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Please look up US HR7 https://legiscan.com/US/text/HR7/2025 and Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers https://nacn-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/PWHC-Booklet.pdf Two Republican Senators introduced this bill on January 3, 2025. Please read the whole bill (two little pages) and go visit the nun’s upload website with the PWHC info pamphlet (four little pages). No surprise at all, but the people who keep saying they aren’t going to institute a national ban on abortion are trying to do it in a hush hush way with a bill that sounds great until the 4th “whereas” and beyond: “Whereas health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities as they relate to women’s health care” MEN!?! Communities!?! Hell, not even families have anything to do with a woman’s PERSONAL healthcare. If she chooses to involve someone, it’s HER choice. The House of Representatives resolved that they “recognize the high standards established by Pro Women’s Healthcare Centers consortium as standards worth implementing nationwide.” PWHC explicitly states on page 4 of their pamphlet that abortion is not women’s healthcare. Page 4 is a doosie, it’s all nauseating. There’s also carefully crafted language that does not use the term IVF, but states that “understanding a woman’s natural fertility is empowering, with no damage to her health or relationships by artificial contraception.” We have to fight this, and make sure everyone knows what they are quietly doing. They are just going to keep making laws that take away any autonomy we have. They aren’t going to stop at abortion and IVF. Wake up.

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LAST CALL - I have a couple of spots open New Orleans!

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Join bluereverie in exploring one of the most useful tools to a metalsmith, the jeweler’s saw! The class will cover getting comfortable with the saw frame and bench pin, selecting the right blade for your project, hands on instruction, design layout, tips, and finishing techniques. You’ll be able to practice, select a pendant design to cut, and be able to finish at home and keep making more!

The class fee includes all the basics to get started (that you get to keep!) - 3" square piece of 22g copper sheet, patterns to cut, jeweler’s saw frame, 12 saw blades, bench pin, and clamp.

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This copper box is a piece from my collection, Winged Guardians. It is called Keeper of the Shell, and holds an apple snail shell on a bed of moss. It started out as a sheet of copper, and I cut the butterfly out by hand with my fret saw, formed the box on a mandrel, and used a rolling mill to create the leaf imprint on the top. I soldered the box together and the butterfly onto the top.

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A close-up of the cicada pin I made using copper, nickel, and labradorite. I sawed everything out by hand, and the top wings move up and down.

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My collection, Winged Guardians, that I created for my metalsmithing school’s Spring exhibit.

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Please go fill out this form that is sent to Congress asking them to support the No Kings Act, which reaffirms that Presidents and Vice Presidents do not have immunity for actions that violate U.S. criminal law: https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-america-elects-presidents-not-kings

Then please go sign this petition to demand Congress pass the No Kings Act and overturn the Supreme Court’s decision that gives American presidents immunity from violating the laws of our country: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/add-your-name-pass-the-no-kings-act-protect-our-democracy?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=

Although most things we can do about this feel futile, we have to try. Every single American should do this, even if you agree with the current president or the newly elected president. One day you will regret this insane power the Supreme Court has given the president, if not now, in 4 years, in 8 years, etc.

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My #pansies and #petunias are blooming like nuts! So gorgeous! 😍 #garden #backyard #flora (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpg8PviNr23/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Twelve years after Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech, and two years before the 13th Amendment was ratified, a white woman named Frances Dana Gage reconstructed it. She changed most of Sojourner’s words and falsely attributed a southern slave dialect. Gage took a moving and intelligent speech given by Truth and reduced it to reflect how the white slave owners wanted black people to be perceived. Sojourner Truth never even said “And ar’n’t I a woman?”, yet that is what we were taught. Please read the actual history here:

Compare the Speeches — The Sojourner Truth Project

Hear The original historically accurate "Ain't I a woman"  speech by Sojourner Truth. Read the incorrect Elizabeth Gage speech as you l

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We need to stop the monarch's rapid descent toward extinction 

Please help save Monarch Butterflies!

Here’s a great site with links by region to the Xerces Society for you to find your local native milkweed species, as well as the best native flowers to grow for the adult monarchs!

Picture is of a little cutie I got to watch emerge in my backyard.

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More beautiful photography from Levon Biss. I will never get over how beautiful and cool insects are.

https://instagram.com/levonbiss?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=