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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

We Demand a New Board of Directors at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Key Issues with Board Actions · Cancellation of Artist Residencies: The Board canceled fully funded residencies, disregarding restricted donor and grant commitments. This breached trust with funders a...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite “They understand that what they’re doing is devastating, and they’re doing it anyway,” says Astra Taylor.

I talked with @astra.bsky.social about the apocalyptic politics of Christian Nationalists and tech oligarchs, how AI is capturing and altering us toward fascist ends, and how we can fight "end times fascism." Audio + transcript:

Here’s your printable Convivio Book of Days calendar for July: www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/summer-.... Summer fruits! That’s your cover star for the month.

#conviviobookworks #bookofdays #july #summerfruits #rubenspeale #watermelon

Songs To Sing To Dissociate Playlist · shannondowney · 200 items · 9 saves

It’s my birthday! I made everyone a playlist of the top 200 songs I like to sing really loudly while on road trips.

Here you go…

open.spotify.com/playlist/4fU...

Resolution Copper is blocking comments and hiding replies from anyone calling out what they’re doing at Oak Flat. They’re trying to mine on sacred Native American land, with the government’s help, and don’t want the public to push back.

Printmakers, I’ve started a Reddit group for people running, volunteering, working, etc; in community print shops. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! #letterpress #risograph #printmaking

One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

QUEER | ART ILLUMINATIONS GRANT screenshot of webpage image of a beautiful Black trans woman with long hair in a pony tail, she is wrapped in blue drapery with a pink agapanthus flower held up to her face

queer-art.org APPLY APPLICATIONS OPEN - MARCH 31st, 2025 COMPLETE APPLICATION - JULY 2nd, 2025 What information does the application require? • Contact info, narrative bio, and headshot • Demographic information • One sentence description of your artistic practice • Two short essay questions on your artistic practice • 2 references that can speak to your practice • CV • Work samples (12 samples maximum, details below) Work Sample Specifications: Choose from any of the following formats to upload work samples that best represent your practice. Allowed Media Types: • Images (up to 10MB each) • Video (up to 500MB each) • PDFs (up to 20MB each) • External media from YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud

Queer | Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized, also offering $1,250 award to four finalists.

Due July 2nd

Link: www.queer-art.org/illumination...

#Onthisday in 1913, Bollywood was born, with the release of Indian cinema's very 1st feature, Dadasaheb Phalke's Raja Harishchandra. It only exists now in fragments (1475 feet of it), which you can see here, with both Hindi and English intertitles: http://bit.ly/1rRtfHP #otd

Katie Chung is one of three finalists for JCBA’s next Salzberg Residency. Her proposal revolves around her immigrant mother’s story and dry cleaning shop in Chicago. The hanbok is made from dry cleaning tags; the piece in the handmade box is made from sewing pins and a dry cleaning hanger.

We should speak from conscience, not for whatever polls well, and if we speak enough and well enough we shift the conversation, shift what people care about. We have, again and again. Because so many don't participate, we don't need absolute majorities; we can go far with passionate minorities.

In February 2025 alone, we have already tallied more than 2,085 protests, which included major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine and demonstrations against Tesla and Donald Trump’s agenda more generally. This is compared with 937 protests in the United States in February 2017, which included major protests against the so-called Muslim ban along with other pro-immigrant and pro-choice protests. Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins Read more Coordinated days of protest such as March Fourth for Democracy (4 March), Stand Up for Science (7 March), rallies in recognition of International Women’s Day (8 March) and protests demanding the release of the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suggest little likelihood of these actions slowing down. These are all occurring in the background of a tidal wave of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s early moves. Historically, street protest and legal challenges are common avenues for popular opposition to governments, but economic noncooperation – such as strikes, boycotts and buycotts – is what often gets the goods. Individual participation is deliberately obscure, and targeted companies may have little interest in releasing internal data. Only the aggregate impacts are measurable – and in the case of Tesla, Target and other companies, the impacts so far have been measurable indeed.

Witchhazel with red calyx’s, petals just gone, leaves about to unfurl.

Nature knows what to do.
When in doubt, follow the trees.
Time to open leaves and gather light.

Thousands call for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel.

Credit to @npr.org for this detailed look at how Elon Musk & the backpack boys have stolen all of our private information. ALL OF IT. Add this to the Signal security breach and the incompetence takes your breath away.

Hi! We’re the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, and we look forward to sharing bookish things with you here at Bluesky!

#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #papermaking

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

This is beautiful.

THIS IS REALLY HARD (BUT WE ARE NOT QUITTING): REFLECTIONS ON KINDNESS AND RESOLUTENESS If you're reading this, you got through the first month of the assault on everything, none of it a surprise except in how stupid and ruthless the sabotage was, but a lot of its shocking, also because ...

Newsletter, day 19:

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Abstract like piece, large explosion of light radiating lightrays against a sky blue background

Northern Lights in Zenith, by Harald Moltke, 1900.

One of the many images of Aurora Borealis collected in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”, looking at how this otherworldly phenomenon has been depicted over the centuries: buff.ly/38dxgft

Screen shot of the event page on the Swedish American museum website

Chicago! Join me at the Swedish American Museum and I’ll teach you how to stitch.

2/28 at 6pm $10 materials incl

www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/product/34167

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Hey bluesky, me, my sweetie, my bff, and my comrade all moved in to our new apartment yesterday!

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I'm printing more wood rounds. Adding stitching. Trying to hit those exhibition deadlines!