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Postcard Past / Present Photo
Exploring power, culture, & the history of cities through present-day photo recreations of old postcards.
www.postcard-past.com
gonna pin my little blog where i trawl library digital collections and traipse around with a camera to compare postcards (aspirational, semi-real) with the visible present
www.postcard-past.com
www.postcard-past.com
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Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week).
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week).
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
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Who’s up for a dogshit road trip
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Who’s up for a dogshit road trip
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the way these centrist mfs manage to spin up new Groups is like if ted leonsis started a new nba team every year after the wizards missed the playoffs
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group www.axios.com/2026/02/08/c...
Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group
It's the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence.
www.axios.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
the way these centrist mfs manage to spin up new Groups is like if ted leonsis started a new nba team every year after the wizards missed the playoffs
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The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Air Canada suspends Cuba flights as island set to run out of jet fuel
Air Canada said on Monday it is suspending flights to Cuba, which warned it was running out of jet fuel, as the U.S. tightens its grip on the communist-run nation's oil supply by blocking shipments fr...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
richard prince is garbage though, what a downgrade
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
richard prince is garbage though, what a downgrade
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Living in this country, it’s just a reality that the left and liberals are expected to do more and uphold more. I don’t know how you can come away with any other conclusion than that when you flip the script on the above premise.
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Living in this country, it’s just a reality that the left and liberals are expected to do more and uphold more. I don’t know how you can come away with any other conclusion than that when you flip the script on the above premise.
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one of my favorite architecture writers is at it again!!!!
wrote about st. mary’s cathedral in san francisco, which was built on this site partially because of parking minimums that came into effect in 1960, right before st. mary’s II burned down a few blocks away
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
Ecclesiastical modernism, structural expressionism, urban renewal, Vatican II, plagiarism and...parking minimums?!
www.postcard-past.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
one of my favorite architecture writers is at it again!!!!
i found the interior unexpectedly warm, it’s a really moving space
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
i found the interior unexpectedly warm, it’s a really moving space
awesome construction photos
February 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
awesome construction photos
1938 aerial vs. 2024 aerial
February 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
1938 aerial vs. 2024 aerial
it's obvious in retrospect, but i didn't realize that st. mary's was the unplanned beneficiary of a large urban renewal clearance project that flattened this part of western addition in the late 1950s
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
it's obvious in retrospect, but i didn't realize that st. mary's was the unplanned beneficiary of a large urban renewal clearance project that flattened this part of western addition in the late 1950s
critics so savaged the archdiocese’s original choice of architects—the relatively unheralded local partnership lee, ryan & mcsweeney—that they went out and added pietro belluschi and pier luigi nervi to the team and gave them free rein
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
critics so savaged the archdiocese’s original choice of architects—the relatively unheralded local partnership lee, ryan & mcsweeney—that they went out and added pietro belluschi and pier luigi nervi to the team and gave them free rein
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Here's the Trib editorial board saying that ICE requiring a warrant signed by a judge before arresting someone is "going through the bureaucratic hoops"
From the Editorial Board: Minnesota, even in its grief and trauma over the needless deaths of two of its citizens at the hands of the state, is managing to show that communication and negotiation are possible.
Editorial: Illinois should consider pragmatic tweaks to its sanctuary law
In Minnesota, Democratic politicians are negotiating pragmatic policy changes regarding their sanctuary policies. Illinois should do the same.
trib.al
February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Here's the Trib editorial board saying that ICE requiring a warrant signed by a judge before arresting someone is "going through the bureaucratic hoops"
wrote about st. mary’s cathedral in san francisco, which was built on this site partially because of parking minimums that came into effect in 1960, right before st. mary’s II burned down a few blocks away
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
Ecclesiastical modernism, structural expressionism, urban renewal, Vatican II, plagiarism and...parking minimums?!
www.postcard-past.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
wrote about st. mary’s cathedral in san francisco, which was built on this site partially because of parking minimums that came into effect in 1960, right before st. mary’s II burned down a few blocks away
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
www.postcard-past.com/st-marys-cat...
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one thing the Democrats are kind of sleeping on is the subpoena power of state legislatures combined with the fact that virtually all of the conduct described by the Epstein files occurred in blue states
February 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
one thing the Democrats are kind of sleeping on is the subpoena power of state legislatures combined with the fact that virtually all of the conduct described by the Epstein files occurred in blue states
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Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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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. 🧵
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Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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The only reason anyone still believes the right likes sports or are good at sports is because the newspaper tells you that. The dumbest, least athletically inclined and ugly white people are the American Right and they're mad that they're ugly and stupid and bad at sports and that's just the truth
idk how the athletes with their whole lives still ahead of them will handle this rebuke from a thrice divorced man who drunkenly runs over puppies & is at war against fiber
February 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The only reason anyone still believes the right likes sports or are good at sports is because the newspaper tells you that. The dumbest, least athletically inclined and ugly white people are the American Right and they're mad that they're ugly and stupid and bad at sports and that's just the truth
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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.
February 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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.