Obbie King
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I'm glad to see the band #RareEarth getting a lot of mention in the news these days. I remember hearing this Detroit band described as "the only White band on Motown." They had a few hits in the 70s doing some stock Motown tunes.
I met some members of the band in a Motel 6 parking lot in 1990. I had just completed summer #Dead tour, and they were between shows on the county fair circuit.
Respectable guys, decent band, I'm glad they're getting attention. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmxgwuMMGrP9qIdbpCeQeNsntDK9dsTXw
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The Israeli military is targeting schools.
"Education is under attack across occupied Palestine. The situation is most severe in Gaza... Israeli attacks there have killed at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students, according to the UN, and damaged or destroyed nine out of 10 school buildings."
Now they're doing the same in the West Bank. These are war crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/israeli-militants-attack-west-bank-schools-settler-violence #palestine #WestBank #Genocide #SchoolShooting -
Methinks The #Guardian may want to re-write this headline??
Unless there are so many of us growing our own pot that it merits a Guardian how-to story....
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Keep an eye on the #HungarianElection. Shady Vance wasn't there to "boost Orban". He was there to set up the "fix".
Whatever they do to cheat in #Hungary, get ready to see the same behavior in the coming US mid-terms. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates
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History sometimes repeats itself, sometimes it rhymes, and often it reflects...
1930's: America sees a surge of immigrants fleeing fascism in Germany.
2020's: Germany sees a surge of immigrants fleeing fascism in America.
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A week to get from St. Louis to St. Paul (less than 10 hours by mail truck). What is wrong with our post office?? #USPS #PostOffice #slowMail
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Sparky for President!!
(from https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/Tom%20Tomorrow/)
Any real human with this platform will win in a landslide. C'mon Democrats, don't be shy! #TomTomorrow #Sparky
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Those who complain there were "no white people" or "not a word of English" in the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow.... They obviously did NOT watch the show.
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Where are the "states rights" people?
Where are the "second amendment" people?
Where are all those right-whingers who warned us about "jack-booted thugs" who'd be "murdering us on the streets"?
The jack-booted thugs are here, and they're murdering people on the streets, but that crowd is worse than silent... Those who haven't joined the thugs are cheering them on.
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"Cohen and Greenfield have been looking for investors to help them buy the brand back, but Unilever has insisted it is not for sale."
Unilever has flagrantly violated the agreement they made when they bought the company. I've always loved their ice cream, but I'm no longer gonna buy any #BenAndJerry until it's actually owned by Ben and Jerry.
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My favorite Edgar Montrose bit from the #RedGreen show, where #GrahamGreene's character talks about another Graham Greene character... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXqxPbq7XE
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As we say good-bye to #GrahamGreene, everybody's bringing up his role in Dances With Wolves.
I want to remember him as Edgar Montrose, the crazy explosives guy who was a regular character on the #RedGreen show.
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I went to a Catholic grade school (1-8) in the Midwest, and we were marched into church first thing every morning. In Minneapolis, a sadist shot up the school kids in church.
So why are they calling this a "school shooting" instead of a "church shooting"? or a "school/church shooting"? Would it be too much of a disconnect for all the red-hatted holy-roller gun-nuts? #minneapolis #guns #churchShooting #schoolShooting
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I will NOT click on headlines like this. This is the very definition of click-bait: "If you want to know whether this story affects you, you have to click on it first."
A proper headline would put the name of the affected city/state/county/etc as the FIRST WORD of the headline.
Never mind that the same headline appears in all #LeeEnterprises papers (at least all I've checked so far, including #LaCrosseTribune, #WisStateJournal, and #ChippewaHerald
This is NOT a sign of a reliable newspaper.
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"What Democrats need, now, is to discover their spine, and to articulate a set of values that they do not flinch from... the point is to take a stand with principle and integrity, and to let that guide draw the voters to them.
"...If Democrats fight.. they might find that it is the fighting itself that proves persuasive. They have already tried compromise; they have already tried capitulation. It is time to try defiance." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/democrats-opposition-trump #DefianceNotCompliance
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T***p keeps demanding that Congress give up its oversight power.
There's an old name for a resolution that does that: The Enabling Act.
Look it up. It doesn't end well.
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While the failure of this mission is a scientific disappointment, it's a win for the #Navaho Nation.
Maybe next try, don't bring along any human remains.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/09/what-happened-to-the-peregrine-lander-and-what-does-it-mean-for-moon-missions -
The people who bullied #claudine_gay into resigning are the same people who whinge about #cancel_culture. #hypocrisy
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On behalf of #Deadheads everywhere, I extend my condolences to the #Parrotheads of the world.
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Another Big Failure by Wisconsin newspapers.
A creamery in Portage had a huge fire, and a river of butter threatened to clog the Portage Canal.
Not a word in the #LaCrosseTribune, the #WisconsinStateJournal, or any of the other #LeeEnterprises papers. Why was The #Guardian the first outlet to tell us about this? #RiverOfButter #Wisconsin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/butter-wisconsin-dairy-plant-canal-melted -
Kansas City went fare-free for COVID, and it worked so well they're thinking of making it permanent. Too much $$ to maintain fare boxes and ticket machines, no waiting for people to fumble for change... lots of benefits. #transit #farefree
https://www.masstransitmag.com/technology/fare-collection/news/21288532/mo-what-can-cities-learn-from-kansas-citys-farefree-transit-program