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. Not CBS Los Angeles anymore.

Got asked on my Timtok to speak Shetland with no subtitles after someone told me Shetland dialect is just 'Lowland Scots' So here's a challenge, what am I saying?

Great research in “The Changing Names and Landscapes of Lake Nokomis & Hiawatha” by Josh Biber minnesotahistory.org/post/the-chang…

Everything dope about America comes from Chicago

I’ve always wanted to see fireworks over Lake Superior!

“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/…

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/…

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/black-l… by Sheila Eldred

If you're moving or thinking of moving to Post and/or Mastodon, consider looking me up: post.news/generebeck mstdn.social/@generebeck

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

Christine McVie lived to the age that Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison would be today.

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.

30 years ago on today's date.

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.

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.

Who doesn't love Lake Superior? 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/sweetw…

Great reporting Cinnamon Janzer A crew of mostly Indigenous workers faced inhumane conditions at a burial recovery site in northern Minnesota. thenation.com/article/societ…

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

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.

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. bit.ly/3FCXHy9