Sioux beaded hide dress c.1880, clothing encoded with meaning relating to the wearer, such as status and family #WomensArt

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Reading about the Dad in Calgary and his wife was seeking custody after he took the kids. He killed them. He killed them to punish her. Because that's why they do this. It's not about the kids but he will cry and get therapy. He should be executed. I grew up with abuse. We are too lenient.

Hey Seattle . . . #DataCenters

This ancient British harness mount is made from a copper alloy with enamelling. What makes it so special is the incorporation of stylised owls’ heads in the design. It’s delightful. 🕰️ Iron Age, c. 350-50BC 🏛️📷 Corinium Museum

We seriously should treat sports betting ads like cigarette ads: ban them.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

Putin’s bitch sure does know how to follow orders.

The form of mifepristone approved to treat Cushing’s is not affected by this ruling

"The family made national headlines after being taken by ICE during a routine immigration appointment. The family was detained in Dilley TX, while the oldest son, Antonio, was held in Raymondville. "The family and Antonio were later released and reunited..." www.valleycentral.com/news/local-n...

Nesting Spoonbills #birds

"View to the Pavilion of Badgir"(1861) by Mahmud Khan Malek al-Sho'ara. This depicts a structure within the Golestan Palace complex in Tehran, Iran. #artsky #painting #Qajar #Iranian #architecture

This photo taken on 3 March shows a view of the damaged Golestan Palace in Tehran. The palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was partially damaged in air raids during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran And if they'll do that to historic buildings, imagine what they do to civilians

"This phase in the Israeli hostility toward Iran may well surpass any previous milestone in its savagery and scale of devastation.” Hamid Dabashi on the destruction of Iranian cultural heritage sites: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mirror-hall-golestan-palace-iran-culture-trump-netanyahu

READ THIS 👇👇 Seriously, a (imo) perfect metaphor &, even if gloomy, almost calming way to frame the current moment.

Reminder: The Epstein files weren’t “released” Parts of them were forced out by public pressure, heavily redacted, and now…paused. 🧵

What has Ross Douthat been correct about in the past 2 decades? Why is he able to keep writing a column? [Rhetorical questions]

Eswatini remains the only African nation without tariff-free access to China's market due to its ties with Taiwan. n.pr/3Pd1Z6N

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

repair and reuse... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/s...

The GOP decided to make it expensive and difficult for women with children to work outside the home, thinking it would make women stay home to care for their children. Instead, the GOP is shocked, SHOCKED to find that women aren’t having children.

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

What would bring these states to their knees? If black football recruits stopped accepting positions at the flagship universities / traditional football powers. Not likely to happen, but man would it make a difference.

The Confederacy was voted back in. The Confederacy is re-establishing itself.

I saw a really great one a few minutes ago that Black people just need to all move en masse out of the Southern states so that it deprives those states of representatives in the future.

Leave the South. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin - consider NorthCarolina and Virginia - until the Electoral College is reformed.

📚💙 #Books #Reading #AmericanHistory Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social

"Teaching With Vanguard" lesson. Students engage in an interactive activity with excerpts from @marthasjones.bsky.social’ book to learn about the leading role of Black women in the fight for voting rights throughout U.S. history. #TeachTruth #VotingRightsAct www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...

His cellmate was an ex cop who killed a man by strangling him with a zip tie over drugs- so yeah, seems relevant

Trump refused to bail Spirit Airlines out unless it gave his administration 90% of its equity for $500 million. A constant grift. www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trum...

📚💙 #Books #HistorySky #AmericanHistory The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 Manisha Sinha 544 pages • hardcover • 2024

this is a very good thread. also, i highly recommend @profmsinha.bsky.social's The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction 1860-1920 for those historical analogs referred to. (also it's just really good!) I rec Vanguard by @marthasjones.bsky.social, too!

The more I learn about Reconstruction-not as a foregone conclusion but its genius& contingency,the movement coalitions and tactics;political insights& policy proposals;the race/gender/economic egalitarian vision for the abolition democracy,the more I understand why the period is not widely studied.

📚💙 #Books #HistorySky #AmericanHistory Give this historian a Bluesky follow - she has a lot of knowledge about how we got from there to here.

Did your state enshrine reproductive freedom into its constitution? The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says that's too bad, it will end telehealth mifepristone abortions because the Louisiana Attorney General is mad that residents of her state can still prevent forced birth

Strip Heritage and other right-wing fake charities of their tax exempt status. Destroy the GOP infrastructure.

The race is on to restore southern apartheid. Alabama and Tennessee join Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026

Historian of Reconstruction here, all true but the Civil Rights Act of 1964 implemented the Fourteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 implemented the Fifteenth Amendment. History matters and facts matter.

“Stop overreacting—they can’t cancel elections.” www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

Greg Bovino Calls Minneapolis Protestors ‘Cannon Fodder’ in New Interview talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

This is indeed unsurprising but very funny

© Joel Meyerowitz Young Dancer, 34th Street and 8th Avenue", New York City, 1978

Predicting the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (and How to Watch It Live!) electricliterature.com/predicting-t...

The feel good stat of the day from @bookshop.org... "In 1995, a year after Amazon opened, there were 5,500 stores in the American Bookseller Association. By 2019, there were only 1,887. Today there are over 3,200.” That’s advocacy. Thank you for supporting independent bookstores. You rock!

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

New book coming. Nation of Strangers -Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century. Check it out here buythebook.online/ece-temelkuran

In her book called “How to lose a country: 7 steps from democracy to dictatorship” @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social names the normalisation of cruelty as step number 4.