Mika De Roo

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

Cat covered in brush

Someone learned a lesson

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Today’s featured Wisconsin photographer is Randall Scott Vollmer who captured this moody scene in Waupun. 📸 #Photography

A much-needed moment of calm 🐺

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

This reminder, over and over again.

So their war on Social Security will go like everything else. They'll cancel some people, get caught, say "my bad," wait for court challenge, lose in court, say they've fixed it, not fix it, lather rinse repeat.

Perhaps we should sit more often with Frederick Douglass:

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."  1/

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

She told you.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

A bold red male cardinal stands in sharp contrast against a flinty blue winter backdrop -- no snow, just the cold merciless gray-blue of February. The bird is center frame, facing left, tail pointed out, crown pointing up. The bird is on a branch that splits into three at the left side of the frame. This is definitely the "angry bird" variant of the cardinal, as the bird looks quite alert -- vigilant, even -- for BIRD SHENANIGANS. Angry at other birds, bird crimes, bird pranks, whatever. Though also contrasting this is the cardinal's dainty little feet, which are faced and framed in such a way that they kind of look like he's wearing fancy little go-go boots. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

fuck it all, here's a bird

photo by me

Gustave Doré, The Fall of Lucifer, from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

Haven’t seen that one… Her saying “bitch” is definitely a selling point.

Langston Hughes

I’m especially excited about May Not. Which has a delightful Bartleby ring to it.

Look I'm not an elected official or anything but it seems weird to be trying to stop a coup with only the procedures and rule of law norms the coup willfully ignores

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Ah, the cake walk of those Reagan, Bush I, and Dubya years… 😒