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I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 31m

Newlands actually had his second wedding at the medieval parish church of Easton Neston.

The village died off in the Tudor period, and was eventually assembled into a large working estate around a baroque house designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

a precise baroque house reflected in a pond

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 35m

McAllister as a social instructor was a popular trope.

In reality, Newlands needed no help. He was popular at Yale and arrived in San Francisco with letters of introduction from members of Andrew Johnson's cabinet and his sister-in-law married into the British nobility.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 46m

Today's Frank the Fancy Boy reminded Nevada voters that Francis Newlands second marriage slotted him into New York's high society—including its most snobbish parts, particularly his tastemaker and gatekeeper uncle-in-law Ward McAllister, here teaching him how to behave.

a very fancy goateed man teaches francis newlands how to dance

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 52m

Don't you want a line of work where men can be men, without a dame in sight?

HUSKY Young and Middle-Aged Men Needed
Make tree surgery your profession. Dignified, healthy, uncrowded and lucrative.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 1h

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 57m

It's a double edged sword lol

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1h

No!

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting. All signs point to Albany being particularly ossified and dysfunctional though.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2h

When a field can be so commanded by someone with no experience or training, it’s a sign of its structural rottenness. Let’s hope more people realize you can just do politics.

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser

The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

The more depraved your online MLM, the more saved yes

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

Are they showing up on Sunday or just arguing about total depravity online?

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Was at GWU and holy cow the teens are into 90s graphic tees.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Speak for yourself. My political activities are being funded by unspent Obama-era FAST block grants.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to all and Aaron Renn specifically.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d

Aaron Renn's brain is pure everything app homogenate now. Sad!

While the idea of a war on Christmas is exaggerated, it is undoubtedly the case that institutions prefer to avoid recognizing the religious nature of the holiday, using terms like "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays." As is probably near universal now, our local school system refers to the Christmas break as "Winter Break."
There have also been explicit attacks against public symbols of the people they hate. The toppling and destruction of statues is a good example.
Monday is Columbus Day. Originally a holiday to provide symbolic recognition of Italian American immigrants, Columbus is now just another white guy, so naturally having a holiday named for him is intolerable. The left has counter-programmed with this with the so-called "Indigenous People's Day." Statues of Columbus are a frequent target of would be vandalizers.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Good cover!

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Great photo

They say cartman’s eyes are a window to the zoomer in all of us

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

OK, so Seth Todd is the first frog and he wanted “to make the president and the Feds look dumb.”

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

"William Lloyd Garrison, but in a frog suit" is not a random thought I had before

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly a key moment

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah and I want 10,000 words or a podcast series on all the messy drama that is surely behind just the exhaust valve

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Part of his success is not taking every shot. A lesson at odds with posting.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

OK so what is the history of the inflatable costumes that everyone’s wearing to the protests. Who invented them, what is the innovation, did the original frog guy just have it around? 🗃️

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Today's fancy boy: Newlands loses all his friends in Congress for being a backstabber.

newlands, in his wacky suit, is being shunned by all the members of congress.

Newlands' reception when he returned to the House of Representatives after his treachery to
Stewart.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Heurich House Museum @heurichhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Lawrence Gichner (who replaced the turret roof) was born in DC in 1907 to Ernest and Helen Gichner. His father apprenticed in metalwork in Vienna, Austria starting at 14 years old. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1888 and opened a DC shop DC with the slogan: “everything in sheet metal.”

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

No… but maybe William Stewart was among the nephilim.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

The whole movie looks insane and I am not sure which way it will go.

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