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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Brilliant

Monochrome photograph of a group of women sitting around a table on which a quilt is being created

Quilt with square design and patterned border

Quit with a a central square design created with twenty five smaller squares in which are different images, including vases of flowers

US quilting bees, where women communally created quilts, aided women's rights by providing a safe women-only space for shared ideas, economic empowerment, and political organisation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries #WomensArt

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice."

Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Piece of Denmark" - Marsh Family parody of "Piece of My Heart" by Erma Franklin on Greenland/Trump

This is our parody of "Piece of My Heart" by the amazing soulful Erma Franklin. Our version addresses the situation unfolding with #Trump and #Greenland, & has rude words - it's called "Piece of Denmark". In solidarity with all fellow Europeans facing tariffs and trauma. #25th

youtu.be/jSDIkpwlqsA

Four images of the Bayeux Tapestry showing embroidered scenes of soldiers, horses and other figures

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70 meter long medieval masterpiece created by artisan women, is actually an embroidery in crewel (wool yarn) on a linen ground. Depicting the Norman conquest of England, it was made in the 11th century & will be displayed at the British Museum this year. #WomensArt

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Carol of the Bells" / "Shchedryk" - Marsh Family adaptation of Ukrainian New Year song for 2026

Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music 1st written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem

youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs

Four arrested after Tower of London display case containing State Crown defaced The group Take Back Power says its members poured custard and apple crumble on the Crown Jewels display.

I think we’ve found the most British crime:

Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Trump'll Nail Ya" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" about BBC crisis

Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️

... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...

youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U

It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

'New lease of life' - Project digitises archive documents 175,000 new historical records lost during a fire at the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century censuses.

Copies of 175,000 historical records lost during a fire at the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century census returns. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Have they thought about how much tariffs will increase the cost of #maga hats?

Photo of a very long thin rectangular piece of material with sewn text which strethes across a floor towards the viewer, with a kneeling person at the far end, all in an interior space

Lorina Bulwer, needle-worker incarcerated in the 'lunatic ward' of Great Yarmouth Workhouse, UK, in 1894, created large scale samplers as a way to voice her experience, highlighting her treatment and grim conditions #womensart

Came across this long and fascinating epitaph written about George Cruikshank (1715-1765)by his wife, Finetta. She painted a very full picture of the man but I haven't found any more records about either of them #genealogy #Hitcham

I've been lucky enough to see and copy some of the records (from 1559) for Hitcham in South Bucks if you ever need to reference those, I'd be happy to share

Oh I'm a beginner on these compared to you but I thought it might be in a register that showed other certificates. I've probably got that all wrong - apologies

Could Clark be his middle name? Is it worth checking others on the same page to see if they follow the same transcription pattern?

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a windmill in silhouette, side view, to the right in a meadow at dusk with grasses in the foreground and a stripey purple pink sky above

UK textie artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #womensart

Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦

Life Expectancy:
🇨🇦 82.6
🇺🇸: 78.4

Infant Deaths/1,000:
🇨🇦 3.7
🇺🇸: 5.2

Deaths from No Insurance:
🇨🇦 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Ozempic Price:
🇨🇦 $155
🇺🇸: $998

Uninsured:
🇨🇦 0
🇺🇸: 85M

Admin Costs:
🇨🇦 $196
🇺🇸: $1,055

Education:
🇨🇦 57% post-sec
🇺🇸: 45%

Canada Forever!

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Do You Know Who You Are? Can you really truly know who you are, if you don’t know where you came from? It’s a simple enough question and one that I am sure that many family historians and probably many psycholo…

Something thought provoking for you about the psyche of why we research out family tree Do You Know Who You Are?

chiddicksfamilytree.com/2023/04/16/d...

#Genealogy #FamilyTree #psyche #BloggersTribe #Blog #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #psychology #Ancestors

"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."

-- Lady Bird Johnson, born #OTD 1912

"Viva Madame Pelicot. May your name forever be remembered not with pity or sorrow, but with absolute awe, respect and gratitude."

Youngest suspect was just 22 years old at the time- went to the Pelicots house on the night his own daughter was born. He abused a drugged woman - Gisele - and has just been given 12 year sentence.

Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th:

Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself

Where does the fine go? Who gets it?