There are 86 pregnant mothers locked up in ICE concentration camps. Pregnant immigrants in detention for months despite rules against it - Los Angeles Times share.google/PQsxrLcoTOWM...

High Five!🖐️ - 14th century, British Library, Add MS 49622, f. 56r

Good morning! Madonna of the Cotton Fields was painted by Laura Knight.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

Some states have jeopardized equitable access to education as they transfer public school funds to costly private school voucher programs. As budgets tighten, lawmakers are reconsidering shifting spending priorities away from these programs. www.cbpp.org/blog/as-budg...

The image is an oil-on-canvas painting titled The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees (also known as Farmhouse among Olive Trees), created by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in December 1889.

Police chases endanger everyone on the roads. Tag the car and track it later.

"Pediatric allergist Deborah Gentile looked into asthma rates among 1,200 children who attended school near major pollution sites in the area— including students at Clairton Elementary School. They had nearly triple the national rate of asthma, with the highest rate among African American youth..."

"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo 💎 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes✨ Paul Simon www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T...

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🧶 #knit #sew #crochet #craft

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Happy National Librarian Day! 👻📚

Trump clearly believes in the Hollywood gospel 🙃🤣

Alabama has banned all books with words in them. (This is not of my own making, but I lost the link to its original author) my apologies.

Look at Maria Bartiromo’s face.

An unusual statuette from Egypt's Late Period or Ptolemaic era, depicting an elegant #cat feeding her kittens. In this case, she's not a just a cat - she's Bastet, goddess of fertility, and protector of women and children. I love the kitten trying to give mama a kiss. 🐈‍⬛ 🏺 1/ 📸 me #BrooklynMuseum

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Fields in Spring, 1887. Oil on canvas.

So now we’re blocking the Strait of #Hormuz?

The prehistoric artist’s toolkit: hollow bird bones used as airbrushes. Artists blew powdered ochre through them to spray pigment around their hands, leaving negative hand stencils — a common technique in cave art. #PrehistoricArt #CaveArt #RockArt #Archaeology #Paleolithic #AncientArt

Absolutely. #BookSky

So it’s a ceasefire but they’re still dropping bombs? 💣

Art Was Never for Everyone To ask who gets to make art in Africa and Oceania is to ask who holds authority within a society and how that authority is made visible. In both regions, art has often been shaped by systems of gender, age, rank, lineage, initiation, and sacred permission.

Jim Holland (American Artist, born 1955) "Green Room", 2011. Oil on Canvas

More space travel please. #Artemis

The pope called Trump’s threat to kill Iranian civilization “truly unacceptable” earlier this week.

I wrote something. 📝 www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ap...

A bill that would ban state and local governments from offering coverage for gender-affirming care is headed to the House floor soon, despite Rep. Clemmons pressing the sponsor hard about the bill in Government Operations. Take action before it hits the floor at the link: ujoin.co/campaigns/43...

Melina Matsoukas to direct Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Parable of the Sower” for Warner Bros

#ObjectsOfTheDay: A ceramic canteen created by Virgil Ortiz of the Cochiti Pueblo tribe, made with white bentonite clay, & painted with pigments made from wild spinach leaves. It’s entitled "Pueblo Revolt 2180" which reimagines the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers, but set in 2180 A.D.

2014 me vs me now

More sensational images from NASA’S Artemis II 💫

Brutal.

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"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

This painting is titled "The House of Guardaboschi" (also known as Forsthaus in Weissenbach am Attersee or Forester's House in Weissenbach), created in 1912 by the famous Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt

Is it no wonder that in this surrealistic time that cartoonists are nailing it better than anyone!!!

Artemis II mission captures first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

Wow! 🤩

It has been 45 years since I read "The Phantom Tollbooth" but one sentence sticks in my mind: "The only reason to go from one place to another is to see what's in between." My career has fought against that idea, but in retirement I will probably surrender to it. www.powells.com/book/the-pha...