Thread of the most liked/popular frames posted to this account
(it has been made really hard to search through all my tweets recently, so I may miss some, let me know!)
This book was a group effort — it wouldn't be possible without artists who kindly agreed to interviews, collectors and families who shared scans and stories, and fans who helped track down information about uncredited works.
On this day in 1944, George Stinney, at 14 years, became the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair.
Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70years after his execution!
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David Sahadi was the creative genius behind the WWF/E's amazing vignettes of the 90s and early 2000s
He describes the one that famously moved Vince McMahon to tears
📺@adfreeshows https://t.co/4qiCH7JdQ9
The lady circled in the photo was Lucy Higgs Nichols. She was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby.
She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse throughout the war.
After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.
She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service.
The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.
The photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915.
We can only hope that CNN is privately evaluating what they did right & what they did wrong & will try to do better next time. Because there will be a next time.
A supermajority requirement for passing citizen referendums protecting abortion rights is another example of GOP legislatures insulating their reactionary culture-warring from popular backlash with novel uses of power.
Here's a rundown of other examples:
https://t.co/P16b9Eo4NY
Public schools across Indiana were already being forced into passing referendums to fund critical services.
Now, Republicans want to divert much of those dollars to unaccountable charter schools.
https://t.co/c71RXqEUKL
BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today.
The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.
The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.