Serena Banks
@serenab73.bsky.social
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Spanish Teacher. Union Leader. Human Rights Activist. Proud Cat Lady. Boy Mom.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana ๐ธ
about 1 month ago
Psst ๐คซ MAGA: If you accept that liberal gun owners have no right to due process, you're accepting that all gun owners have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you're a liberal; & without due process you'll be executed in the street before you can prove the contrary.
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Trent Felton-Boise, Idaho
about 1 month ago
Could someone please show this to all the ICE/IBC agents, or maybe hang a copy in the ICE recruitment office?
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sherri 11/07
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Jennifer Rubin "The face of fascism cannot be ignored any longer" โฌ๏ธ
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Execution in Minneapolis
The ugly face of fascism cannot be ignored any longer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/execution-in-minneapolis?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emailThe
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Richard Christian
about 1 month ago
This mixed media drawing, Saint Stephen, was one of the first things I posted here- thought I might do so again. Beyond its specific narrative, I feel it stands well for any person standing up for their beliefs against the crowd.
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Happy Birthday to the love of my life!
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Richard Christian
7 months ago
"Meditations 1", Carbon, Charcoal and Graphite on Rag Paper", the first in a series of works based upon images manifested to me through meditation within esoteric Masonic bodies. This shows a wise little person woman on a lakeside beach at sunrise holding an unknown object while visited by an ibis.
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This is what I came home to today. They were all napping without me!
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Richard Christian
8 months ago
"Leda", Charcoal and Graphite on Paper.
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Richard Christian
9 months ago
"Constraint"- Mixed Media Painting.
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The Buffalo No Kings Protest had a huge turnout yesterday with no issues or any need for police intervention:
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
An oil painting on canvas, "The Head of John the Baptist and a Spring of Acacia."
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
A mixed media piece that I titled, "Polyphemus", named after the cyclops in The Odyssey, as it looked a bit to me like a grinning one eyed monster. Channeling Jasper Johns' "The Critic Smiles" a bit in that way.
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Richard Christian
9 months ago
Proud to have marched again in this year's Pride Parade in Buffalo, NY. A great day, as always. This event showcases love, empathy and positive energy in a time when those aspects of humanity are desperately needed.
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Had a great time at PRIDE today with family and friends! Such a fun event full of love and kindness.
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Richard Christian
9 months ago
A difficult subject: "Incel" addresses the obvious foolishness and self-destructive bigotry found in Alt-Right Incel culture, but with implicit advice that we should not condemn, cancel and shut down communication. Call it out- always, but also offer advice and a chance to come back to the light.
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Richard Christian
9 months ago
"Displacement", a carbon and charcoal drawing on rag paper.
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
My oil painting, "Enoch Instructing Hiram Abiff", published just recently as an interior illustration in Bro. Ken JP Stuczynski's new book: "Masonic Research Lodges, Bodies, and Societies."
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
A recently completed sculpture at Saint Mary's High School in Lancaster, NY. My students developed spirit animal totems, which were abstracted, then by collaboration with Mark Griffis & his studio; the students plasma cut the forms in sheet steel & painted. He then put it together and installed it.
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
This drawing on rag paper is titled, "Worship". Rather than describe my own process and content for this picture, I will leave room for the viewers to apply their own narrative.
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Richard Christian
10 months ago
"Nimrod", named after the biblical king who built the Tower of Babel, an oil on canvas painting from 2022, addresses the unfortunate lack of communication during the COVID epidemic. Given the open process of its making, it is not a simple one for one symbolism, and is much more ambiguous in meaning.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
This oil painting is titled "Gnosis", which speaks to the abstract, innate spiritual knowledge which is inherently feminine in all of us. Men, in general, would do well to embrace this aspect of wisdom (Sophia) in ourselves through our evolution as fully rounded human beings.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
Being new to Bluesky, I just wanted to share a few of my art pieces over time and perhaps talk a bit about what motivates me as an artist and art educator. This one is called Saint Stephen, though it is not meant as a literal depiction of the saint, but rather, one standing alone against the crowd.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
This drawing on rag paper is "Nehushtan" or brazen thing- it alludes to the destruction of the serpent staff Moses was ordered by God to create, which was destroyed generations later by the iconoclastic King Hezekiah. It symbolizes a move from formal high art to a literal, word based obviousness.
