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Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
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This is why we need to hold wealthy men accountable. Bovino's father murdered a 26 year old woman and only did a year of prison.

The son that he raised is the current Nazi dropping from helicopters to zip tie children in the middle of the night.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.

"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
How a family secret led Greg Bovino to lead Trump's border crackdown
Before he became the face of Trump's tough ICE policies, Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino endured a childhood marked by a family scandal that changed the trajectory of his life.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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932 S. Leavitt, Chicago. Built ca. 1889. Who else thinks that front door looks old?
Two-story red brick multi-family building. Much of it is in need of restoration, but the half of the facade on the left side is glorious. The windows are bordered by rusticated limestone in a short-long-short pattern. There is beautiful stained glass above both the first and second floor windows. And above the second floor is an arched panel of red terra cotta foliage and possibly lilies. The front door, to the right, is partly in shadows, but it appears to be quite old. It is heavy wood with decorative wood trim.
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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32nd Place, Bridgeport, Chicago
Part of a wall covered in posters saying such things as: Immigrants Welcome, Eat the Rich, Melt Ice, Fuck Ice, and No Human is Illegal.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Is there any possible way there is a good restaurant in Mineral Point, Wisconsin?
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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They can deny it, but I am convinced that the oncoming winter is a huge part of this. (Note: "200 members of the Illinois National Guard who had also been federalized by President Donald Trump to operate in Chicago will remain on active duty")

Chicago needs a new winter festival to celebrate.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Demolishing the last section of the Damen Silos in Chicago
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I hope there's a Charlotte ICE watch Feed
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peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d
Incredible video from Reddit (too large to upload the screencap). CBP agents attempt to detain a flower vendor and end up getting chased into a vacant lot by a crowd of teenagers. What a bunch of impotent sad sacks.

www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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#ManholeCoverMonday Oak Park, Illinois. Is there a difference between sewage and sewerage?
Manhole cover with a rusty patina set into a round, concrete, flat-domed object. The manhole cover says "H. J. Mohr & Sons Co., Oak Park, Ill" and in the center the word "Sewerage." it has a sort of waffle-like pattern across the surface.
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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It's Sunday. Here's a church. 4300 block of West Walton, Chicago
Orange brick 2-flat building with the first floor converted into St. James Church of God in Christ. The brick on the church level is covered with tan and brown narrow horizontal stone. There is a cross in the window to the left of the entrance. The orange brick on the second floor has some nice brown brick trim and a couple of stone accents.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I sort of drew a bur oak acorn. Gave it a bit of a haircut, though.
Pencil sketch of a bur oak acorn, with shaggy cap, smooth body, and pointed tip Color photo of an actual bur oak acorn, light brown in color.
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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1000 and 1100 blocks of N. Hoyne, Chicago
Three-story stone front residence is a mansard roof (I think) that has a triangular pediment on the front. The front porch and the balcony above it are supported by stone columns. the balustrade on the balcony is solid stone decorated with swirls. Two second floor windows are topped with stone shell designs. On the left side of the house, the windows bay out on the first and second floors. Two-story yellow brick home with a stone foundation, stone columns on the porch, stone trim between the first and second floor windows, and a stone keystone on the arched second floor window. The most stunning feature is the triangular pediment, perhaps made of wood. It is painted dark gray, supported by brackets, and decorated with swirls, curlicues, dentils, circles, dots, and more. Two-story red brick residence with a flat roof adorned with another remarkable pediment, although I'm not sure I'm a fan of the dark gray paint. The main body of the house is rectangular with a small porch entrance jutting from the right side with a hipped roof and supported by brick and stone columns. The most striking features are the pediment and cornice, decorated with brackets, stylized foliage, and a thing on the top left that looks like a torch topped with a fancy lampshade. @ladytophamcatt, I need you here. Hulking two-story residence with a rusticated stone front. Chunky stone columns support the arch over the entryway and the arched first floor windows. There is a balcony on the second floor right, above the entrance, and above that is an arched dormer with a green patina and including a round and a rectangular window. On the left side above the second floor windows, is a small balcony below a stone pediment.
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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715-717 N. Paulina, Chicago, ca. 1890
Three-story red brick symmetrical 6-flat. The entrance is in the center trhough an arched brick opening with a stone keystone. Above the entrance are two narrow vertical windows and two arched windows with rough stone in between them At top center is a fantastic pressed metal arched pediment, decorated with a jolly face in the center, curlicues, garland, flowers, and pillars on each side with pointed finials. The right and lefts sides of the building are identical. The first floor sindows are arched with rough stone quoins bordering them. The second and third floors have rectangular oriel windows or pressed metal, painted white.
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Chicago folks giving helpful advice to Charlotte folks...

