Susan Hillwig
@susanhillwig.bsky.social
Author of Swords & Sixguns, longtime Jonah Hex historian, and fangirl of multiple facets of pop culture!
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9 years ago today, Swords & Sixguns: An Outlaw's Tale was published. In honor of that momentous occasion, I have a little gift for you: Use the code BONUS25 at checkout on my website to get 25% off all paperbacks, hardcovers, AND bonus bundles! How's that for a happy holiday? Link in the comments.
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Do they still have Christmas Seals anymore? Been a long time since I've seen any.
The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) & Tonto (Jay Silverheels) promote buying Christmas seals to fight tuberculosis.
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Do they still have Christmas Seals anymore? Been a long time since I've seen any.
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In honor of the holiday season, I'd like to share this classic story by Michael Fleisher, Dick Ayers, Romeo Tanghal, Shelly Leferman, Gene D'Angelo, and Len Wein.
Forty-five years ago, Jonah Hex was tracking a bounty involving "The Fawn And The Star!"
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Forty-five years ago, Jonah Hex was tracking a bounty involving "The Fawn And The Star!"
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December 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In honor of the holiday season, I'd like to share this classic story by Michael Fleisher, Dick Ayers, Romeo Tanghal, Shelly Leferman, Gene D'Angelo, and Len Wein.
Forty-five years ago, Jonah Hex was tracking a bounty involving "The Fawn And The Star!"
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Forty-five years ago, Jonah Hex was tracking a bounty involving "The Fawn And The Star!"
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In honor of Clem Robins' birthday, I'd like to share this classic story by Michael Fleisher, Val Mayerik, Danny Bulanadi, Clem Robins, Bob LeRose, and Larry Hama.
Forty-seven years ago, Jonah Hex found "Amazon Treasure... Amazon Death!"
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Forty-seven years ago, Jonah Hex found "Amazon Treasure... Amazon Death!"
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December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In honor of Clem Robins' birthday, I'd like to share this classic story by Michael Fleisher, Val Mayerik, Danny Bulanadi, Clem Robins, Bob LeRose, and Larry Hama.
Forty-seven years ago, Jonah Hex found "Amazon Treasure... Amazon Death!"
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Forty-seven years ago, Jonah Hex found "Amazon Treasure... Amazon Death!"
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"If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants."
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December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants."
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Long thread pointing out all the ways "heritage American" is a bullshit phrase.
The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Long thread pointing out all the ways "heritage American" is a bullshit phrase.
Getty Images and photographer Jonathon Exley need to sue.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getty Images and photographer Jonathon Exley need to sue.
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When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
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In 1951, Barbara Rose Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school.
Now, her statue will stand in the same spot in the Capitol where Robert E. Lee's once was.
Even as this Admin tries to erase the Civil Rights struggle, we must continue the work to recognize these heroes.
Now, her statue will stand in the same spot in the Capitol where Robert E. Lee's once was.
Even as this Admin tries to erase the Civil Rights struggle, we must continue the work to recognize these heroes.
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In 1951, Barbara Rose Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school.
Now, her statue will stand in the same spot in the Capitol where Robert E. Lee's once was.
Even as this Admin tries to erase the Civil Rights struggle, we must continue the work to recognize these heroes.
Now, her statue will stand in the same spot in the Capitol where Robert E. Lee's once was.
Even as this Admin tries to erase the Civil Rights struggle, we must continue the work to recognize these heroes.
Found the names of both of my senators further down the list. Guess I get to call them up today and yell at them, 🤬
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Found the names of both of my senators further down the list. Guess I get to call them up today and yell at them, 🤬
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“Chris who would always make the best peace tried to break it up. He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly. Although I haven't seen him in more than ten years I know I'll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?”
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Chris who would always make the best peace tried to break it up. He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly. Although I haven't seen him in more than ten years I know I'll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?”
Ever get the feeling someone at Marvel had an Uncle Ben they really did not like?
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A crossover/team-up featuring Jonah Hex and Rocket Raccoon, who're chronally displaced in the Hyborian Age - only to meet and be assisted by Conan the Cimmerian and Red Sonja in order to return home.
I'd have either @simonroy.bsky.social or @farel.bsky.social, if not *both*, illustrate it.
I'd have either @simonroy.bsky.social or @farel.bsky.social, if not *both*, illustrate it.
Okay, you get to write ONE dream comic mini-series, featuring characters you did not create.
What character would you pick, and who would draw it?
What character would you pick, and who would draw it?
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
A crossover/team-up featuring Jonah Hex and Rocket Raccoon, who're chronally displaced in the Hyborian Age - only to meet and be assisted by Conan the Cimmerian and Red Sonja in order to return home.
I'd have either @simonroy.bsky.social or @farel.bsky.social, if not *both*, illustrate it.
I'd have either @simonroy.bsky.social or @farel.bsky.social, if not *both*, illustrate it.
Okay, we're opening up the floor to everyone's opinions on the Jonah Hex movie....good, bad, or ugly, I wanna hear it!
Tonight's Entertainment: Jonah Hex
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A ★★ review of Jonah Hex (2010)
This movie starts out surprisingly strong! They blow up an entire train! No CGI, no miniatures, just a real train, and a real big fireball. It is unfortunately down hill from there. Josh Brolin does g...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Okay, we're opening up the floor to everyone's opinions on the Jonah Hex movie....good, bad, or ugly, I wanna hear it!
Lots of great ideas in Alex Jaffe's original thread, but of course I have to highlight a Hex shoutout. I also want an addendum that DC finally reprint ALL of Michael Fleisher's work, including the Jonah Hex Spectacular. Also reprint Albano & DeZuniga's "Zany" Hex parody because it's hilarious.
137. Print the Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti Jonah Hex omnibus. I don’t mean the New 52 stuff
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lots of great ideas in Alex Jaffe's original thread, but of course I have to highlight a Hex shoutout. I also want an addendum that DC finally reprint ALL of Michael Fleisher's work, including the Jonah Hex Spectacular. Also reprint Albano & DeZuniga's "Zany" Hex parody because it's hilarious.
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party ❄️
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party ❄️
"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.