maker, forager, cook, reader, writer, woman, wife, mom. Love animals, hate government.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@NiallHarbison Jimbo's a good boy. 😍

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@BlakeLivelyLies Haven’t read this, but did read Verity, and yeah, she is not a good writer. I really don’t get all the hype about her books. They seem like they are written by a teenager.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

Time lapse of the beginning of a storm that came through today in central Wisconsin. The clouds were really swirling!

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

Wow, incredibly unprofessional reporting by Court TV on the Karmelo Anthony trial.

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@waynehhsiung As someone who has chickens, this is pretty disturbing.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

Mosquitos are a food source for many other animals. This sounds like it could be a disaster.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

The mosquitoes that Google plans to release are infected with a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbachia. When they mate with wild mosquitoes the eggs don't hatch, causing the targeted population to decline over time.

That is at least the theory.

Supporters say it could help to reduce diseases like Zika virus without using pesticides. Sounds pretty good, right?

But the bigger question isn't whether or not the science works (and we're not even sure it does). It's who decided that one of the world's biggest tech companies should be in the business of altering ecosystems?

[Derrick Broze @DBrozeLiveFree]

I Cannot Continue Doing My Work Without Your Support

I won't waste your precious time with my sob story, but the reality is I have been struggling for the last year after my pay at The Last American Vagabond was cut to less than half due to frivolous copyright lawsuits Ryan Cristian is facing.

I've done everything I can to survive, to continue writing articles on a monthly basis, to continue releasing empowering and educational interviews, to continue releasing my monthly podcast breaking down the truth behind the big stories of the day, and, most importantly, to promote real solutions.

And yet, despite my best efforts - and lots of positive comments from my supporters - I can barely pay my bills. I need to come up with a new plan to survive and continue doing this important work that means more to me than anything in the world.

So, I am not here to ask for your handouts, or for you to support me monthly without getting something in return.

Instead, I am stepping further into faith and trusting that all of the hard work I've put into my journalism for the last 16 years will pay off and that YOU will help me finally take The Conscious Resistance Network completely independent.

I love working for TLAV, and I've enjoyed working for all the various indie media outlets I've worked for over the last decade, but my dream has always been to work for myself, and to build TCRN as an indie brand.

So here's my plan:

If I can get your financial support, I will continue writing weekly articles and doing video breakdowns of those articles, but, rather than the articles being hosted on someone else's site, they would be exclusive to TCRN. This would ideally drive more traffic to our website, grow our email list, and bring more people to the wealth of work I've produced since 2013.

The major difference between what I am doing now would be that those who sign up for monthly support on Buy Me a Coffee or Substack at $10 a month will be able to vote on my next investigations.

Additionally, those who support at $10 a month will gain access to an exclusive weekly livestream focused on discussing Exit and Build strategies. I will share my ideas and we will hear successes and challenges from the audience.

What do I need to make this happen?

I need to make at least $1500 USD a month in order to make this happen and take TCRN independent.

Right now, between Substack and Buy Me a Coffee, I am making between $6-700 a month. This amount varies depending on whether people cancel, new members sign up, and how much they sign up.

So, if you're currently supporting me on SS or BMAC, please consider upgrading to $10 a month. If you're not supporting at all, please consider signing up at the $10 a month level.

If you can't afford 10 bucks, please consider $5 a month.

If you can't afford five, please just keep reading/watching and SHARING my work with your networks so I can reach new people.

Why should you consider supporting me for $10 a month?

Unlike lots of other creators and platforms with much bigger reach and financial budget, I don't do clickbait, I don't shovel fearporn down your throat, and I only stick to the facts. This seems to be an increasing rarity these days.

Please consider signing up for support on Substack (https://t.co/oGPhVLGi9y)or Buy Me a Coffee (https://t.co/QphPcPKHif).

You can also support by buying a TCRN shirt (https://t.co/yd1msThAVD) or a book (https://t.co/8lqxMF2tUt).

Thanks for the support. I can't do this without you.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@kevin_nealon You're a good dad.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@BlakeLivelyLies Ha ha, if this ever actually happened in real life, the law would never be nationalized.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@zackpeter It sure flipped her stance when Blake and team tried to hijack her legislation/add new language to protect lawyers. I can't say I blame her, but I can also understand those who are upset about her seeming to support Lively prior to this.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

Why were two researchers from the NIH attempting to smuggle monkeypox into the U.S.?

[FOX 5 DC @fox5dc]

Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers were arrested and charged for allegedly smuggling monkeypox into the U.S. and lying to border officials. https://t.co/3iMAy5mpde

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@CelebDockets I’m hoping so, because what they’re doing is truly awful.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

If you've been following the Baldoni/Lively lawsuit, you need to watch Victoria Burke's interview with Megyn Kelly. Just when I thought I couldn't like Blake Lively and her lawyers any less, it comes out that they are attempting to hijack the bill designed by Victoria Burke to protect survivors from being sued for defamation because of speaking out.

[Kristie (Martinez) Kohn 🐓🐈‍⬛ @KristieKohn]

@Mistie_Mo I agree, she definitely doesn't actually care about #MeToo; she's just looking for any sort of win on this so that she can use it to her advantage for her PR spin.

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@JustineBateman Went and saw Backrooms yesterday and really enjoyed it. I recommend watching the original YouTube series before hand.

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@CCPISASSH0E @UglyHopkins

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@GuntherEagleman How ridiculous to say Tony Hinchcliffe is an incel. I’m positive that man has zero problems getting with women.

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@WallStreetApes Plus they have no flavor.