The sun sets above breaking waves under a clear sky.
Distant sea stacks are seen behind breaking waves and a blue sea. The sky is pale orange from sunset.
Closeup image of a breaking wave backlit by the setting sun. Water droplets on the camera lens glow pink from the sun’s rays.
Moment of calm: Tonight’s sunset amongst the breaking waves. Olympic Peninsula, WA.
We have a tiny art board at work, so I made these to contribute. 😀
This. Read books. Join a choir. Invite your friends over for dinner. Paint a mural on your neighbor's garage with a bunch of kids and use it as a backdrop for the play your other neighbor wrote. Take up knitting. Give a sweater to someone asking for change. Socks too. Plant a garden. Spread beauty.
There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
#booksky
PBSKids educates, teaches good values and maybe has a little fun along the way. In an age where so many kids don't have access to pre-K programs, PBSKids reduces that education gap. Defend, don't defund. @pbs.org youtu.be/ZW83aZRcbHs?...
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
Elon Musk would now be in charge of the databases determining voter eligibility.
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
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In the U.S. last year, women earned only 85% of what men earned for doing the same jobs. That’s unfair, and it’s holding women and our economy back. This Equal Pay Day and every day, I’m committed to continuing the fight for wage equality—because equal work deserves equal pay.
Just in time for fire season: no more firefighter training. 🔥
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
What a different world we could have.
Resetting my clock. Can I bump it four years?
"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
Trump did not run on the dismantling of the National Weather Service, or the National Parks, or USAID, or the CDC, or the NIH, or the NEA, or the NEH, or OSHA, or the FAA, or any other system of expertise that we all use and rely on. NO ONE CONSENTED TO THIS. Even the people who voted for him.
Next: An executive order declaring gravity doesn't exist.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Elon is firing HUNDREDS of highly skilled workers at Bonneville Power Administration.
Engineers, dispatchers, lineworkers. These positions are funded by PNW ratepayers—NOT from federal funding.
It doesn't save taxpayers a DIME! Our grid is at risk because Elon doesn't have a CLUE what BPA is.
A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
This is the dumbest timeline. Trump fired a bunch of people that oversee our nukes because he had no idea what they did, so he had to hire them back. More proof this is a hatchet job www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Today is Superb Owl Sunday! So I’ll be posting an owl book every hour. Feel free to enjoy football AND owls! #kidlit #owlsky (is that one right? I’m still learning)
ALA Youth Media Awards 2025 Winners. American Library Association
Congratulations to all the honorees of this year’s Youth Media Awards!
Thank you to ALA members & library professionals everywhere who pour their passion, time & dedication into finding the very best books & media for their communities. Your work matters.📚
#ALAYMA
ilovelibraries.org/article/2025...
Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.
Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.
Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.
Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
Absolutely stunned by this.
