Susan Ray, Writer

Our understanding of the Universe is stronger because of Bill Nye’s remarkable leadership and advocacy.

Thank you, Bill, for your 15 years leading the Planetary Society, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to advance science and space exploration!🚀✨

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Graph showing (x axis) January to December measles cases; number of measles cases (y axis), and annual curves, with massive increases from 2023 to 2024 to 2025 and now more cases in the first month of 2026 than any previous year's January (478 cases so far).

"The RFK Jr. Measles Curve"

More snow coming to the Triangle this weekend Meteorologists project that central North Carolina will see more snow this Saturday, but it won't be as intense or hazardous as the ice storm last weekend.

Meteorologists project that central North Carolina will see more snow this Saturday, but it won't be as intense or hazardous as the ice storm last weekend.

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I have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

Monochrome photograph of a young standing white woman in bold stance, wearing a cap, shirt and breeches, smoking, in a photography studio

Norwegian photographer, women's suffragist Marie Høeg (1866-1949) made late 19thc and early 20thc photography including self portraits which challenged how women were expected to be portrayed #WomensArt

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

Painting portrait of the upper half of a white woman with brown hair tied up and pale top.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

Four images, artworks with symmetrical geometric designs in various colours with many lines

Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart

Garden watercolour drawing with ripe plum tomatoes and G in her sun hat.

Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes.
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair

I haven’t bought a book today.
True, it’s not dawn yet.

That’s salt water out there people !

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish lives — and the millions of others — senselessly murdered by the Nazi regime. We remember not only the unimaginable loss, but the warning history leaves us.

Abolish. ice. 💔

Wake County approves designs for new animal center Wake County Commissioners approved a new animal center to replace the county’s current one, which has been running for about 30 years.

Wake County Commissioners approved a new animal center to replace the county’s current one, which has been running for about 30 years.

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An acrylic painting of a woman with purple roses as hair, created by artist Loetitia Pillault.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

Be safe and stay warm, New York.

🎯🎯🎯🎯

Snirtle is absolutely the perfect word for what it means.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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

Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"

Sunlight on brownstones - Edward Hopper, 1956.
Source : Wichita Art Museum, Kansas 🇺🇸

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I made this yesterday. Two colours of very diluted acrylic paint applied to a canvas board with a wallpaper scraper. So simple and poetic.
#irishartist #acrylicart #abstractart #interiordesign #meditativeart

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Photo looking down on a number of bluish stones covered in crochet of different designs in white and yellow

Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt

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