What I read today - March 29

• What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?, No Side Bar
• Community Group Needs $250K to Turn Historic Williamsburg Firehouse Into Community Center, Brownstoner
• Super Strategies, Urban Omnibus
• Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies, BBC
• Video: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper , YouTube
• Unfollow, The New Yorker
• Ted Cruz's Law Paper From 1996 Is the Best Argument Against Letting Tech Companies Run Rampant, The Motherboard

What I read today - March 28

• Patti Smith Buys the Reconstructed Home of One of France's Most Beloved Poets, Architectural Digest
• Policies Shift, Neighborhoods Change, but Elementary School Segregation Holds On, City Limits
• US admits it conducted Mosul air strike 'at location' where '200' civilians died, The Independent
• Restoring a Run-Down Convent in Tuscany, NY Times
• Warner & Swasey Observatory – Cleveland, OH – Look to the Skies, architectural afterlife
• The father of American gynecology fought to criminalize abortion in the 1850s, Timeline
• The only woman to win the medal of honor fought for her role in the Civil War, Timeline
• Do developer-owned coffee houses accelerate NYC gentrification?, Curbed

What I read today - March 24

• How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge, Fast Co Design
• Trump’s Populist Mirage, The Atlantic
• White House says maternity care won’t be more expensive for women —if they’re on a family plan, Think Progress
• Montessori Baby Week 16 -- The Butterflies Mobile, the kavanaugh report

what i read today march 22-23

• Some identities don’t need a redesign., Medium / John Warren Hanawalt
• Crisis is Not Just Another Opportunity to Build Your Brand, Medium / Greg Riestenberg
  I really don't follow the design world much these days, but think this is quite interesting. Probably, because I don't follow the design world too much since I find intrensic happiness of the un-designed world
• United States of Resistance, Print Mag
• Against Branding: Part 1 — Design and Conflict, Design Observer
• Against Branding: Part 2 — Design and Happiness, Design Observer
• How America's Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawai'i, Collectors weekly
• A Sailor’s Life, Inked
• It Took Guts to be the First Victorian Tattoo Queen, Messy Nessy Chic
• The deep roots of profound weirdness, al jazeera

what i read today march 21

• How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps, NY Times
• Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion, The Guardian
• 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus, The Atlantic
• We so rarely hear from women in the grip of addiction, The Guardian
• The Abandoned Garden of Prospect Park, narratively
• My New Chapter Begins, Growing with Plants
• 3 Brilliant Strategies For Navigating The Terrible Twos From My Daughter’s Daycare Provider, Rodale
• How, and why, to switch to a credit union, Brooklyn Based

what i read today march 20

• The Timeless Appeal of Tyra Banks’ Delightfully Unhinged Talk Show, Broadly
• From Codpieces to Dick Pics: How Dating has Changed Throughout History, Broadly
• Lmnopi on Street Art, Gentrification, Her Mission as an Artist & more, Street Art NYC
• New Book Offers a Dash of Hope—and Dose of Reality—for Young Farmers, Civil Eats

What I read today March 17

• The real-life Peggy Olson wasn’t what you would call a feminist, timeline
• Women took on the male leadership of the radical 1960s Puerto Rican movement and (mostly) won, timeline

What I read today _ March 16

• Forgotten weed stash donated to Goodwill, CNN
• Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science, Mic
• EXCLUSIVE: Many affordable units at Brooklyn development likely to be filled by white families: report, NY Daily News
• The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland, Atlas Obscura

What I read today - march 15

• CityViews: How President Trump Could Hurt NYC’s First-Time Homebuyers, City Limits
• CityViews: Solutions to NYC’s Affordable Homeownership Crisis do Exist, City Limits
• Worst Case for Public Housing Seen in 2 Midwestern Cities, City Limits
• Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut, 99% Invisible
• When Medieval Monks Couldn't Cure the Plague, They Launched a Luxe Skincare Line, Collectors Weekly
• She Lied About Everything, except Marrying Wyatt Earp, Messy Nessy Chic
• Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents, NY Times
• Culture Wars: Trap Music Keeps Atlanta On Hip-Hop's Cutting Edge. Why Can't The City Embrace It? , NPR
• Op-Ed: Azealia Banks and the Double Standard of Mental Illness, Pitchfork

What I read today - March 14

• The terrifying reality of being an American without health insurance, Vox
• 6 Lessons on Raising Boys to Become Men, PJ Media

what I read today - March 13

• Katz's & Tourists, Vanishing New York
• Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job, Jezebel
• The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper, Atlas Obscura
• Inside the Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World, Munchies
• The first female automotive designer was also a refugee and a single mom, timeline
• Niihau, Hawaii’s ‘Forbidden Island,’ is closed to outsiders, Boston Globe
• If Scotland leaves, England will lose the Brexit game, Al Jazeera
• Working While Female, Medium

what i read today - march 11

• The Sculpture of a “Fearless Girl” on Wall Street Is Fake Corporate Feminism, hyperallergic
• Amal Clooney Gave A Powerful Speech At The UN, So Why Are The Headlines About Her Baby Bump?, Bust

