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Carla
@cwalworth.bsky.social
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Watercolor painting, retired lawyer, Nana, Mr W’s muse. Love my kitchen time and reading food, recipe and kitchen history. Women’s art and general history. I’m a real nor’easter in CT.
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Carla @cwalworth.bsky.social · Jan 7
#watercolor #painting #art
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Know our history.
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 7h
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

✒ #FrederickDouglass, African-American escaped slave, abolitionist, lecturer, and editor, #DOTD 20 February 1895. #Literature #Politics
February 20, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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decombest.bsky.social
ICE Agent Killed US Citizen Ruben Ray Martinez—Public Didn't Know for a Year - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...
Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek
While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.
www.newsweek.com
February 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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alaintruong.bsky.social
Georges Barbier, André Groult, Manufacture Alfred-Hans, Papier peint Les Perroquets, Paris, 1912.

Exposition "1925-2025" Cent ans d'Art déco" au MAD Paris.
February 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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adaspota.bsky.social
Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer Ernst Haas

Torn Poster, 1959
#ErnstHaas #Photography
February 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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ginniesdaughter.bsky.social
When the Maker was distributing erubescency, many oligarchs & GOP politicians thought She said prepubescents and responded "Yes, please!"
February 20, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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missrecreate.bsky.social
I feel the majority of the GOP will never feel erubescency because you actually need a soul in order to experience it - and they seem to lack them.
February 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
cwalworth.bsky.social
When you’re with the In Crowd…
February 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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mycatsmom99.bsky.social
On Ash Wednesday, this Cardinal entered an ICE facility. Here’s what he saw

www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/t...
On Ash Wednesday, this Cardinal entered an ICE facility. Here’s what he saw | CNN
Cardinal Joseph Tobin conducted religious services on Ash Wednesday this week at an ICE facility. He tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour it was “a moment of very somber and palpable suffering.”
www.cnn.com
February 20, 2026 at 1:19 AM
cwalworth.bsky.social
Know our history
February 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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rgrhelper.bsky.social
Nobel Peace Prize love your neighbor stuff right here
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.
February 20, 2026 at 2:02 AM
cwalworth.bsky.social
Love a new word. Let’s all use it in a sentence about the GOP!
grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 9h
Erubescency [er-uh-BESS-uhn-see]
(n.)
- A blushing for shame; an uneasiness of mind for fear of loss of reputation.

Used in a sentence:
“His boast, so confident a moment before, dissolved into erubescency beneath the cool, surgical gaze of the assembled ladies.”
Vintage parchment-style “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” graphic featuring the word Erubescency, pronounced “er-uh-BESS-uhn-see,” defined as “a blushing for shame; an uneasiness of mind for fear of loss of reputation.” On the right, a Victorian-era black-and-white illustration shows a stout, balding gentleman in formal evening attire standing awkwardly with flushed cheeks while three elegantly dressed women seated behind him observe with composed, almost clinical interest, reinforcing the theme of embarrassed self-consciousness. Decorative antique typography, ornate banner lettering, and aged paper textures complete the classic Victorian aesthetic.
February 20, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Mushrooms marching down a log. One more ooh and aah from Sunday’s shroom-fest. #fungifriends
A log lying on leaf strewn ground covered in mushrooms.
February 20, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Make Adultery Gain Altitude
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
The executive jet that DHS says it needs has a “bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 20, 2026 at 2:16 AM
cwalworth.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_His... I bet you were wondering! 🌸🌸🌸
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 20, 2026 at 2:19 AM
cwalworth.bsky.social
Blue.
jamesdcooper4.bsky.social jamesdcooper4.bsky.social @jamesdcooper4.bsky.social · 1d
You can’t break a human being who sees beauty in what their eyes look upon.
February 18, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌏 #whatbird #mybirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
Image description: A close-up side-profile photo of a small bird clinging to the side of a textured tree trunk. The bird features a distinct pattern of horizontal black and white bars across its back and wings, a brown crown, and a white "mustache" stripe. Its sharp claws are gripped firmly into the bark, and its pointed beak is angled slightly upward against a soft, blurred grey background. Clue: "I may be one of the smallest of my kind in the world, but my 'ladder-back' feathers and repetitive 'kwee-kwee' call make me a standout star of Japanese forests and parks." Fun fact: Despite their tiny size, these birds are surprisingly social! During the winter, they often join "mixed-species foraging flocks," traveling alongside other small birds to improve their chances of finding food and spotting predators. Source: Gemini 3 (Edited) 📷: Photo by Kanenori via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/kanenori-4749850/
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. (Tip: put it in your Contacts.)

