Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

No shade to anyone else who has ever written a TCM Star of the Month piece, but I had the great honor of writing about AN IMMORTAL LEGEND:

hellgatenyc.com/snohetta-uni... architecture is so extra, even their union busting rhetoric has Kubrick references

Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...

#ICYMI "Bootlickers, all." archinect.com/news/article... via @archinect.bsky.social

"He didn’t play with flamenco guitarists to create something new; he played with them to reveal that the Andalusian scales were already African, separated only by the Strait of Gibraltar and seven centuries of history." thequietus.com/interviews/s... via @thequietus.com

The chandeliers are awesome though:

re: #8to80 #universaldesign + more

Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off

“This building belongs to the people of this city.” Maybe the thing I like most about Mamdani is his knack for effortlessly communicating the true nature of the social contract without melodrama or pretense. Yes, it’s a public building. You pay for it. That means it’s yours. Come take a look.

"Once we start to consider nature as a subject, it will eventually become our most important client. What kind of archi-tectural service would we want to provide in that case?" assets.verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/api/assets/g...

"noted for its reinforced concrete structure, expansive views across Addis Ababa, and interior materials including Carrara marble, locally sourced Ethiopian stone, and monumental stained-glass windows by Ethiopian artist Afewerk Tekle." archinect.com/news/bustler... via @archinect.bsky.social

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

#ICYMI "Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s...Scans by David Brandt-Erichsen...Images are not copyrighted. Please credit photos to NASA Ames Research Center."

see also bsky.app/profile/tina... #tacticalurbanism

#SFUAB #thisisfine

Full Bad Bunny speech

art shanties. so odd and so delightful and so minneapolis.

Hotel rooms and bus tickets from the airport are now available! Please see the festival web page for details www.norskkornolfestival.no/do-it-yourse...

have a piece in @nplusonemag.com today trying to puzzle out where walmart sits in the new world order, also about how weird its new corporate campus is. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Would I date this Denver building? Cleo Parker Robinson Dance expansion He moves like a swan on placid water Bright future, yet grounded in the past. His Bang & Olufsen speaker sits on a hand-me-down teak table. His mother is warming up to me, but Gandhi wouldn’t be good enough for her son. Yes

Mike Jackson’s 1991 illustration of a mallplex for the Night City Guide sourcebook for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game depicts a showing of Dune at the movie theater. That’s only a year off from when (the most recent) 'Dune' actually debuted in 2021!

You rarely see a bike ride interview done like this. youtu.be/FZnGd8QBboc?...

#ICYMI codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t... re: #scholarslop + #automatenwissenschaft "ghost references" + more

Thousands of folks in Denver came out today on their bikes to remember Alex Pretti and stand with community against ICE. #BikeDEN showed up today. #RideforAlex

interwestern bus depot, 1st avenue south and 4th street, great falls, montana, 1987

"a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

George Washington University, 1970 student protest against the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

Wallace Wood in Witzend

robin d g kelley, always a light in darkness www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

thicc walls thread: bsky.app/profile/mich...

"Thickness is often conceived in negative terms in contemporary architecture, indicative of a lack of material optimization & therefore inefficient. However,[...] agricultural waste products, like straw, invert those logics" ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house

under reported, but many observed it was the Koch-adjacent climate denial propaganda machine that disinfoed a reversal of the early social consensus on covid. a similar apparatus is now working double time to make it politically fraught to advocate for being able to walk and bike in your own town

So, a quick note on Oakland Review of Books, or ORB: a handful of us are working to will it into existence, and--aside from a big boost to get started from our friends at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social--it's a self-funded operation whose goal is to exist and enable writing like this.

The anti-ICE movement isn’t just about politics — it’s a caregiving social movement minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/30/t...

The Holy Grail Dead tee has been found!!

Beautiful architecture and down to earth (pun intended) - brilliantly written up by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social 👏 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

#corruption #SFUAB #thisfine

Fritz Lang. Spione. 1928.

Dennis Rodkin for Crain's profiles the Dune Acres house that's Richard Neuter's only design in Indiana (or Illinois). Many pictures. www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-mark...

i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla

I CANNOT believe this is happening, overwhelmed with feelings.

This Saturday, all across Colorado, we ride for Alex. We ride together. We ride in unity. We ride for all the people and families impacted by ICE. Details: bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

looked this guy up because of a reply, this is apparently not some dude putting on a stunt but a member of the community who does a lot of volunteer work with unhoused people www.kqed.org/news/1206981...