Happy birthday to Sy Barry, who, it turns out, drew the Montgomery Story comic book for the Fellowship of Reconciliation when it mattered! Thanks to Scott Edelman for sharing the Ghost who Walks by Sy Barry, here: bsky.app/profile/scot...

Sea Level, Chuck Leavell's post ABB band, from their first LP on the Capricorn label...

Uh oh. Veronica Lake in a cowboy shirt.

Poverty increases under Trump. Fight this.

Remembering John Coltrane daily.jstor.org/remembering-...

That’s a wrap! 🕸️💀 Art by Al Feldstein

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

This whole thread...

This. #SavetheCDC #CDCWorkersAreHeroes #WeLoveCDC #RFKResign #FireVought

Officer David Rose of the DeKalb County Police Department served since September 2024. He died responding to the attack, officials said.

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!

Married 25 years, today. Ai-eee... Ah-ha!

From work, in his 5th Congressional District, do find a celebration of Representative John Lewis today.

When I was a kid, we had fine sculpture of Uncle Remus characters. I like the Popeye sculpture in style of Elzie Segar in this whole thread. "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

Behind the scenes of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

Rachel Carson:

For books, use bookshop.org and consider identifying with our shop there, Carlos Museum Bookshop.

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

I just listened to James Earl Jones oral interpretation of this via @wrfg.bsky.social on my way to work. Douglass challenges us, "As with rivers, so with nations." To go on, with Lincoln, "bind up the wounds..."

Here is insight into Mr. Miracle (aka Scott Free), as created by Jack Kirby in 1970.

Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.

I bought and read comics with art by Billy Graham with great amazement. I want to back up and read the Warren stories in reprint editions. Here's to this great Billy Graham.

Vote down, Senate, this big bill.

UPDATE: Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

Melissa and Mark Hortman’s beloved golden retriever, Gilbert, was the first dog in Minnesota history to lie in state. His ashes sat in an urn between the Hortmans in the Capitol rotunda.

1972, Crumb. Or, to quote Monty Python (both Crumb and Gilliam start in Harvey Kurtzman's Help! Magazine): "Now we see the violence inherent in the system."

GOP leaders want to vote this week to pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act, so call your Senators NOW. #bigbeautifulbill #callyoursenators #politicalart #uspolitics #artispolitical

...except they left out the Southern Crescent route. Go Amtrak.

That trick NEVER works... for me.

you know shit's bad when kathy's cursing

Our country is again showing up fascist.

This is great. Reposting in case there are any of you who think there are creatures who are not especially sentient.....

They do not care about democracy.

I still miss Tom Palmer and his work. His ink art on John Buscema hooked me in August 1970, Avengers 79. The Black Knight, y'all.

Nancy has style.

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation. It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop. Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.

You’re invited! Join us on June 17th from 6pm to 8:30pm at the Pigeon Community Cultural Center in Waynesville, NC for the Appalachia Comics Project kickoff event. It’s a celebration featuring local comic creators and the survivors telling their story in ‘Islands in the Sky’

Nancy values property.

Jesse Welles! Y'all. "My Billionaire Daddies are Fighting." #jessewelles #topicalsongs #shortshelflifesongs #politicalhumor

Today is D-Day + 81 years. A twenty year old would be 101. God bless.

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

Read Dr. Tilley in this thread, all the way. The Illinois system illustrates this administration tearing up higher education for people who are not wealthy, which is most people. Broaden the base; fight this oligarchy; preserve higher Ed, defend the poor, in bills now before the US Senate, and on.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Our neck of the woods, in the "city in a forest." Safety first, all you all. Send fiddle tunes, novelty songs, and more fun stuff. Take care of each other.

Oh, the Humanities...