Hyde Park Trish

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I’ll be impressed by these NASCAR drivers when they race on Lower Wacker

My article in this week's Herald is how the Mural movement for social justice launched by William "Bill" Walker came to Hyde Park. #Chicago #HydePark #PublicArt An earlier fight for social justice. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Hyde Park Stories: William Walker and Hyde Park’s mural movementwww.hpherald.com In 1967, William Walker (1927-2011) helped launch the public art movement in Chicago when he and colleagues created the “Wall of Respect,” a mural of famous Black heroes and artists

I read this book a number of years ago and still find it genuinely disturbing.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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An estimated 11,000 people will celebrate July Fourth this year by officially becoming American citizens. In honor of the holiday, test your knowledge with some of the questions aspiring U.S. citizens must answer to become naturalized.

Can you pass a U.S. citizenship test? Take our civics quiz.wapo.st How much do you know about America? In honor of July Fourth, test your knowledge with some of the questions aspiring U.S. citizens must answer to become naturalized.

Made a friend in the Japanese Garden #Chicago

Here's part II of some of the images of murals that have been lost but aren't in good enough shape for the Herald article (coming soon). And some chat about murals that aren't yet lost. And a pitch for our homegrown parade! #Chicago #HydePark #Mural #Parade patriciamorse.substack.com/p/murals-par...

Murals Part IIpatriciamorse.substack.com Come to the Parade!

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Btw chevron deference got you this

Seriously. I come from a polluted country. Ya'll need to send a thank you note to epa everyday

I'm writing about Bill Walker and the mural movement in Hyde Park for the Herald and here are some out-takes of murals lost: #Chicago #PublicArt open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

There was a time when the local high school in this Southside #Chicago neighborhood had the best teams in the country. Due in part to two players, who each have their own blog post. It didn't hurt that Amos Alonzo Stagg was coaching some of the time (in hopes of recruiting the players). 1/3

patriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com/p/lyman-turn... He lost his plaque during urban renewal and he was forgotten--but he's worth remembering. #Chicago #HydePark

Lyman Turnbull, an author of the Emancipation Proclamationpatriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com A Hyde Parker

Sunset on a hot summer day #Chicago

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"Within weeks, the nation will deploy 9,000 people to begin restoring landscapes, erecting solar panels, and taking other steps to help guide the country toward a cleaner, greener future...More than 20,000 young people are expected to join during the program’s first year" grist.org/solutions/am...

The American Climate Corps officially kicks offgrist.org This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

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This is so important, and yet almost impossible to make people care about. I have a friend who runs a federal agency (sub-cabinet level) and is doing a terrific job, making excellent progress for stakeholders, but “Govt Agency Succeeds” is not a story that gets published.

Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

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Cooling your face, palms of your hands and soles of your feet is an efficient way to cool off when you're hot. Those patches of skin have special blood vessels that shunt blood from arteries to veins directly, bypassing capillaries 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heatwww.scientificamerican.com Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it.

My apartment doesn’t have a view but it does have sky. Last night’s sunset #chicago

Whoa just realized there are #uglydogs here. Now it feels more like home.

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Medicines too. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was necessary because 1) Formaldehyde was being used as a food preservative as the country urbanized and 2) Drugs were basically worthless snake oil.

really not enjoying the prospect of GOP ghouls deciding that the country needs to relearn the lesson of “why food safety regulation is important” the hard way

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Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

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Neil Steinberg has a nice profile of Chicago Symphony virtuoso Cynthia Yeh, whose world premiere performance of Jessie Montgomery's lively new concerto for percussion, Procession, I was privileged to hear last month. chicago.suntimes.com/2024/06/11/c...

Never bang a drum, slowly or otherwise — a CSO percussionist takes center stage.chicago.suntimes.com Cynthia Yeh, the symphony's principal percussionist, was featured in the world premiere on May 30 of "Procession," a piece by Jessie Montgomery, who is wrapping up three years as conductor-in-residenc...

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No-fault divorce led to a 20% decline in women’s suicide. I’m struggling to foment a response that isn’t just OMFG. Thank goodness we have no-fault divorce, and holy shit what a condemnation of our culture. The implications are just appalling, all the way through.

divorce literally saves lives

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Anyone have any experience with electric wheelchairs? I'm looking to buy my first as my parents' health is no longer good enough to push me in my manual wheelchair. It must be foldable and fit in the car boot that's pretty much my only criteria. RTs for more eyes please

In 1969, the scars of D-Day were still on the beach of Normandy.

A newsletter on the day Congress passed the 19th amendment giving women the vote. A resource I just stumbled into and a look at an early woman novelist in Chicago patriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com/p/discovery-...

The Cause of Women 1893 (a discovery)patriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com Clara Louise Burnham in Hyde Park

Hyde Park Chicago had a large dynamic art colony until urban renewal wiped it out. A look at the origins of the Art Fair as the 77th annual shows up this weekend. patriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com/p/77th-annua...

The 77th Annual 57th Street Art Fairpatriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com A Brief Look at the origins of the Art Fair

My article for the Herald about the Confederate Monument posted. How the South Side of Chicago got a monument. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Hyde Park Stories: The Confederate Monumentwww.hpherald.com A Confederate monument stands watch over the graves of more than 4,000 men in Oak Woods Cemetery, 1035 E. 67th St. But how did they all get here?

Thoughts about Decoration Day, World War II, the Civil War. Oak Woods Cemetery is here on the south side of #Chicago patriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com/p/decoration...

Decoration Daypatriciamorsehistory.beehiiv.com A moment of remembrance