Lesa Patterson-Kinsey
@lesapattersonk.bsky.social
Freelance lobbyist, activist, & sub teacher. MSW, work in macro-social work, Old growth forests are my happy places. Love a good concert, book, movie & art piece. A survivor of child sexual abuse helping other survivors through advocacy & activism.
Spent Thursday raising awareness & working for bills that support survivors of child sexual abuse. Had to get our pic w/Kelce & Mahomes! Honored to catch the artist painting our new mural celebrating KS suffragists!
#CSA #CSASurvivor
#CSA #CSASurvivor
February 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Spent Thursday raising awareness & working for bills that support survivors of child sexual abuse. Had to get our pic w/Kelce & Mahomes! Honored to catch the artist painting our new mural celebrating KS suffragists!
#CSA #CSASurvivor
#CSA #CSASurvivor
Endurance. That’s amazing!
Old Tjikko - A 9,550 year old Norway spruce, Fulufjället Mountain, Sweden 🌲
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
A clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over its lifetime
So whilst it cannot claim to be the oldest tree in the world, it has been here that long
Photo: Karl Brodowsky
February 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Endurance. That’s amazing!
It’s Kansas Day & it’s been a tough week. Both warranted baking cookies- Sunflowers & Buffalo!
January 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It’s Kansas Day & it’s been a tough week. Both warranted baking cookies- Sunflowers & Buffalo!
Reposted by Lesa Patterson-Kinsey
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
“NAMI Kansas volunteer Tara Gwynn said Kansas has an average of one mental health care provider for every 450 residents.”
Kansas mental health professionals prepare listening session while working to enhance services | via AJ Dome #ksleg
Kansas mental health professionals prepare listening session while working to enhance services • Kansas Reflector
Kansas mental health experts want rural residents to be aware of available resources as they work to enhance mental health services across more of the state.
kansasreflector.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“NAMI Kansas volunteer Tara Gwynn said Kansas has an average of one mental health care provider for every 450 residents.”
Unfortunately we had to cancel the press conference. But we met w/KS legislators to discuss our Survivors' Rights bill to give adult CSA survivors access to their DCF records & extend civil SOL to 55 yrs. Great day to spend breaking the silence of child sexual abuse & raising awareness!
#CSA
#CSA
January 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Unfortunately we had to cancel the press conference. But we met w/KS legislators to discuss our Survivors' Rights bill to give adult CSA survivors access to their DCF records & extend civil SOL to 55 yrs. Great day to spend breaking the silence of child sexual abuse & raising awareness!
#CSA
#CSA
Proud to be speaking tomorrow! Come & hear about our new bill: The Survivors Rights Bill will allow survivors of substantiated child abuse access to their own DCF records as an adult & extend civil statute of limitations for Child Sexual Abuse from age 31 to 55.
#CSA #CSASurvivorSky
#CSA #CSASurvivorSky
January 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Proud to be speaking tomorrow! Come & hear about our new bill: The Survivors Rights Bill will allow survivors of substantiated child abuse access to their own DCF records as an adult & extend civil statute of limitations for Child Sexual Abuse from age 31 to 55.
#CSA #CSASurvivorSky
#CSA #CSASurvivorSky
Lucky enough to spend the day at the KS Statehouse w/ these student nurses & lobby for 911 operators to have CPR training on American Heart Association Advocacy Day. Love introducing people to advocate in the KS Leguslature!
Great working w/Brandi Fisher, Shannon Smith & Kari Ann Rinker!
Great working w/Brandi Fisher, Shannon Smith & Kari Ann Rinker!
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Lucky enough to spend the day at the KS Statehouse w/ these student nurses & lobby for 911 operators to have CPR training on American Heart Association Advocacy Day. Love introducing people to advocate in the KS Leguslature!
Great working w/Brandi Fisher, Shannon Smith & Kari Ann Rinker!
Great working w/Brandi Fisher, Shannon Smith & Kari Ann Rinker!
Nice to have a sister in law that when you ask “Can you help recover a cushioned easy chair for my gnome?” & send her photo. She answers w/“Awwww! But yeah, not his vibes. What type of fabric are you using?” Then offers to figure it out & hand sews a new cover. Thanks, Catherine, Gnelson loves it!
January 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Nice to have a sister in law that when you ask “Can you help recover a cushioned easy chair for my gnome?” & send her photo. She answers w/“Awwww! But yeah, not his vibes. What type of fabric are you using?” Then offers to figure it out & hand sews a new cover. Thanks, Catherine, Gnelson loves it!
Join us 1:30 - 3pm this Sunday to learn how school vouches impact our students and communities. At Tomahawk Ridge Community Ctr, 119th & Lowell, OPKS. @leahfliter.bsky.social @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social @judith-deedy.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Join us 1:30 - 3pm this Sunday to learn how school vouches impact our students and communities. At Tomahawk Ridge Community Ctr, 119th & Lowell, OPKS. @leahfliter.bsky.social @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social @judith-deedy.bsky.social
Very snowy weekend. KCI & highways closed. Been sleeting & snowing since Sat noon. Blizzard tonight. I’m lucky in a warm house w/a full pantry. With lots of time worrying about my son & his girlfriend who are waiting out the storm & will try to drive home tomorrow. #2024Bizzard
January 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Very snowy weekend. KCI & highways closed. Been sleeting & snowing since Sat noon. Blizzard tonight. I’m lucky in a warm house w/a full pantry. With lots of time worrying about my son & his girlfriend who are waiting out the storm & will try to drive home tomorrow. #2024Bizzard
The total lack of oversight for safety of children stood out to me. I wonder if there's data regarding children being abused while attending voucher schools? My work focuses on child sexual abuse. I know predators actively seek out situations that give them easy access to children. #KSLEG #CSA
NEW: Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning.
