Rebeca Schiller
@rebecaschiller.bsky.social
Bi-coastal lefty and proud of it. Dog momma to Pangloss, the Treeing Walker Coonhound. Spanish Civil War history buff and admirer of writer Alvah Bessie.
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#onthisday on 17 July 1936 the rebel military rose against ths Spanish Republic in colonial Morocco unleashing a murderous war causing incalculable pain+suffering, which still casts its shadow. Image: the Gracia family, like 100,000s, escaping into a very uncertain French exile, Jan 1939. Bastards
July 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#onthisday on 17 July 1936 the rebel military rose against ths Spanish Republic in colonial Morocco unleashing a murderous war causing incalculable pain+suffering, which still casts its shadow. Image: the Gracia family, like 100,000s, escaping into a very uncertain French exile, Jan 1939. Bastards
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No Pasarán". Cristóbal Arteche, 1936
July 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
No Pasarán". Cristóbal Arteche, 1936
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"Progress commands". Join the Food section of the Trade Union. CNT/FAI. Artist Ricard Obiols, 1937?
June 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Progress commands". Join the Food section of the Trade Union. CNT/FAI. Artist Ricard Obiols, 1937?
June 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
June 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
New Substack post! What’s in a Name?
June 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New Substack post! What’s in a Name?
My first substack post! Yikes. Please subscribe. I promise you won’t be sorry.
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So Now What?
In Which Rebeca Writes About an Aha Moment
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June 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
My first substack post! Yikes. Please subscribe. I promise you won’t be sorry.
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New on the reading list: Alvah Bessie’s Men in Battle. An Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer’s account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Bessie was also one of the Hollywood Ten who was incarcerated for Contempt of Congress during the HUAC Hearings. He was also my dog.
Alvah B. & Alvah B.
Alvah B. & Alvah B.
May 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
New on the reading list: Alvah Bessie’s Men in Battle. An Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer’s account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Bessie was also one of the Hollywood Ten who was incarcerated for Contempt of Congress during the HUAC Hearings. He was also my dog.
Alvah B. & Alvah B.
Alvah B. & Alvah B.
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Plaque+Stolpersteine in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter: "Mercedes Núñez Targa. Antifascist fighter deported to Ravensbrück in June 1944 born in this house". Communist militant in SCW+French resistance, survived Nazi hell. Return Spain 1975 worked for memory of Republicans in SS camps
May 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Plaque+Stolpersteine in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter: "Mercedes Núñez Targa. Antifascist fighter deported to Ravensbrück in June 1944 born in this house". Communist militant in SCW+French resistance, survived Nazi hell. Return Spain 1975 worked for memory of Republicans in SS camps
I’m currently reading Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America. 100 years later & the parallels are horrifying. The US never seems to learn from its mistakes. I wonder how many MAGA/ Project 25 folks had relatives who were members of the KKK?
May 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m currently reading Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America. 100 years later & the parallels are horrifying. The US never seems to learn from its mistakes. I wonder how many MAGA/ Project 25 folks had relatives who were members of the KKK?
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My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
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Every administration official should be grilled like this, every time. Think like you're creating a record for future Nuremberg Trials. youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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May 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Every administration official should be grilled like this, every time. Think like you're creating a record for future Nuremberg Trials. youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...
My hackles go up when I read the comments on LinkedIn from half-witted businessmen who malign @pkrugman.bsky.social. But then again when you think the stock market is the economy, should it come as a surprise?
#stickingupforpaul
#stickingupforpaul
May 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My hackles go up when I read the comments on LinkedIn from half-witted businessmen who malign @pkrugman.bsky.social. But then again when you think the stock market is the economy, should it come as a surprise?
#stickingupforpaul
#stickingupforpaul
GW Pabst largely forgotten!?! Oh, no, no! Certainly not among silent film buffs, and there are plenty of us. Who can forget Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box or Diary of a Lost Girl? Anyone who has studied German Expressionism knows GW Pabst.
