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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4h

So Dominion Voting Systems, which won almost a billion dollars in settlements over false claims of counting irregularities, has been sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote to a Missouri firm that will finally be in position to make those false claims reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 8h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 8h

Long lines of marathon runners for the Bandit Running Chicago Simulation Research Center in the bowels of Tribune Tower.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I had taken the time to photograph them all, but you can see the architect talk about the exhibition at the link.
www.archdaily.com/775921/ad-in...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

Looking back at the first Chicago Architecture in 2016, I came across these pics of one of its most creative delights: Sou Fujimoto and team's "Architecture is Everywhere." creating architecture out of "found" everyday objects.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

“Saw 8 people out front and couldn’t even get one of them to flip me the bird,” he wrote. “Very low energy.”

A day-by-day report showing just delusional Trump's assault on Portland is. And read the comments to realize how fantasy fact-averse the MAGA trolls are.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What’s Really Going On in Portland, According to Police Reports

Protests outside an ICE facility were dwindling in size and at times ”low energy” in the days and weeks before President Trump called in troops, according to official law-enforcement logs.

www.wsj.com

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Never knew that, before becoming Jeopardy champion and host, Ken Jennings did a guest shot on Perry Mason.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Infamously, Donald Trump last April asked oil & gas execs for $1billion for his campaign. He settled for a little over $100 million, more than enough for him to sell out the U.S. to make his administration a wholely-owned subsidiary of Big Oil and its rapacious greed.
www.citizen.org/article/trum...

Trump's Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power - Public Citizen

www.citizen.org

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

They're some good money to made in construction. Walsh Construction's Mathew Walsh has just given $150 million to Notre Dame's School of Architecture. ($7.7 billion in revenue for The Walsh Group last year, up over 40% since 2022, according to Crain's)
news.nd.edu/news/matthew...

Notre Dame School of Architecture poised for global leadership through historic investment

The $150 million gift represents an unprecedented commitment in the 160-year history of American architectural education. In recognition of this landmar...

news.nd.edu

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

And from 2010. I remember Tim Samuelson telling me Stanley Tigerman expressed indifference to the fate of this building, but, as much as the accustomed behemoths, it's small (relatively) delights like this that give a great city its character.
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/09/patr...

Patron Saint of the Self Park

click images to see larger view If you go to St. Peter's in Rome, you see gigantic statues of the saints along the roof line. So, just beca...

arcchicago.blogspot.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

It's been six years since Stanley Tigerman's passing. What I would give to hear his take on our present situation. (from 2012)
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/arch...

The Architect as Zelig: Tigerman's Ceci n'est pas une reverie at the Graham, open late tonight, closes Saturday

You have only through Saturday, May 19th, to view Ceci nʻest pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman at the Graham Foundatio...

arcchicago.blogspot.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

The book "Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable" came out in July, but IIT is having a book launch on the 27th, with a panel including Margaret McCurry, John Ronan, Iker Gil and Reed Kreloff.
arch.iit.edu/events/tiger...

Deans’s Panel Lecture: Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable

Explore Stanley Tigerman’s imaginative architectural drawings and working methods at an upcoming Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture event.

arch.iit.edu

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

To revive and paraphrase a classic Richard J. Daley quote, "DHS and ICE aren't there to stop disorder; they're there to CREATE disorder."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Apparatchiks like Bondi believe truculence is both shield and prophylactic. freeing them to lie, bluster and make personal attacks rather than provide answers. The calm but dogged persistence of panel members like Durbin puts their reckless evil in high relief.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeM...

WATCH: Durbin presses Bondi for rationale behind troop deployment to Illinois

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

www.youtube.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

"I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."

We need to come up with a new name; to call them Nazi does them too much credit. No coherent ideology, other than a rabid lust for absolute power in service to malevolent, self-enriching ends.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Bondi tells Durbin she wishes he "loved Chicago as much as you hate Pres. Trump" in Senate hearing

Sen. Dick Durbin and Attorney General Pam Bondi traded barbs about the National Guard and Chicago, with Bondi telling Durbin she wished he "loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."

www.cbsnews.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Newly opened Jellycat store at Nordstrom's Northbridge.
chicago.suntimes.com/business/202...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid in school, the Erie Canal showed up in textbooks as a kind of historical artifact. Now I'M a kind of historical artifact, but at 250 years old, the Canal is still a spur for new development, as Timothy A. Schuler reports for Bloomberg's CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's long rancid history is one of stiffing people who do work for him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

via New City, Artnet's Richard Whiddington reports on FLW's funky design for chairs at the Guggenheim's cafe - never realized, until they were finally created for the exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design" at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.
news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

via New City, Artnet's Richard Whiddington reports on FLW's funky design for chairs at the Guggenheim's cafe - never realized, until they were finally created for the exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design" at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.
news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Once again LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik does the research and bring the receipts to reveal Trump's secretive drug plan will benefit few, is a major coup for Pfizer's profits, and that TrumpRX will do little more but refer users to already existing sites.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

A fascinating and hopeful article from Arno Rosenfeld in the Forward about how one southern university is combating anti-semitism while protecting free speech.
forward.com/news/antisem...

This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?

Elon University has earned praise for creating a safe campus for Jewish students even as it enables free speech blocked by other universities.

forward.com

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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