Matt Bergstrom
@mattbergstrom.bsky.social
Chicago architecture and history, papercraft and postcards - https://www.wurlington-bros.com/
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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San Francisco's City Hall was completed 110 years ago today (this paper version a few weeks ago)
The birthplace of the first Wienermobile is in Avondale at 2838 N Elston, still there!
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 3w agoToday may be the 90th anniversary of the Wienermobile. According to some unreliable sources (and the semi-reliable HuffPo), the first one rolled off the production line at the General Body Assembly plant in Chicago on 18 July 1936 🧵 www.huffpost.com/entry/my-rid...
Today may be the 90th anniversary of the Wienermobile. According to some unreliable sources (and the semi-reliable HuffPo), the first one rolled off the production line at the General Body Assembly plant in Chicago on 18 July 1936 🧵 www.huffpost.com/entry/my-rid...
250 years ago today, the Declaration of Independence was read from the balcony of what is now the Old State House. The excited crowd tore down the original lion and unicorn carvings on top of the building and burned them
Tightrope walker July 4, 1908 St. Peter, Minn. Image: Nicollet County Historical Society via Minnesota Digital Library; collection.mndigital.org/catalog/nico...
Exploring the WPA castle at Eagle Point Park in Clinton IA
Intricate miniature windmill models, some with moving parts, built by Henk & June Hielema on display in Fulton IL
One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.
Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · last mo.A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
It’s the 400th anniversary of a book being discovered in a Cambridge market, which would be unremarkable except it was found in the belly of a fish (which had been caught off King’s Lynn and gutted that morning), and consisted of three essays by a Protestant martyr (and was republished. Obviously) 🧵
Nighttime bike ride stop at Il Favoloso Mondo di Carta paper model display in Roscoe Village
This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1937. Chicago police opened fire on strikers in front of the Republic Steel mill, killing 10 workers. Let's talk about the Little Steel Strike and the Memorial Day Massacre, the last major event of murderous anti-union state violence in the US!
45 years ago today, "Spider Dan" Goodwin climbed the outside of the Sears Tower using suction cups. He was arrested at the top and ultimately fined $35
170 years ago today, San Francisco city supervisor James Casey assassinated newspaper editor James King of William on the street in front of the Mongomery Block building, where the Transamerica Pyramid now stands. A Vigilance Committee hung Casey and the Peoples Party took control of city hall
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
Route 66 begins at East Jackson Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where a brown sign hanging 12 feet high on a light post tells people they’ve reached the venerable road’s threshold.
Route 66: The last (or first) 300 miles in Illinois
chicagotribune.com
Today is the 100th anniversary of the designation of Route 66! Here's the Castle Car Wash on Ogden Ave in the Wurlington Press 3D Viewmaster reel www.wurlington-bros.com/VM/index.html
🧵 It was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing roadways many unpaved that stretched 2,448 miles across 8 states and 3 time zones, starting steps from Lake Michigan in Chicago and ending near the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica’s famed fishing pier. Route 66, “The Main Street of America.”
One Century, One Road: Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100
One Century, One Road Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100 By Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason Wambsgans It was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing roadways many unpaved that...
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Built by Joseph Keene in 1889 as headquarters for the Chicago Spring Butt Company (!)
Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.
The U.S. Senate is voting today on an unprecedented move to strip mining prohibitions from an area near the Boundary Waters.
Live: U.S. Senate to vote on measure that would open up mining near the Boundary Waters
If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.
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Little house, little traffic jam on Halsted Street
"A study, published in February, has found that over the past several years, traffic fatalities in the United States increased by nearly 15 percent on the same days as the biggest album releases from artists like Ms. Swift and Bad Bunny."
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.
nytimes.com
Happy Birthday to Natalie de Blois, born 105 years ago today, architect of 270 Park Ave, built in 1960 and demolished in 2021
