Isreal EARNED that spot on the list!

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1897, Marguerite Durand founds 'La Fronde', a French feminist newspaper written entirely by women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory 🗃️

Ava Gardner at sixteen in the summer of 1939 for a portrait by Larry Tarr, the husband of Ava’s sister Bappie and a professional photographer. The pics were submitted to MGM and Ava was given a screen test. Said Louis Mayer, “She can’t act, she can’t talk, but she’s terrific!”

One of my favorite photographers! Looking at the "Changing New York" book here on my table. Stunning #photography of 1930s New York City. #NYC

"Amazing Grace" Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. +PhD in #Mathematics, Yale +Rear Admiral, US Navy +Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software +Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages #WomenInSTEM #legend

Remembering Sinead O'Connor who was born in Dublin on December 8, 1966. O'Connor's 1990 cover of the Prince song, "Nothing Compares 2 U" catapulted Sinead into international stardom.

Sorry if it's a repost. If you need a break, have a peek at ZE Frank's stuff over the past 12+ years. NOT for children or squeamish people. Biologists in the know love being in his credits which is great for inspiring research. - nudibranchs from 5 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7V8...

The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science By Martha Rossiter medium.com/s/the-matild... More about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda.... #books #womeninStem

A mind is a terrible thing to waste Education There's so many wasted minds in America today. 📖 📕 📘 📗 📓 📚 📖 📕 📘 📗 📓

8 December 1907 | A Czech Jewish woman, Alžběta Buschová, was born in Kostelec nad Černými Lesy. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

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Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know @hasanminhaj.com Ken Burns @kenlburns.bsky.social

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It's time to celebrate a little-known writer called... Willa Cather! 🎉 (Born on this day in 1873!) Read much about Cather with: - Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... (1/3)

Last night something happened in the community chat that stopped me in the quiet way made me feel less alone for a second.

Justice for Lou

#ResistanceRoots Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1

The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame. Shamelessness is now a political superpower.

Street Art San Francisco #streetart

Such a cutieeee

Pitch Hopper: A Game-Changer for Roofers. #Innovation #Tech #Construction

Pleinair watercolor of the supermoon, Maine. #supermoon #pleinairwatercolor #maine

"In all, the team removed more than 300 feet of rope from Division. Thompson said it was clear the gear wasn’t from the Southeast. That rope will be examined further to determine its exact origin." thecurrentga.org/2025/12/06/i...

12/7/1890 — b. Katharine Densford, American nursing leader, professor, author. Intl leader in the field of nursing; expert on #publichealth and tuberculosis nursing. Many firsts in nursing (1920s); wrote many books, manuscripts and papers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #NurseSky #HistNursing

Good morning all. Sunday again, let's enjoy this day and start with breakfast 🎨Horace Pippin - Sunday Morning Breakfast #food #art

Katharine Hepburn's mother Katharine M.H. Hepburn of the Houghton family that founded Corning, who were nonetheless an avowed Marxist and pioneering advocate for women's suffrage and contraception, hello

Pearl Harbor … My dad served in the South Pacific …

A date which will live in infamy. Today, we commemorate the more than 2,400 Americans who were lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. We are forever indebted to the courage of those who stood up for democracy and freedom — and we will never forget their sacrifice.

The last time Indiana won an outright Big Ten title, 1945, the leading rusher was George Taliaferro. The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” ~Willa Cather, “My Antonia.” Willa Cather was born on this day 152 years ago: 12/7/1873. She wrote extensively about her adopted home state of Nebraska. Image: The New York Times/Getty Images.

Helen Richey was the first woman pilot hired by a US commercial airline (1934). The all-male pilots’ union pressured the airline to remove her, claiming women were “temperamentally unfit” to fly in bad weather. She proved them spectacularly wrong & resigned in 1935. #CivilAviationDay #aviation

Remembering Agnes Moorehead, born on today's date in 1900. I loved her in so many films, including Dark Passage, Mrs. Parkington, Caged, and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and in TV series like The Twilight Zone and Bewitched. What are your favorite Agnes Moorehead performances? #filmsky

"This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

President Macron of France running to greet his fans in China

So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?

"Better live under Putin's rule than fight." German students revolt against military service On Dec 5, parliament approved law on military service to expand army due to threat from Russia. All 18 y/o men are required to undergo med examination; in case of recruitment, selection thru a lottery.

He wasn't sleeping. He was "listening intensely." On a related note, who's watching SNL this weekend.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

What does Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown look like in Louisiana, already notorious as the "incarceration capital" of the world? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/ne...

Damn you're one fired up Rebel!! Tell em I love it!!

I CAUGHT THE THIEF!