Christine D'Ashley

God speed Dolores Huerta. American hero 🇺🇸. May her spirit guide us forward.

This release of Meta documents is a deeply shocking look at how tech tries to steer & control science. It's normal for crisis comms teams to ask how to counter scientists who criticize their employers. But here's what's especially shocking in these docs: cailinoconnor.substack.com/p/its-now-of...

© Andrey Yurievich Sinitsa. 'Spring in Leningrad.' Oil on canvas, 1987. 120 × 80 cm.

Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their children’s schools

As the midterms approach, historian Heather Cox Richardson lays out a game plan for Democrats if they regain Congress. “We need to start holding people accountable, not even on day one, on minute one.”

The families of the US service members killed in the Middle East will be happy to hear that the Trump Crime Family is making money off of their children's deaths.

Yes, fascism is a rejection of the rule of law and of a democratic moral order. If modern history teaches us anything it’s that the treachery embodied by authoritarian movements is a unique threat to a tolerant, pluralistic society and cannot be shown mercy, as such societies are wont to do

Dr. Gladys West's complex calculations & computer modeling laid the vital foundation for the creation of GPS. Her data analysis culminated in an incredibly accurate, detailed mathematical model of the Earth's true shape, known as a geoid. 🧵 She was born #OTD in 1930. #WomenInSTEM

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I created this photo using recent research so it relaxes your brain when you pause to look at the details. As I'm sometimes too unwell to post here (not good mental health due to PMDD & recovering from a breakdownA) it would help so much if you could maybe RT my photo. Many thanks 🌿

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Scientists have discovered that severely bleached corals can make a remarkable comeback simply by touching healthy, genetically identical corals. Using this research may help marine biologists aid the recovery of bleached reefs: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Margaret Partridge electrical #engineer & contractor wrote "for sheer exciting experience give me a town to light". @wes1919.bsky.social founder Supported female #apprentices incl Beatrice Shilling. Changed international law on night work for women d #OTD 27 Oct 1967 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

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#Poetry #Painting #Autumn I admired the sea, most days A wildness too foreign to name... in the distance a lighthouse haunting whatever darkness was never ours to begin with. - Stacie Cassarino 🎨 Olya Luki

🌱 "All a leaf knows about building a tree is to turn towards the light." —James A. Pearson #regenerativegardening #organicgardening #soilhealth

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JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules. "To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

#Autumn Forest Bathing Breathe in the aroma of the trees, Stoop and touch the forest floor, Brush your cheeks against the low-hung leaves, Let the forest stream down your arms like beads of water in a bathtub so hallowed drowning will resemble birth. - Christine Anderson 🎨 Hayk Shalunts

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a primary architect & driving force behind the organized movement that ultimately won American women the right to vote in 1920. She died on #OTD in 1902 & never got to vote in her lifetime. Because of her (and others), we can. #VOTE #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage

On this day in 1830, Belva Lockwood was born. She became a pioneering attorney and 1884 presidential candidate. In 1894, she challenged Virginia’s refusal to admit her to the state bar. She lost, even though VA’s statute explicitly authorized admission to “any person” admitted elsewhere. #WeTheMen

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interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

It’s rare to find a photo that matches the verbiage of a political meme so perfectly. This is one example of it.

#Poetry #Painting #Autumn you fly through the air, eyes closed, wind flapping your pigtails across your face. You surprise them all - Emily Vieweg 🎨 S. Hee

‘Dance of Autumn,’ Piotr Stachiewicz, circa 1917

Lorna Sharkey, contemporary artist, known for her hand painted stained glass artworks #Womensart #Sunday