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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 2m

That did the trick, thanks!

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16m

I'm hoping so bad that the "ballroom" is built so poorly and shoddily that it has to be torn down. That, to me, would be a fantastic not-legacy to leave behind.

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 21m

It gives off such insanely strong "first-time flipper in way over their heads without having a clue" vibes

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 22m

This has such a vibe of a badly-planned first-time flip job where the person's getting in way over their head. Like holy fuck, what is this visual? You don't just DEMO an important building like this. You deconstruct it!

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24m

The Trump Regime, if evaluated based on that taboo (which, to be clear, really only matters to monied & connected people in the end), would score such a low mark as to be run out of town. And that's exactly what we need to make sure we do. Run them out. Eject every filthy fascist from gov't.

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24m

This was seen as a taboo, esp among (privileged) natives with long family histories in the state/city. Buying a (truly) architecturally unique building is seen as taking on stewardship/custodianship of that building and if it leaves your possession worse than you found it, you should feel shame.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24m

Growing up in New Orleans, you'd occasionally see people buying a big old house and then literally going at the "renovation" with a single piece of rented equipment. The renovation inevitably stalled constantly due to lack of funds and the tropical weather would get to the house's guts, forcing demo

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 5h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 35m

"Hey, our ideas are up here"

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 36m

It's almost comically difficult to imagine assembling a dumber collection of idiots, clowns, and doofuses to staff this regime with than the ones currently falling on their faces in their rush to suck Trump's shriveled dick and kiss his flat ass.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1h

i hate that we can't even read gift articles apparently without creating an account

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1h

I'm curious whether there's any correlation between the tenacity/success of NIMBY opposition to these projects and the completeness of the urban tree canopy in a given street or neighborhood? Like, if you have street trees as tall as the building, is opposition lower/less successful?

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 1h

I'm not a NY'er and I don't have skin in this game but as an urbanist/planner i HAVE read about this issue and I'm hella impressed that Zohran's brought it up prominently like this!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

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Reposted by Taylor Scheinuk

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 11h

In Salem, as in most Massachusetts communities, 90% of residential lots are smaller than current zoning’s minimum lot size requirements.

In other words, most of the homes that make up the neighborhoods we love today couldn’t be built under modern zoning rules.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 7h

Buy a radio and an MP3 player and dump this shit

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, is another techno-fascist billionaire.

He’s invested in AI that specializes in war, surveillance and violence, so it’s no surprise he’s fine with running ICE ads on Spotify.

If you haven’t already, cancel your Spotify subscriptions. Let’s make them feel like Disney+.

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

www.latimes.com

Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 7h

122s Amazon wagon goes so hard~ The only car I'd consider in addition to my ND would be an EV-swapped one of these

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 17h

I think this is a great idea tbh. If you're worried you might go stir crazy then get some friends together, pick up an actual FM radio (portable if necessary) from a secondhand store (or Aunt Ida's hall closet) and just go dick around somewhere all day with your data service turned off.