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Poet ✏️gardener💐wreath designer🥖bread baker🏡🥾walker and embroiderer

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Joan@queenjoan.bsky.social · 4h ago

Wordle 1,873 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle_NYT Thank you to the many fellow 'Wordlers' who have offered me advice, tips and just overall general encouragement. I've still lots to learn but you guys helped me 'up my game' so to speak. Thanks so much!

Doc MurphyDog@docmurphydog.bsky.social · 5d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — “DOJ to dismiss criminal case charging former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Reflecting Pool, saying evidence prosecutors recently received refuted idea vandals were to blame.“ 🤔 Trump knew this & he cost this man a lot of lawyer fees for nothing but his narcissistic ego!

ray 鄺羡華@raykwong.lol · 6d ago

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone. Republicans get very triggered when you tell them it's absolutely disgusting how Fat Satan and his fuckwaddles are trying to rewrite and distort history of the pandemic while casting Fauci as public enemy No. 1, so let's keep doing it.

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · last wk.

On Jan. 25, 1871, the Rotunda doors were opened for the unveiling ceremony. When the American flag draping the statue was pulled away, the crowd erupted into thunderous applause. At 23 years old, Ream had protected her art through a political crisis and cemented her place in American history. /end

Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln by Vinnie Ream, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The period between Vinnie Ream’s sudden eviction from her studio and the grand unveiling of her finished masterpiece was a high-stakes journey that took her from the halls of Congress to the marble quarries of Italy. In 1869, armed with a plaster model of her sculpture, Ream traveled to Rome to personally select a slab of pure white Carrara marble. Working in a Roman studio, she spent months scaling up the measurements from her plaster model and executing the intricate detail work. The statue that emerged depicted a sorrowful, yet commanding Lincoln — exactly as Ream had seen him during those quiet White House mornings. Many of the senators who had argued against her on the Senate floor four years earlier were forced to stand in the Rotunda and applaud her genius.
Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · last wk.

Editorial note: In a future thread, I’ll provide an overview of Vinnie Ream’s fascinating life and her other major public works, including her bronze sculpture of Sequoyah that stands in National Statuary Hall representing the State of Oklahoma.

Portrait of sculptor Vinnie Ream by Matthew Brady.