Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes  #WomensArt

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#OtD 17 Mar 1876 US troops attacked sleeping Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota people in Montana in the Battle of Powder River, beginning of the Sioux wars. However the Native Americans emerged victorious from the battle. More about Indigenous resistance here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

The AI lobby has spent millions of dollars on today's Democratic primary elections in Illinois. Why? To buy itself a Congress that will do its bidding.

Another early modern Italian woman artist whose presence is felt this year at TEFAF Maastricht is Lavinia Fontana - Left: Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, 1580; Trinity Fine Art Ltd Right: Portrait of Isabella Ruini with a Lady-in-Waiting, c. 1592; Colnaghi

Historic Women Artists in Public Collections: The Kimbell Art Museum by Olivia Turner for the #ArtHerstory blog artherstory.net/historic-wom...

Plautilla Nelli and the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio by Alessia Motti for the #ArtHerstory blog artherstory.net/plautilla-ne...

1/ Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a model for painters. #WomanToday

📣 New Podcast! "Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentenced: Punishment and Protest" on @Spreaker #1834_british #agricultural #britain_british #class #dorset #for #history_george #history_tolpuddle #labor #loveless #martyrs #movement_punishment #protest_early #tolpuddle #trade #uk #uk_1830s #union #unionizing

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The #Poetry is in the pity." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wilfre... ✒ WWI soldier and poet #WilfredOwen was #BOTD 18 March 1893. He would be shot and killed exactly one week before the signing of the Armistice, aged 25. #Literature #War

All the power's in the hands Of people rich enough to buy it While we walk the street Too chicken to even try it 📀 #OTD in #Music #History 18 March 1977, #TheClash released their first single "White Riot" on CBS. ▶️ youtu.be/IvG3is7Bm1w

#OtD 18 Mar 1970 feminist groups staged a sit-in at the Ladies Home Journal headquarters in NYC over the journal's lack of female representation in the company and the depiction of women in its advertisements and columns stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9021...

I believe #BBCWomen'sHour went full-on looney tunes today by interviewing a Dame Edna Everage soundalike about the experience of misogyny. Dear God. I really wish they had in fact interviewed Dame Edna.

#OtD 17 Mar 1768 enslaved people in Montserrat, a British colony in the Caribbean, planned an uprising on St Patrick's Day. However, a white domestic servant overheard the plot, and reported it. Nine enslaved people were executed and 30 jailed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7793...

3/17/1849 — b. Cornelia Maria Clapp, American zoologist, influential female science educator. Embryology researcher, librarian and trustee, Marine Biological Laboratory, WoodsHole, Mass; professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #ZooSky #EduSky #SciSky #HistSci

As the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to kill thousands, the Israeli military is continuing to eradicate entire Palestinian families across occupied Palestine.

Cost of UK mortgage of £250,000 over 25 years up by £788 a year in 2 weeks. How many can borrow £250,000? Lenders not offering more to savers. Rents, inflation, poverty will increase. Opportunistic profiteering. Govt must act, levy windfall taxes.

Meta paid an effective fed tax rate of 3.5% on its latest tax bill — its lowest on record. Mark Zuckerberg's net worth just hit $222 billion. And Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Now it's reportedly planning to lay off 15,000 workers. Hello?

£53 million for people who can't heat their homes. $2 billion to prolong a foreign war which cannot ever be 'won.'

Welfare. Not warfare.

Oh for fuck's sake.

Well whoda thunk it.

Any chance they could go after the actual male paedophiles and put some of them in prison?

My contribution to the #Oscars discourse this week - dozens of women directors who've been snubbed over the years, typically for films telling women's stories, with 30+ films if folks want watch suggestions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIg... 1/2

I also have more videos/podcasts if you want additional content on: Women in Film History: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Media Musings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The film history playlist includes conversations with @katesac.bsky.social, @hennefem.bsky.social, @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @kayteesal.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social and more 😊

I believe #BBCWomen'sHour went full-on looney tunes today by interviewing a Dame Edna Everage soundalike about the experience of misogyny. Dear God. I really wish they had in fact interviewed Dame Edna.

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It’s time for the Straitjacket of America

Incredible there were British politicians who backed this war BBC News - Typical new mortgage costs soar £788 a year in two weeks - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘️ ☘️☘️

Happy Mother's Day! Motherhood is so much more than a list. At different times, it can be any of these things and more. Sometimes mothers need looking after too. This is the day that we talk about it, but try to remember all year round! What word would you use to describe mothering?

In conversations about mental health suicide or distress, our instinct is often to help by offering solutions. But real connection starts when we PAUSE - when we make space to listen, not fix 💛 #DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #SuicideAwareness #Listening #Empathy #Compassion #Kindness

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in UK tax. Complex plan used offshore trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a string of dormant businesses. His property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. archive.ph/c5EcY

Cakes and ale and Lancashire braggart. Count me in. Happy Mother's Day to all my fellow Lancashire lasses.

If Caesar didn't want to be stabbed, she shouldn't have held controversial opinions and been walking alone through the Senate in a provocative toga. What? Julius? Oh, I thought you said Julia. No, Caesar was a brave, principled man who died fighting traitors. As you were.

It’s that time again…

May all your days be Slow News Days.

Born today: Harriet E. Wilson, one of the first female African-American novelists, on 15 March 1825. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston and was not widely known until it was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A very Happy Mother's Day to all you amazing mothers out there 💐💐💐

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

The redress schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have “serious structural failings”, Thousands still waiting for compensation. 11500 claimants paid £1.48bn so far from public purse No contribution from Fujitsu; PO execs, lawyers, accountants, advisers who covered up the scandal.

It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match. This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.

If you like a true story about people looking out for each other and doing the right thing, please see this documentary film. In cinemas now. Hugely proud to be involved. #EverybodyToKenmureStreet

The M25 motorway is open for crossing , Legalclaret said. The only thing prohibiting crossing on the motorway right now is the cars driving along at 70mph he said. It is open for crossing should cars not do that.

UK govt "will not tolerate" energy firms profiteering from Iran war. It will do what? Ofgem allows profiteering: electricity pricing formula is based on price of gas, renewables are the cheapest. Profiteering is built in. Change the formula, levy windfall tax, prosecute profiteering execs.

It’s The Weekend!*

Stamford Bridge is open for transit, English king Harold Godwinson said. “The only thing prohibiting transit across the bridge right now is a huge Norwegian berserker hacking people to pieces with an axe,” he said. “It is open for transit should the beserker not do that.”

Amazing. I had no idea, but “Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), or the ‘Georgian Planet’, in honour of his new patron, King George III” (Wikipedia)

UK economy failed to grow in January ahead of Iran war. Neoliberalism has failed. Need new economic strategy. Redistribute income/wealth. Too many struggling. Profiteering pushing people into poverty. Nationalise essentials. Govt to invest directly in infrastructure, new industries.