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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

Butterfly on some flowers.

Sometimes the internet is a positive place.
Be that positive force

The soul of our nation is at stake.

YouTube video by Movies N Motivation Love Actually - President Speech - 2/7

Canada is basically Hugh Grant in "Love Actually" standing up to Billie Bob Thornton www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rm...

Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Piet Mondrian, Composition C, 1920

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135164

For any generation: Don't worry...just be you!

A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads “We hate him too” yup 👍

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

Compliments of 🟠.

Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

Two girls sitting on a couch holding a toy, with one looking directly at the camera and the other looking slightly away.

10 February 1944 | A transport of 1,015 Jews deported from Westerbork in the German-occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors sent 142 men & 73 women to the camp.

The remaining 800 people were murdered in gas chambers.
Eva & Liane Münzer (7 & 5) were among them.

NEH’s Fellowships program is accepting applications.
This program supports scholars in conducting #humanities research & producing books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations w/annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions. ow.ly/JBme50UV92u

Vintage black and white photo of a baby with a tuft of hair on top, looking directly at the camera.

26 January 1942 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Alida Baruch, was born in Amsterdam.

In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination.
Our response: Book bans are real.
Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

#JamesBaldwin

Diversity in clinical trials is about health, not politics. The major of research in the past was done on (mostly white) men. If trials do not have a diverse pool, the results are not broadly applicable.

I agree. Although it will be painful, we have to ride out the storm as he extinguishes his own flame.

❝Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.❞—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

with his father, Martin Luther King, son Martin Luther King III, 1963

YouTube video by Eric Wayne Don't look Marion

Don't look. 1/20/25
youtu.be/ND_yAPJsefM?...

Many people still wearing same clothes as three days ago. This might be a good time to look at closets and consider what can be parted with tò help others. 💕

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

You are not entitled to your own facts.

Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

We should all strive to stand up to the big dogs like Ann Telnaes did today.

Sheriff says Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was probably a suicide The man inside the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday was believed to be an active-duty soldier in the U.S. Army.

Breaking news: Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference Thursday that the investigation indicates the driver sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head before the Cybertruck’s explosion.

I Could Never Stick to My Stretching Routine. Then I Found This App. Each year, stretching daily topped my list of New Year’s resolutions, but I always had trouble sticking with it. The Bend app changed that.

Stretching plays a crucial role in calming your nervous system and can be a natural mood booster. For most people, five to 10 minutes is a great starting point—and our Wirecutter tester recommends this app for helping her stick to the routine. nyti.ms/3DEwDjf

Day 2 of #2025 Not much different than 2024, but then it hits me to think... What is the difference I can make?

Bob Dylan, the rebellious troubadour, film star, icon and enigma: A guide to the movies’ true shapeshifter There’s something unique about Bob Dylan’s big-screen presence. Over seven decades, he has been ubiquitous, but never predictable

There’s something unique about Bob Dylan’s big-screen presence. Over seven decades, he has been ubiquitous, but never predictable

Read Walter Mondale’s Eulogy of Jimmy Carter Before former Vice President Walter Mondale died in 2021, he left behind the eulogy he had planned to deliver. His son Ted Mondale will read it at Jimmy Carter’s memorial service at Washington Nationa...

Before former Vice President Walter Mondale died in 2021, he left behind the eulogy he had planned to deliver for Jimmy Carter.

His son Ted Mondale will read it at Carter’s memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9.

My favorite Jimmy Carter story as well. The dude had enormous brass balls. Yeah, sure, just walk into a compromised nuclear reactor on the verge of meltdown to save a bunch of people you don't know.

I have a Jimmy Carter peanut bank. It was painted purple, my favorite color, and given to me for a present when I was like seven.

Visiting his library in Georgia was incredibly moving. He was a great man, and a good President. Go in peace, Mr. President.

The oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor dies at 105 | CNN Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daug...

Warren “Red” Upton, a 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, a veteran’s organization.