starch mogul

He often gets portrayed as a sort of generic representative of the “friendly indian” but everything about him is so individual. the experiences and knowledge he had, of both Europe and North America were almost completely unique. Maybe 10 other people on earth knew what he did.

The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?

What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?

What if I told you that I found them?

A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

it's also so mid-2000s dodgers that they handed him $44m and he produced all of 2 WAR for them, bring those idiot dodgers back

bots a little broken—he came to the cubs from the marlins—but man i was so excited when they traded for him (and ended up pretty disappointed)

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

tange had already won the design competition for st. mary's in tokyo in 1962, before st. mary's in SF even burned down

or is it just convergent evolution, were hyperbolic paraboloids suddenly buildable in a way they hadn't been and the hip new thing for modernists to use in ecclesiastical design?

nickel ad featuring tange's st. mary's cathedral in tokyo

photo of st. mary's cathedral in san francisco

what's the verdict, do we actually think pietro belluschi and pier luigi nervi ripped off kenzo tange when designing their st. mary's cathedral in san francisco?

My fav bit is the part where she's like "My grandson is adopted from Guetamala and I fear for his safety but theres no way I will ever vote to shutter the agency I call and tell him to carry papers and be afraid of"

Where is Jonathan Ross?

A month ago he killed Renee Good. Is he on the streets, armed and ready to take more lives? Is he in a cushy office somewhere, living a good life off the taxpayer dime. Is he at a training facility, teaching feds to step in front of cars, kill, and say they were afraid?

amusing to compare this lady with self proclaimed political tough guys like Rahm Emanuel and Andrew Cuomo

Consider all the drivers, hotel staff, and restaurant staff that these people have exposed while taking their annual victory lap around ending the right to an abortion

Draymond Green has figured out this thing where he gets a cheap technical early for yelling at a ref so he is then allowed to commit four or five flagrant fouls that the refs simply don't call because they don't want to deal with kicking him out. This is only sort of a skeet about Donald Trump.

Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

why is this giving freddy mamani neo-andino

I bet if the FBI wasn't run by morons Savannah Guthrie wouldn't be forced to go on TV and tell some two bit kidnappers she'll pay millions of dollars in bitcoin for her mother's safe return

The old bit about how all rappers want to play ball and all players want to rap but now all posters think they should be politicians and all politicians just want to post.

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As a soccer mom, this story absolutely gutted me. Martin helped his mom save up money so she could take time off from work to go to the tournament with him. Then, he had to go home without her.

Positions aside, she has utter contempt for the impertinent hogs called voters. Do not let this person have the lifelong eldercare she believes his her reward

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

FYI imminent strike at the Whiting refinery.

USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.

cool! i imagine that'd be at least a decent denomination for interesting spaces (although maybe teenagers would be too oblivious to notice anyway)

that is significantly more interesting than i would've expected for a university i had no idea existed

my girlfriend is out of town for the weekend and i was all ready to ride my bike and have few beers and write some mail but instead i have a cold and am doing...whatever this is

had paul rudolph's civic center been built rockford really would've had a sweet little and strange modernist thing going

brutalist building with a big road in the foreground, pretty bunker-like, surrounded by grass

meditative looking entryway, gravel, couple big boulders, small tree

concrtete interior, wooden slats

has anyone been inside pietro belluschi's unitarian universalist church in rockford is it cool does it make the heart sing