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Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
If the tribe of weirdos had a king and queen, they were cartoonists Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Both separately and in their collaboration, they opened a path for the countless artists exploring comics as a form of self-exploration.
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Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
I will continue to say this until I'm blue in the face: Oil is shipped by rail because oil producers want to. It's faster and more flexible. A pipeline takes years to build and years more to pay for itself. The solution here is to improve the safety of the tracks and the trains.
Another massive blaze that could've taken the lives of innocent Canadians (see: Lac-Mégantic) all because this country inexplicably refuses to build pipelines (which are safer, more economical & better for the environment) & continues to ship oil by rail.
cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatche…
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
DREAM BOOKS & GAMBLERS tells the stories of #Black #women in the underground economy and how they used their work to balance the demands of living and laboring in Black #Chicago.
@schlabetsy's new book is now available!
go.illinois.edu/f22schlabach
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Great reporting @cinnamonjanzer A crew of mostly Indigenous workers faced inhumane conditions at a burial recovery site in northern Minnesota. thenation.com/article/societ…
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Who doesn't love @LakeSuperior? This is a lovely video, with exquisite music by mandolinist Peter Ostroushko, used with permission of his wife, Marge. It is posted by a new, on-line magazine called "Agate." Enjoy! agatemag.com/2022/11/sweetwa…
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 had the support of 100,000 workers after wages were cut for the 3rd time in a year. Railroad barons used militias, the National Guard, and federal troops to stop the strike by killing about 100 people.
They don't teach any of this in school.
ALT The Maryland National Guard fires rounds at workers, killing 10 civilians and wounding 25 more (July 20, 1877)
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Most people didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was a week ago and it’s not like Trump didn’t have racists and nazis in his cabinet, but we still make it the biggest story of the week. We learn nothing.
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Software engineers in Europe who Twitter tried to fire over email are similarly amused, as are they lawyers, and are suing.
Said it before and will say it again: thanks to Musk ignoring regulation on how to fire ppl in Europe: it will be much more expensive for Twitter to do so.
Elon Musk's attempted fire-by-email of European Twitter VP @smcs has been overruled by Irish Court.
You can't fire people like that in Europe.
independent.ie/business/tech…
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
30 years ago on today's date.
It took three lawsuits and a forgotten piece of legislation, but we finally forced an Alabama governor to stop flying the Confederate battle flag over the capitol dome.
We sued #OTD in 1992.
splcenter.org/seeking-justic…
#TheMarchContinues
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Christine McVie lived to the age that Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison would be today.
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
The Winter War began on 30 November 1939, when the Soviet Union attacked Finland without declaring war.
The fighting lasted 105 days. Tens of thousands sacrificed their lives so that we could celebrate 105 years of independence on 6 December.
#OnThisDay
ALT Helsinki after bombings 30 November 1939.
ALT Helsinki after bombings 30 November 1939. People going to a shelter.
ALT A block is burning in Helsinki after bombings 30 November 1939.
ALT Devastation at a street of Helsinki after bombings 30 November 1939.
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA
If you're moving or thinking of moving to Post and/or Mastodon, consider looking me up: post.news/generebeck
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Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Black people in Scott County live an average of 89.7 years–longer than almost anywhere else in the nation. Researchers want to know why.
sahanjournal.com/health/blac… by @milepostmedia
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Canadian researchers have been traveling to Minnesota to view plant specimens gathered in the Arctic decades ago by Margaret Oldenburg, a boot-clomping, chain-smoking librarian who grew up near Duluth.
mprnews.org/story/2022/11/28…
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
“Too many original descriptive lake names were replaced with names of lumberjacks’ love interests.”
New map restores Native names to northern Minnesota mprnews.org/story/2022/11/27… – at Minnesota, USA
Gene Rebeck 🇺🇦 retweeted
Great research in “The Changing Names and Landscapes of Lake Nokomis & Hiawatha” by Josh Biber minnesotahistory.org/post/th…
