🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American. States that joined after Puerto Rico: • Oklahoma — 1907 • New Mexico — 1912 • Arizona — 1912 • Alaska — 1959 • Hawaii — 1959 Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

at one point during the campaign jd vance was indignantly talking about haitian asylees in ohio and said "illegal aliens don't become legal just because the government says so" and i've been mad about it ever since, and this is the key to what he actually meant

As countries across Europe roll out national programs to confront misogyny in schools, the United States still lacks a coordinated response.

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous. The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.

October 12th 2024 🌻 Sunflower 🌻

Once again they are trying to change the narrative. It is time to believe your eyes and ears, not their propaganda. youtube.com/shorts/Puvo8...

My grandfather, of blessed memory, was an immigrant who wanted to be a doctor. But he couldn't because in those days "Hebrew" immigrants weren't allowed to be doctors. So he became a pharmacist and studied medicine on his own and treated people for free who couldn't afford to see regular doctors.

NASA astronaut & biochemistry researcher Peggy Whitson was born #OTD in 1960. Whitson holds the US space endurance record. Cumulatively, she spent 695 days in #space--the equivalent of a hypothetical round trip to Mars. First woman NASA Chief Astronaut, 2009. (1/2) #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

Female White-crowned Sparrow Questioning...

"Black Cat in a Garden" or "Garden Cat", inspired by the style of the famous Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.

Cats and All About Them by Frances Simpson. Published in 1902.

titled Café, created in 1925 by the Danish artist Gerda Wegener.

Terry Runyan.

Martine Coppens.

"Summer Night in the Garden" or "Cottage at Night" by British artist Nicholas Hely Hutchinson.

Sweden’s experience with midwives providing abortion care offers lessons for other countries. Swedism midwives have long led care for healthy women during pregnancy and birth, with doctors supporting when complications arise. Applying the same model to abortion care is both logical and effective.

How Melinda French Gates Plans To Fund “Chronically,” “Unconscionably” Underfunded Programs For Women And Girls

Sunset 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Rainbow

Sunset 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Sun

Sunset 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Sun

Central Eastside, Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, OR #pdx #murals #graffiti #streetart

Every little help Acrylics 40x30 This one has been on and off my easel for a while, I keep fiddling with it #artshare

why?! why tf can't cops & dispatch, that claim to be well trained, not assess a situation like this & realize on sight/on the way that they're wholly unqualified for the task & call somebody, ANYBODY, else to, at a bare minimum, advise action?! bc mansplain, I know www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

A box of Cookie

“Under Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has also committed the crime of all crimes, Genocide... in the WWII, the J€ws were the defenseless victims of Nazi Germany, today it's the Palestinians who are the defenseless victims of the J€wish state...” — Israeli Historian Avi Shlaim

Finished my #AbolishIcehat after frogging and starting over with standard k1, p1 brim. I just didn't like my corrugated ribbing -- it had little stretch and kept rolling up when I tried it on. #knitting #bskyknits #knitsky

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

A gray wolf was spotted in LA County for the first time in 100 years yesterday. Clearly a big deal. But on my morning walk thru Los Feliz, this "little wolf" (aka coyote) is giving off "hold my beer" vibes.

365 Challenge No.2 2026 - Publish a photo each day on a weekly topic Week 6 (Macro) - Day 5 - Stamen and pollen on night flowering jungle cactus #fotosbyfaj #fajweeklychallenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #macro more at fotosbyfaj.com

Untitled #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #light #nikon

An analytical paper issued by the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now has explained the details and objectives behind recent decisions by Israel’s Security Cabinet on the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. Read more here: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260209-pow...

If only gun violence was a halftime show. If only food insecurity and loss of healthcare was a halftime show. If only children being bombed was a halftime show. If only the threat to democracy was a halftime show. Then maybe there would be this much outrage about those things.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

October 4th 2024 🌹random rose

A mourning cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) resting on the forest floor in the Sandia Mountains, on February 9, 2026. Mourning cloak adults overwinter (tough little buggers), so it's not a shock to see one come out on a sunny February morning.

It's a little known law in America that at least one mass shooting a day is required.

Relay from BLUESKY.....

god bless the Land of Milk and Honey and Bullets and Blood #Priorities

America's gun psychopathy continues: *41* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest: A woman killed and a man and 2 children gravely wounded in an apparent domestic-related shooting in Tonopah, Ariz: www.abc15.com/news/crime/o...

Kiwi Flower #photography #art #macro #flowers

Just wanted to say, in case any of these accounts are real people and not just bots - I do support Palestine, I want Isreal to stop their ways & face the consquences for their evil. However I am not a wealthy woman and beyond general support, I cannot give anything to charity or individuals. Sorry.

Textbook case of “anonymous coward living in the country complains about farm noises”.

The winning strategy for the Wealthy Class has been to pit one segment of the Working Class against another over some perceived differences. As long as we fall for it they win, every time.

I'm thinking that spending some time in northern Arizona later this year may have to happen... Nikon D750, 24-70mm lens at 24mm, f11, ISO100, 1/400 second

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Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854. + First woman officially to attend a Dutch university + First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879 + Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882 + Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns #WomenInSTEM

#Antique Watches, Cameras, and Medical Equipment Morph Into Meticulous #Steampunk #Spiders by Peter Szucsy #art More information and photos of his amazing art are found here: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/pete...

Miami police shot and killed a woman experiencing a mental health crisis this weekend after her 12-year-old daughter called for help. No mental health crisis should turn deadly by those called to help. Our hearts are with the family as they await answers.

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.