#germanfilmmakers #germanexpressionism #pandorasbox
#germanfilmmakers #germanexpressionism #pandorasbox
A Novelist Finds Unsettling Echoes in a Nazi-Era Filmmaker’s Compromises
Daniel Kehlmann wrote “The Director” only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
GW Pabst largely forgotten!?! Oh, no, no! Certainly not among silent film buffs, and there are plenty of us. Who can forget Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box or Diary of a Lost Girl? Anyone who has studied German Expressionism knows GW Pabst.
#germanfilmmakers #germanexpressionism #pandorasbox
#germanfilmmakers #germanexpressionism #pandorasbox
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Women in the anti-Stalinist POUM marching down the Rambla, 1936. Hotel Colon, behind in Plaça Catalunya, headquarters of the pro-Soviet PSUC. Orwell's Hotel Continental to the right. I don't know photographer
April 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Women in the anti-Stalinist POUM marching down the Rambla, 1936. Hotel Colon, behind in Plaça Catalunya, headquarters of the pro-Soviet PSUC. Orwell's Hotel Continental to the right. I don't know photographer
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"Interbrigadisten vor Teruel" (International Brigades at Teruel) by Gerhard Kurt Müller 1966-67. Dresden, NewMastersGallery. Town and looming sky behind reminds me of El Greco's view of Toledo. Criticised at the time in the GDR for the unheroic portrayal of fighters. The feel of cold is patent.
April 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Interbrigadisten vor Teruel" (International Brigades at Teruel) by Gerhard Kurt Müller 1966-67. Dresden, NewMastersGallery. Town and looming sky behind reminds me of El Greco's view of Toledo. Criticised at the time in the GDR for the unheroic portrayal of fighters. The feel of cold is patent.
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This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺
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April 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺
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What's next? No immigrants are allowed in public places? Not allowed to attend schools, fired from their jobs? Will they be forced to sew a symbol on their clothes designating their ethnicity?
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Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What's next? No immigrants are allowed in public places? Not allowed to attend schools, fired from their jobs? Will they be forced to sew a symbol on their clothes designating their ethnicity?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Ms. Miller* wrote in an email.
*Katie Miller, senior adviser at DOGE.
Where do they find these clowns?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
*Katie Miller, senior adviser at DOGE.
Where do they find these clowns?
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Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their Pronouns
Some Trump administration officials have declined to answer questions from several journalists on the basis of their email signatures.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Ms. Miller* wrote in an email.
*Katie Miller, senior adviser at DOGE.
Where do they find these clowns?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
*Katie Miller, senior adviser at DOGE.
Where do they find these clowns?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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November 2023 issue of Catalan children's magazine Petit Sapiens on the Spanish Civil War.
April 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
November 2023 issue of Catalan children's magazine Petit Sapiens on the Spanish Civil War.
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The great American journalist Martha Gellhorn, writing for Collier's magazine in November 1938
April 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The great American journalist Martha Gellhorn, writing for Collier's magazine in November 1938
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The Casa Lenin, 1936, La Rambla 122, now gone, International Section of POUM+ ILP office. George Orwell volunteered here on 26 Dec 1936 to fight in the POUM militia. Note the uxtaposition of Lenin's name with Mickey Mouse, a hugely popular figure in Barcelona at the time, to the right
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The Casa Lenin, 1936, La Rambla 122, now gone, International Section of POUM+ ILP office. George Orwell volunteered here on 26 Dec 1936 to fight in the POUM militia. Note the uxtaposition of Lenin's name with Mickey Mouse, a hugely popular figure in Barcelona at the time, to the right
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Another classic 1936 poster. "Aixafem el feixisme" (Let’s crush fascism) by Pere Català i Pic shows an espardenya (Cat) alpargata (Span), crushing a swastika on a wet, cobbled street of Barcelona, symbolising both fight by the working class against fascism and Catalan identity.
March 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Another classic 1936 poster. "Aixafem el feixisme" (Let’s crush fascism) by Pere Català i Pic shows an espardenya (Cat) alpargata (Span), crushing a swastika on a wet, cobbled street of Barcelona, symbolising both fight by the working class against fascism and Catalan identity.