Zach Mortice

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

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Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Chicago Architecture Biennial outtakes. Read my review! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In Chicago, a Soft Architecture Biennial for Hard Times Inflatables and fabrics dominate at the sixth edition of North America’s largest design exhibition, but gentle materials mask hard questions for architects and organizers.

ICE is snatching up our neighbors, federal troops are headed into town to back them up, the city is depressed and angry. Architecture. . . is not sure which way to go. My latet Biennial dispatch in @bloomberg.com, on the flight-or-flight biennial. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Ten years and five months apart

Not a creature was stirring EXCEPT everyone who was busy working hard to disguise the relationship between market capitalism and the American consumer by concealing it inside a living model of preindustrial craftsmanship, baked goods, and Victoriana 🎄

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We’re in such a profoundly post-political moment that politics has been reduced to punishing communities that exist in opposition to the state, and then posting about it. There is no agenda beyond public sadism, in part b/c the right has already won so much.

A fundamental purpose of reactionary government is to use state power to weaken the infrastructural resilience and capacity of opposition communities.

Trump freezes $2.1B for Chicago projects, Red Line extension in shutdown fight with Dems Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday accused President Donald Trump of "holding bipartisan funding hostage" and hurting hardworking people.

Infrastructure week at last! Unless you're Black. Then you're prob doing crime. No $ for you. www.wbez.org/transportati...

U know I love a freaky adaptive reuse.
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten

federal zoning codes when? (germany also)

Petite bourgeoisie = owns the means of production but is less than 6 ft for men / 5'7 for women / 5'10 for enbies. I don't make the rules, Lenin did

-and ultimately, outside of "vote harder", there is literally nothing we can do right now to bring legal and moral accountability for this to those that deserve it, from Trump to the building's landlord.

It's shocking. Read all the articles. Get angry if you weren't already. The war is here.

-the absolute fascist insanity of 300 armed agents, some descending from HELICOPTERS, at 1am
-the fact that they rounded up everyone in the building, busted down doors, detained everyone, held them for hours
-that there was no warrant for this

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

Just an incredible statement on the durability of arts and culture in a place that is not recognized for its contributions nearly enough

My fav building power rankings are getting ROCKED by this indestructible battleship of a community arts center in Iztapalapa. Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente by Alberto Kallach (2000).

👌 ally-oop addition by Marcio Rocha

One of my strongest held beliefs about design is that if you make new stuff look old it never ends well, but Museo Anahuacalli by Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman (1964) is 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Everyone in this admin is a different type of tik tok guy. Natural cures only no medicine guy. Alpha warrior guy who hasn't been in a fight with anyone except his wife. Evil trad wife

But also we’re terrified of the subway

[Juan O’Gorman, at the Anahuacalli Museum]

Nobody knows how to do funny political cartoons anymore

UNAM’s architecture school, in CDMX. The GSAPP could never.

Just had Immortal Technique quoted at me by a former FBI special agent I was interviewing about Trump’s new executive order/directive redefining the left as domestic terrorism. Coming tomorrow at FOREVER WARS