Mark Baxter

Ada Deer was the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the first Native American woman to run for Congress in Wisconsin, and the first woman chairperson of the Menominee Nation. She was born #OTD in 1925.

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Dean Cain, who played Superman, is joining ICE. So it turns out his secret identity was an asshole

Five England players nominated for women’s Ballon d’Or after Euro 2025 triumph Five of England’s European Championship-winning squad have been nominated for this year’s women’s Ballon d’Or, including three Arsenal players who claimed a club and country double of European titles ...

Five England players nominated for women’s Ballon d’Or after Euro 2025 triumph
Sarina Wiegman, the Lionesses’ coach, has been nominated for the women’s Johan Cruyff Trophy, for the best coach www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about ...

Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily in Gaza. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Yes, it's part of the character and culture of a nation.

‘The Welsh language has been aggressively oppressed’: Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales Inspired by the ‘enchanted, sapphic feeling’ of the coast and with bat sounds for drums, this Wales-obsessed band sound like no one else. They explain how queerness, neurodivergence and anti-coloniali...

'There’s a way of respecting the past & tradition without the politics of nationalist ideas... It’s unfair that people with conservative politics get to have a monopoly on that culture & history': Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Birmingham campaigners welcome decision on Black Sabbath pub site Campaigners celebrate council planners refusing proposals by The Crown's owners.

Campaigners fighting to restore the venue where Black Sabbath performed their first gig have welcomed a decision by council planners to refuse divisive proposals by the pub's owners www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Elon Musk's X 'played central role' in stoking racist riots, damning study finds Amnesty International analysis found X's algorithm prioritises posts that are most likely to contain lies and hatred - and say nothing has changed amid heightened tensions

Elon Musk's X 'played central role' in stoking racist riots, damning report finds

Amnesty International analysis found X's algorithm prioritises posts that are most likely to contain lies and hatred - and say nothing has changed amid heightened tensions

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#OTD 6 August 1945 the world forever changed with the atomic destruction of #Hiroshima. Today there are over 12,500 nuclear warheads, with 9000+ operational. The threat is always there. Every second of the day. Remember that as we talk about what happened 80 years ago.

Photo of a road filled with Indian women in pinkish saris on skateboards moving forwards

Girl Skate India, the country's first org to feature, connect, and increase the number of female skateboarders #WomensArt

Traci Mims (American, b. 1967), Black, 2021
Charcoal on paper / 41 x 32 inches

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I'm glad this is an annual thing! I never tire of watching the clips each year. "Quirky" dance moves are the best dance moves, whatever anyone says!

Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to...

Afghan women who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuse.
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The Woman Worker, magazine cover, shows a drawing of a woman in front of a backdrop of factories. Subtitled "A journal for women trade unionists". The contents are listed, including an article on: 'Gramophones - or how the extra wages are spent'

Front cover of The Woman Worker, March 1916 - graphic design by Walter Crane.

National Federation of Women Workers (NFWW) formed in 1906 and engaged in strikes for better pay, terms and conditions.

Delita Martin (b. 1972, Conroe, Texas, U.S.), Mirrors and Sky, 2020
Relief printing, charcoal, acrylic, decorative papers, hand stitching

'I'm upset, angry and disgusted,' Epstein accuser tells BBC Haley Robson says recent speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her

'I'm upset, angry and disgusted,' Epstein accuser tells BBC
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Haley Robson has told BBC Newsnight that speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her "angry and disgusted" www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Composer Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (born #OTD in 1892) gave the proceeds from private concerts to the artists' resistance and refused to register with the Kultuurkamer imposed on Dutch intellectuals and artists by the Nazis.
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The world's worst humanitarian crisis is being ignored, with over 8 million people displaced, 500,000 children dead from hunger. Cholera and war crimes spreading in silence.

This is not just a Sudanese issue — it is a test of our shared humanity.

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

'...a “northern female perspective” in contrast to the London-based diarist Samuel Pepys.'
Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Nasreen Mohamedi (Indian, 1937–1990), Night, ca. 1970s
Oil on canvas / 36 × 48 in

Ancestor of Professor Yaffle.

Jennifer Bloomer/Radici Studios, Build a Longer Table, 2017
Mixed media

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

“Just like our English is different from Shakespeare’s English, the songbirds, too, have very different songs from 500 years ago,” Sonia Kleindorfer, a biologist and bird ecologist, said. “I am sure of it.”

Barbara Walker (b. 1964, Birmingham), Self Portrait II (Venice), 2025
Charcoal on paper / 100.9 x 70 cm

Patricia Watwood (American, b. 1971), The Shade, 2025
Pencil, white prismacolour, and watercolour on paper / 22 x 15 inches
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Lorna Simpson (b. 1960, New York, U.S.), Lifetimes, 2021. Sky pin ups series
Collage and pastel on handmade paper / 24 x 17 in