#ResistanceRoots Lucy Craft Laney was born on this day in 1854 in Macon, Ga. Known as the “Mother of the Children of the People,” she was an educator and social reformer who served as an influential mentor and created some of the first educational opportunities for African Americans in Georgia. /1

🔭 American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon died #OTD in 1941. Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy #AstroSky

Hillary Clinton was right about everything. Kamala Harris was right about everything. Both would’ve been incredible Presidents and I remain proud AF to have cast my vote for them.

Posting my interview with Peter Bratt for "Dolores" (2018), his documentary about Huerta. She joined us afterward & asked about my ethnicity. After hearing my mixed European roots & Catholic upbringing, she said Catholicism fostered her sense of justice. It's true for me, too. bit.ly/4vliRsc

A steady stream of these backyard visitors lately. The only monarchs we need right now. #photo #photography #butterfly #monarch

April 9th 2026 Pansy

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 303 # 302 contd. Bumblebee food demand peaks during March to June. Shortage of food during these critical months can result in dire consequences for colony survival/queen production and risks local population extinction. #bees #nature #environment

On this day in 1939 contralto Marian Anderson sang before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington an event organized by President Franklin Roosevelt after being denied permission to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Philadelphia by the DAR...

Remembering the legendary #WWII spy Pippa Latour who outwitted the Nazis with a silk hair tie.😮 Six weeks before D-Day, she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy (age 23). Codename Genevieve, she bicycled across France selling soap while secretly transmitting 135 coded messages to London. (1/2)

Irene Morgan (b. #OTD in 1917) was a seminal figure in the early #CivilRights movement. She refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1944. Her case, 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘷. 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 (1946), led the US Supreme Court to strike down segregation on interstate travel, paving the way for the Freedom Rides.

Tiny hunter. Fierce presence. Absolute magic. Female Kestrel just before dusk at the Ashokan Reservoir in Olivebridge, NY 🪶 #birdsofprey #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bird

Aerospace engineer & "human computer" Mary Winston Jackson became NASA's first Black female engineer in 1958. Her life & work, along with those of Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, inspired the book and film Hidden Figures. She was born #OTD in 1921. www.nasa.gov/people/mary-...#OTD #WomenInSTEM

On a rather cold spring day in NYC, for me it was all about finches. I saw a lovely male Purple Finch, then a Goldfinch, and when I arrived home a pair of House Finches that have come to like the alleyway outside my kitchen windows.

Actress/producer Mary Pickford (b. #OTD in 1892) began her film career in 1909 & became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, she had complete creative control of her films & was one of the most recognizable women in the world. #filmsky 1/2

Journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born #OTD in 1890. Her 1947 book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴: 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴 transformed public perception of Florida's Everglades from "worthless swamp" to priceless ecosystem. Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1993. #ecosky #conservation #WomenInSTEM #histodons

There are 435 members in the House. They don't matter unless Vance says Trump is not fit for office & the cabinet agrees. That won't happen. Vance would become president. If you think Trump is bad, the VP is an idiot. Thinks women were born to have babies & that Jesus found that airman we lost.

Billie Holiday was born #OTD in 1915. 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 was one of the most influential #jazz singers of the 20th century. Her unmistakable voice--smoky, intimate, emotionally raw + her unique ability to manipulate phrasing & tempo forever changed the way jazz & pop vocals are performed. #JazzSky #musicsky

We are asking young women and men in the military to commit war crimes, and it isn't the first time. Remember WW II. Will Trump jail them (or worse) if they refuse to follow orders? www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sn... @pbsnews.org is the lone outlet asking these questions.

Fun Fact: the first woman to leave earth orbit is on board too....

#OTD in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece. Women weren't entitled to compete at the 1896 Games--their inclusion would have been "𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 & 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁." Stamata Revithi, a Greek woman, ran the 40km marathon anyway. πας κορίτσι

Virginia Hall (b. #OTD in 1906) was the most decorated female civilian of #WWII. Despite losing a leg, she was a master of disguise & resistance leader in Nazi-occupied France. The Gestapo called "The Limping Lady" their most dangerous enemy. #Histodons

Different bird sounds starting with the ptarmigan TT: pet_babylover.101

Not me. I wake up to them each morning. They like the alleyway of my building. I think they're beautiful.

