Lori Lou Freshwater

Nearly as many as Iranian schoolgirls.

murderers still sailed on

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits children to be destroyed.

~ Daniel Berrigan

13 is middle school

Today, The Daily Beast picked up the story and discussed the NPR's analysis of the missing documents. But the response is still very muted. These is absolutely no defense for the Trump administation's actions. Impeach him now! bsky.app/profile/thed...

I'm forced to the conclusion that a certain type of pro-Israeli Western Christian doesn't actually see the place as real, and certainly doesn't see the Christians of the Middle East whose lives have been made much, much harder by the policies they back.

It's just a sort of apocalyptic theme park.

"Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist, circa 1907. Photograph shows a half-length portrait of a woman with tatooes or body paint covering her arms and chest." - Wikimedia Commons

The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, America’s First Female Tattoo Artist

allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner

Books about tattoos at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#womenhistorymonth #art #history

The restored Emily Howland Album featuring an a previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman, March 25, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller.

Alisha Chipman holds a photograph of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, one of 44 portraits inside a photo album jointly acquired by the Library and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Shawn Miller.

For Harriet Tubman Day, we'd like to share this story from 2017, when a remarkable photo album containing a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman was jointly acquired by the Library and the Smithsonian, and conserved for future generations. ⬇️
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#HarrietTubmanDay

The Political Potential of the Chinatown Storefront Abrons Arts Center is hosting its annual Lunar New Year mutual aid initiative, where art highlights and supports local businesses.

As Lunar New Year celebrations continue across the world, nobody embodies the holiday spirit quite like New Yorkers. Case in point: an Abrons Arts Center exhibition honors the queer, working-class imagery and art that make Chinatown special.

The white fluff is fur from brushing my wolf because the birds love to take it for their nests.

The most badass lil squirrel you ever did see*

*when walnuts are at stake

Mama mia

Pieta, 1499 #highrenaissance #michelangelo

Use your words.

Today in Rhode Island History:

1808: The African Benevolent Society opens the first free African school in America in Newport.

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Fire department turns down $250,000 Google donation amid data center fight An Oklahoma fire department turned down a significant donation from Google.

I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.

Which one is a better reader?

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

The Waterboys - This Land Is Your Land YouTube video by The Waterboys

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Drawing in brown pencil of a red-crowned crane (a kind of 'self portrait') with wings raised, head thrown back as though uttering a cry, standing on the back my character, #PudgyHorse, a baroque type horse with luxuriant mane and tail and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including an extremely generous girth and short, delicate legs with dainty hooves, who in turn is standing upon a burning pyre of books and art materials, issuing stylised flames and smoke. The drawing is a deliberate tribute to Arthur Rackham's illustration of Brünhilde riding her horse, Grane, onto Siegfried's funeral pyre, from the book, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.

This was drawn a few years ago but might as well be apt for how I'm feeling this #YearOfTheHorse. Riding #PudgyHorse onto a pyre of my sketchbooks and materials. 🙃

Obvious nod to Arthur Rackham's 1911 illustration of Brünhilde's immolation scene from Götterdämmerung.

#ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear

We won the war that wasn’t a war and which isn’t ending.

That he’s not paranoid someone will assist in a drone getting by for the money he himself worships has always been funny to me. Putin lives in a prison of paranoia for a reason.

I like that it has a comfort grip.

Kinda wild people doubt it’s possible at this point.

Perpetual worseness.

An Ancient Greek coin with the head of Heracles in the centre

An Ancient Greek coin with Zeus seated, holding an eagle in the centre.

This coin is from the reign of Alexander III of Macedon, more commonly known as Alexander the Great.

It features the head of Heracles on one side, and Zeus seated holding a sceptre and an eagle on the other.

I'm not sure I'd choose a holiday in Scotland.