$5.00 a gallon gas and we're all working from home again. Commercial real estate will be in a world of hurt.

“.. There is no refund,” he said. “Only a handful of people are going to be able to access this, and I can almost guarantee it will not trickle down to me. It’s just maddening.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/1267...

NY's Penn Station is clogged by trains. Thankfully, there's a solution that does not involve costly reconstruction: through-running. In a newly public report, ETA illustrates how the region can use Metro-North Penn Access to build a truly regional rail network. www.etany.org/reports/thro...

In this ways and lots of others, our built environment is just not made for the amount of package delivery we suddenly started doing ~15 years ago

The M15 bus has the highest ridership in NYC and the highest ridership in the USA. 11,152,909 rides in 2024.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The unredacted and unedited Epstein Files are HUGE! Doesn't matter. Release them anyway.

⛽️ The average price of a gallon of gas hit $4.39 this morning — up 9¢ in just 24 hours, and 47% higher than before the Iran war. A month ago, it was $4.06. A year ago, it was $3.19. This is ALL Trump’s fault! 😡

*slaps the roof of SCOTUS* This thing can fit so many more justices

‘Is it a reminder of the frailty of life and the inevitability of death? An essay on the conflict between secular and sacred authorities? A celebration of friendship in the classical sense of the friend as a second self?’ Elizabeth Goldring on Holbein’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

In case this becomes an issue today "The Wide Awakes" were a Republican Party, anti-slavery group that elect Abraham Lincoln in 1860. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Congestion pricing in nyc had immediate and widespread health, economic, and pollution reduction benefits, at a scale unmatched by basically any other single policy ever.

This seems important. www.csis.org/analysis/how...

Y’all had no business breaking bread at that dinner tonight. Anyways…goodnight.

Flamingo Capsule by James Rosenquist, 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137677

Incredible satellite imagery of the tornado outbreak underway across the central United States.

Single frame. Two perfectly placed bolts. Thanks, Mother Nature! #ILwx #Chicago

Nine of the last ten members of Congress to die in office have been Democrats.

How not to display art, by Michael Govan

Daily passenger rail service between Boston, MA and Cape Cod, 1955

Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Today's ignorant naysayers claim "that'd never work here!" when in fact it once did before it was intentionally dismantled for the benefit of the auto industry.

US Election administration has greatly *improved* in the last 20 years, contrary to some national rhetoric. MIT Prof. Charles Stewart has the receipts. substack.com/@cstewartiii...

rainfall reflections, Lake Street

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

'He vowed to restore democratic checks and balances and said he would prosecute members of the Orbán elite who have enriched themselves.'

It is crazymaking to listen to the right claim Orban's loss means he was never an authoritarian when people in Hungary feared that opposing him would immiserate their families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Goodbye, Honey Goodbye. youtu.be/npTEdrQrXdo?...

Don’t debate with liars. Liars love debating because they count on not being fact-checked, and know that those of us burdened with integrity and telling the truth won’t be able to keep up with their lies. If you have to debate them, don’t say they’re “wrong,” tell the truth and say they’re lying.

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

Brilliant political strategy.

BREAKING Artemis astronauts splash down into Pacific Ocean: NASA livestream

Godspeed all, Godspeed.

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why. It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

A quick hello and happy weekend! Making my way back *very* slowly… 🌻 Charles Burchfield, Moon Through Young Sunflowers (gouache, pencil, and watercolor on paper) (July 1916)

I'm going to refer to it as 'Bland Army Plaza' if it ever gets built.

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks'

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Reality (Trump pulled out of deal then started war AND got crushed) is very anti-Trump, so Corporate Media says both sides claim victory which is neutral but massive pro-Trump-bias v. reality Reality (Biden did necessary & messy thing in withdrawing from Afghanistan) is neutral, so Corporate Media

'The pair ended up painting the outside of an old house in colors approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review — but in a camouflage pattern, which was hardly what the preservationists had in mind.' #painting #architecture www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/a...

There it is—Dated Brent (i.e., spot) crude hits $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.

Too bad there are no architects, firms, in the UK anymore, it seems.

We've gone backwards. Look what we had.

Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.

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