Alexandria is planning to redevelop a coal plant that's been abandoned and inaccessible for 14 years into a mixed-use, riverfront neighborhood.
People here are still mad about it ("parking pressures" blah blah). NIMBYs are such unserious people.
Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll:
"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions."
it should probably be a bigger story that there was a normal bipartisan America 250 organization but then Trump decided to launch his own competing right wing grift version and ruined everything
People complain about synodality all the time. But they have no problem “listening” to this auxiliary bishop of a small remote parish who travels around the world on the SSPX dime blab on and on and on about everything. What other prelate has time for this? Even Bishop Strickland who has no job is as prominent as Schneider! Why? Because he feeds dissent.
LFG we are literally turning an old MTA garage into over a thousand homes and a park
the secret to making cities nicer is simply making it easier to build more housing
So when the World Cup was in Qatar, we were all told we had to conduct ourselves in accordance with Islamic society. Now that the World Cup is being held in the West, we are still being told we need to conduct ourselves in accordance with Islamic values.
Interesting...
Vance is a paradigmatic example of a new kind of religious conversion. He doesn't agree w the institutional authorities of his new faith or many of its official doctrines, but likes the aesthetics & perceived politics. Religion as post-truth consumer lifestyle.