Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...

Light is built a brick at a time.

The US experimented with state funding of art during the Great Depression, under the Federal Art Project. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal... At a minimum, it got money circulating in the economy - but, like almost everything else the WPA did, it was basically an investment in public goods.

Day 11 - Black History Month "The Dean of Afro-American Composers:" William Grant Still’s Life and Work (with Celeste Headlee) youtu.be/YJr7BDA36AA

maintaining whimsy amidst the horrors? yeah that's a flex

Super Weird, Part II

"Ukraine's embrace of amanita." "About a year into Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Natalia Soloshenko realized she needed help." "She started remembering things again, and even stopped having migraines." #Ukraine #Russia #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Military

Photography can still bring you to your knees.... Awesome work by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Delightful ‘Dancing Dogs’ figurine. Blackware ceramic, 200 BC - 200 AD. Comala, Late Formative Period. Colima, West Mexico. 📷 Princeton University Art Museum artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Doug Wilson protects child molesters.

gonna need to pass a special 0.0001% tax on billionaires to pay for undoing all the tacky fucking vandalism

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Remember that mindbending saga about Kristi Noem that WSJ ran a few days ago & dropped every jaw in the house? NBC has a follow-up saying Noem directed a USCG plane to deport people while the plane was searching the Pacific for a servicemember overboard. Never found. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Our "What If Jim Henson Was Yoda?" video from a few years ago has been improved! Better sound! 4k video! Finally on YouTube! youtu.be/nY-gPMg9nt8?...

"And bring your wallets!"

I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.

Russia is stepping up covert attacks across Europe — rail sabotage, drones, cyber strikes — testing NATO. Polish officials warn "disposable agents" are sowing fear and weaken support for Ukraine. n.pr/4s3wtWN

Side note: It would surprise you how many people don’t know how the library works just like the spokesperson.

Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson (1895–1965) a Black scholar and feminist thinker, she combined scientific training and field research with outspoken advocacy for racial equality, women’s rights, and anti-colonial liberation across Africa and the diaspora. #GirlPower #RadicalWomen #BlackHistoryMonth

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over. I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

A coalition of health and environmental groups sued Trump over its decision to revoke the scientific finding that forms the basis of US climate regulations. The legal challenge filed in the D.C. Circuit also challenges the EPA's decision announced last week to repeal tailpipe rules reut.rs/4kQ5VWA

"Virtually every writer whose words I’ve ever read has taught me something. ... Naming one book as a favorite is impossible, but there are two by Black authors that are strong standouts for me: “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones and “How Long ’til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemison."

Goodness gracious Great Egret 😍

this tiger toy is a big dill

Flukes and flames! should be in common use.

Starting to feel like more of the 'conspiracy theories' were true than not, what in the hell www.ibtimes.co.uk/erika-kirk-t...

‘To offer hope’: Syracuse bishop and clergy celebrate Ash Wednesday outside ICE office

"We have heard God's call, and so we are here now to shout out with one unified voice: stop the cruelty and the inhumanity,” said Rev. Allie Perry. “Love is the only way." In Hartford, CT clergy tell ICE: ‘Lay down your arms’ www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

How does The Onion know what the Trump administration is going to do before it happens? Clearly there must be a lot of leeks inside the White House

Stunning work! 🔭 🧪

Wellness woo grifters – like Chopra & Attia – often market themselves as wise & above corruption. Nope. Price of Admission to Epstein’s World: Silence www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w... "Deepak Chopra complained of a 'crazy' day, #Epstein replied, 'I’m in Florida, but would like to send two girls.'"

It's genuinely baffling how many people are focusing their comments on the Epstein case to the differences between ephebophilia and pedophilia. We have a case of global sex-trafficking and blackmail involving many of the most powerful men in the world and they're dismissing it as a moral panic?!?

Helpful.

For all you sweet souls out there in the dark.

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

Finally!

Old college friends planning a pilgrimage to Albany in honor of our departed comrades reminded me of the pinball machine that ruled the house at the original and best incarnation of the treasured, historic, legendary dive known as The Palais Royale. 98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/t...

"It’s a history and legacy of struggle — a model of selfless struggle and undaunted struggle that carries down generations." sojo.net/articles/how...

Via #thecatholicworker By Monica Welch at DovetailInk

Yowsa — new U2

English professors have been saying

Some people had some idea that I was going to save the world, it’s not my world how can I, all I got to talk about is folks getting together. In a big Universe like this, there ought to be something better than what there is.. (Sun Ra)

Love to see it!

Religion note: Remember the bishop who told priests to get their wills in order and “we are entering a new era of martyrdom,” referring to resisting ICE? He’s the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, and he mentioned the fight over this ICE facility when I spoke w/him religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...

Hiding evidence and obstructing our investigation is unacceptable and indicates a total lack of confidence in their agents’ actions Our work will reflect our commitment to transparency and accountability even as the federal government tries to avoid both www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...

And entering its third year, the Dolly Parton Imagination Library has given 97,000 children between birth and five free age-appropriate books in the mail every month in 88 counties. This year, we want to make that all 102 counties.

Not the bookmobiles you monsters.