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Love antiques and history :)
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For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list.

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...
Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force
The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Chez Paree ad, Chicago 1934
August 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“… this is a Government of law, and not a Government by caprice of an individual.” — Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld’s message to President Grover Cleveland, protesting the sending of federal troops into Illinois during the 1894 Pullman strike. Graceland Cemetery.
June 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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True story bro.
June 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Buster Keaton
Free and Easy [1930]

#oldhollywood
June 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Getting local history items is one of my greatest pleasures #rockford #antiques #hotels #vintsge
June 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Marjorie Reynolds in Ministry of Fear (1944).
April 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Some people like old movies so they can wrap themselves in a blanket of nostalgia for the past as it never was.

I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.
April 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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[April 13th, 1945] Advertisement: A nurse recommends Colgate dental cream to help deal with bad breath, which causes marital issues and neglect in relationships.

#history #OTD #WWII #1940s
April 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Via the Classic Art Memes FB group.

'Junge Dame im Salon', by Felix Heullant Armand, 19th century.
March 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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"That's your hair in your eyes!"

Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) takes T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) for a drunken spin in Notorious (1946)
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Stop what you're doing, click play, close your eyes, imagine you're laying on your daybed listening to the wireless, it's 1932.
Relax, empty your mind, forget your troubles, listen to the lyrics.
youtu.be/iBGDg9w5AtI?...
"As Time Goes By" (Binnie Hale, 1932)
YouTube video by RReady555
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Great sign.
March 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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That's what you get if you let your pet sleep in your bed just once...

Paris 1463. BnF, Français 50, fol. 256v.⁣
March 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Gustav Adolf Mossa
French (1893-1971)
Elle
1905
March 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Saturday plans:
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
March 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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March 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Visiting friends in New York
March 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Chopines c. 1550–1650

The chopine was a tall clog worn in primarily in #Venice to elevate the woman wearer above the dirt of the street.
(Met Museum)
February 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Today’s doubly marginalized (gay and Jewish descent) biochemist 🧪 is Nobel Prize-winner and German Otto Warburg, who studied cellular respiration, enzymes, and cancer. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 was awarded to Otto Heinrich Warburg "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"
www.nobelprize.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"Every collapse brings with it intellectual and moral disorder. We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not become excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

Antonio Gramsci
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #ElonMusk – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Today in 1919 a 90-foot wide cast iron tank with 2.5 million gallons of crude molasses exploded in Boston.
A 15 ft wall of viscous molasses roared through the streets at 35mph killing 21 and injuring 150.
January 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM