Up now on my eBay! DC comics from 1986! DC Who’s Who 15 featuring Jack Kirby, Bill Sienkiewicz and many more! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
It’s Gilroy, California. And two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are having a mixed impact on this agricultural community south of San Francisco.
It’s about 50 degrees outside, but for a moment it looks like it’s snowing. But the morning air is pungent and savory, and those flakes falling from the sky are garlic skin pieces, drifting away from the peeling facility.
Christopher Ranch in Gilroy is the largest garlic producer in the country. Ken Christopher, executive vice president, says it didn’t always look this busy. In the 1990s, he says, the industry was hit hard by cheap Chinese garlic imports.
“It was really hard,” Christopher says. “We’re talking reduction in workforce, we’re talking reduction in work hours, we had furlough days simply just to get through the year.”
This struggle went on for years. Then, in 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. And his stance on Chinese imports was pretty clear: tax them.
American soldiers admiring Manet’s “In the Conservatory” that the Nazis hid, along with thousands of other works of art, in the salt mines of Merker, Germany. 1945.
The activist, filmmaker and writer chronicles sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly in the six-part docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, even as new allegations against him surface.
On why she wants to do this work
When I started writing about hip-hop as a 19-year-old film student in New York, I was calling out the misogyny and the violence against women. And I’m sad to say I don’t feel that there’s been too much progress made.
I come from all-black Detroit city and I live and breathe in black spaces. And I want them to be safe not just for my daughter and me, but [also for] black women who don’t want that safety for themselves, who’ve internalized the misogyny and don’t think that they deserve the safety and justice that they deserve.
