Zach Mortice
@zachmortice.bsky.social
Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
https://zachmortice.com
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NEW: The US Military is laying the groundwork for a 10,000 person temporary base “near Gaza,” according to an internal contracting document obtained by @bloomberg.com
From @sooophie.bsky.social and team: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
From @sooophie.bsky.social and team: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Military Explores Building Base for 10,000 People ‘Near Gaza’
The US military is exploring whether to build a temporary base capable of housing 10,000 people near Gaza, according to an internal contracting document, as the US pushes for a stabilization force to ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
NEW: The US Military is laying the groundwork for a 10,000 person temporary base “near Gaza,” according to an internal contracting document obtained by @bloomberg.com
From @sooophie.bsky.social and team: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
From @sooophie.bsky.social and team: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I am dying at this Gab AI ad, “EVEN OUR BOTS DON’T READ!!!!”
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I am dying at this Gab AI ad, “EVEN OUR BOTS DON’T READ!!!!”
It’s amazing how much of reactionary politics boils down to “I cannot get along with my neighbors”
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s amazing how much of reactionary politics boils down to “I cannot get along with my neighbors”
Winter is woke now
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Winter is woke now
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Publication day for the expanded paperback edition of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD, with a new intro and my Pulitzer-winning essays up front geni.us/designofchil...
Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig...
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig...
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Publication day for the expanded paperback edition of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD, with a new intro and my Pulitzer-winning essays up front geni.us/designofchil...
Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig...
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig...
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
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The most interesting thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that it was built and owned by Northwestern Mutual.
Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.
Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The most interesting thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that it was built and owned by Northwestern Mutual.
Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.
Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.
An unconscionable error for any Chicagoan: Not coming prepared for the weather.
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
An unconscionable error for any Chicagoan: Not coming prepared for the weather.
Democrats: No matter the question, “demobilize the base” is the answer
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Democrats: No matter the question, “demobilize the base” is the answer
Here’s what else they did this weekend blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f...
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s what else they did this weekend blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f...
The choice is pretty clear: A New Deal Coalition with Post-Industrial Characteristics. . . . or Barbarism
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The choice is pretty clear: A New Deal Coalition with Post-Industrial Characteristics. . . . or Barbarism
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
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Anything we can actually do, we can afford.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Anything we can actually do, we can afford.
When Trump wants to terrorize Americans that didn’t vote for his regime, they buy guided missiles for ICE. When Americans are going hungry it’s:
a man in a white sweater is saying " i 'm a baby i have no money "
ALT: a man in a white sweater is saying " i 'm a baby i have no money "
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
When Trump wants to terrorize Americans that didn’t vote for his regime, they buy guided missiles for ICE. When Americans are going hungry it’s:
These guys are huge cosplaying nerds; getting tact’d up to bodyslam daycare teachers, weaving thru clouds of tear gas to harass day laborers
Border Patrol's Greg Bovino just posted a new Batman-themed propaganda video to social media
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
These guys are huge cosplaying nerds; getting tact’d up to bodyslam daycare teachers, weaving thru clouds of tear gas to harass day laborers
Reminder that as the birthplace of the American labor movement and the Pullman uprising of 1894, Chicagoans have been putting their bodies on the line for working people for a VERY long time and define their regional identity around doing exactly that www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reminder that as the birthplace of the American labor movement and the Pullman uprising of 1894, Chicagoans have been putting their bodies on the line for working people for a VERY long time and define their regional identity around doing exactly that www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
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This line is going to hit like crack in “trumpland” written by Rick perlstein jr in the 2070’s
im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This line is going to hit like crack in “trumpland” written by Rick perlstein jr in the 2070’s
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Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"
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Hell, individual big international unions could also do this. Give out grants to working class journalists, fund reporting trips, pay for things like records requests and training—it would be such a good investment.
We used to have a widespread, well-funded labor press. We badly need one now.
We used to have a widespread, well-funded labor press. We badly need one now.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hell, individual big international unions could also do this. Give out grants to working class journalists, fund reporting trips, pay for things like records requests and training—it would be such a good investment.
We used to have a widespread, well-funded labor press. We badly need one now.
We used to have a widespread, well-funded labor press. We badly need one now.
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The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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My favorite Sandburg poem, which may be even more relevant in the context of immigration raids
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My favorite Sandburg poem, which may be even more relevant in the context of immigration raids
"He has the brow of a malingerer," I write as an acrid fairy of opium smoke curls from my pipe. I shall soon return to the work of civilizing the lower beasts of our race, as soon as a penny-ante sawbones can exert a civilizing influence on this damnable syphilis of mine!
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"He has the brow of a malingerer," I write as an acrid fairy of opium smoke curls from my pipe. I shall soon return to the work of civilizing the lower beasts of our race, as soon as a penny-ante sawbones can exert a civilizing influence on this damnable syphilis of mine!
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lmk if you'd like to get on the galley list
📚 preorder — @volumesbooks.bsky.social, Women and Children First, @powells.bsky.social, and @bookshop.org — here:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
📚 preorder — @volumesbooks.bsky.social, Women and Children First, @powells.bsky.social, and @bookshop.org — here:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
lmk if you'd like to get on the galley list
📚 preorder — @volumesbooks.bsky.social, Women and Children First, @powells.bsky.social, and @bookshop.org — here:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
📚 preorder — @volumesbooks.bsky.social, Women and Children First, @powells.bsky.social, and @bookshop.org — here:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
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check it out
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
check it out