Matt Bergstrom
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
More 45th Parallel markers are in an exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/index.h...
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
More 45th Parallel markers are in an exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/index.h...
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
No-longer-standing Prentice Women's Hospital opened 50 years ago today. Rebuild a mini version at www.buildyourownchicago.com/free.html
January 23, 2026 at 4:44 AM
No-longer-standing Prentice Women's Hospital opened 50 years ago today. Rebuild a mini version at www.buildyourownchicago.com/free.html
Pinball trek to Galloping Ghost
January 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Pinball trek to Galloping Ghost
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From the 1960s, five London vehicles to cut out & make.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
A double decker bus, a mail train, a black cab, a news truck & a post van.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
A double decker bus, a mail train, a black cab, a news truck & a post van.
January 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
From the 1960s, five London vehicles to cut out & make.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
A double decker bus, a mail train, a black cab, a news truck & a post van.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
A double decker bus, a mail train, a black cab, a news truck & a post van.
150 years ago today, photographer Joshua Beal climbed the east tower of the unfinished Brooklyn Bridge to shoot five overlapping images creating a spectacular panorama portrait of Manhattan www.youtube.com/watch?v=-334...
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
150 years ago today, photographer Joshua Beal climbed the east tower of the unfinished Brooklyn Bridge to shoot five overlapping images creating a spectacular panorama portrait of Manhattan www.youtube.com/watch?v=-334...
Today is the anniversary of the unusual meeting between Elvis and President Nixon in the Oval Office in 1970
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today is the anniversary of the unusual meeting between Elvis and President Nixon in the Oval Office in 1970
Happy 45th birthday to the National Building Museum, created by an act of Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter today in 1980!
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy 45th birthday to the National Building Museum, created by an act of Congress and signed by President Jimmy Carter today in 1980!
A visit to the Rocks For Fun Cafe before Thanksgiving
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A visit to the Rocks For Fun Cafe before Thanksgiving
60 years ago today, 10-year-old William Blasio stole a motor boat from the dock below Marina City with a plan to return to Ohio where his family had once lived. Hard to imagine heading out on Lake Michigan if the weather was wintry like today!
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
60 years ago today, 10-year-old William Blasio stole a motor boat from the dock below Marina City with a plan to return to Ohio where his family had once lived. Hard to imagine heading out on Lake Michigan if the weather was wintry like today!
120 years ago today, the terrible Mataafa Storm began, sinking more than 20 ships on Lake Superior and leading to the construction of Split Rock Lighthouse to make shipping safer on the lake
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
120 years ago today, the terrible Mataafa Storm began, sinking more than 20 ships on Lake Superior and leading to the construction of Split Rock Lighthouse to make shipping safer on the lake
Lots of new additions to the Stone Faces Gazetteer tracking locations of anthropomorphic rocks around the world: www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/index....
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Lots of new additions to the Stone Faces Gazetteer tracking locations of anthropomorphic rocks around the world: www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/index....
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The Chicago Plan Commission approved a proposal Thursday by DePaul University to build a $42 million basketball practice facility in the heart of its Lincoln Park campus, a controversial plan that will require demolishing a row of century-old residential buildings.
Plan Commission approves DePaul’s controversial plan for Lincoln Park athletic facility
University officials told commission members DePaul’s lack of modern practice courts makes it hard to compete for athletic talent with schools in the Big East Conference.
trib.al
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing
Joe Macken's Museum of the City of New York exhibit is over 20 years in the making.
gothamist.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
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#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
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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.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...