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Left of centre since the 1960’s. I’ve been Woke so long I often have trouble getting to sleep 😴
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aussiejim48.bsky.social @aussiejim48.bsky.social · Nov 25
Former U.S. soldier Anthony Aguilar spent several months in #Gaza during the ongoing #genocide. He thought he was going to help deliver aid to Palestinians being starved by Israel, but what he saw was a scheme to force Palestinians out of their land. #Zionism > youtube.com/watch?v=DkOSWShgI_c
“I Didn’t Think Anybody Could Be That Evil”
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Designed by Frank Wennemer this Carnegie Hill rowhouse--a hybrid of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival--was home to renowned printmaker Karl Schrag in the 1940s and '50s. It is still a single family home.
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The 1892 Francis J. Schnugg House - 127 East 95th Street
In 1890, real estate operator Francis Joseph Schnugg completed construction of eight rowhouses on East 95th Street.  Designed by Frank Wen...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Home to working-class tenants in the 1850s, this Italianate flat building was renovated to just 2 apts per floor in 1970.
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345-347 East Ninth Street
In the 1850s, waves of European immigrants began changing the demographics and personality of the East Village.  To accommodate the explodin...
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January 29, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Only in Australia? www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in... #TDU #TourDownUnder #Cycling
Team reveals TDU champ's injuries after kangaroo collision - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Tour Down Under champion Jay Vine won the event after being caught up in a crash involving two kangaroos. Now his team has revealed the extent of his injuries.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Built in 1839 and renovated in 1879, this East Village townhouse was beleaguered in 1966 when it was rescued and restored. It is a single family home.
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The 1839 Thomas Macfarlan House - 102 East 10th Street
In 1836, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and his sister, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish, established the outlines of a double-wide lot that would becom...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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A wealthy resident of this Upper West Side apt bldg in 1928 cut his wife out of his will for not being "productive of the happiness." he anticipated.
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Rosario Candela's 1926 607 West End Avenue
image via streeteasy.com Real estate developer Bernard Wilson  commissioned the architectural firm of Thom & Wilson in 1887 to design a ro...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Originally the Elks' Mother Lodge, the ballroom of this Midtown hotel was regularly the scene of political and civic meetings with speakers like Martin Luther King Jr and Ossie Davis. It was razed in 1993.
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The Lost Hotel Diplomat - 108-116 West 43rd Street
photograph by Wurts Bros., from the collection of the New York Public Library A social club for actors, the Jolly Club, was formed in 1867 t...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Designed by George F. Pelham, the Van Cordlandt was among the first of Park Av's luxury apt buildings, home to leaders in social, literary, and artistic circles.
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The 1904 Van Cordlandt - 1240 Park Avenue
photo by Deansfa In the late 19th century, the soot-belching locomotives that ran down the middle of Park Avenue made the thoroughfare una...
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January 24, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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A public teacher living in this Art Moderne building in Chelsea was the victim of the Red Scare in 1953--fired for refusing to answer interrogation questions about Communism.
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Sylvan Bien's 1939 150 West 21st Street
Born in Austria, architect Sylvan Bien emigrated to San Francisco to work on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.  He relocated to New York...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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In case you have forgotten. Here is an image of the massive crowds at T.Rump's first inauguration parade.
January 23, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Although virtually untouched on the exterior, this 189-year-old Greek Revival house in the East Village is not protected by landmark status.
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An Astounding Survivor - The 1837 287 East 3rd Street
photograph by Carole Teller In 1811, streets were laid out on paper that dissected land owned by Nicholas and Elizabeth Fish.  Within two ...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Popular actress Marie Prescott lived in this D. & J. Jardine-designed rowhouse in 1882 when she used her dramatic skills in a courtroom. There is an apartment in the basement of the otherwise single-family home today.
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D. & J. Jardine's 1869 108 East 10th Street
image via realtor.com In 1867, just two years after John and David Jardine formed their architectural office of D. & J. Jardine, builder J...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Designed by John C. Burne, the Elmhurst was plagued by a "woman firebug" in 1906 and '07. The multiple fires caused it to be called a "hoodoo house." It still holds 2 apts per floor today.
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The 1890 Elmhurst Apartments - 212 West 105th Street
photo by Anthony Bellov In 1889, Diedrich Tragman hired architect John C. Burne to design two identical apartment buildings at 210 and 212...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Amazingly, this ca. 1870 clapboard house in Harlem survived intact until its demolition in 1990.
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The Lost James b. Finnen House - 147 East 126th Street
Charles Von Urban photographed the vintage structure in 1932.  from the collection of the New York Public Library. I n the years just foll...
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January 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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This venerable Grand St structure got a stylish facelift around 1871. For much of the 20th c it was home to Sun-Ray Yarns.
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The Sun-Ray Yarn Building - 349 Grand Street
photo by Carole Teller In reporting on the "inventions and improvements" exhibited in the Annual Fair of the American Institute of New-Yor...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Designed by Charles E. Baxter, this Harlem rowhouse was home to bandleader Rudy King, who introduced the steel drum to America, in the 1950s.
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The 1887 Michael Hughes House - 365 West 123rd Street
The blocks just east of Morningside Park saw a flurry of construction in the 1880s.  In 1886, real estate developer Samuel H. Bailey purch...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Architect Mott B. Schmidt designed the Guy and Cynthia Cary mansion in 1923. It became a nursing home in 1952 and the Dalton School in 1964.
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The Guy Fairfax Cary Mansion - 61 East 91st Street
photograph by Jim Henderson Born in November 1879 to Clarence Cary and the former Elisabeth M. Potter, Guy Fairfax Cary was the great-gran...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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This Italianate house in the East Village was home to a well-to-do grain merchant in 1851. In 1917 Antone Karasincki "the Wall Street Ripper" lived here. It holds 3 apts today.
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The Samuel C. Paxson House - 137 East 15th Street
Samuel Canby Paxon married Elizabeth Drinker on July 5, 1827.  The couple had eight children, only four of whom had survived when they mov...
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January 14, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Actress Cecilia des Roches died in this Neville & Bagge designed mansion on Christmas Eve 1928, a victim of "Christmas Rum," or bootleg alcohol. There are 9 apts in the house today.
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The H. Ray Paige House - 304 West 107th Street
The advertisement for 304 West 107th Street in the New York Herald on October 19, 1909 called the residence, "well planned and attractive...
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January 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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The GOP is protecting Pedo's!
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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The Trump Administration is no longer hiding their Nazi inspiration, with Noem adopting a slogan coined by convicted Nazi war criminal Kurt Daluebe, who ordered the murder of every male in Lidice in retaliation for the death of a single SS officer.

Is this Trump's plan for American cities?
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion consortiumnews.com/2026/01/12/c...
Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion
In the end, with weary citizens yearning for extinction, empires light their own funeral pyre. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about internation...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Designed by John S. O'Meara in 1891, much of Tammany Hall's downtown activities played out in this Madison St. bldg. It was demolished by the city in 1946 to make way for a park.
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The Lost P. Divver Assc. Clubhouse - 59 Madison Street
from the collection of the New York Public Library In the second half of the 19th century, small political clubs dotted the city.  It was ...
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM