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Susanita
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As a #longtimefed I worked in a total of seven different buildings. I saw on Bluesky this morning that the current regime has offered hundreds of federal buildings for sale, about a third of them in the Washington DC area.

You would think a real estate genius would know that selling multiple properties at once, when the agency managing those properties has had its staff cut, might not bring the highest price? Or maybe that‘s not the goal?

kspenmoll OMG they are selling our buildings. Please no one buy them! 3w
TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 3w
Aims42 Real estate genius + 🍑🤡 does not compute. Again, how did a man who declared bankruptcy on his businesses not once, not twice, BUT multiple times become our president??? 3w
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Leftcoastzen Absolutely correct, unfortunately!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 3w
Leftcoastzen @Aims42 it‘s actually 6 bankruptcies. He‘s a total grifter. 3w
Tamra Also, to what office are workers being required to return to? 🤔 hmmmmmmm 3w
AmyG We will become like Russia. A country of oligarchs. Run by a dictator. 3w
Amor4Libros @Tamra That was my first thought, too! 3w
Susanita @kspenmoll In “normal” times I would be in favor of selling excess and repurposing the buildings. This happened to the sixth building where I worked, and it made sense. However, these are not normal times. 😒 3w
Leftcoastzen Many federal workers said when they were forced to come back to the office, no desk , no chair, no computer, no WiFi 3w
ImperfectCJ It's possible that it's by design...lower the prices so a handful of wealthy investors can buy up the real estate. It's a stated goal of the administration (via its unelected representative) to privatize as much of the government as possible, and it's in line with the Russian model for oligarchs to gather up all they can at prices engineered to be low by intentionally flooding/crashing the market. A good time to re-read the tagged. 3w
Susanita @ImperfectCJ I think it‘s by design. 3w
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staci.reads
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I've had this one on my shelf for a long time after hearing about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast and finally got to it when it came up as November's #Bookspin. Really interesting discussion of what makes a city livable, healthy, and desirable. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3mo
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Leftcoastzen
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park | Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar
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#SummerSouls #park Every time I have gone to New York, I try to visit some part of Central Park. A treasure! When it was first built, the common complaint was it was too far north, the city would develop that far out.😂 New York wouldn‘t be the same without this amazing space.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds amazing! 9mo
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Pogue
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I will never look at parking the same way again. I think the title is a bit wrong, it should be “Explains North America”.

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alecia3dixie
Everyone is Watching | Megan Bradbury
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I really liked this one. I thought it was a really fun time. It's just super chatoic the whole time. I liked the game ascpet and the action just kept coming. This isn't like a hard-hitting crazy thriller. It's just a fun time. 4/5

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Pogue
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It was a November afternoon in Queens and Jie Zou was looking for a parking spot.
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Sace I just read the description of this book. I may have to read it but I wonder if it will just anger me. 11mo
Pogue @Sace I don‘t know, parking lots anger me as it is. Such a waste of land. My book club picked it. I am very excited for the discussion. 11mo
Sace Just the description angered me! It seems like a great book club pick though! 11mo
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Chelsea.Poole
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Crossings is an eye-opening and incredibly thorough look at the way the human-created roads are affecting everything from deer populations and monarch butterfly migration in North America, to kangaroo roadkill and orphaned wallabies in New Zealand. Goldfarb lays out ways humans are correcting our mistakes—building land bridges for crossings and planting milkweed for butterflies. Is it enough? Can we do more?
I loved this book!!

CoffeeK8 This sounds fascinating 11mo
Hooked_on_books Yes! This was so good! 11mo
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Megabooks
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I heard about this from Parnassus Books‘ Laydown Diaries last week, and their recs rarely disappoint! Kimble looks at three cities in Texas and how proposed interstate highway expansions have negatively impacted local citizens, businesses, and the climate/air quality. I learned a great deal about why routing them through cities rather than around does not usually help travel times and what on-the-ground activists are doing to oppose this.

JamieArc I need to read this. We have a highway that was constructed to pass through a thriving black neighborhood in my city, and the effects were long-lasting and devastating. They made a documentary about it, so it‘s been a really great local history project. 11mo
Megabooks @JamieArc So many of the communities affected in this book were primarily Black and Latino. It's devastating to these communities. What's the name of the documentary? Is it available anyplace? 11mo
JamieArc @Megabooks It‘s called They Even Took the Dirt. I don‘t think it‘s widely available yet. They‘ve been doing local showings for the last year at community events, but I don‘t think even we can get a copy yet for personal viewing. 11mo
JamieArc If you search for the I-496 project in Lansing, MI, you may be able to see snippets. 11mo
Megabooks @JamieArc Thanks for letting me know the title. Maybe someone will pick it up for wider release! 🙏 I watch more documentaries than fictional films. 😃 11mo
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Christinak
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I am working on one more non fiction read to wrap up the month.

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Soubhiville
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Did you know that the road systems humans have built interrupt migrations, isolate animals in territories too small for them, kill an impossibly huge number of creatures daily, and pollute soil and waterways?

A main focus of this book is wildlife crossings by underpass, overpass, culvert, even tiny pipes for rodents, and the amount they cut back on road deaths is astounding.

I wasn‘t expecting the section on roads isolating humans.

Excellent!

Soubhiville I‘m confident this will make my best of list for the year. Highly recommend. @Hooked_on_books 14mo
Soubhiville Sietje is keeping an eye on the ecology of the apartment parking lot 🐶😁. Actually we have a view of big trees that usually have birds and squirrels, plus a view of other residents walking dogs. She likes to watch. 14mo
ShelleyBooksie I haven't read this one as I was worried it would be too depressing. Does it provide hope? Love the picture of Sietje ♡ 14mo
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Gissy Interesting and I agree with @ShelleyBooksie and yes, Sietje looks adorable 🐶 ❤️❤️❤️ 14mo
Soubhiville @ShelleyBooksie I felt like there was some hope, in that money is being allocated to improve and add to crossings to get animals across safely, and that new roads can be built to take wildlife into account from the beginning. Also unused roads can be returned to a wild state, which has been shown possible in some places. (Is it enough? No. But better than nothing?) 14mo
Leftcoastzen 🐶👏 14mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 14mo
Bookzombie This sounds really interesting. They built a huge land bridge in San Antonio before I left. It links two sides of a park, but also keeps animals from having to cross the parkway. https://www.philhardbergerpark.org/land-bridge 14mo
Hooked_on_books I loved this one, too! His previous book about beavers (Eager) was great, so I figured this one would be, and it was a favorite of last year for me. I‘m glad Sietje has some good stuff to keep her eyes on! 14mo
Soubhiville @Bookzombie oh I heard of that one! I wish I had gone to see it before I moved. I‘m so glad it‘s there, and if I ever make it back down there I will check it out. Thanks for the link! 14mo
Soubhiville @Hooked_on_books I forgot he wrote Eager! Now I‘m going to have to read that 📖😆. 14mo
squirrelbrain Sounds fascinating- stacked. 14mo
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