Wesley Wolfbear

Was really hoping they'd break the glass ceiling and not the glass steagall

Portrait of Lincoln, Alexander Hesler. 06/03/1860.
Recolor and denoise by me.

The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.).] [Study for statue of Lincoln Memorial depicting Lincoln seated in chair, elevation. Bacon, Henry, 1866-1924, architect, 1912 LOC 2019643191

U.S. Army blimp over Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Harris & Ewing, 1930 LOC 2016889614

John Russell Pope's Competition Proposal for a Monument to Abraham Lincoln at the Soldier's Home Site, View from the Capitol, 1912

Peace, Justice, and Music: FCNL Hits the Road with Neil Young | Friends Committee On National Legislation When Neil Young’s team invited FCNL to table at his shows this summer, we knew exactly what messages to uplift:War is not the answerLove thy neighbor (no exceptions)From Michigan and Ohio to New…

Reminder: There are more of us who believe in peace and justice than there are those who seek to foster war and hatred.

Insane that the animated series Common Side Effects made their villain a "Swiss" Capitalist Psychopath named Jonas BACKSTEIN.

How common of a name would Jonas Backstein be in Switzerland?

@sambiddle.com love the slide archive and looking forward to diving in. it looks like nothing is avail on internet archive and was curious status on TIFF archive availability.

have you considered buying a thunderbolt 4 cable for it tho?

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FYI, SightEngine has an AI detection tool that is pretty cool

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A sad and sobering development: A bishop in California has lifted the obligation to attend Mass amid fears of ICE raids on churches.

Congress must pass the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act to defend religious freedom and human dignity.

Peacebuilder perspectives: Between burnout and hope Kessy Ekomo Soignet highlights the emotional cost local peacebuilders face as they continue their efforts in the face of restricting environments and underfunding. But she also shares a message of hop...

"We don’t step in and out of peacebuilding, we carry it in our bodies ... We are not observing the crisis from a distance. We are living inside it. And we are doing so while being asked to deliver outcomes, remain neutral, absorb shocks, stay creative."

www.peaceinsight.org/en/articles/...

Welcome to BlueSky, @religioncomms.bsky.social!

"This budget proposal is a country in need of moral surgery."
Sen. Warnock

oh sorry actually the entire framing of this article is nasty. you're taking competing with the baltimore sun too literally.

big miss on this headline @thebaltimorebanner.com

if you have any friends or mutuals who are talking about this using the frame that “Israel controls U.S. foreign policy,” please talk to them so I don’t have to because I am already exhausted reminding these people that the U.S. is a global hegemon

i don't know what's BOLD about this joyless and square solution.

i know that the energy of the students will make this concept come alive, but the architecture is doing them no favors of sparking anything remotely ethereal.

Maryland wanted to make poor areas greener. It boosted a rich neighborhood instead. Maryland wanted to make poor areas greener but instead it boosted the already rich and green neighborhood of Roland Park in Baltimore.

When Maryland lawmakers approved the Greenspace Equity Program two years ago, they wanted to support parks in poor and polluted communities.

This year, they scrapped the process and boosted one of Baltimore's richest and greenest neighborhoods instead.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

Synology support has been really A+

thank you.

The nft

how much does one of those thingss cost these days?

Immigrant Jewish Musicians and New York Mutual Aid Societies, 1920s-1960s | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research In this lecture, Dan Carkner will give an overview of the relationships between immigrant Jewish musicians and Jewish mutual aid societies in New York City from the 1910s to the 1960s.

My talk for YIVO has been posted, it'll be on zoom on May 8th 1pm EST. It'll be based on the results of my research here in recent months looking for traces of immigrant Jewish and Klezmer musicians in YIVO's landsmanshaft and mutual aid society collections.
yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid

Heaven is a place on earth

A springtime for moral courage (RNS) — There are countless actions we can take to uphold our democracy.

"In the face of tyranny, every act of democratic participation is an act of moral courage, and every one of us can be a part of the change we need."

@bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social in @rns.org

Vatican boogaloo

We’re so excited to have 300+ amazing young advocates here in DC to lobby their members of Congress to protect food assistance and healthcare!

#lovethyneighbor #SLW2025

Flow video game when?

Blue Eyed Ninja S01e05, The Tale of Ronin and the Bride, should win an Emmy.