Rachel Simmonsen
@rsimmonsen.bsky.social
Mom, wife, lawyer, former newspaper reporter. Rooting for Baltimore. Trying to learn how to bring equity to K-12 education, and how to have productive conversations about current affairs. Firm believer in a civic duty to educate oneself about the world.
So clever!
The Gardener by Giuseppe Arcimboldo via DailyArt mobile app
When I look at this painting, I dream of some great, tasty, and warm soup.
The painting we present today was created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, famous for his imaginative portrait heads made entirely of
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November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
So clever!
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You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
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Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Halloween from
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
Down Under
I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
A Halloween poem:
All Hallows
Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A Halloween poem:
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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No way to pull just a single quote from this article. It's worth a read from start to finish. Share it and keep it where you can reread it and reshare it. It's that good. #JustMercy
If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No way to pull just a single quote from this article. It's worth a read from start to finish. Share it and keep it where you can reread it and reshare it. It's that good. #JustMercy
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The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.
Can't wait to see this!
Amy Sherald’s ‘American Sublime’ lands at the BMA after Smithsonian fallout
Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” needed a new home after the artist pulled the exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery. Enter the Baltimore Museum of Art.
www.thebanner.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Can't wait to see this!
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George Bellows, Shore House, 1911
August 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
George Bellows, Shore House, 1911
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extremely interesting to sub "WOKE" with "truth" as you read.
Also, the Blacksonian IS celebratory of American success; that's how Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership rests under the same roof as Emmett Till's casket and child size manacles.
There's plenty of joy and future gazing. It's just Black.
Also, the Blacksonian IS celebratory of American success; that's how Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership rests under the same roof as Emmett Till's casket and child size manacles.
There's plenty of joy and future gazing. It's just Black.
August 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
extremely interesting to sub "WOKE" with "truth" as you read.
Also, the Blacksonian IS celebratory of American success; that's how Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership rests under the same roof as Emmett Till's casket and child size manacles.
There's plenty of joy and future gazing. It's just Black.
Also, the Blacksonian IS celebratory of American success; that's how Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership rests under the same roof as Emmett Till's casket and child size manacles.
There's plenty of joy and future gazing. It's just Black.
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Fresh off the risograph! Grab some free posters and let ICE know they aren’t welcome here (or anywhere)
August 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fresh off the risograph! Grab some free posters and let ICE know they aren’t welcome here (or anywhere)
I think that's my former cello teacher on the left!
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I think that's my former cello teacher on the left!
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This story shocked people. We go about our business and don't realize that our pools, our neighborhoods, our schools are mostly white. We tell ourselves we are open-minded. Maybe we are. But maybe not enough to see we benefit from a system built on racism.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Why doesn’t Baltimore County have any public pools? Blame segregation.
There are no public pools in Baltimore County. Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court's Brown decision overturning the "separate but equal" principle, some attribute this to the legacy of segregation...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This story shocked people. We go about our business and don't realize that our pools, our neighborhoods, our schools are mostly white. We tell ourselves we are open-minded. Maybe we are. But maybe not enough to see we benefit from a system built on racism.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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According to new Gallup polling, about 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year.
Poll shows how U.S. views of immigration have changed since Trump took office
Since taking office, Trump has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do all in its power to deliver “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”
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July 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
According to new Gallup polling, about 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year.
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What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
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Useful 🧵 on the bankruptcy of the "universal injunctions" case Friday. Very far from "calling balls and strikes as we see them." I would like to elaborate. /1
That's particularly true because equitable remedies have always been understood as marked by flexibility to meet the nature of the issue and the harm. What the Court did (which, again, isn't totally new) is mindless originalism on steroids.
June 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Useful 🧵 on the bankruptcy of the "universal injunctions" case Friday. Very far from "calling balls and strikes as we see them." I would like to elaborate. /1
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I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.
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Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Un-American Parade
What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ready for No Kings Day
June 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ready for No Kings Day
Spotted at our favorite bookstore, @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Spotted at our favorite bookstore, @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social
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Wassily Kandinsky, Small worlds, 1922
May 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Wassily Kandinsky, Small worlds, 1922
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THREAD 🧵
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
THREAD 🧵
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/