Matt Bergstrom
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Chicago architecture and history, papercraft and postcards -
https://www.wurlington-bros.com/
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Jess Piper
2 days ago
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
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I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exactly-what-they-are-doing
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Bo Bolander
3 days ago
was wondering why all the honeycrisps we bought the past two years, even from the fancy local grocer, were mushy, mealy messes and i guess this is a legitimate thing, unfortunately
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How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.
https://www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycrisp-apples-went-from-marvel-to-mediocre-8753117
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Jess Piper
7 days ago
My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“ We are living in hell.
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The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
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A silly little papercraft project I designed for this weekend's upcoming International Paper Modelers Convention in Sterling, VA. Print one and build it at: ipmc-info.org/free.html
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Lady Topham Catt
10 days ago
In stunning development, sinking of Titanic no longer world’s largest metaphor
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Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty
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#nokings
12 days ago
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Robert Loerzel
16 days ago
A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
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Bro. B!O!F!
21 days ago
“There’s no indication that Vance has divested from AcreTrader, and there’s every indication that that investment remains in place.”
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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/
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Vince Mpls
22 days ago
#OnThisDay
Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.
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Chris Thompson
27 days ago
a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
https://defector.com/treasury-department-has-plans-to-mint-dollar-coin-featuring-donald-trumps-likeness
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Chris Steller
28 days ago
Here is how the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in Charles M. Schulz's hometown newspaper, The Minneapolis Star, 75 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1950. With an accompanying introductory article but missing one panel of the strip.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟♀️👻
29 days ago
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
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Bill Grueskin
28 days ago
Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/
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David_j_roth
about 1 month ago
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website)
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The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
https://defector.com/the-united-states-of-snitches?giftLink=6f86ae05b7276bb7917c719c092745a0
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Historical Marker Ahead
about 1 month ago
Frank E. Noyes, as editor of the Daily Eagle in Marinette, Wisc., loved being pedantic and putting up plaques. A 1938 marker at the 45N parallel near Peshtigo satisfied both. It notes you’re actually 9 miles S of halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.
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In a different country long ago: President Gerald Ford dedicated the newly built J. Edgar Hoover FBI building 50 years ago today:
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Kai Ryssdal
about 1 month ago
This whole thread
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 1 month ago
Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:
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Transcript: Congressman Crow's Floor Speech on the Concerning State of US Politics & the Path Forward to Unite Our Country
WASHINGTON — A transcript of Congressman Jason Crow's (D-CO-06) full speech from the House floor.
https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/transcript-congressman-crow-s-floor-speech-on-the-concerning-state-of-us-politics-the-path-forward-to-unite-our-country
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Judah Grunstein
about 1 month ago
"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates
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Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative
about 1 month ago
The West Side Cycling Club repurposed a workers cottage as their headquarters in 1895 on Humboldt Blvd at Cortland, a convenient start for 5-mile races around Palmer Square. While other clubs had wealthy members and extravagant clubhouses, WSCC cyclists worked as printers, bartenders and carpenters
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Read the eternal wisdom of the Great Chef!
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old roadside pics
about 2 months ago
snowman statue, angle 2, margaret street, north st. paul, minnesota, 1984
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Steven
about 2 months ago
this was one of the 345 crashes that are reported each day in Chicago (on average) weekly 🚘💥 thread
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Present & Correct
2 months ago
Truck Alphabet by
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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old roadside pics
2 months ago
museum, cambridge, idaho, 1990
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Stopped by the Pink Elephant gas station in Wisconsin which has a street named after it
about 2 months ago
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Mark Jacob
2 months ago
🧵🧵🧵 Trump often lies about Chicago, using a great American city as a punching bag to entertain out-of-town racists who are scared of Black and Latino Chicagoans whom they’ve never met. He’s threatening a military occupation. Here’s a thread about Chicago, Trump and crime. 1/
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Happy birthday to architect Eero Saarinen, born 115 years ago today in Finland
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Logan Square textures
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Chicago Tribune
3 months ago
As the Milan Bottoms have flourished over the years, the surrounding city of Rock Island has struggled to bring in commercial revenue, leading local developers to build closer and closer to the wetland.
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In the Quad Cities, a proposed development near a bald eagle habitat divides a community
Milan Bottoms wetlands are the largest known winter nighttime roost for migrating bald eagles in the continental U.S.
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Wedge LIVE!™
3 months ago
Ceremonial rolling of the twine ball at Twine Ball Day in Darwin, MN.
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old roadside pics
3 months ago
woodcraft sign, minneapolis, minnesota, 1984
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I enjoyed being part of this project for a few years, recording the progress of the flowers and berries:
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Amanda Marcotte
3 months ago
It seems incomprehensible that Trump would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, which is hanging a neon sign up that says "Covering Up Pedophile Ring." But this essay helps explain one strong possibility why: What Katie Johnson accused him of doing is just that terrible.
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80 years ago today, a B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in a thick morning fog
3 months ago
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Jordan van der Hagen
4 months ago
Finally, a Facade with Personality. Chicago, Illinois
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Heather Cherone
4 months ago
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wbez.org/donate
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"The Beach", built in 1906 by contractor August M. Walter and designed by architect Edward C. La Belle
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old roadside pics
4 months ago
dog n suds sign, route 19a, dunedin, florida, 1980
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Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative
4 months ago
A lush garden hidden behind this workers cottage on the Bucktown Garden Walk today, featuring paw paw trees and a patio with plantings in the shape of the Great Lakes
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Combo #1
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4 months ago
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Certified Illinois Expert
4 months ago
Who’s got more swag, Rockford’s Mr. Fourth of July or Sycamore’s Mr. Pumpkin? A question for the ages.
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On the Media
4 months ago
"Amazon deploys deceptive tactics to exaggerate its markdowns and create a false sense of urgency. Featured items are often available at similar or lower prices at other times... major media outlets produce a massive number of 'articles' promoting Amazon Prime Day, as if it is a genuine news event."
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dmercer.bsky.social
4 months ago
Doorway on S. Avers in Chicago. No idea who Roland was, but Henry Fiddelke was the architect.
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Robert Rohde
4 months ago
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
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Sophia Babai
4 months ago
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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Good day for a root beer, and a revisit from 20-some years ago when we tried them all:
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Former Horseshoe Tavern
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