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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️

@jgbollard.bsky.social

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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 · 4h

The more depraved your online MLM, the more saved yes

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

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

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 16h

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

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 16h

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

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 18h

Good cover!

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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

Kim has asked me to post more fancy boy Newlands cartoons. I've thought long and hard about it, and concluded it's a great idea.

francis newlands arriving in a very fancy stagecoach and that insane suit.

william sharon (who is ten feet tall for some reason) explains to him that the good people of nevada have had enough of his fancy boy antics

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

John Catsimatidis will be in the next Josh Safdie movie!??

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

Yes but what people think of when invoke Nazis is not a legalistic method of discrimination. As Whitman explains, the laws weren’t the source of hate, they were a way of squaring their exterminationist ambitions with the rule of law. Famously, they stopped caring about that.

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

Let her do the National Anthem at a UFC fight for real.

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

My takeaway from The Smashing Machine is that Nala Sinephro needs to be getting more work.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 3d

These are all from the Carson City Morning Appeal, a Democratic machine newspaper. They went after him for switching from Democratic ticket to the Silver Party and then stopped as soon as he switched back, lol

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 3d

Because he's a very fancy boy who hides in the cloak room when the call to action sounds.

francis newlands running into the congressional cloakroom. he is wearing the same ridiculous suit as before. the cartoon is about the silver issue. I don't know what that's about. Find a different historian who cares about economics.

francis newlands pouting in the congressional cloakroom. he is wearing the same ridiculous suit as before

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 3d

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 3d

rekt

fancy boy newlands is called from congress by a messenger from his golf club

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