James Hamrick

Vote out the 4 dems who voted for the SAVE voter suppression act. Jared Golden, ME
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA
Henry Cuellar, TX
Ed Case, HI

Five international students at Minnesota university have visas revoked “These are troubling times, and this situation is unlike any we have navigated before,” the university president said in a statement.

A few days after an international student was detained by immigration authorities, five other students at Minnesota State University, Mankato have seen their student visas terminated.

Couldn't buy an election in Wisconsin. #BillionaireTears

2nd victim of Anton Lazzaro accuses Hotel Ivy staff of enabling sex trafficking The woman is suing the owners of the downtown high-rise where Lazzaro trafficked at least five girls in 2020.

A second woman is suing the operators of a luxury downtown Minneapolis hotel alleging that its staff “were integral” in former Minnesota GOP operative Anton “Tony” Lazzaro’s repeated sex trafficking of her and other teenage girls.

WATCH: Bernie Sanders and AOC are rallying against 'oligarchy' on the Front Range today Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will rally supporters in Greeley and Denver as part of their Fighting the Oligarchy Tour.

www.cpr.org/2025/03/21/b...

The hungry ghost realm.

A manuscript page with what may be Polish written in Arabic script. In a prayer book containing Arabic, Tatar, and Polish languages, possibly copied during the early 19th century.

This may be Polish written in Arabic script! Part of a prayer book containing Arabic, Tatar, and Polish languages, possibly copied during the early 19th century.

Collection of Vasili Stefanyk National Library, Lʹviv, Ukraine (STEF 00608): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/608831

The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

www.npr.org/2025/03/11/n...

Want some reading material for the big #AmazonBoycott next week, or to help explain to others why it matters?

We gotchu

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Ethiopian depiction of a lion killing a disciple of Saint Walatta Petros.

"Oh no, how unfortunate! 😢"

Ethiopia, 17th c. #lion #wildanimals #africananimals #walattapetros #africanart

Unkraut vergeht nicht.

Listening to the audio book version of Ajahn Chah's teachings in "Food for the Heart."

Two upcoming adult ADHD groups in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. ADHD Mindfulness group and ADHD skills group. www.fishoutofwater.info/p/current-of... #ADHD #Minneapolis #SaintPaul

a tabby and white cat is pictured sitting on her haunches, looking directly at the camera. Behind her is her is the blue and gold Ukrainian flag.

Have courage
Stand up to bullies
Be like President Zelenskyy

A several-year affair with a manuscript has finally come to an end. Won't need to visit the British Library again for a while.

How many SpaceX failures have their been?

Um, nothing involving the royals belongs under the heading "Thought provoking stories"

Posted this over here as I’m collecting examples of erasure/forgetting (a topic that I’m writing a book on that now feels waaaay too timely) but please go to Threads to read more about Rose in her own voice &c —> www.threads.net/@rose_d_luna...

YouTube video by C-SPAN "May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBg2...

I'm not sure why this is something I would need to prepare for.

Love seeing interpretations of Ascension of Isaiah in Ge'ez.

The ways that never parted literature is relevant for an Ethiopian context.

Headded to Naples for a fantastic workshop on Cataloguing Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscripts!

I will speak about my favourite topic - the Beta Isrsel manuscript tradition! 🤩
#Ethiopia #manuscripts #BetaIsrael

Monks bow and present “khata” to teenage Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony in Isanti, Minn., on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

This teenager from Columbia Heights just celebrated an 18th birthday like no other. He’s been recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama.

Medical pluralism -- the coexistence of multiple medical cultures/systems/traditions in one society -- is not a modern development, but something we see in the ancient world.

I've been reclaiming appliances from the garbage and making raised beds out of them. This is an old dishwasher. Since it's so deep, I'm going to try a Huegelkultur approach of packing the bottom half with mixture of rotting wood/sticks/grass/top soil. Reclaimed some good stuff in disassembly too.

Watched "Infinite." Question of whether the Nihilists represent the spirit of Buddhism more than the Believers?

A wooden post with bird feeders hanging from it that is embedded in a raised garden bed.

Newest iteration of my bird highrise. Human customer and winged customers seem happy with it. So far has been deer-proof.

Project on culturally-attuned care with people who believe in demons. Working on cross-cultural definitional strategies for "demons, spirits, etc" in this context: beings that someone might be uncertain their psychiatrist also believes in (no assumed consensus reality in therapeutic relationship).

Utopian Witch: Solarpunk Magick to Fight Climate Change and Save the World This solarpunk book of shadows will guide you in surviving and resisting climate crisis and dystopian political systems so you can take radical action towards a...

Picked this @microcosm.bsky.social book up at A Room of One's Own on a recent trip through Madison. Thinking about solarpunk in connection with apocalyptic lit. Utopian visions as motivators/roadmaps for action in the present? microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...