What I read today - March 10

• Calling Bullshit
• Meet the Dodge La Femme, the bonkers car marketed only to women, Timeline
  I'd drive this
• Wikileaks' CIA document dump will cause a ripple effect, Al Jazeera
  "With the CIA hacking tools, black sites, the NSA's mass surveillance programme and a recklessly unpredictable commander-in-chief, the US can no longer tout itself as an exceptional democracy." Ouch.
• Now What, Pinch of Yum
• The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush, Jacobian
• The science of why cats like getting into boxes then peering menacingly over the edge, Boing Boing
• The Soviet Communist Origins of International Women’s Day, Messy Nessy Chic
• What Just Happened?! A Review of President Trump’s Seventh Week., The New Republic
  Check out the lines underneath hyperlinks, the decenders are cut out <3

What I read today - Mar 9

• I am a 55 Year Old Man I Moonlight as a Bachelor Blogger for My Daughter When She is Traveling for Business. , Marnie Thompson
• How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style, Atlas Obscura
• In Trump’s ‘Maternity Leave’ Plan, The Devil — and the Stereotypes — Are In the Details, ACLU

What I read today - mar 8

• The debate over the Affordable Care Act is really a debate over wealth redistribution, Washington Post
• Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
• The House That Hats Built, a Queen Anne Manse in Brooklyn Heights, Brownstoner
• Ben Carson Might Slash its Budget, but Some see Public Housing as a Work of Art, City Limits
• After death row: An unlikely love story, Al Jazeera
• Why the French elections will change the face of Europe, Al Jazeera

What I read today - Mar 7

• The natives of Easter Island found paradise, and then destroyed it, Timeline
• The Batcave, a Graffiti Landmark in Brooklyn, Grows Up, NY Times
• When Lemon-Shaped Juice Containers Set a British Legal Precedent, Atlas Obscura
• A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed, NY Times
• Total recall: the people who never forget, The Guardian
• The EPA’s Science Office Removed “Science” From Its Mission Statement, The New Republic

What I read today - Mar 6

• NYCHA Blocks Lawyer for Tenant Advisers on Development Project, City Limits
• De Blasio Homeless Plan Aims to Replace Hotels and Cluster Sites with New Shelters, City Limits
• The Montessori Bell Rattle -- Montessori Baby Week 14, the kavanaugh report
• ODA’s Eye-Popping Build With Green Roof for Rabsky and Rheingold Finally Rising in Bushwick. Brownstoner
• The Art—and Anger—of Japanese Internment Camp Silk Screeners, Atlas Obscura
• Tropical Cyclone Enawo threatens Madagascar, Al Jazeera
• The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative, Jacobian
• Stretch of Roman road unveiled beneath McDonald's restaurant, The Telegraph
• Inside Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem - in pictures, The National
• Opulent Propaganda: The Subterranean Paradise of the Moscow Metro, hyperallergic
• The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs, The New Republic
• Documenting the Undocumented, Places Journal
• Leaving Aleppo, The New Yorker

What I read today - Mar 5

• Every time we take an Uber we’re spreading its social poison, The Guardian
  Seriously, Uber is the worst and I refuse to use their service
• Why Poor People Stay Poor, Slate

What I read today - Mar 3

• Three-Story Garage At 524 Halsey Street To Be Expanded Into Five-Story, 36-Unit Residential Building, Bedford-Stuyvesant, new york yimby
• A linguistic anthropologist explains why, um, “filler words” are OK to use, Quartz
• Queensway Organizers Scramble to Break Ground Before Alternative Uses Considered for Site, Untapped Cities
• What Is Montessori?, the kavanaugh report
• Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brand, The New Republic
• GM invented planned obsolescence during the Great Depression, and we’ve been buying it ever since, Timeline
• How Trump's wall is affecting those at the borders, Al Jazeera
• The Oral History of 'Daria', Vice
• The World in 2050: When the 5 Largest Economies Are the BRICs and Us, The Atlantic
• Now you’re just the cheese shop that I used to know, New Food Economy
• We’ll pay more for “all-natural” food, especially if someone tells us it is, New Food Economy
• European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans, The Independent

What I read today - Mar 2

• In small town America, sometimes prisons are the best bet, Timeline
• The Village Invaded by Flowers, Messy Nessy Chic
• Why Get Out Is the Best Movie Ever Made About American Slavery, Esquire
• First Prison, Then A Skadden Fellowship, The Am Law Daily
• George W. Bush explains his fondness for Michelle Obama, CNN