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Scene from the U.S. Treasury tonight you won’t see on TV tomorrow

[💖Amelia Sees It All💖 @AmeliaHouchins]

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[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

This. We will not be able to get accurate information.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I love this man whoever he is

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.

Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:

"I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil."

Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own.

Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Baking Armenian Lavash bread in a traditional oven

📹 stepshots

[Ron Sullivan @ChefRonSullivan]

Lake Superior hasn't wrecked anyone like this since the Edmund Fitzgerald

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Lauren Boebert taking credit for something she voted against. It’s the Republican way! Thank you President Biden! 💙

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of amazing underwater sculptures you (probably) didn't know existed 🧵

1. Ocean Atlas

[StuffyCat Xanadu @turboxanadu]

After all the clips from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s speech at Benedictine College, here's the response

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Republicans in Florida want to stop girls from talking about their periods in school.

In Idaho, they’ve rejected a bill that would have funded free menstrual products in public school bathrooms.

And in Virginia, the Governor has made sure authorities could issue search warrants in order to seize a young girl or woman’s menstrual data.

All of this, while they seek to criminalize abortion & deny a woman’s access to contraception.

If this isn’t an all-out Handmaid’s Tale style assault on women and girls, I don’t know what is.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The disabled 500 pound (227 kg) lion and his unlikely Dachshund friends who have been inseparable ever since the lion was a cub.

The lion is named Bonedigger and his friend is Milo, an eight-year-old Dachshund which rarely leaves his side.

Bonedigger was born with a metabolic bone disease that left him mildly crippled and has also struck up an unusual bond with zookeeper John Reinke, who lost both of his legs following a bungee jump accident.

When Milo and two other five-year old wiener dogs, Bullet and Angel, sensed that the lion was disabled they sought to comfort and protect him and become his friends for life.

[Indigenous @AmericanIndian8]

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: The Event Horizon Telescope has captured the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, in polarized light

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The human urge to pet literally everything just amazes me

[The Messenger @TheMessenger]

Biden will announce $8.2 billion to fund the first world-class high-speed rail operations in US history https://t.co/4xVFEyRat8

[Benjamin Alvarez @BenjAlvarez1]

Now: Pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, D.C.