Artisanal Misspokes
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Mostly here for the cute animals and baseball. Gentleman architect. More grey hair than sense. YIMBY, zoning and licensing reform
My architecture column today. "Built in 1973, St. Mark AME Zion Church is one of the finest works of pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell’s distinguished 50-year career."
National Trust grant provides preservation hope for modernist East Chicago church
The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old structure designed by the late Black Chicago architect Wendell Campbell.
chicago.suntimes.com
Anyway, notice how a lot of these are pretty simple in conception - the trick is execution and achieving deception, often relying on just how limited enemy information is. On that latter point, see acoup.blog/2022/05/27/collections-total-generalship-commanding-pre-modern-armies-part-i-reports/
Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part I: Reports
This week we’re going to start a three-part (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) look at the role of the pre-modern general or army commander, particularly in the context of a pitched battle. This is of…
acoup.blog
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
I think Washington's feint at Staten Island in 1781 before almost dead-sprinting down to Yorktown while Henry Clinton doesn't figure out Washington is gone in Sept 2, by which point Washington was in Philadelphia and Cornwallis was probably already well-caught short of naval rescue.
The Amazing Prizzini@amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 22h agoWhat is your favorite historical trick in war?
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
And we've known about the IRGC money laundering since 2017. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
newyorker.com
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.
Old Navy t-shirts are much, much more comfortable than the equivalent at a fancier store
Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
solid sub-head - meaning, good lord:”failed to block funding” so contriving an alternate evil to inflict harm on poor children
I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5d ago"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
Khalil Mack doing a Mike McDaniel impression made me laugh probably harder than it should.
love a 19th century caliber Drunk Baseball Injury. "Frequent tavern partisan "Ol' Sour Oats" Bader ran afoul of the constabulary when he teetered out of a Low Establishment, commandeered a Penny-Farthing and drove it directly into the fire-wagon, which ran over his foot. The amputation is scheduled
Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d agoSo, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
David Samson basically gives up the game on getting public financing for sports stadiums and it's maybe the C plot in this episode?
Pablo Torre@pablo.show · last wk.We brought @davidpsamson.bsky.social and @darthamin.bsky.social back for this. Come join us in the chat at 8p ET: youtu.be/k7yjAxUqmTg?...
This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN
The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...
cnn.com
16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
When Steve Albini died, all I could listen to was Jason Molina's "Steve Albini's Blues" (natch) When I learned Glen Hansard was dead, I listened to the EP of Hansard covering Molina And now I'm just listening to Molina's "Whip-Poor-Will" and crying a fair amount
Whip-poor-will
YouTube video by Magnolia Electric Co. - Topic
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Horribly inappropriate right now. But one of my favorites by one of my favorites. As long as there are records, he'll be a comfort and a light to anyone who finds his voice.
Glen Hansard - "Winning Streak"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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