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Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.
Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.
propub.li
January 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This another reason I love my hometown.
An enigma, a Lawrence resident hides mugs around town every first Saturday of the month in hopes that all will be found. The Lawrence Mug Hunt draws folks of all ages and is free for everyone to participate.
lawrenceks.news/4gAZ1S9 #lfk #lawrenceks
lawrenceks.news/4gAZ1S9 #lfk #lawrenceks
Mystery organizer cultivates monthly mug hunt in Lawrence
An enigma, a Lawrence resident hides mugs around town every first Saturday of the month in hopes that all will be found. The Lawrence Mug Hunt draws folks of all ages and is free for everyone to parti...
lawrenceks.news
January 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This another reason I love my hometown.
Reposted by Lesa Patterson-Kinsey
Children don’t make any decisions about how or where they grow up. So it’s up to us as adults to help them. Surely, we can help feed, protect & educate them.
I see people saying “why should we give free lunches to schoolchildren?” and I think some folks truly have no idea what it’s like to grow up in poverty, never knowing where your next meal is coming from, forever being one paycheck away from eviction.
Let me explain some things.
Let me explain some things.
December 26, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Children don’t make any decisions about how or where they grow up. So it’s up to us as adults to help them. Surely, we can help feed, protect & educate them.
This why statute of limitation laws for rape & sexual assault need to extend for decades. Thankful for Fed SOL allowed for the home search. Also, this Dr. practiced in KS & CO too. Unfortunately more victims most likely exist. #SupportSurvivors
Kansas doctor indicted in Ohio over ‘sophisticated and brutal’ 1989 rape | via Anna Kaminski #ksleg
Kansas doctor indicted in Ohio over ‘sophisticated and brutal’ 1989 rape • Kansas Reflector
A federal grand jury in Ohio has indicted a doctor who practiced medicine in Kansas in connection with what investigators called a “sophisticated and brutal” 1989 rape.
kansasreflector.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:32 PM
This why statute of limitation laws for rape & sexual assault need to extend for decades. Thankful for Fed SOL allowed for the home search. Also, this Dr. practiced in KS & CO too. Unfortunately more victims most likely exist. #SupportSurvivors
Reposted by Lesa Patterson-Kinsey
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration.
lawrenceks.news/404EvU9
lawrenceks.news/404EvU9
Menorah lighting ceremony and Hanukkah celebration coming up at Lawrence library
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration.
lawrenceks.news
December 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration.
lawrenceks.news/404EvU9
lawrenceks.news/404EvU9
The power & magic of a good book.
In elementary school, my teacher told my mother I was “unteachable.” I was behind in every subject, including reading. Then I found this one book in the school library and connected with it, reading it hundreds of times. I made a career in reading, writing, and editing.That’s what a book can do.
December 17, 2024 at 2:26 PM
The power & magic of a good book.
“Students recognized that those insults were also intended for them,” Hickson said. “All of this has created a nationwide climate of fear.”
NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 PM
“Students recognized that those insults were also intended for them,” Hickson said. “All of this has created a nationwide climate of fear.”
Our hearts were filled with thoughts the Davidson family at the 1st Nolan Davidson Champions Run. Amazing to see so many people. Our running community is strong. we wish weren’t remembering Nolan but watching him run aside his friends & family.
#NolanStrong #championsrunkc
#NolanStrong #championsrunkc
December 8, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Our hearts were filled with thoughts the Davidson family at the 1st Nolan Davidson Champions Run. Amazing to see so many people. Our running community is strong. we wish weren’t remembering Nolan but watching him run aside his friends & family.
#NolanStrong #championsrunkc
#NolanStrong #championsrunkc
It’s a great idea. When depression hits hard, it takes time to dig yourself out of it. You should be able to put yourself on a list. But the opposition says it’s too risky to have a govt list. What?! More risky than suicidal ideation?
Rep. Ousley has been working on this bill for a looooong time. It’s a very reasonable way to try to reduce suicide by gun. It can’t even get a #ksleg hearing due to extremism in Topeka.
Is this bill key to reducing gun suicides in Kansas and Missouri?
Kansas and Missouri lawmakers, including a Merriam Democrat, are introducing bills that let people voluntarily exclude themselves from gun sales.
johnsoncountypost.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:29 PM
It’s a great idea. When depression hits hard, it takes time to dig yourself out of it. You should be able to put yourself on a list. But the opposition says it’s too risky to have a govt list. What?! More risky than suicidal ideation?
It’s that time when I fight to balance my weight gain while I up my baking!
It’s been a year. Let’s bake some cookies. Here are our most-loved holiday cookie recipes. nyti.ms/3ZzAJBI
Holiday Cookies
For some, Christmas cookies are the best part of the holidays: chewy sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms, easy gingerbread, shortbread and more. Discover more ideas for the big day in our Christmas ...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
It’s that time when I fight to balance my weight gain while I up my baking!
This is what I call the good stuff! Thanks to @danwuori.bsky.social for reminding me how much I loved those interactions w/my sons. Love watching those little brain work & grow.
It’s like you can see the gears turning. ⚙️
I just love this mother-daughter duo as they share an interactive duet.
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I just love this mother-daughter duo as they share an interactive duet.
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December 4, 2024 at 1:20 PM
This is what I call the good stuff! Thanks to @danwuori.bsky.social for reminding me how much I loved those interactions w/my sons. Love watching those little brain work & grow.
Seaboard stated they didn’t know kids were working at their facility even though this is the 2nd time their cleaning companies were found using kid labor.
You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine
Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds
Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Seaboard stated they didn’t know kids were working at their facility even though this is the 2nd time their cleaning companies were found using kid labor.