NEW: After weeks of fervent denials, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he's dropping out of the mayoral race.

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

'Make surе there's no next timе around,...' youtu.be/M2PMZDAOc50?...

For smaller construction firms, a lot of the added costs of prevailing-wage labor standards comes not from the increases in wages, but from the compliance overhead of having to deal with rules like this:

I always forget, and am delighted to be reminded, who Lenny Kravitz’s mother was.

Just checked: Hamburger $4.99 per pound Hamburger Helper $5.33 per pound Rather unhelpful.

Trump has single-handedly destroyed the U.S. Soybean market. Right now, it’s about a $2 loss per bushel of soybean… We need to demand: 1) Trade Not Aid. Farmers don’t want bailouts, they want markets. 2) We need more competition both on the market side and with inputs! 🇺🇸

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

What Trump wants are public investigations and, ultimately, show trials that destroy and bankrupt. He thinks he wins these regardless of the actual trial or its outcome. It’s right out of Putin’s playbook.

Here's a sneak peek at what the new Metra Café Car could look like, plus the upcoming schedule. ♟️♟️♟️ @yonahfreemark.com

the cure to floundering underground retail in the city is maybe bringing back a dingy dive bar

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

Dreams deferred department.

"The design will incorporate classical or traditional architecture, in accordance with the President’s Executive Order 14344, Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again." Hartford, Connecticut, is the future home for the first classical building under Trump II: sam.gov/workspace/co...

'...American shipyards didn’t produce a single oceangoing hull between 1922 and 1928.' and then... www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-us...

Seven and some odd hours of summer left. #equinox www.space.com/astronomy/ea...

Pedimental sculpture #architecture

“Foreign arrivals at American airports are down by 3.8% compared with 2024, or 1.3m fewer people.” via @economist.com economist.com/graphic-deta...

Today’s Right is dominated by people like Vought who are convinced there is nothing left to conserve – that our moment requires not “conservatism,” but a radical “counter-revolution.”   They have never been so powerful. And they are determined to abuse their power ruthlessly.

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

To be absolutely clear on what just happened here, Trump ousted this veteran career prosecutor *precisely because* he would *not* cook the facts to bring a corrupt prosecution against one of Trump's leading enemies. To Trump, refusing to prosecute his foes for fake crimes is a firing offense.

That was then, this is now!! 😯 @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Rail maps in 1990 and 2025! 🚈🚇🗺 It all started with the Metro Blue Line from Downtown LA to Long Beach. Today at noon, the Metro A Line is being extended from APU/Citrus College to Pomona North!! 🚈🎉⛰️🌴

Evergreen post

Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed. When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

cc all the doomers on this site that constantly say shit like "whats the point of saying something is illegal/unconstitutional, Trump will just ignore that!"

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Quite a photo from @staceywescott.bsky.social

The Trump administration can’t threaten to punish media organizations like ABC and the New York Times because they don't like what they have to say. The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.

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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds, Yoshino Kamisaka Sekka 1910

What to see where Trump's administration is destroying the science base? There's an app for that.

“.. Since 1979, .. a collapse in sales of heavy trucks has coincided with recessions. The recent downturn in heavy truck sales, which started in 2023, should be a concern for policymakers.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

100 years ago, the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad provided freight and passenger rail service for most of southern New England and New York City.

Tommy Tuberville, arguably the dumbest senator to ever be elected, figured out how to hold up hundreds of military promotions for almost a year because he had a tantrum about abortion. Dems need to treat this like the emergency it is and use the tools that normal citizens don’t have.

Since @midwestmodern.bsky.social doesn't post here very often, bringing this one over from The Other Place. This demolition will really hurt. Ford HQ was a fixed point in my mental map of Metro Detroit my whole life. @sah1365.bsky.social Archipedia entry: sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI...

The two most prominent politicians in America who compared Trump to Hitler are not Democrats but members of his own administration: Vice President Vance and HHS Secretary Kennedy.

The only people who "do politics" by issuing threats are authoritarian creeps.

THREAD. A recent poll shows that people in the United States suffer from mass delusion about crime. The results are alarming for Democrats. It should be a massive scandal for mainstream news, and it's a pillar of the authoritarian zeitgeist.

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities. Maybe it’s their culture Did I do it right?

Coming later this month: our Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod Marder. It's really two books in one: a translation (mine) and historiographic edition of Brauer & Wittkower's 1931 study, and a modern treatment of Bernini's architectural drawings. www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...

Read every word of this. Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court. This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.