This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

What a hellhole the USA has become and how quickly. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Seriously, Jimmy Kimmel was cancelled? This censorship in the USA has gone way too far. We don't have to celebrate the death of anyone, but beatifying a racist, misogynist, right winger is really disturbing and extreme. And silencing anyone who says so is equally disturbing and extreme.

Plotting/Planning my first winter balcony garden. cc: @emgeekay.bsky.social

I loved this story. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Timeline cleanse: what better than cold crisp air under incredibly blue, clear skies? #Photography #BoulderColorado #Blueskies #Winter #Breathe

2025, the Jack Skellington saga renews: How big will Jack get! Will he eat no fat? #Halloween #JackSkellington #Pumpkins #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #MapleLeafNeighborhood #OurNeighborhood

Off to visit the grandchildren so I won't be posting much in the next two weeks. Take good care of each other 💗

I did see some wonderful alpine meadow flowers today. Pleasantly surprised there were still so many. 🌱 🌸

Some little life photos from a backpacking trek this week. Newfoundland, Canada.

Got to hand it to the British authorities. At first I was mad when they scrubbed the #Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.

That had me cracking up! What a great story and I particularly love that he stayed for the group shot! 🤣

Dude should have made discrete inquiries about the menus at each wedding and then stayed where the food was most promising... 😉

This is utterly hilarious, and we all need a good laugh. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Marilyn Monroe Los Angeles Mandolin Sept 1953 Milton H Greene photographer

Propaganda has no tolerance for reason

English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, Tracy Chapman, New York, 1988 #WomensArt

This was a trial about consent and I will never believe, from the evidence presented, that the victim consented. The drinking and misogyny underlying hockey culture is appalling. These young men should never have been allowed to play again. Hockey is ruined for me too.

And in case it's of interest, I taught a whole Spring 2024 class about Local Media, and I've got an open-access website (as I do for all of my classes :) localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/

I posted my script, my slides, and photos of — along with a full bibliography of — all the library materials we featured in the event!!

Can't blame him. He did ask, before departing, if you wanted it darker.

Tapestry with design by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org

If you want your share of the dough (little pun there), you have to submit a claim form by Dec 12th. Link and info in article. #cdnpoli www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #womensart

I’m not even going to post about the killing of that awful right wing extremist, except for this. Why are people getting fired for telling the truth about him?

Ugh. I packed lots of toys and books for my grandchildren and now I am worried my suitcases are overweight. 😝 Buying a luggage scale to try to check. I may have to repack and pay extra for another bag.

Where are the thoughts and prayers for our HBCU students who are *currently* being terrorized by threats?

Genuinely terrified today will be a pretense for sending military to campuses they don't like to intimidate students, staff, and professors. They'll say "look, the universities are dangerous" and then send people with automatic weapons to stand in the back while I explain African American English.

I went to graduate school for linguistics. I did not learn how to teach students who are constantly traumatized by terroristic threats as well as state-sponsored violence. Just today...5 HBCUs, the Naval Academy, and UMass Boston...how are our students supposed to be able to learn anything?

How many calories does constant seething rage burn

Slightly diminish a book: Of Mouse and Man

P-E-N-U-L-T-I-M-M-A-T-E recited the spelling bee’s runner up.

One thing you notice as you develop an interest in nature and the outdoors is that there are a lot of leaves around. Mostly they’re outside. They can get inside too but not as much.

I read Emile Zola’s “Germinal,” years ago and it has remained a favourite. Now I’m watching the 1993 French film version on Kanopy. It’s well-done.

"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...

This is an interesting article about a philosophy course in prison attended by college students and inmates. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

I've been using Ecosia instead of Google search for about three months now and so far, it's great. An improvement. www.ecosia.org

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French feminist, slavery abolistionist, writer of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) due to the French revolutionary goverments failure to include women in its calls for liberty & freedom. She was guillotined in 1793 for political criticisim #WomensArt

This is what should have happened to Trump.

Still I Rise Just like moons and like suns With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still, I'll rise Maya Angelou www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt

According to oral tradition, Spider Woman taught the Navajo nation to build looms and weave. Diné weaving is encoded with meaning and is a much respected part of Navajo heritage #WomensArt

Another cost of AI and more evil from Google. "“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor...” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I never believed Israel's genocide was related to freeing the hostages. I always felt it was part of the decades-long campaign to eradicate Palestinians and take over their land. The hostages should be freed, but Israel's continuing actions are unforgivable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

After a disappointing first 100 days of Canada’s 45th Parliament, the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney must change course and reverse the declining state of human rights protection in Canada. amnesty.ca/human-rights...

There will never be enough blood to satiate those who want to see it spilled in war.

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart