R Michelle Urdang
@michelleurdang.bsky.social
Confessional feministe artist, painter, intuitive empathic visionary with an iconographic memory♍️ Exploring intersectional femme archetypes and sociopolitical empowerment🌙stream of consciousness🌟finding requires deliberate seeking☮️ http://rhondaurdang.com
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"Are there female robots? Because the possibilities are limitless." Sleeper (1973 film) quote. Woody Allen as Miles Monroe. Diane Keaton as Luna Schlosser. Mood.
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Sybille Schmitz - BOTD
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Sybille Schmitz - BOTD
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We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns.
Don't you love their shining faces?
Don't you love their shining faces?
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns.
Don't you love their shining faces?
Don't you love their shining faces?
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"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
#ocean #rachelcarlson #peace #meditation
- Rachel Carson, 1952
#ocean #rachelcarlson #peace #meditation
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
#ocean #rachelcarlson #peace #meditation
- Rachel Carson, 1952
#ocean #rachelcarlson #peace #meditation
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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~50 million people are in modern slavery.
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The focus is on eradicating modern forms of slavery including:
-Trafficking in persons
-Sexual exploitation
-Worst forms of child labor
-Domestic servitude
www.un.org/en/observanc...
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The focus is on eradicating modern forms of slavery including:
-Trafficking in persons
-Sexual exploitation
-Worst forms of child labor
-Domestic servitude
www.un.org/en/observanc...
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
~50 million people are in modern slavery.
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The focus is on eradicating modern forms of slavery including:
-Trafficking in persons
-Sexual exploitation
-Worst forms of child labor
-Domestic servitude
www.un.org/en/observanc...
Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The focus is on eradicating modern forms of slavery including:
-Trafficking in persons
-Sexual exploitation
-Worst forms of child labor
-Domestic servitude
www.un.org/en/observanc...
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She seems nice
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
She seems nice
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Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Elizabeth Taylor was a fearless & vocal advocate at a time when the AIDS epidemic was stigmatized & ignored by many.
+ One of the first major Hollywood stars to speak openly about AIDS
+ Co-founded amfAR & raised $100s of millions
+ Created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, 1991
#WorldAIDSDay
+ One of the first major Hollywood stars to speak openly about AIDS
+ Co-founded amfAR & raised $100s of millions
+ Created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, 1991
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Elizabeth Taylor was a fearless & vocal advocate at a time when the AIDS epidemic was stigmatized & ignored by many.
+ One of the first major Hollywood stars to speak openly about AIDS
+ Co-founded amfAR & raised $100s of millions
+ Created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, 1991
#WorldAIDSDay
+ One of the first major Hollywood stars to speak openly about AIDS
+ Co-founded amfAR & raised $100s of millions
+ Created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, 1991
#WorldAIDSDay
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‘Give a girl the right shoes & she can conquer the world’ Happy Birthday to The Divine Miss M. The all round entertainer was BOTD 1945 🌹 #BetteMidler
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘Give a girl the right shoes & she can conquer the world’ Happy Birthday to The Divine Miss M. The all round entertainer was BOTD 1945 🌹 #BetteMidler
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This World AIDS Day, we mourn the hundreds of thousands of Americans lost to HIV/AIDS and stand with those living with the diagnosis today.
While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.
While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This World AIDS Day, we mourn the hundreds of thousands of Americans lost to HIV/AIDS and stand with those living with the diagnosis today.
While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.
While the Trump Administration refuses to mark this day, California will never abandon our neighbors, friends, and loved ones affected.
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
AIDS in One City: The San Francisco Story
Conceived in 1987 and supported early on by a grant from the National Archives, the archive at UCSF specializes in the history of AIDS in San Francisco, where many early cases were discovered and key ...
www.neh.gov
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
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In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemorations on the first of December.
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights
~ James May
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights
~ James May
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights
In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemorations on the first of December.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemorations on the first of December.
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights
~ James May
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights
~ James May
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The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” nyti.ms/3KhPDrA
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” nyti.ms/3KhPDrA
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BBC Radio 1 Anthems
Radio 1's Christmas Anthems: Sam and Danni's Christmas Anthems
Now Playing
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)
Radio 1's Christmas Anthems: Sam and Danni's Christmas Anthems
Now Playing
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)
December 12, 2024 at 6:39 PM
BBC Radio 1 Anthems
Radio 1's Christmas Anthems: Sam and Danni's Christmas Anthems
Now Playing
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)
Radio 1's Christmas Anthems: Sam and Danni's Christmas Anthems
Now Playing
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)
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On December 1, 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” on transparent green vinyl.
Highly visible advocates for peace and social justice, they used their fame to raise awareness of political and social issues and offer guidance on how to harness our power to create change.
Highly visible advocates for peace and social justice, they used their fame to raise awareness of political and social issues and offer guidance on how to harness our power to create change.
![John: 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)' we wrote together.
Nothing more to say on that.
It says it: 'War is over if you want it.'
Because it was still that same message, the idea that somebody is either going to give us power or [has] taken our power or has made us go to war or not made you go to war or the president did this to us.
We are just as responsible as the man who presses the button. It's that idea of God in the sky is a separate thing, you know?
It's all that separation. It's all the same thing: nationalities, religions, authority. It's all the same garbage. Aslong as we or as long as people imagine that it's something people are doing to them, they have no control, thenThey have no control.Yoko: It was July 1971 in New York City. We were having our morning coffee in a hotel roomfacing the park. Then, still in the middle of our breakfast, we got this idea to write an Xmas song. We were fast workers, so the song was born by the time we finished our last morning coffee. That made John feel better. 'This is going to be bigger than "White Christmas" " you'll see.' He wiggled his nose again, this time with satisfaction.
It only became big atter John's passing in 1980.
John: There's always somebody geting shot, so every year you can play it and there's always somebody being tortured or shot somewhere, so the lyrics stand in that respect..... I've always wanted to write something that would be a Christmas record that would last forever, you know?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zkg45oms246t4uzrs65pghrx/bafkreiblyruehe2nrwqnwuw2bfrsc2bdopbgz6wjo7plce6xlf6up5qjmq@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
On December 1, 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” on transparent green vinyl.
Highly visible advocates for peace and social justice, they used their fame to raise awareness of political and social issues and offer guidance on how to harness our power to create change.
Highly visible advocates for peace and social justice, they used their fame to raise awareness of political and social issues and offer guidance on how to harness our power to create change.
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The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The Great Bell Chant (The End Of Suffering)
YouTube video by KeNalu1
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
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‘He went his way homeward with one star awake
As the swan in the evening moves over the lake’
~ He Moved Through the Fair
The Chieftains with Sinéad O'Connor ☘️
#Traditional #Folk #Music #TheChieftains #SineadOConnor #HeMovedThroughTheFair #IrishSongBook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZY...
As the swan in the evening moves over the lake’
~ He Moved Through the Fair
The Chieftains with Sinéad O'Connor ☘️
#Traditional #Folk #Music #TheChieftains #SineadOConnor #HeMovedThroughTheFair #IrishSongBook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZY...
He Moved Through the Fair
YouTube video by The Chieftains - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
‘He went his way homeward with one star awake
As the swan in the evening moves over the lake’
~ He Moved Through the Fair
The Chieftains with Sinéad O'Connor ☘️
#Traditional #Folk #Music #TheChieftains #SineadOConnor #HeMovedThroughTheFair #IrishSongBook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZY...
As the swan in the evening moves over the lake’
~ He Moved Through the Fair
The Chieftains with Sinéad O'Connor ☘️
#Traditional #Folk #Music #TheChieftains #SineadOConnor #HeMovedThroughTheFair #IrishSongBook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZY...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Gion, Kyoto. Japan
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Gion, Kyoto. Japan
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Jiří Kolář (1914-2002), Butterflies (collage)
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Jiří Kolář (1914-2002), Butterflies (collage)
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"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, & to see you're only very small & life flows on within you & without you."
- George Harrison
The legendary lead guitarist for The Beatles, singer, songwriter, humanitarian, political activist, passed on this day 2001 at 58.
- George Harrison
The legendary lead guitarist for The Beatles, singer, songwriter, humanitarian, political activist, passed on this day 2001 at 58.
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, & to see you're only very small & life flows on within you & without you."
- George Harrison
The legendary lead guitarist for The Beatles, singer, songwriter, humanitarian, political activist, passed on this day 2001 at 58.
- George Harrison
The legendary lead guitarist for The Beatles, singer, songwriter, humanitarian, political activist, passed on this day 2001 at 58.
Despicable, to say the least.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Despicable, to say the least.