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leighkunkel.bsky.social Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 2d
For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
A small black planter hanging on a fence, filled with red whistles. There's a sign that reads Tate a whistle! ¡Toma un silbato! Protect each other from ICE Protegernos unos a otros de la migra Use when ICE is spotted Usalo cuando se encuentra IcE form a crowd, Stay loud Unete a la comunidas y Manténte ruidosos
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Beautiful afternoon in Columbus Park, Chicago. Close to 70 degrees!
Leaf-covered path through the woods
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Section of the Ogilvie Transportation Center, Chicago
Long, light-colored brick railroad building with evenly spaced entrance openings across the bottom
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The monk parakeets of Burbank, Illinois
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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1963 or 1964 (I think) Cadillac parked on Chicago Avenue in Chicago. If you look closely you can see a skeleton in the back seat.
Boat-sized white Cadillac with fins on the rear and pointy bits around the headlights. There is a skeleton in the back seat.
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Possum in the yard this morning. I haven't seen one in a long time.
White-faced possum with a pink nose and dark eyes eating birdseed on the ground. Its fur is gray and brown.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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How do you look at the top of this 1882 building and decide to do that to the bottom? 😡 1644 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Two-story red brick building from 1882 with scalloped stone window hoods on the second floor and on the window in the pediment. It has the most amazing cornice--wood with brackets, fleur-de-lis, and other gingerbread, painted white. The first floor brick has been painted black and a large set of windows and a glass door with black metal trim takes up most of the space.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Frequent mood. Wicker Park, Chicago
Brown door with a brown face painted on it. The blue eyes do not align and the mouth is partly opening, showing three pointy teeth. Black, red, and yellow lines radiate from the whole circumference of the face.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Former J. Barabas Mens Wear, 1725 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. The building was built in 1925, Worthmann & Steinbach, architects.
Mostly glass storefront with black vitrolite (I think) across the top and cool Art Deco lettering that says "CHICAGO MENS WEAR" "J. BARABAS." Above the sign some of the beige terra cotta that covers the entire facade of the building is visible, including wreaths, flowers, and egg and dart decoration. The outstanding terrazzo entrance to the store in black, white, and red stripes and checkerboard pattern. In the center is a circle containing a white shirt and black bow tie, white gloves, black top hat, and black cane. The address, 1725, is inside a black shield at the front of the entrance and below that, in red, it says BARABAS.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#FormerTavernFriday 834 (formerly 333) N. Wood, Chicago.
Four-story red brick corner building with a fancy corner turret, maybe of pressed metal, supported by one pillar. The turret is decorated with geometric shapes and vines, painted sage green against a beige background. Clipping from the Chicago Tribune in 1901 with the headline, "Mix Politics and Gambling." The part relevant to the building in the previous picture states: "William Gollnow, who has a saloon at 333 North Wood street, was fined $100 and costs and given ten days in jail for selling liquor to a drunkard."
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 4d
Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house

📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum
Photo of a pen and ink shop drawing for a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia. Schlitz's logo is exactly what it sounds like -- a globe wearing a belt. The belt says TRADE MARK on one side of the buckle and SCHLITZ on the other. An orange box stamped on the side of the page and filled in by hand tells us this was ordered by architect Lewis Lendle, working on behalf of Schlitz Brewing Co.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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"Also amazing are pancakes, folks. A new word nobody has ever heard. I came up with it. They're like cakes but from a pan. I call them pancakes. Christians too. Adopting to pancakes. Very big stuff. Ballroom. Huge. And some say flarpnozzle bing. Bingidy bangidy. So sad. Flurp."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM