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Grave marker at Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth MA. “Mrs Susanna Atwood with infant in arms” Dated 1785

Most that I was looking at were a later date and so more readable. It was also challenging to figure out which were original markers and which were replacements.

I was wandering Burial Hill Cemetery in Plymouth last week. I didn’t notice anything this fancy. I will have to pay more attention next time.

Pa. State Museum closes Native American exhibit, returns 1000s of artifacts under federal law Tens of thousands of sacred objects, artifacts, funerary objects, and human remains are being processed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to comply with the Native American Graves P...

NAGPRA repatriation and rethinking of exhibits in Pennsylvania

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They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Idaho shooting: two dead after firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to fire Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents after multiple people were shot at while controlling fire

who tf shoots firefighters

Members of the press take cover as police officers clear the area outside of a federal building as protests continue in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. Photo by David McNew, Getty Images Hed: Why the death of reporter Ruben Salazar 55 years ago resonates with journalists covering LA protests today

Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds. cal.news/3SMlTDN

📸 David McNew, Getty

Horse-drawn wagons full of Fountain Grove Winery grapes waiting in line at the crusher during the 1910 harvest in Sonoma county. Sonoma County Museum.

It is absolutely *fascinating* how this article entirely fails to mention the reliance on academic library budgets to pay for these subscriptions.... Libraries aren't mentioned at all.

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Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

Opinion | The Day Grok Lost Its Mind Just don’t ask it about “white genocide.”

Elon Musk shared a post on X about claims of genocide against white farmers in South Africa. The next day, Grok, X’s A.I. chatbot, focused on the topic obsessively. The answer to why this happened “says a lot about why A.I. is so powerful — and why it’s so disruptive,” @zey.bsky.social writes.

A conference room scene showing an awards ceremony. On stage, two women stand at a podium, one speaking and one standing to the side. A large screen behind them displays a slide that reads: “The 2025 George Rosen Prize Winner: Nursing Clio. Accepted on behalf of the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective by Jacqueline Antonovich and Sarah Handley-Cousins.”

I'm deeply honored and humbled that Nursing Clio has been awarded the 2025 George Rosen Prize at #AAHM2025. As I said at the podium, this is not my award — it belongs to the collective. It’s for everyone who has ever written for Nursing Clio, edited for us, and especially for our readers. Thank you!

Brutal

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Additional layer: the first ethnic studies department was at San Francisco State University. SFSU is facing under funding from the state compounded with the CSU system punishing campuses for successful labor action by not adding to campus budgets.

abc7news.com/post/san-fra...

"The poor and middle class are paying taxes, the rich are paying accountants, and the wealthy are paying politicians." - @mhdksafa.bsky.social

Millionaires for Humanity advocate for a fundamental shift towards a more equitable distribution of tax burdens.

#WealthTax #taxtherich

We need the Humanities. If AI is to be anything other than a tool for reinforcing existing power structures, it will require the very things that the Humanities cultivate: Moral reasoning, historical perspective, understanding of language and meaning, and a nuanced view of consciousness and agency

Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.

“We liked it over here,” one said.

I'm landing (or have been force-landed) at a place where I don't see this as a left-right binary or even a continuum. It's about whether you care about humanity or not. Are other people real to you, or are they mere abstractions? Do you commit to deadening your heart or to keeping it fully alive?

A graphic from the American Library Association's campaign, "Show Up for Our Libraries." It reads: "President Trump signs executive order gutting Institute of Museum and Library Services. By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted American institutions and the staff and services they offer."

all this so jeff bezos can have a tax cut and buy clothes that show his nipple

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

*sigh*

Totalitarian regimes are not ones in which people stop working.

The world does not suddenly become tinged with sepia when you are no longer free. Sunlight will still shine. Jobs will still exist—indeed, the issue you may have is it becomes harder to not work than ever before.

Neville Chamberlin ass muthafucker. 😡😡

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Andrew Desiderio (Punchbowl reporter) tweets: "I can hear Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) speaking quite loudly inside the Senate Dem lunch. She seems to be making the case against allowing the government to shut down." and " just heard Gillibrand say “This will not be a normal shutdown”"

🚨🚨🚨 #VichyDems ALERT - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (who is supposed to the Chair of Senate's campaign arm) is loudly making the case for a surrender.

Call her office and let her know that a blank check for Musk/Trump in this Republican funding bill would be unacceptable. (202) 224-3121

My Vote on the GOP Spending Bill I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight.

I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it.

When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.

Not without a fight.

open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness.

Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.