Stick with the Ford. When I taught on the Navajo Rez in 2016, where there are no roads in winter, I had a 1974 F-150! I would still have it but my husband said in NYC it would not pass inspection.

I would like to ask foreign journalists to please not use the phrase "the Americans," as in "what the Americans want . . ." Polling is at 60% of Americans opposing the war. Use "The White House" or "Trump administration." Our fascist loophole prevented the ppl's choice, Kamala, from taking office.

As a girl, I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon, and I don't think if he were alive today, he would be happy with our plan to colonize it for the U.S. That is not a "giant leap for mankind." It presages more wars at a time when some of us are leaving food bundles at our neighbors' doors.

🌹 random rose 🌹 April 1st 2026

Pope Leo Easter message: “Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. . . Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them. Invoked Pope Frances' "globalization of indifference."

Spring Mist Birding: I had to rely solely on my ears this morning . . . but managed to hear and see mourning doves, dark-eyed junco and Eastern Phoebe.

These well-stated facts made me think of Dr. Joyce Brothers who said every women needs a wife. It was the 1960s. She wasn't talking about lesbian couples.

Dr. Dorothy Klenke Nash was the first female neurosurgeon in the US. #NationalDoctorsDay She began her practice in 1928 & was the only female neurosurgeon in the US for 32 years. In 1960, Dr. Ruth Kerr Jakoby became the second. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth

As Women's History Month comes to a close we should reflect on two extraordinary female leaders, Yulia Svyrydenko, PM of Ukraine and the former PM of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern. Both are eloquent speakers, intelligent, decisive, and rule with compassion.

Defense minister Robles is a model for how women wield power, and how countries can resist American imperialism without a shot being fired. All of Europe should join her. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298. The clumpy, blue ring in the galaxy on the right likely formed when the companion galaxy to the left crashed through its center. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI) Source

Adult Female Peregrine Falcon today, Isle of Man 🇮🇲

In America, we are a country by the people, for the people. In America, we have no kings.

♀️Women's History Celebration: Accomplished actor, screenwriter ("Adam's Rib" & "Pat and Mike," etc.) playwright, iconoclast and protofeminist, Ruth Gordon was extraordinary. She paved the way for other women. bit.ly/4bQW3I2

The first International Council of Women conference began #OTD in 1888. Women from 9 countries strategized women's suffrage & equality. First global women’s rights assembly, sparking transnational activism. Milestone in organizing women’s voices worldwide. #WomensHistoryMonth #womensrights

Photographer Maxine Helfman replaces the faces of white Flemish nobles with those of contemporary Black models #WomensArt

Virginia Norwood (d. #OTD in 2023) was a pioneering aerospace engineer, physicist & inventor widely known as the “Mother of Landsat.” She designed the Multispectral Scanner—the instrument making the Landsat program possible & revolutionized how we observe & monitor Earth from space. #WomenInSTEM

Thanks for this wonderful photo. It's my favorite insect, doesn't sting, is a deft predator of other bugs, and is beautiful.

This morning captured a dragonfly, emerged from its nymph exoskeleton. Have had so many breeding in our pond the past year. No fish.

Red-winged black bird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Andrews bay, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

@pbsnews.org John Yang is back at PBS Newshour (Yay!) and baseball fans should check today's final segment of Yang and Dan Evans (former Dodgers GM) talking about ABS.

Downy Woodpecker, Yellow Bellied Woodpecker, Kill Deer, Black Vulture, Brown Creeper! I love spring.

♀️I interviewed Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour for "Wadjda," in 2013, the story of a girl who defies everyone that will not let her have a bike. With equal determination Haifaa became a filmmaker by directing from inside a vehicle because of restrictions for women in public life.

♀️Celebrating Women in Film: Zambian writer-director Rungano Nyoni's spectacular debut feature, "I Am Not a Witch," is a deft portrayal of her country's patriarchal society. The story begins with a 9 year old girl charged with sorcery. The story is unforgettable. My review: bit.ly/3NOTj5S

Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf died #OTD in 1940. First woman to win the Nobel Prize in #Literature (1909) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination & spiritual perception that characterize her writings." First woman granted a membership of the Swedish Academy, 1914. #WHM #litsky