Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was tragically shot and killed by ICE in Houston, Texas earlier this year, made a surprise appearance at the Ready. Go.
Vote. Rally.
Ronaldo, thank you for using your voice to encourage our communities to get out to vote 🗳️
That it was put on by the Heritage Foundation should have been their first clue, and they should've gotten their 2nd clue when they were told to gather around him in the oval office🤬
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a primary architect & driving force behind the organized movement that ultimately won American women the right to vote in 1920.
She died on #OTD in 1902 & never got to vote in her lifetime.
Because of her (and others), we can. #VOTE#WomensRights#WomensSuffrage
Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah is a pioneering Ghanaian physician & diplomat.
Originally anti-abortion, her life changed when one her pediatric patients, a 14-year-old, died from a botched procedure. She vowed to fight unsafe abortions, which cause up to 30% of maternal deaths in Africa. #WomenInSTEM
Novelist Anne Tyler was born #OTD in 1941.
One of America's greatest chroniclers of family life, marriage & the eccentricities of ordinary people. She wrote 24 novels including "The Accidental Tourist," 1985. She won the 1989 #Pulitzer Prize for #Fiction for "Breathing Lessons."
#BookSky#LitSky
This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line.
His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth.
Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years.
Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize.
True heroism.
Victorian artist & naturalist Marianne North (b. #OTD in 1830) defied gender norms to document global plant life.
Over 14 years, she traveled solo across 6 continents and 15+ countries, creating a revolutionary visual archive of the natural world. #WomenInSTEM#Art#ArtSky
Costume designer Edith Head won 8 Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 & 1973 (nominated 35 times!). Most-awarded woman in the Academy's history. #Oscars
Considered one of the greatest & most influential costume designers in #film history. She died #OTD in 1981. #MovieSky
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says
Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy
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On Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL.
A veteran NAACP activist, she was arrested and fined. Her defiance sparked the 381-day bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., forcing a SCOTUS ruling that ended bus segregation.🧵
#CivilRights
"This is Jasper. He is my neighbor’s dog. I can’t leave the house much due to health issues, so anytime he sees me he RUNS back inside his house to bring me back out one of his favorite toys. Today was his duck. His record is 3 toys and a stick, all at once. What a champ. Be like Jasper."