#west-virginia — Public Fediverse posts
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#miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history
"America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History
The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.
(. . .)
According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.
Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.
(. . .)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.
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He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.
Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."
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FidoFest 2026: Proof Humanity Isn’t Completely Broken
/LOGS/FIDOFEST_2026_HUMANS_DROOL_DOGS_STILL_SAVE_US Posted by Eric | Spent today wandering around FidoFest in Warwood taking pictures of dogs while the rest of society continues speedrunning emotional burnout through doomscrolling and online arguments about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Meanwhile, actual living creatures were laying in the grass, getting adopted, licking strangers in the face, and generally behaving more emotionally stable than most people with LinkedIn accounts. You […]https://ericfoltin.com/2026/05/16/fidofest-2026-proof-humanity-isnt-completely-broken/
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‘La Banca’ Italian Restaurant announces closure
MILTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A restaurant in Milton, West Virginia, is closing its doors. La Banca Italian Restaurant announced on social media that it will be closing effective immediately. …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FineDining #Italianfinedining #closure #Italia #Italian #ItalianRestaurant #italiano #italy #LaBanca #Milton #wchs #WestVirginia #wowk #wsaz #wvah
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‘La Banca’ Italian Restaurant announces closure https://www.diningandcooking.com/2644279/la-banca-italian-restaurant-announces-closure/ #closure #FineDining #Italia #Italian #ItalianFineDining #ItalianRestaurant #italiano #italy #LaBanca #Milton #wchs #WestVirginia #wowk #wsaz #wvah
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Hometown Hero | Lisa Cook
BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A school bus driver in Boone County goes above and beyond to put her students’ safety and lives ahead of her own. Lisa Cook, our latest Hometown Hero, encountered an incident outside of school that highlighted her…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #addiesmith #BooneCounty #brookviewelementary #driver #hometownhero #jayhill #LisaCook #Rescue #schoolbus #WestVirginia #wsaz
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Anyone else in #westvirginia interested in the #solarpunk lifestyle? Or am I on an island?
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West Virginia overseas voters! You have a primary election on May 12 to choose the Democrats to run in the General Election on Nov 3.
Return your ballot by email by May 12, 7:30pm. Act now! For details, https://voteabroad.org.
#votefromabroad #WestVirginia #2026primary #democratprimary #2026midterms #USpol #USpolitics
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
--Donations go directly to the candidates
--Nothing donated via this page goes to me
--You can opt out of sharing email/phone w/the campaigns📣 This page lists COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
Donate today! #Blue26
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HEY #WESTVIRGINIA! A reminder that your primary is tomorrow (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't just up & delay it).
Donate to WV Dems today.
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts.
Donate today! #Blue26
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HEY #WESTVIRGINIA! A reminder that your primary is tomorrow (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't just up & delay it).
Donate to WV Dems today.
--Donations go directly to the candidates
📣 This page lists COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
Donate today! #Blue26
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While this story is WV centric it's certainly a concern for all of the US. Essentially (and I know this will shock no one) consolidation is driving prices higher. It's not just hospital systems but health insurance networks as well. There is no real competition especially when what few organizations exist aren't really transparent about their charges.
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Jimmy Triplett – Lee Hammons Repertoire Vol. 1
#Appalachian #Folk #fiddletunes #oldtimemusic #WestVirginia
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
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Water Crisis in Delbarton, WV
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
--Donations go directly to the candidates
--Nothing donated via this page goes to me
--You can opt out of sharing email/phone w/the campaigns📣 This page lists COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
Donate today! #Blue26
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Jasmine Hancock – State to Upstate
Jasmine Hancock prances throughout Upstate NY as a dainty and bouncy upcoming artist. She intends to bounce her way toward the top of the charts with catchy songs, appealing visuals and networking.
We discovered Jas Han at the first Show the World showcase which took place last November. We were drawn to her bubbly presence on stage, confident poise and unapologetic nature. The “Gutter Baby” has been mobilizing herself around the Empire State. She continues to add notches onto the belt with showcase performances in the Capital Region and NYC.
Much like us, Jasmine migrated from the Midwest to the East Coast. Hailing from Beckley, WV, this gem of an artist migrated East to attend college at St. Rose. She graduated with a degree in Communications/Media Studies and did so just in time for the school to shut down. Since the school shut down, we decided to film music video scenes at St. Rose en memoriam of the campus.
We even discovered that Jasmine’s Aunt is a West Virginia artist, too! Hailing from West Virginia led Jasmine to catch many, “West V rays” now she is “bound to make plays” as she takes her brand from state to state. Check the Fresh!
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"Taking #population sizes into account, the trend line through the #data points shows that there is there’s a strong, clear #negative #correlation between Trump-leaning #orientation & low #life #expectancy at the #State #level. Deep red #states like #Alabama & #WestVirginia have #lifeexpectancy comparable to, say, #Kazakhstan."
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
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📣 #WESTVIRGINIA Democrats need your help!
--Donations go directly to the candidates
--Nothing donated via this page goes to me
--You can opt out of sharing email/phone w/the campaigns📣 This page lists COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS.
Donate today! #Blue26
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#PopeLeo strikes again! The new Catholic bishop of #WestVirginia is a former undocumented immigrant.
Regardless of belief or unbelief, we can be really glad we have an anti-MAGA Pope. It's doing a lot to shred the #MAGA coalition.
Also, the first US bishop that Pope Leo appointed is a Vietnamese-American immigrant who's been leading a strong anti-#ICE church response in San Diego.
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Beneath a quiet West Virginia mound, archaeologists found eleven people laid around one central burial, a pattern so deliberate it still unsettles the imagination.
What makes Criel Mound linger in the mind is not simply its age, but the care buried inside it. Deep beneath the earth, eleven people were found together at the base, arranged around one central burial in a layout that looked intentional, ceremonial, and impossible to dismiss as random.
That arrangement is the detail people remember, because it suggests a community making a statement in earth and ritual. Ten individuals surrounded the central figure, and the finds around that middle burial made excavators believe this person held unusual importance.
Today the mound stands in South Charleston, but long before streets and businesses surrounded it, this was part of a much larger ceremonial landscape in the Kanawha Valley. The mound was once among extensive earthworks that stretched for miles on both sides of the river, evidence that this was not an isolated monument but part of a broader sacred geography.
#archeology #westvirginia #wv #historyhttps://t.co/37CT8K24dM" / X https://share.google/zRyPWT32aNqrEHtIm