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11 months ago
This is a mixed media painting from that series which used paint shirts as a substrate for components using surreal, Jungian automatism. "Contrition" is an antipode to the other works too critical of my upbringing, & shows, through a hidden drawing in the pocket, what a kind and loving father I had.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
This mixed media painting, Kronus, speaks to how children invariably carry the choices made by their parents, in this case; drinking. This was part of a series of works I made years ago where the content developed by the layering of automatic formal choices- very deliberately Jungian in its process.
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I think so, Brain but where are we going to get rubber pants in our size?
11 months ago
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Thisโฆ so much!
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Empathy is not a flower that grows in Republicans gardens. They are very literal and very self-centered.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
Ever since I was a child, I likened capitalism to fire. It is neither good nor evil; it heats your home and provides your food. It must be regulated, though, or it will burn down your house. Trump has essentially lit a fire on your living room floor and went out to play golf. He did this.
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Art Candee ๐ฟ๐ฅค
11 months ago
Absolutely fantastic turnout of protesters at the Chicago Hands Off! protest! I love my city! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
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11 months ago
Proud to stand with thousands in ๐ฆฌ NY saying
#HandsOff
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@neatoday.bsky.social
Director
@doraleland.bsky.social
Thank you
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social
for standing with us.
@aftunion.bsky.social
@melindajperson.bsky.social
@mrgriz.bsky.social
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11 months ago
@meidastouch.com
Close to 10,000 in Buffalo, NY. Great job by the organizers.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
Happy to have taken part in the Hands Off rally today in Buffalo, NY. Democracy needs careful and constant tending, lest it go out forever.
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Good turn out today at the Buffalo Hands Off Rally!
11 months ago
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Hands Off Rally in Niagara Square! Come join us and fight for our democracy!
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
This assemblage is called "Logos" and speaks to reason and judgement as applied to art. I'm concerned with the vision of artists being commodified and watered down by social media as it is inevitably reduced by algorithms that push people towards the average.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
Given that my image of "Gnosis" was censored from an earlier post (not at all sure why as nudity, even with multiple figures, is not pornography) here is an image of "Sophia" where the same spiritual concept is addressed in this mixed media painting.
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Richard Christian
11 months ago
These are some of my high school art students' portraits of Honduran children for the Memory Project- a wonderful initiative for American students to show kids around the world that they are thought of and well regarded! I would recommend checking that out at
www.memoryproject.org
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Randi Weingarten ๐๏ธ๐โ๐บ๐ธ
12 months ago
In my latest column, I highlight the impact of these cuts on the: ๐จ 7.4M students with disabilities ๐จ 9.8M rural students ๐จ 10M students with federal aid for college/trades ๐จ 26M low-income students relying on Title I funding Read it here:
www.aft.org/column/robbi...
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Robbing Peter to pay for Elonโs tax cuts
Americans didnโt vote for deep cuts to services that we needโand our taxes pay for.Elon Musk will never need to look to the federal government for Social Security benefits, to apply for a student loan...
https://www.aft.org/column/robbing-peter-pay-elons-tax-cuts
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Randi Weingarten ๐๏ธ๐โ๐บ๐ธ
12 months ago
This is such an important story. Within an hour of starting interviews, @NickKristof had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl "who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isnโt True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the worldโs richest men slash aid for the worldโs poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html
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This is what language nerds think about all the time.
12 months ago
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You can really only rock this vehicle if you are wearing a chain mail Speedo after a nuclear war.
12 months ago
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Iโm just sayinโ
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Becky Pringle
12 months ago
When we fight for public schools, we are fighting for our children.
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I just joined bluesky. Looking forward to networking with new people of like mind.
12 months ago
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