minneapolis city planners didn't care about playgrounds downtown when they tore down the loring greenway playground with no plans to replace it

Reconsidering the Legacy of Minoru Yamasaki | National Trust for Historic Preservation Minoru Yamasaki became progressively self-critical over the spectacular failure of Pruitt-Igoe, the St. Louis housing project he designed. The time is right to reevaluate his work and its place in the history of 20th-century architecture.

Northwest National Life Building is from Yamasaki's heroic phase, before he compromised on design (including World Trade Center of which I've never been a big fan)

Reconsidering the Legacy of Minoru Yamasaki | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Iconic downtown Minneapolis building to become a hotel Another historic downtown Minneapolis office building is about to undergo a major shift.

Iconic downtown Minneapolis building to become a hotel.
It's by Minoru Yamasaki.
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I remember well how my father took me to see it when I was a little kid

Adaptive reuse is often a good historic #preservation technique; it seems quite possible here

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

(Published Jan. 2026)

As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.

Good news story, of a sort: the anti-vaxxers who‘ve come around (after measles was already spreading) … including a RFK-pilled woman who once went “dressed as the measles for Halloween.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... (Gift link)

Prince - Sometimes It Snows In April (Live At Webster Hall - April 20, 2004) YouTube video by princevevo

Song Of The Day - Part 3

Today marks 10 years since we lost the incomparable Prince

Prince was a true musical force of nature & I'm sharing three songs I love by him.

The final song is the one I most closely associate with his passing. 1/2

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He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

and they have the gall to call the democrats out of touch

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

He might as well answer in Russian.

Honk to Impeach protesters on the Loring Park bridge in Minneapolis

I love you, Minneapolis.

There's a protest in Burbank, right now against Hilton Hotels for housing ICE

FUCK HILTON. Stay somewhere else.
Thank you for your attention to this matter

🚫 Hilton.

A bright and sunny Sunday, April 19th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There's a light, patchy coating of snow on the grass; in the left side of the photo, a lilac bush has green buds on its branches.

A light coating of snow while the lilac bushes are budding out: that's the Minneapolis Way™️

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Wall Street journal: The Obama Presidential Center Is Finally Here. Prepare to Pay Up. Admission to the Chicago museum is more than any other U.S. presidential library, in a city with some of the nation's top local taxes Followed by an image: Cherry blossoms bloom in Jackson Park near the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

It’s $30. Since when did WSJ flip out about $30

Incredible news. My dad passed from Pancreatic cancer 26 years ago.

Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

These agents "don't know how to operate in these situations,” said former DOJ attorney Christy Lopez.

Their behavior “is on par with the worst protest policing and just law enforcement that I've seen from any department, even in their worst days."

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.

The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

In red states, anti-immigrant bills are failing as businesses push back Most of the roughly 200 bills targeting immigrants around the country this year have stalled or died, with help from business and Christian groups.

In red states, anti-immigrant bills are failing as businesses push back wapo.st/4sHlBgU

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

It is very weird that we never hear about this. We don't hear about the case, we don't hear about the incident, we don't hear about the Secret Service and any analysis they did on mistakes made. And the weirdest part of all is that Trump never talks about it. Ever. Why isn't Trump milking it?

There is so much market manipulation going on in this administration.

A bit of Central Park for you 🌸

I'm nostalgic for a time when presidents were decent human beings, were kind to children and didn't abuse them

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Today, President Obama and Mayor Mamdani read for kids at a pre-K learning center in South Bronx

a 26 year old half filipino nazi. only in america baby!

I was approached last fall from the local PBS about a documentary on the Mpls West Bank I did in college–30 years ago! (They found it on the school’s YouTube channel.)

Not sure how much footage was used, but I’m excited to be a part of something that captures the rich history & culture of West Bank

Trump 'incapable' of accepting US has lost the war with Iran: Nobel laureate President Donald Trump has lost the war with Iran but is refusing to accept it, according to a Nobel Prize winner. Paul Krugman believes that Trump is flat out unable to deal with the fallout of the war in Iran, and that it has not yet set in that the United States' intervention in the Middle East h...

President Donald Trump has lost the war with Iran but is refusing to accept it, according to a Nobel Prize winner.