In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Happy birthday.

O darn. It’s St. George’s Day and I completely forgot to kill a dragon.

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Painting of a gull flying across Tutshi Lake, Yukon, Canada.

Tutshi Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2246.

Best of luck!

I’m starting to think we should change Canada’s official motto from “From sea to sea” to “One step forward, 45 steps back.”

B.C. to table legislation to suspend Indigenous rights law Monday: First Nations sources First Nations sources say British Columbia Premier David Eby’s government will introduce legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act on Monday.

WTF?
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Painting of a spruce tree backlit by the northern lights.

Spruce.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2245.

Everyone should have spoken up when they started with trans people, like we said.

telling a bunch of Americans about how all the schools you went to had corporal punishment and noting the increasing looks of horror on their faces with satisfaction before realising you have been calling it capital punishment from the start

Painting of a sunset at Fox Lake, Yukon, Canada.

From my artist in the window duties.
Sunset, Fox Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2244.

Painting of Mount Slim, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at sunset.

From my artist in the window duties.
Spring sunset, Mount Slim.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2243.

Every single day, Trump does something that would have ended any other presidency.

Painting of sunrise in the Yukon River Valley, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

From my artist in the window duties.
Sunrise, Yukon River Valley.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2242.

Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982

Happy anniversary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms!

Enacted on April 17, 1982, when Queen Elizabeth II signed the Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982, it helps ensure all Canadians can live free from discrimination.

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Painting of mountains outaide Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada.

A sketch for a future painting.
Auriol Range mountains.
#Watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2241.

AITA?
Hell no. She put in an order and backed out after they were made. I would be half tempted to not give her any and offer them as "exclusive specials" to someone else.
Of course, I am old and crotchety, so...

A gorgeous mountain lake sunset with a silhouette of pine trees and mountains. The sky of orange and pink reflects onto the water below, resembling melted sorbet. Shallow water reveals rocks at the water surface.

Let the beauty and wonder around you comfort you and bring you peace, even if only for a little while...🤗✨️

📸 Steve Heap
@backyardimage.com

Nice.

Canada 🇨🇦 has still not opened an Epstein file investigation despite several Canadian links and accusations of operations in Thornhill, why do you think that is?

I really would like to request @avilewis.ca asks his MPs to ask the government to open an Epstein file investigation. There are several Canadian links in the files with allegations of operations in Canada. Women need a champion, Avi.

Doctor doctor Give me the news

Doctor doctor
Give me the news
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A case of what it is being what I did.

Painting of Paint Mountain, Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, looking across Pine Lake.

Paint Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2240.

Richard Nixon could tell you a lot about just that.

FWIW, I do have three hairy alarm clocks who apparently need me to entertain them when they get bored.

Sunrise above Cap Mountain, Whitehorse.

Why I get up early.

To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.

“Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.”
- Ezra Pound