Zachary Van Brunt

Engineering! The outdoors! America! Bridges! Exclamation points!

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

Beauty, stillness, calm.

Grand Teton National Park invites you to experience the seasonal changes, breathe in the new energy and welcome the cooler temperatures.

Photo by C. Adams / NPS

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

[ErnestBorgnineNavalCapDoff.jpeg @poddtadre]

Probably a sign your team is not in great shape when your local broadcast is showing graphics like this.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?

[Adam Kuhr @AdamKuhr]

This is @PeteButtigieg with the only acceptable answer.

[Rick Paulas @rick_paulas]

In 1905, the NY Central Railroad set out a bunch of different kinds of granite in Van Cortlandt Park to test which would stand the weather the best before building Grand Central. They’re still there. And gotta say, they were right! No. 2 still looks pristine!

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Truly one of the great bangers

[Zachary Van Brunt @ZackVB]

@typewriteralley They have a lot of work to do on wayfinding! The market has a lot of pretty complicated signage and 3D maps that are due for a refresh now.

[rust belt roadtrip @gmoult]

no art deco building has ever gone harder

[Andrew Damitio 🏗️ (🏬🚝☢️🔆🔋♨️) @AndrewDamitio]

Bonneville Power Administration WW II posters go insanely hard.

Promoting the use of clean hydropower to scale industry to win a war against fascists is impressive in itself, but the WPA poster aesthetics somehow make it even cooler.

[Vinny Thomas @vinn_ayy]

everyone is talking talking about the opinions of Chappell Roan, but no one is talking about the hardy foliage of the Chaparral

[Michael Fry @BigDirtyFry]

Buzz Aldrin’s still alive let’s get him up there. First man on the second moon.

[Zachary Van Brunt @ZackVB]

@Qagggy Walked down last Saturday with my family, and saw this in the distance, the aquarium on the right, the leaf sculpture overhead. All felt pretty dang good.

[Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @eyesonthestorm]

Today in @TheStranger, I did a deep dive into Washington’s broken model of funding public schools:

Its roots in bad GOP ideas, why it’s failing us, and lessons from our past that can help us overcome it.

It’s time to end the class war on our classrooms.

https://t.co/TbF7vmPrzZ

[The Chaser @chaser]

Full article here:
“Under Harris, a foreigner has been allowed to take over the minds of American children” says Trump
https://t.co/mjIWmrvxZg

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

[Dr William Tozer | RIBA ANZIA 📍 @WilliamTozer]

My theory is that architecture matters more than many are prepared to admit. Whether it’s transport, housing or anything else, the way spaces look and feel matters just as much as the way they function. It’s important to feel inspired about life doing ordinary things every day.

[z b reeves @zbreeves]

it’s the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten monday