Barb

Shoutout to the men’s #Olympichockey gold cup game parents. Damn. How do you do it?! I’m a wreck an I just started watching the game today.

Someone had a spa day today and looks unsure about his complimentary buff. @dogs.bsky.social

And I love that for him.

Ha. Tarriffs smerifs.

I don’t want to hear that women’s sports—especially hockey—isn’t exciting with the OT win by USA against Canada to win #olympicgold. What a game!

Portraiture today in abstract collage. #womenart #abstractcollage @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Portraiture in abstract collage. #womensart #abstractcollage @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Blue and white patterned ceramic teapot in the shape of an octopus with head to the right and legs to the left

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

Wtf are we doing, America?! These are KIDS.

I just spied, out our back patio window, what I think was one of those Amazon delivery drones dropping a package to our neighbor behind us….weird af. And my dog was in the backyard watching it fly away, too. He seemed as perplexed as I.

Making paint swatches of two new watercolor pallets I’ll be taking with me when I travel. It’s like Christmas. 😊

I feel seen.

Wowza. This is really embarrassingly disturbing.

Abstract b&w collage with a little spice of color. #abstractcollage #abstract #art #b&w @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Well this if frightening.

Sun’s out, pup’s out (and clearly happy.) @dogs.bsky.social

😍

That #BadBunmyhalftime show has given me a renewed sense of hope and energy to power through this ugly time in our country.

Absolutely brilliant.

The fire is started, the Super BowlGreen Day pregame and Bad Bunny halftime shows are in a few and B is like, “Snacks? Did someone say snacks?!”

In California:

When the U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke… there is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot.

Stacey Abrams
Voting-rights expert

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

“Please stay calm as we steal the election”.

Love it!

Round two of handmade Valentine post cards. Making art is always a great escape. #collage #watercolor #Valentinecards @womensartbluesky.bsky.social #artofbluesky

Made some Valentine’s Day cards for friends this year with scrap watercolor and paper collage pieces. I know not everyone has this luxury but it’s a good mental health break from current events. @womensartbluesky.bsky.social #blueskyart #collage #watercolor #valentinesday

He’d like to talk to me about my car’s extended warranty. @dogs.bsky.social

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.

Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"