Strange Women Lying in Ponds

History. Art. Culture. The Written Word. Comedy. Curiosities. Nature and The Sciences. Anything Else That Holds My Attention. Combinations Thereof. And The Occasional Disjointed Personal Post. ((Hodge-Podge)) Welcome Bid. "Queen of the Cultured Wilds. Empress of the Empty Space between Words. Grand Duchess with Dominion over Damasks" - shilohta "The best mystery I've ever discovered" - R a n d e h

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Tagged by @missanthropicprinciple (you caught me at a time when I'm so commtted to procrastinating that I locked in on this, a rare feat)

Last song: Adam Ant's Desperate but not Serious

Currently obsessed with: I'm not sure? I guess taking care and thinking things through? Being present? Working to make my meals worthwhile and commit to trying new recipes, making sure all the plants I'm tending this season are getting what they need, not putting off reading and watching what I want to now because who knows when I'd get to it next?

Currently reading: John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman

Currently working on: Emails and transcribing meeting minutes

Currently wearing: A sort of highnecked pointelle top and denim joggers

Last search: Absorene (an archival cleaning product for the removal of surface dirt from paper based material)

@squidinktea @rhymingteelookatme @plumcoloredblazer @mslizzyisgoingtoderbyshire @djeheuty-bros @cleverlittlefox and of course anyone else who wishes to, picking these always seems the most difficult part

[danskjavlarna]

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All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.

[ymutate]

Judge blocks Trump admin’s database of Americans’ Social Security numbers and citizenship status

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said states have used inaccurate data to wrongly identify Americans as non-citizens and purged them fr

"A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from creating a database of millions of Americans' private information - including Social security data to states that are now "actively" and "hap- hazardly" purging purported non-citizens from voter rolls.

"The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote," U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote in a 75-page ruling. "This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens."

[miamaimania]

Vulva Pilgrim Badge (14th c.) ◆ The Netherlands ~ A vulva on legs, staff in hand, off to find salvation

[victusinveritas]

Want a pilgrim badge of your own? Here’s an Etsy seller who sells them.

[coolgreenthings]

back where I belong. (in bed.)

[paolo-streito-1264]

Cat relaxing and eating an ice cream, 1940.

[bookmaven]

REVELATIONS OF A LADY DETECTIVE by William Stephens Hayward. (London: George Vickers, 1864)

‘Is a fictional female detective in Victorian Britain the mother of forensic linguistics?’ — Ripon Museums, 25 April 2022

William Stephens Hayward (1835-1870) was a prolific author of Victorian 'sensation' novels, historical novels and stories for boys' papers. His own life was not without scandal and he spent several years in a debtors' prison.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states

The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that strikes down a key tool for enforcing Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disa

Hansi Lo Wang at NPR:

By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court announced Monday that it will not review an Arkansas-based lawsuit, leaving in place a 2025 appeals panel ruling that ends a long-used tool for protecting minority voters from discrimination under the landmark law in seven mainly Midwestern states. That ruling found that in the states covered by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota — private individuals and groups do not have the right to sue to enforce what's known as Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act, which generally allows voters with a disability or inability to read or write to get help with voting from a person of their choice. The Supreme Court's move comes almost two months after its conservative supermajority issued a major ruling that further weakened the Voting Rights Act, setting off a groundswell in redistricting across the country.

At issue in the case: a "private right of action"

In May, shortly after that undermining of Section 2 protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the high court decided not to weigh in on what the legal world calls a "private right of action," sending back to lower courts two cases brought by Black voters in Mississippi and Native American voters in North Dakota. For decades, enforcement of these sections of the Voting Rights Act has mainly been driven by lawsuits by private individuals and groups. But after conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a single-paragraph opinion in 2021 questioning a private right of action, Republican officials in multiple states have raised a novel legal argument: Only the U.S. attorney general, they contend, has the right to bring lawsuits under these parts of the Voting Rights Act. Such an interpretation of the law is likely to lead to a dramatic decline in voting rights lawsuits because of the Justice Department's limited resources and shifting priorities under different presidential administrations.

With SCOTUS declining to take up Arkansas United v. Thurston, the 8th Circuit Court ruling against the use of Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act as a tool for remedying protections for minority voters from discrimination is left intact.

The ruling applies in the states within the 8th Circuit Court’s jurisdiction, and is yet another war on voting rights by the right-wing SCOTUS.

See Also:

Democracy Docket: Supreme Court declines to hear Arkansas case, further weakening Voting Rights Act

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[notwiselybuttoowell]

Temple of Athena Nike at the Acropolis of Athens

[groovysarity]

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[strangledplanet]

[vegan-nom-noms]

Smashed Tater Tot Potato Salad

[kamreadsandrecs]

Heritage Groups Sue Trump Over “Garden of American Heroes"

The National Mall is “not a personal sandbox for each President to renovate however he likes,” preservationists argue.

[naalbinder]

Garter 1700-1729 woven silk

"as kissing when two lovers meet"

[thunderstruck9]

Henri Martin (French, 1860-1943), Prairie ensoleillée aux peupliers [Sunny Meadow with Poplars]. Oil on canvas, 41 x 33⅛ in.

[frigbob]

MY BABY BOYS. MY PRIDE AND JOY. SO SCARED OF LAUNDRY.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The Scots emptied THREE DIFFERENT BOSTON BARS OF BEER.

Including the Sam Adam's Taproom. Whose only job is to HAVE BEER.

Amazing. Stunning. 10/10

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Also, thank you @crubblessnowglobe for making sure I saw this:

Australians getting fucked up on the good shit in Seattle. Top tier work.

[princessxombie]

This is cultural exchange done right