THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

BIRTHDAYS:

1503 Parmigianino, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.

1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter, founded National Gallery of Athens.

1870 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor.

1875 Reinhold Glière, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire. Hymn of the great city

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION COLONISTS. This Week In Space podcast: Episode 192 — Space, 2026!

REMINDER:

In the future, before lock.ing things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration