Jessica Skwire Routhier

Jessica Skwire Routhier

@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Diversity, equity, inclusion and access are good, actually. Managing editor, #JournalPanorama, @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social. Contributing writer, Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Views, while hardly controversial, are my own.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Our cat, Shark, has escaped from our South Portland home on Bellevue Avenue, on the edge of the Piggery. She is a petite tuxedo cat, about six pounds, with white whiskers. She is approachable but will react better to women than men. No collar, but microchipped. #lostcat #lostcats #maine 2077997324

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025. Tonight at University of Southern ME! Hosted by @mainehistory.org and the Osher Map Library. Reception: 5:30–6:00 p.m. Panel discussion and book signing: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m. www.mainehistory.org/events/shoul...

mainehistory.orgShould We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025Several contributors to the new essay collection What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History (UMass Press, 2025) will offer a brief illustr...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Please sign the petition to support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News, to include staff at the Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Brunswick Times Record, Portland Press Herald, and Morning Sentinel within the News Guild of Maine. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

pressherald.comMaine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effortStaff have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board and are asking the parent company of the Press Herald and other newspapers to recognize nearly 50 additional employees as part of th...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

"These nudes...do not bear the weight of the centuries that came before them. They are more free, less inhibited, than their predecessors." My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on "A Fountain of Forms" at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art: bit.ly/40DOwHE

antiquesandthearts.comA Fountain of Forms: The Rise Of The American Woman Sculptor, 1910-1929 - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyGREENSBURG, PENN. — This year, 2025, is the “Year of the Woman” at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Blockbusters are planned (and some have already opened) on Cecilia Beaux, Berenice Abbott an...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

#Mainers, know and remember this.

koolkankat.bsky.social@koolkankat.bsky.social

... It was all performative. Murkowski isn't up for re-election until 2028, so her vote was needed. Collins is up for re-election in 2026 and her seat is needed by Republicans so she was allowed to vote no on the bill. To make Collins look like a moderate who isn't afraid to buck her party. All BS/2

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Once upon a time, a #Maine mom put the fear of God into the staff at the @newyorker.com. @rayrouthier.bsky.social on how a strongly worded letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother was the genesis of the magazine's #factchecking department. www.pressherald.com?p=7469341&uu...

pressherald.comThe New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s motherThe magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother, pointing out several errors in a story abou...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

"This philosophy, historically and today, extends beyond women to include queer artists, people of color and international students, and, moreover, that it extends beyond human demographics. The League also has a history of dismantling barriers between art genres...

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

"of teaching commercial art & illustration as well as painting & sculpture and exhibiting works like Ruth Morley’s costume designs & Steven Cartoccio’s figurine of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. alongside portraits by Will Barnet & seascapes by Winslow Homer.” 📷Steven Cartoccio/Art Students League NY

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Oh FFS. Florida man runs for office in ME-2. #mainepolitics

Bangor Daily News@bangordailynews.bsky.social

LePage plans to announce his congressional campaign on Monday, setting up a potential race between the Republican and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in the conservative-leaning area.

bangordailynews.comPaul LePage plans to announce his run for Maine’s 2nd DistrictLePage plans to announce his congressional campaign on Monday, setting up a potential race between him and U.S. Rep. Jared Golden.
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

On FB, I'm watching in real time as someone I once thought of as an ally gets steadily radicalized (reactionalized?). Truly; she's chosen *this* moment. She's "gender critical" and thinks anyone who isn't has been "brainwashed" by mainstream media. She recommends we watch more Fox News. God help us.

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Important thread. Federal grants are contracts,and this is nakedly illegal.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders
@profsaunders.bsky.social

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

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Parke Wilde
@parkewilde.bsky.social

Replying to @dandrezner.bsky.social

Today, April 2, President Kumar at Tufts issued a University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk. "The University seeks relief so that Ms. Öztürk is released without delay so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University."

tufts.eduUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

“Based on everything we know and have shared here, the University seeks relief so that Ms. Öztürk is released without delay so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University.” Proud of my grad school alma mater today. bit.ly/4jeXIcg

bit.lyUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling
@rubenbolling.bsky.social

A declaration by Tufts Univ. in support of Rümeysa Öztürk filed in District Ct. today notes that she was abducted by federal authorities while her visa was in good standing in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. It was updated to reflect a visa termination after she'd been abducted

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Well, this is very much in line with the current national ethos that leadership = wholesale destruction. Good luck with your capital campaign, you fearless disruptors (/s), and with your legacy. bit.ly/3FRaUpy

bit.lyJudge clears way for demolition of former children’s museumThe Portland Museum of Art wants to raze it to make way for a sweeping glass-and-timber expansion on that site, but Greater Portland Landmarks filed a lawsuit last year to save the building at 142 Fre...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

Kneecapping museums and libraries to own the libs

NPR@npr.org

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

npr.orgEntire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leaveThe staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

I interviewed some twelve people for this story, including cocurators Barry Logan, Frank Goodyear, and Jennifer Pye, and the constant refrain was the special power of working collaboratively and the urgent importance of communicating effectively—about science, history, and art.

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AAUP
@aaup.org

We know our job: to defend our campuses and communities and to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom, research that saves lives, and the institutions that provide crucial services that benefit every person residing in the US. We will fight and we will win. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

aaup.orgAAUP President Todd Wolfson on Illegal Termination of Union RightsLike so many recent actions, this is the move of an authoritarian, and shows the Trump administration’s fundamental disregard for working people. It is also a blatantly retaliatory move, against feder...

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Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot.bsky.social

“The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters ‘DEI’ added to the site’s address… The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “ ‘deimedal.’”

theguardian.comBlack Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense websitePage honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
Jessica Skwire Routhier
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I just found out about this forthcoming title from Adrienne L. Childs, whose work I deeply admire. I love it when great writers take on the decorative arts--and this looks like a fascinating subject! Available for preorder now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

yalebooks.yale.eduOrnamental BlacknessExploring the role the decorative arts played in the representation of Black people in European visual and material culture   This revelatory look at Europe...
Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

"Rollicking thriller"?

Vox@vox.com

Conclave won the #Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The rollicking thriller stirred up controversy with the group of people most likely to be interested in the inner workings of the church: Catholics, like Megyn Kelly. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/8zLGfA

voxdotcom.visitlink.meWhat Megyn Kelly gets right — and wrong — about ConclaveIs the papal hit as “disgusting” as conservative Catholics want you to believe?

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CALL TO ACTIVISM
@calltoactivism.bsky.social

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

This is a must-read. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

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Jessica Skwire Routhier
@jsrouthier.bsky.social

I was so hopeful when Bezos bought the Post. I thought, if anyone can fix newspapers and figure out how they can make money again, it's the Amazon guy. It turns out that wasn't actually what he wanted at all.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.