#Dec. 23

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Pennsylvania Station is packed with travelers going home for Christmas, December 23, 1955. Most of them are waiting to buy their tickets, seeking train information, or lingering until their train pulls in for loading.

Photo: John Lindsay for the AP

[breeberrypies]

Find someone who looks at you like you hung the stars in the sky 🌌

uncolored versions under cut

[64-jungle-planks]

۪ 𓈒  ׂ SECRET SANTA FOR @orchid-151 ׂ 𓈒 ۪

Happy Holidays! I decided to do your second character, Orchid the Cleric. I first attempted to do a more minecraft-y style, closer to your style, but then I decided to also do a version more similar to mine. I hope you don't mind!! I loved drawing her, you have some really fun character designs and I loved going through your blog and reading about them!

For those who don't know, this Minecraft Secret Santa was hosted by @hexavexen. Go follow both Orchid and Hex, They are both great!!!

[luigislady]

my man my man my man ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

[katherynefromphilly]

Me, on December 23, waiting for BBC Merlin to start trending again.

[incognitopolls]

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[lacommunarde]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/biden-commutes-37-death-sentences.html

Holy shit! He did it! Biden did it!

Dated: Dec 23, 2024

Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.

President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald J. Trump will return to the Oval Office with a promise to restart federal executions. Those affected by Mr. Biden’s action, all of whom were convicted of murder, will serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole instead of facing execution. Only three men, who each carried out notorious mass killings, will remain on federal death row.

The president campaigned in 2020 on ending the federal death penalty. Although proposed legislation to that effect failed to advance in Congress during his administration, Mr. Biden directed the Justice Department to issue a moratorium on federal executions. Thirteen prisoners on federal death row were put to death during Mr. Trump’s first term.

I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” Mr. Biden said in a statement on Monday. “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

Mr. Biden said the commutations were consistent with the standard he has imposed for halting executions “in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Mr. Biden said.

The White House released statements of support from faith leaders, civil rights groups and law enforcement officials, as well as from friends and family members of those killed by men on death row.

"Putting to death the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace,” said Donnie Oliverio, a retired police officer, who alluded to Mr. Biden’s being Catholic. “The president has done what is right here, and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” His partner, Bryan S. Hurst, was shot and killed while on duty by Daryl Lawrence during an attempted bank robbery in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Lawrence was sentenced to death in 2006.

Of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted, 15 are white, 15 are Black, six are Latino and one is Asian. They were sentenced in 16 states, including three that have abolished the death penalty. Nine are on death row because they were convicted of killing fellow federal prisoners.

The three men who can still face federal execution are Robert D. Bowers, 52, who in 2018 gunned down 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; Dylann Roof, 30, the white supremacist who in 2015 opened fire on Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, one of the two brothers who carried out the bombing of the Boston Marathon in 2013 that killed three and maimed more than a dozen others.

Rest of article at link below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/biden-commutes-37-death-sentences.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk4.cDXI.-ATuwJ3HvdW-&smid=url-share

[mysterygrl20]

Dec 23, 2024 | Charlotte Austin (🎂26)

[last-sprout]

What type of robot are you? :0

robot? I don’t know why you would think I’m a robot… I’m fairly certain I’m 100% flesh and blood

I used to make robots a while ago but I don’t really have time for that now. And, also, to prove my point

^^ genuine human

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Count Basie and fellow trumpeters played Carnegie Hall on December 23, 1938. It was part of an all-Black "From Spirituals to Swing" program, which bought down the house.

Photo: Associated Press

[violetstrations]

[ID: a screenshot from procreate showing a study of Mel Medarda from Arcane. She is shown from the shoulders up, rolling her eyes in annoyance. The screenshot of the original expression is behind her. The artist's watermark, violetstrations, is beside her shoulder. End ID]

Arcane style study where I painted Mel from the neck up and did fuckall else

[peachymetimmy]

Moments from the live on IG (dec. 23. 2024)

He isn’t innocent 😜

[ahhhhhhh-iwtv-sideblog]

More IWTV/Troubled Birds, Louis and Lestat edition.

Other IWTV/Troubled Birds Posts: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

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[petit-papillion]

Charles and Alexandra at Ferretti Group Christmas Concert | Venice | 19 December 2023

📸 La Nuovo Venezia

[familyabolisher]

date so disastrous you get home and start wondering if you should rewatch the cw's crazy ex girlfriend