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  1. ‘Why not us?’: Business advocate says Lambert’s welcome — and St. Louis’ mindset — need work byteseu.com/2352161/ #business #hurdles #Lambert #lots #signage #StLouis

  2. The Missouri Botanical Gardens held their annual Japanese Festival last weekend, and I got to participate in the lantern ceremony #stlouis #lanternfestival #light #lantern

  3. The Missouri Botanical Gardens held their annual Japanese Festival last weekend, and I got to participate in the lantern ceremony #stlouis #lanternfestival #light #lantern

  4. The Missouri Botanical Gardens held their annual Japanese Festival last weekend, and I got to participate in the lantern ceremony #stlouis #lanternfestival #light #lantern

  5. #Nazis #history #StLouis #LongIsland

    "The Nazi summer camp behind 'Camp Siegfried' had a St. Louis counterpart

    Most Americans know Nazi Germany had youth camps.

    Far fewer realize America had them, too.

    On Aug. 20, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will present a staged reading of 'Camp Siegfried,' a play inspired by a real summer camp on Long Island operated by the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that sought to spread Hitler’s ideology in the United States before World War II.

    For St. Louis audiences, the story hits especially close to home.

    The Museum’s current exhibition, 'Nazis Next Door: St. Louis Faces Nazism in the 1930s,' explores how the Bund also established a camp along the Meramec River. That makes 'Camp Siegfried' more than a story about another place and another time.

    A real American summer camp

    The title sounds fictional.

    It isn’t.

    Camp Siegfried operated in Yaphank, N.Y., where American teenagers swam, hiked, danced and played sports. Beneath those familiar summer camp activities, however, organizers promoted Nazi ideology and loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

    Playwright Bess Wohl uses that setting to tell the story of two teenagers searching for identity and belonging. Rather than focusing on the battlefields of World War II, the play examines how extremist ideas can quietly take root through friendship, community and the desire to fit in."

    stljewishlight.org/uncategoriz

  6. Meh, today's been interesting. As usual I woke up around 0230 to use the bathroom, and checked Amazon Flex to see if'n anything good was on the board, especially as I won't be working the next few days, maybe the rest of the week.

    3½ hours for $112? Sure, we can do that…
    Oh yeah, that went well, pick up in St Peters, MO, 31 packages, 31 stops, most deliveries are in eastern Wentzville, but the last 8 or so are spread from Foristell to Jonesburg¡¡ Jonesburg is 25 miles away from Wentzville. Yeah, that ran long obviously, just for the route, plus I had a random extra package that was easier to deliver than take back, so I got it added and did that, and now I have to see if'n they'll bump my pay up, I've put in a request, but…
    And after that, we grabbed breakfast from Sunrise Ranch, great food over there, highly recommended if'n you're out in the Wentzville area, then went and picked up a delivery from Walmart on the way to my chiropractor…
    Annnnd, that went pear shaped, I picked up a 65 inch TV, with a Chevy Bolt. Yeah, had to move the seats forward until my stomach was nearly touching the steering wheel, maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

    Chiro, coffee from Bread Co, and then home. Reading and a nap, and now here. Holos.social seems to be behaving today, none of the problems I had yesterday, so that's good. I will give it points for one thing it does better than Wafrn (•pokes• @gabboman ), Diaspora boosts display properly there, unlike this place. I am curious about where my account lives there, it was always said that it lives on your device, the relay just works to keep you connected to the Fediverse, I guess reminiscent of early mobile web browsers, but right now I'm only running it on my desktop, so where's my data?

    Tomorrow, car goes to a different dealer, hopefully this one knows how to repair cars, if'n you live in the STL area, stay far, far away from Lou Fusz Chevy, they shouldn't be allowed to look at tools, let alone use them. I will type up a list of what I need this time to help, gotta look up the TSB's that are involved. I was going to bicycle home, stopping at a new diner on the way, but I've done breakfast out two days in a row, so definitely passing on breakfast, and based on the forecast, prolly going to spend on an Uber instead of bicycling the 11 miles.


