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Stained glass artwork by English artist Tamsin Abbott. The #Fullmoon in October is known as #HuntersMoon #WomensArt

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #womensart #Sunday

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

Absolutely 👇

Frankenstein (1931) Directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Boris Karloff as the monster.

This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books

Also in this contact sheet of Peter Hujar photos of the 1973 Christopher Street Fair, I'm pretty sure that's a very young John Waters at upper left, yes..? www.interviewmagazine.com/art/5783-pho...

This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.

The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #womensart

Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...

Louise for Beggars of Life (1928). Portrait by Eugene Robert Richee.

Happy Labour Day. Solidarity. (art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social)

I haven’t forgotten Renee Good. I never will. Jesse describes the terrorist group ICE and how they murder women—with the GOP protecting the murderers. youtu.be/El0CLduLgew?...

RIP Tim Curry, never was a man so distinctly iconic and yet such a chameleon in a role🧡😢

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Louise and Richard Arlen by Eugene Robert Richee for Beggars of Life (1928).

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.

We have a criminal president.

BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before he was shot and killed by ICE after an attempted traffic stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

The precedent established whenever journalists are compelled to disclose confidential sources affects every newsroom, every visual journalist, and ultimately every citizen who depends upon a vigorous press to hold government accountable. A threat to some of us is a threat to all of us.

Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms

Your retirement could be at risk. Why? Donald Trump and his Administration are granting private equity’s wish to weaken the protections for YOUR 401(k).

This story has been percolating in local media since last month – credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Another classic take of Paulette by Hurrell in publicity for her role in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936).

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

Julian Sands by George Hurrell, 1992 Sands gets the full Robert Taylor work-up from Hurrell.

Appalling but completely unsurprising: A Congressional investigation found that Trump used his partisan "Freedom 250" foundation to defraud the American people by siphoning off tax dollars from the Congressionally-funded, non-partisan "America 250" fund to create a corrupt, partisan machine.

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

I woke up needing to say just this: I don't think people understand how expansive the plan for this indictment is.

Louise in costume on the set of Beggars of Life (1928) with director William Wellman (L) and author Jim Tully. A new to me photo and first time FLB post.

Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...