Ginger Brinn, Ph.D. (she/her)

If you celebrate the “under god” part of the Pledge - which was added over a half-century after its inception as a response to the “Red Scare,” - but ignore “liberty and justice for all,” I have to wonder, which god are you referring to?

Embroidery of sixteen different coloured and shaped toadstools on a reddisn background

Kimika Hara, contemporary Japanese embroidery artist #WomensArt
#September

Xenobia Bailey, US fine artist, designer and fibre artist known for her large scale crochet pieces and hats #WomensArt

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

Art is everything, our culture, our society, our very essence, it tells our stories.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

Erasure Notebooks by Mary Ruefle August 12, 2025 – "These erasure texts range from slapstick to the absurd, from the lyrical to a wry melancholy."

“Ruefle, who is based in VT, has been making erasures, which she illustrates with collages, almost daily since 1998. Usually working on two pages a day, she has completed more than one hundred and twenty-five erasures to date, a selection of which are now on view through September 6 at Poets House”

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Trump vows to evict homeless from Washington, official says National Guard may be deployed Trump said he will give homeless people places to stay, "but far from the capital." The White House declined to explain what legal authority Trump would use to evict people from the District.

This is more than concerning…how much more will it take for folks to wake up to what is happening? How are there still folks who are seemingly oblivious to all of this?

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

Umm, if a democrat were to do something like this all hell would break loose. Does this poor excuse for a human ever even work? It seems that he’s always on a vacation on the taxpayers dime. I’m tired of my taxes going for this mess and all the rest of their crap.

A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S. After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.

New Yorker posts unique multi-media story about an affirming single mom who fled US to support her 16 y/o trans child. Interestingly, she left Maine, one of the more supportive states so far. [no paywall]

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A lot is happening with federal student debt at the moment. Here is some of our thoughts — and what we think you need to know.

What borrowers should know about student loan changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.

Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.

Donald Trump's bill makes your life more expensive this year, next year, the year after that, and the year after that.

Lacemaking detail: pattern behind, with multicolored pins securing a weave of radiating threads from a central, multicolored floral pattern

"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'"

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The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new “camp” deep in the Florida Everglades, where officials are openly describing it as “concentrating” certain people in one area. Have you seen the photos of the flooding? This entire site is a human rights violation.

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

They have neglected to mention financial aid forgiveness will no longer exist, along with only 2 ways to repay student loans. This may explain why the ability to recertify has been closed.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

How a Father-Daughter Duo Changed the Course of Textile Art May and William Morris’s fascinating and complicated relationship deserves to be studied in its own right.

William and May Morris, a father-daughter pair of textile artists, were constantly engaged in lively discussions of politics, design, and often, a combination of the two, as Morris Sr. viewed an increase of respect for artisanal craft workers as a key part of his socialism.

I wish he would read the whole bill out loud during the magic minute.

I don’t think folks know what all is in this bill. It goes beyond just Medicare and SNAP… it’s includes financial aid, the getting AND repayment. There’s so much hidden bullshit in the bill that the American Fascist Party (what I will now call the GOP since that is what they are) is cramming in.

Brioche knitting project in progress with orange and multi color yarn.

After frogging around 4 times the brioche magic seems to be returning 🧶

Two balls of yarn with knitting needles holding a new cast-on project on top of a pattern.

Distractions. Starting a new brioche cowl while dreaming of cooler weather.

Saw this last night…so gross & probably smells like vomit. The truly sad thing is that his cult members will buy this shit up.

Why couldn’t democrats force the reading to happen in the daylight? Why the clerks and not the senators themselves? Why not allow folks that actually pay taxes decide if they want to continue funding billionaires, ‘cause I sure as sh*t don’t want to fund billionaires.

The result in Taylor, as Sotomayor puts it, "strikes at the core premise of public schools" — that children of all faiths and backgrounds come together to learn about a "range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society." It is the product of a conservative supermajority whose members think of the Constitution as a compact that applies not to all Americans, but to people who look like them: wealthy, conservative Christian lawyers who do not interact with anyone other than wealthy, conservative Christian lawyers, outside of occasionally tipping a caddy at the Congressional. For them, the First Amendment does not guarantee freedom of religion. It protects their power to privilege their religion over the religions of everyone else.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the LGBTQ books case lays bare the extent to which the justices exist in a bubble. They don’t interact with anyone other than wealthy conservative Christian lawyers. The law exists to protect people like them, and no one else. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

entitled to a preliminary injunction. A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses "a very real threat of undermining" the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 218 (1972). And a government cannot condition

Wow that’s broad. Incredibly broad.

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