Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols
Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Dorothy B. Porter is standing in front of window.
8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day
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Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74087
#womenhistoryMonth #librarians #libraries
Dorothy B. Porter
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Three black and white prints featuring Black women by different artists
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915[– 2010), Samella Lewis (1923 – 2022), African American women printmakers who influenced the world with their art #WomensHistoryMonth
Don’t like it, but get it.
Almost spring.
Kharkiv, Ukraine 📍
Light flowing through a streetcar, N Rampart, New Orleans
It did. It’s been 75 years since her death.
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Monochrome photograph featuring a young white girl to the left and young Black boy ro the right both facing each other, both with arms raised as if dancing on a street
Photographer Helen Levitt,
Two Children Dancing, New York, 1940 #WomensArt
NEW: When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service, the Trump administration vowed to stop at nothing to protect religious liberty.
But congregations across the country who welcome immigrants say ICE has been violating their rights on a mass scale.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Hundreds of American nurses choose Canada over the U.S. under Trump
www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...
The Interior Department has rescinded more than 80% of its prior rules under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA, one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, requires federal agencies to conduct detailed reviews of how proposed projects could impact surrounding communities,
Excuse me, some of us reporters aspired to a Honda Civic. My Chevy Chevette was known for its automatic heating system - in the summer.
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
Read thread for horrific crimes being committed against American history and truth.
Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart #Sunday
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
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Trump administration war on science and public health continues apace.
Shot: Colbert explaining to his audience last night that the Trump administration ordered him not to air an interview with Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico - or even mention his name. (Scroll to 1:30) youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA
A skeletal death dressed as a medieval jester stands by an open grave with the handle of a shovel protruding and a church in the background. Death holds a smiling human mask and his marotte lies at his feet.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #MardiGras Death as Jester, from Quarles Emblems, Charles Bennett, 1860
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Photo of a man standing astride a bicycle with a large front basket. There's a small girl at his side and a few people behind him.
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson test rides a World Wildlife Fund bicycle on a trip to Sweden, circa 2012
#RIPJesseJackson
Happy Mardi Gras to all who observe!
Thank you @marcorasi.bsky.social for your stunning photography of New Orleans.
Such a dynamite image!
Yes, “The Apostle” was a tour de force!
15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
