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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

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Interest.co.nz (Unofficial) @interestnz.nzcow.com · 03/02/2026

📢 Residential property investors increased their mortgage pile by over $7 bln in 2025 and are taking up mortgage money at a proportionately faster rate than owner-occupiers

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Residential property investors top $100 bln mortgage mark in what was a surprisingly busy year for them

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

US artist Alison Saar, Nocturne Navigator, 1998 #womensart

Photo of a large sculpture of a dark blue starry female figure in a long dress with wide skirt sited in a gallery space

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 25/01/2026

One-sixth of New Zealand voters now live overseas, a voting bloc large enough to influence an election – if politicians can reach them.

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Record numbers of offshore New Zealanders hold key to next govt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) US painter who worked in the American Impressionist style, and whose mentor was Claude Monet #womensart

Painting with a wooded landscape in summer with wild flowers and a small summer house

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

Painting of a cityscape at night looking down on many houses in dark blue light

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Defo worth zooming in to read the signs

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A poignant image I came across during research for work today. Man that sign goes hard. Image context: Labour rights protest in central Auckland, Nov 1913 #labourrights #unionise #latestagecapitalism

Black and white photo of a large procession of people in 1910s dress, during a labour rights protest in Victoria Park, central Auckland, November 1913. The focal point is a sign saying “If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, good god we have bought it fair”.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/01/2026

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

'Storm approaching Portobello, Edinburgh' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart

Painting of a stormy sky over a beach where two small figures stand by the sea

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I would go out of my way to sign up for classes with syllabi like this

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

'An Islington View,' by Melissa Scott-Miller, UK painter known for her London streetscapes #UnlockingWomensArt

Painting of a cityscape with large buildings, roads and multistorey buildings on the horizon

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/01/2026

we are truly in our Bad Sentence To Read Era

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park", 2020 by Annie Ovenden, English painter #WomensArt

Painting featuring a flock of birds over winter trees in parkland

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

UK textile artist Alison Holt uses a basic Bernina sewing machine in creating impressive embroidery scenes, such as this, inspired by the Shropshire/Wales border countryside alisonholt.com

Rolling fields with distant farmhouse, copses of trees, and wild plants and grasses in foreground

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Illustration by artist Tamsin Abbott, from the recent book 'Wild Folks' created in collaboration with fellow artist Jackie Morris #WomensArt

Stylised image of a leaping fox above a forest with deer and wild pigs

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Contemporary Polish visual artist known under the artistic pseudonym Laura Makabresku #WomensArt

Photograph or print in black and white with a flying crow in the foreground above a snow covered rural landscape

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Machine and hand embroidered lanscape artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a view of a snow covered country lane with trees on either side under a blue sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70 meter long medieval masterpiece created by artisan women, is actually an embroidery in crewel (wool yarn) on a linen ground. Depicting the Norman conquest of England, it was made in the 11th century & will be displayed at the British Museum this year. #WomensArt

Four images of the Bayeux Tapestry showing embroidered scenes of soldiers, horses and other figures

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

US artist Allison May Kiphuth creates layered ink and watercolour illustrations in wooden boxes inspired by the landscape of her home. #WomensArt

Box with illustration inside, with 3D effect, of a badger in a woodland under a shining full moon

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️

Print featuring a homestead in snow by a large central tree under a clear blue and cold night sky

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Finished! Quite proud of this one. Always something to improve on of course, but it feels like the practice is paying off :) #art #painting #finishedartwork #gouache

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Progress pics, this is a Christmas present so the pressure is on #wip #painting #art

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Up it to $300,000 and I’ll consider it

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Maggie @maggiemcgrath.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Current WIP. Largest painting I’ve done in yonks #gouache #acrylic #art

An unfinished painting of a grassy trail between trees, leading towards a castle. Hints of unpainted figures walk in the centre

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt

Print featuring two deers and a bird in silhouette by a frozen river in a snowy landscape with hills and pine trees

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Painting featuring a park scene of winter trees in snow under a dark blue sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent

Circular artwork featuring seasonal changes and images of inuit life and local wildlife

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart

Painting of a field in snow with a lone bare tree to the right and a single house jn the background under a grey winter sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Paula Rego, 'Hey Diddle Diddle', from the series 'Nursery Rhymes', 1989 etchings and aquatint prints #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#Animals of Translucent #Botanics Center in Molly Devlin’s Ethereal #Portraits #art #acrylics #dreamlike Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/moll...

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 18/11/2025

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...