    #Life #Today #Work #Life•• #Wafrn #Holos.social #social-media #Chevy #Car #Bolt #Chevrolet #STL #MO #St-Louis #Missouri
  7. This will be *fun*: got an email from administration this morning touting "a new look for WashU", and already the university homepage redirects from wustl.edu to washu.edu. The FAQ promises that email addresses and everything else will be switched over the next few years.

    A whole lot of accounts, links, etc. will be breaking; changing URLs every few years is ridiculous. (My email was artsci.wustl.edu, is now wustl.edu, and apparently soon washu.edu.)

    #wustl #WashU #academicChatter #StLouis

  8. "Asia in St. Louis" began as a community-based learning course from my colleague Prof. Ulug Kuzuoglu; it is now housed at #WashU libraries, and contains information, stories, and reflections on the role of #AsianAmericans in #StLouis

    storymaps.arcgis.com/collectio

    #history #stl

  9. (Hopefully final) #WashU wall update: the fences are now gone as well; everything was normal on campus today. No communication from administration since graduation.

    I don't know what's happened to everyone previously suspended; hard to find out now that the Riverfront Times is closed. stlpr.org/2024-05-22/rft-sold-

    #wustl #STL #StLouis

  10. Apparently #WashU did reply to the #StLouis city government:

    'The aldermen have proposed a resolution condemning the university’s response to last month's protest ...

    Aldermanic President Megan Green, who was at the protest and was among the faculty members suspended ... said the letter from the university raised further concerns.

    “They're defining any subject matter that makes them uncomfortable as being violent,” she said. “And that's very problematic.”'

    stltoday.com/news/local/govern

  11. ' “The use of suspensions is sort of one of the primary tools of private universities ... It's what [the] general counsel tells universities to do,” he says. “Put folks on paid suspension, make the process as vague and complicated and endless as possible, and in the meantime, we'll figure out what the next steps are. And hopefully some of these people will just go away.” '

    - excerpted from
    riverfronttimes.com/news/profe

    #WashU #STL #StLouis #StudentProtests

  12. At least #WashU matched the fence/wall tarp to the color of the "in St Louis for St Louis" marketing banners. /s

    I took this picture today, three days after graduation. No ID checkpoints, but only a few gaps in the fence, some of which were watched by radio-equipped "event staff". Very quiet on campus, few people around. No idea how long administration is planning to leave the walls in place.

    #StLouis #wustl

  13. Different approaches, indeed.

    "The protest ... went off largely without incident—a marked contrast to what happened over the weekend at Washington University ... St. Louis University officials took a different approach on Wednesday. The police presence was fairly light, and demonstrators could move about campus without any resistance from law enforcement. Police shut down part of Grand Avenue while students sat in the street listening to speeches."

    stlpr.org/government-politics- #WashU #StLouis #SLU

  14. @nix That's quite a nice contrast to what happened at #WashU Saturday! And Grand is not a small side street; I'd guess that was rather more disruptive than people on campus on a weekend.

    Does that mean the county police were at Washington University? Or were both #STL city police but asked to do different things?

    #StLouis

  15. @janhoglund Sarah Kendzior's entire post is so heartbreakingly open and honest.

    "I covered the Ferguson protests ten years ago. I am used to seeing innocent people beaten and arrested in St. Louis. I am not used to seeing it happen at Wash U.

    But if there is a definitive story of the past decade, it is how the net of oppression has widened. Whether through covid, climate change, or the loss of hard-won rights: we are all targets, we are all disposable."

    #WashU #StLouis sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/t

  16. The #protests aren't malicious and violent. The overwrought and intellectually dishonest administration response is. The protesters were nonviolent members of the #WashU and #StLouis communities, who are now banned from campus, with faculty forbidden from contacting students as if THEY were the threat to students' well-being. It was the admin's decision, not a student demand, to evacuate the library. The buildings on campus are still locked.

    riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-

    #gaza #HigherEd