LA County residents directly impacted by fires can request property and vital records (i.e., birth, death, marriage) free of charge to help with recovery efforts. 📱800-201-8999 (Option 1 followed by Option 2) 📨recorder@rrcc.lacounty.gov.

Sorry for tweeting so much, but Twitter throttles out-bound links, so I'm trying this again. SoCal animal shelters are overwhelmed with people dropping off injured animals they can't take with them as they flee. Many are in need of volunteers, money, and foster homes 🧵

Alexander Hamilton. Federalist 69 ,on the difference between the president and a king: "The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crime or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great-Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution."

New commissioned painting “Signs in the Firmament” just completed.

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066. It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process. One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away. My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks. That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’ Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America. Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them. There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians. I know, because I lived through it. I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me. Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

These are so nifty.

reckon that most london boroughs would make very good american white girl names

Attention Utah friends:

Utah friends: stop by the Orem Public Library and see my work!

Now that Adobe are rolling out their AI Generative Fill (aka Adobe Firefly), remember to sign in to your Creative Cloud account, go to Account and Security, and deselect the "Allow my content to be analyzed by Adobe" option.

Fascinating thread.

An eye-opening piece by @nata_druhak on how Russia developed a centralised system to loot art objects, and how the Russians use this strategy to wipe out occupied nations. In Mariupol alone Russia has stolen over 2,000 artworks from three local museums. european-resilience.org/anal…

A thread well worth reading.

Ohio: Dead fish and cattle being reported as far as 100 miles away from the site. Journalists covering the story have been arrested. What the HELL is going on?

Detail of a new painting: “As Above, So Below.” Come see it and other works this February at Writ and Vision gallery (Provo, UT) in my upcoming exhibition “Celestial Navigation”.

No two snowflakes are alike. You probably learned that at an early age. But you might not know the man who discovered it. cnn.it/3WtQnL1

I've joined the waiting list for Post. post.news/?r=POID1