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A few more reasons we all need to vote as if our lives depend on it (and they do)

Good riddance.

This oil painting, titled "This Land is Your Land," is by contemporary artist Eric Bowman. The painting focuses on themes of heritage, nativity, and the claiming of the land and sky as an inheritance passed down through generations.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt

They’re against diversity. And they want Black people grouped together in one part of town, until it comes to our voting power. We see you.

Ivana Mašitová is a contemporary Czech glass artist who creates cast glass sculptures #WomensArt

At least it’s a start. But, sheesh, this is a low bar for the conversation we need. Can we talk about how dehumanizing and wasteful it is to judge and police what low-income people deserve to eat?

This exhibition presents monumental evidence of a societal sickness we must reckon with, before society collapses beneath the weight of collective guilt We cannot move past the Epstein Files. The souls crying from its pages are our call to change…

REMINDER: Memphis is the nation's largest city where the majority population is Black.

Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. “Shame on you, Jeff Bezos.”

´Whirlpool´ embroidery detail by Annemieke Mein, Dutch-born Australian textile artist who specialises in depicting wildlife #WomensArt

The shamelessness is breathtaking

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They are our Food Heroes, not beggars. ‎ ‎There's an uncomfortable truth we need to face: Our arrogance when buying from the poor and our stinginess when buying from the vulnerable is pushing away the very people who feed us.

#Angelenos, come hear my latest weird-but-true story at You Way What?! This fun new is show hosted by the incomparable Miyo The Storyteller...Sunday, May 17, 2pm The Truth is Weirder than Fiction 😜 Details & tix: www.eventbrite.com/e/you-say-wh...

. @warnock.senate.gov is right. This is not just a legal ruling. It is an assault on our highest ideals of fair elections and fair representation. This is a movement moment. We will fight back — in the courts, in Congress, and at the ballot box.

Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

They'll do anything to stop Black people from holding public office. "Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat was set to take office." apnews.com/article/new-...

What kind of person makes the decision to lock up a 9 year old and her mum for 4 MONTHS in a concentration camp just for going to Disneyland? Every layer of the #TrumpRegime is just pointless evil. This achieved nothing, except trauma. Cruelty just for the sake of it.

Italian ceramics artist Clara Holt, who decorates her work with images of ancient myths #WomensArt

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

right now in Los Angeles.

Dominique Fortin, Montreal artist who works with elements of portrait, symbolism and abstraction in her work. #WomensArt #Beltane

Oh…my…God “Hell is empty and all the devils are here”

Sarah Bays,contemporary artist, printmaker, living in Norfolk, UK, producing prints inspired by local nature. #WomensArt

Dumping a diabetic torture victim in not only a country but a continent she has no ties to is...well, you can come up with some words for what that is

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George with White Birch, 1921 #WomensArt

𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN We cannot have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

So this is chilling.

White Cat, 1938 by US painter Gertrude Abercrombie #WomensArt

O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from a sick person. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.

Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact

Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #TreeArtWeek 🌳

Lucille Ball--actress, comedian, producer & film-studio executiver--died #OTD in 1989. In 1962, she bought out Desi Arnaz's interest in Desilu Productions & became the 1st woman to own & run a major TV studio. Desilu produced many popular TV series including Mission: Impossible & #StarTrek. #legend

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist and creator of the 1000 postcards project; mini paintings of natural life inspired by her ‘re-wilding’ of a Welsh farm #WomensArt

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

About sums it up, and the list goes on…

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Good morning! Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador photographed by Ray Mackey Photography. Imagine waking up and seeing a gigantic iceberg that's come to visit..

Petal deer, 2012 by Ellen Jewett, sculptor known for her often surreal depictions of animals #WomensArt

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

This is what we need more of!

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