Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday that his department would build a “real-world platform” that would allow researchers to hunt for causes of autism by examining insurance claims, electronic medical records and wearable devices like smart watches.
“This is one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity,” the experts said.
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We have updated our catalog of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. By our tally, there have been 215 of them since Inauguration Day. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
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Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on Gaza. He says it's a bittersweet moment that he cannot fully celebrate due to the ongoing and intensifying Israeli genocide. "This honor has brought to me tears and joy," he says.
it's frustrating to read words like "unprecedented" as a Native Studies scholar, when I regularly read about things like children kidnapped from their families and forcibly re-educated in church and government-run schools where they were malnourished, physically/sexually/verbally abused....
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
This is Trumpian. Don't call it anything else.
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
Conservatives confident attacking female journalist will distract from Poilievre’s comments about women’s “biological clocks”
Combining her love for both art and science, Jillian Wylie ('27) spent the year working as the Owens' Art Conservation Lab Assistant.
Hear about some of her favourite experiences including helping with condition reports for artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum!
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The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️
This panel was amazing. I learned much and got two new books in the process. Thanks to the Centre for Indigenous and Critical Canadian Studies for organizing it.
White text against a black background reading: "The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." often attributed to - Simone de Beauvoir -
I was carving to aggressively, of course. LOL
Tara leans in to help a workshop participant as they carve an eraser stamp.
A card stamped with a repeated pattern of a a fairy is displayed in an enveloped stamped with the same figure.
A hand stamps a patter of concentric blue diamond shapes.
Two hands hold a selection of envelopes. Two contain a cat stamp with return address information and the one on top has a purple stamp of a postage stamp with a fish motif.
💌 The postal system is about to filled with some of the sweetest stationary you've ever seen!
Thank you to everyone who attended last night's MAKER MAKER: Hand-Stamped Stationary and to Tara K. Wells for sharing all your stamp making expertise with us!
It's useful to keep in mind that some version of what happened to Mahmoud Kahlil happens multiple times each day to others, and it has been happening for quite some time. #freemahmoudkhalil #abolishice #migrationisahumanright
RFK and the current climate pose many dangers, including:
1) Anti-pseudoscience folks veering anti-justice by rejecting valid critiques of science as “anti-science”
2) Pro-justice folks veering pro-pseudoscience by falling for skeptic grifters who claim to fight systemic harm
Both fuel eugenics.
This is a nightmare.
📹 New Online—Collection Highlight for Rotchild Choisy’s Strike a pause/pose or wear your emotions!' (2023)
In this series Rotchild questions how bodies, clothing, and masks can communicate emotions that often go unspoken.
Hear from the artist and learn more @ owensartgallery.com/owens/collec...
