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Digital painting of a Heartleaf Skullcap plant: it has green heartshaped leaves, and flower spikes with green buds at the top and purple pea-flowers lower. A pink ribbon is intertwined among the leaves, and there are starbursts and hearts in the background.

Heartleaf Skullcap 💕 🌿 🐡

they will tell you that they need to do regime change iran to liberate the women, and while you docilely repeat their propaganda they will bomb a girls school in broad daylight and laugh at how much contempt they have for you for buying their lies

My digital artwork of an eastern bluebird family gathered at a bird house. The house is decorated with gold and blue stars and the birds are wearing scarves, hats, earmuffs- one has a purple backpack. There are swirling designs in orange around the entrance to the bird house and around the birds on the roof to represent the feeling of "home." There is a decoration and a wind chime hanging from the bottom left of the house. Snow swirls all around the scene. Art by Karen Swartz/ Talenshi Text at the top: "Keep Minnesota Housed: #keepMNhoused" Text at the bottom: "ICE is still terrorizing Minnesota, and people need help making rent so they don't lose their housing. Visit KeepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!"

Minnesota needs help. ICE is still making it unsafe for many people to leave their homes. Hundreds of families need help making rent. Visit www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused to adopt a rent or donate.

🪶Artists, join the call for art to raise awareness!🪶
Share with #keepMNhoused

Prints available btw!
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I am always considering The King in Yellow!!

a pair of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushy fields. the finch on the right has some flower seeds in it's mouth.

a couple of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushes 🍃 i haven't worked with gouache in a minute, but fell in love all over again with this piece

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes!

ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word!

(art here by the great @trungles.com)

Thank you!

Digital artwork based off Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a headless rider clad in green and red rides a rearing horse. He is holding a large axe wedged in the ground with a crown hanging from it. There are decorative winding leaves coming from the armor and horse.

Thinking about THE GREEN KNIGHT recently

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

This is Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been imprisoned by ICE for a year.

He was about to get new prosthetic legs when he was kidnapped… and they won’t let him have them.

His health is declining & there’s been almost no media coverage.

No protests. No noise.

Proposed ICE Warehouse Locations - Google My Maps Proposed sites for industrial warehouses to be used as mass detention centers by the US Department of Homeland Security. Descriptions include current status of each site, and any response from local...

Unique opportunity to tell ICE/DHS/CBP to eat shit if you live near one of these places www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

Paleo art inspired by Minoan frescoes!

Fluff the Vet Greeter (1940)
2544 Lyndale Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library

Common alley cat, Fluff, wandered into the Morgan Animal Hospital and is now the official greeter for incoming patients.

Black and white photo of a Solange peony

Black and white photo of a Mons. Martin Cahuzac peony (I really like how the petals extend past the image frame)

Black and white photo of a Mons. Jules Elie peony

Final page of the catalog: "I felt as if the heavens had opened and showed me a glimpse of the glories within" - Mrs Pleas

Today I have found more nice plant photography, this time from a 1926 catalog called "Our Glory Bloom the Peony" that waxes poetic about Mother Nature's greatest gift, the peony, for 8 pages, complete with poems, before finally listing their available varieties. I'm very charmed by this.

Black and white close up photograph of twigs

Black and white close up photograph of fern fiddlehead

Black and white close up photograph of a very twisty leaf (I think)

Black and white close up photograph of a leaf. Photos are from Art Forms in Nature: https://archive.org/details/b31360336/mode/2up

Happened upon the photography of Karl Blossfeldt today when I was looking for old botanical illustrations on the Internet Archive and I cannot get over how beautiful these images are

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

Really love how you rendered the markings!!

the white throated sparrow is finally finished ⛄

Another receipt!

An illustration of a loon biting a white snake in half with an 8 pointed star above its head. The illustration is very high contrast in red, black and white.

#resist

Got it now! Did a bluesky and just compltetly misread the tone

This is AI.

If you see this, post your orange art 🦊

A digital pencil sketch of four black capped chickadees surrounding some handwritten text that reads “You don’t have to do it alone.”

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up.

I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?

Justseeds Open Type Project - Justseeds Justseeds Font Pack 1 Libertario–adapted from a 1932 Italian pamphlet of writings by Élisée Reclus Busted Knuckles–a marker script drawn by Chris Stain (3 versions: left, center, and right leaning) Pe...

I'm gonna re-share these awesome open source fonts @quinnanya.me shared with us all the other day, because we all need a small, good thing right now and also because my broken brain lost the link and it took me 20 minutes to find it again, and maybe yours did to?

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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Käthe Kollwitz The Mothers (Die Mütter), detail, 1922–1923 Born 1867, Konigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia); died 1945, Dresden, Germany Lithograph (Edition 1/100) 20 ½ x 29 ⅝ inches Gift of Peggy deSalle Cranbrook Art Museum 1984.48

Abolish ICE

Fucking hell, they're still calling people protesters. Renee Good was not protesting. Alex Pretti was not protesting. (Entirely possible they'd gone to some protests, that's pretty common around here.)