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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 8h

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 1d

First use of a long s in a protest sign?

Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 1d

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

sign says "I said no kings" in eighteenth-century typeface

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 6h

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

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LauraEH/Opheliacat @lauraeh.bsky.social · 6h

A relative works with a rescue org and they've had several cats who were diagnosed with and treated for FIP. It's a relatively long treatment, I think about 3 months.

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 9h

Just saw a video of the No Kings demonstration in HOWELL. If you know, you know.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 10h

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall

Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d

Woof, woof, Talbat the dog wants to go for a walk.

Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 939; Astrological and ecclesiastical calendar in six pieces; 14th century; England; section 1 recto @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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LauraEH/Opheliacat @lauraeh.bsky.social · 9h

Me too, but the adults weren't. Our librarian was very active in organizing everyone in the school.

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LauraEH/Opheliacat @lauraeh.bsky.social · 9h

My teachers in junior high (it wasn't called middle school then) weren't boomers.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕🍂🎃 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 14h

Here's one of Ralph Crane's photos of the audition for the 1962 Black Cat section of the film Tales of Terror

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 16h

In Torah Portion Noach (נֹחַ), God instructs Noah to build an ark. Here Noah is receiving an olive branch from the dove.
#ParashahPictures
BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.521r

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

The Black artists featured in this exhibit have made a statement that no Executive Order from the president, attempting to “restore sanity and truth” to American history, can white wash. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/confederat...

Confederates Dangle Helplessly in the Air in New Art Exhibit

We finally have a glimpse of some of the new sculptures and reinterpreted Confederate monuments that will go on display as part of a new exhibit at the Brick museum in Los Angeles in just a couple of ...

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 15h

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

you gotta imagine that people protesting with NO KINGS signs in London, a city that very famously does in fact have a king, makes a whole other bonus group of people very mad

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

TADPOLES AGAINST TYRANNY

the bluesky baby had a GREAT day out today omg tiny angel

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Protesting is hard work

Me in a green sweatsuit onesie with felt frog eyes pinned to the hood, holding a circular sign that reads “Frogs against fascism.” I’m holding a cute baby in a tie dyed green outfit, a hat with frog eyes, and green felt froggie feet. She has a button pinned to her that says “tadpoles against tyranny”

Same as before, but baby is yelling and has a fist raised

Closeup of baby, now sleeping in a blue ring sling

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest

A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.