For direct phone numbers, see this: bsky.app/profile/cdpo...

Cartoon by Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social
February 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
"Armelle" by Elizabeth Colomba (French) - Oil on canvas / 1997 - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ElizabethColomba #Colomba #TheMet #BlackArt #BlackArtist #art #artText #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #WomenPaintingWomen #MetropolitanMuseumofArt
American artist Elizabeth Colomba painted her cousin Armelle while thinking with (and against) the language of canonical portraiture. The pose and polish nod toward John Singer Sargent’s "Madame X," but the remake shifts what is centered. It's not spectacle, not rumor, but presence and Black womanhood held with dignity and specificity. Armelle stands in an elegant interior, her body angled slightly while her face turns in profile. Her eyes look up and to our right, toward a framed painting on the wall. Her skin is a beautiful warm brown tone under soft, controlled light. Her black hair is gathered into a neat bun, and small earrings catch a faint highlight. She wears a crisp black-and-white ensemble with a white, button-front top with a deep black collar and black trim at the sleeves, paired with a long black skirt that falls in a smooth, heavy drape over a white underskirt hem. One hand rests lightly on a small wooden table, fingertips relaxed. The other hand holds a single pale pink flower on a long stem, hanging downward like a quiet punctuation mark. The floor beneath her is a bold black-and-white checkerboard, sharpening the geometry of the room. In the upper right, the framed picture shows an outdoor scene with a standing figure beneath palms. It's an image that pulls her attention and organizes the whole moment around looking. Armelle’s sideways glance toward the “painting-within-the-painting” (a 1885 watercolor painted in the Bahamas by Winslow Homer called "Under the Palm Tree" at the National Gallery of Art) creates a triangle of looking: we look at her, she looks toward art history, and art history looks back ... all reframed through family, roots, and choice. Colomba has described beginning from an existing story and remaking it to feel true to her mixed French and Caribbean inheritance. Here, that remaking reads as both critique and care, claiming the museum’s visual grammar as a space where Black beauty is not an exception but a standard.
February 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
"Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint."
--- John of Salisbury, Policraticus, Book 7, Ch. 10.
Scholar reading. Woodcut from Armandus de Auzeria (Lyons, 1498). Inc.5.D.2.10[4435] Cambridge university library.
February 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
cwalworth.bsky.social
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isgd2bhi.bsky.social Pete Pann @isgd2bhi.bsky.social · 1d
Just a heads up:

For those who don't want to participate in Cinco de Mayo this year, a SEPARATE one will be held on the same day called "White as Mayo" featuring kid Rock
February 18, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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droddman.bsky.social
No doubts, MAGA are domestic terrorists
February 18, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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A H Smith
February 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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browneyedsusan.bsky.social
Frankie is happy the rain stopped!
February 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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oh-that-guy.bsky.social
Horn Players | Jean-Michel Basquiat
Acrylic and oilstick on three canvas panels
February 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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What a great photo!
ladyann.bsky.social Ann Autumn @ladyann.bsky.social · 1d
On 2-16-19, when it was freezing cold and hecka rainy in town, this joyful young girl was having her quinceañera. We were walking by and she graciously allowed me to take her photo. I hope her joy has increased over the past 7 years.
February 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM