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A Valentine’s Day Christmas tree in 1958

Feb. 14, 1926: A Mitsubishi B1M torpedo bomber is seen at the Imperial Japanese Army’s Joto Training Field in Osaka.

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A black and white photo of Shearer working at his drawing table.

Promotional art for Quincy showing him and other kids from the strip.

Two daily Quincy strips.

A cartoon image of Billy Jo Jive and his partner Smart Susie Sunset.

Thaddeus "Ted" Shearer (Nov. 1, 1919–Dec. 26, 1992) was a cartoonist, advertising art director, veteran of WWII, & creator of the comic strip Quincy. He also illustrated the book series about young detective Billy Jo Jive, which became an animated segment on Sesame Street. #BlackHistoryMonth

“What I’m wearing to the bsky Valentine’s ball…”

Okay, maybe you really are thinking about how you love your wife while writing poems about Olivia Nuzzi harvesting your cum, but it doesn’t matter: fuck off with the Valentine’s Day sentiment, you’re a mass killer.

Democratic AGs stress importance of citizen-generated evidence in challenging ICE • Stateline Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to the Trump administration’s version of immigration enforcement incidents.

The Illinois Accountability Commission is gathering precisely the kind of evidence that will hold ICE and the Trump Administration responsible.

YouTube video by ScreamFactoryTV Saturday The 14th (1981) - Official Trailer

Happy Saturday the 14th, everybody! youtu.be/Yf_0-GpNOi8

Viticulture Essential Edition Create the most prosperous winery in Italy from the Tuscan vineyard you've inherited.

Played Viticulture Essential Edition today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Roses are red
Kudzu’s ill-mannered
When it finally happens
We’re all getting hammered

Violets are blue
Roses are red
Someday it will happen
And he will be

Customer service agent from ThriftBooks, telling Doug his $100+ refund will take 4-6 weeks.

Customer service agent from ThriftBooks, telling Doug his $100+ refund will take 2-4 weeks.

PSA - Don’t order from ThriftBooks.

I am done with them. I have three books on preorder - meaning they already have my money for those. Given this chain of events, I feel compelled to leave those alone.

Today’s correspondence, followed by their promise of three weeks earlier.

A New Frontier in Timidity for Congressional Republicans The Trump administration wants to jail their colleagues. They don’t care.

When Trump sets a goal of political retribution, there’s no telling how far his followers will be willing to go to achieve it. Or how cowardly Republicans who know better will act. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rfyIWI

What do you and Trump talk about? The struggle of finding a good makeup artist after alienating the LGBTQ+ community.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Nicki Minaj https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-nicki-minaj/

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

Watching the Olympics and writing on the #DeadCityBlues drop for this month, coming along nicely. 🏅✍️ Probably helped that I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, and Raymond Chandler. Turns out noir homework counts as real work. 😄📚

Fun fact about Gail which I've pointed out on the hellsite:

"Gail Simone" is an anagram of "I'm Gasoline", which fits her to a T. ;)

Right after he watched the US women defeat Japan in Curling he ran over to get his broom and start sweeping

hat & boots texaco, seattle, washington, 1977

hat & boots texaco, seattle, washington, 1977

Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.

Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

The Trump regime is holding press conferences to announce the quiet parts out loud now (often meant for an audience of one).

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Sleet (died 1996)

Coretta King with daughter Bernice in her lap

The Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in Alabama in 1965

Sammy Davis Jr. in 1956

Feb. 14, 1926: Moneta Sleet, a longtime staff photographer for Ebony magazine who chronicled landmark moments of the civil rights movement, is born in Owensboro, Ky. His photograph of Coretta Scott King at her husband Martin Luther King’s funeral in 1968 won the Pulitzer Prize.

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Many others have said this, but it's just so refreshing to have an NYC mayor who absolutely loves everything about the city and all it has to offer its residents.

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Incredible

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Chris Murphy expressed concern that Trump nominated a genuine white nationalist to a prominent position at the State Department. He inquired about Murphy’s beliefs regarding the “erasure of white culture.”

Watch this awkward and hesitant response.