James C. Hunt

@Rant098765 @drimbbi @aakashgupta The Vatican’s assets and endowments are less than the University of Notre Dame’s.

@drimbbi @aakashgupta Apart from the Vatican not using its own massive wealth to pay to finish it's own building.

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose. A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings. Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments. The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days. Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product. On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years. When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry." Turns out neither was he.

@Spicxer Declaration of Independence is what you’re quoting

The most important concept to the people who crafted the Constitution is liberty. All people are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. ALL people. These rights cannot be granted by government, only taken away.

@CatalinaByrd ¡Buen suerte, amiga! CPGC seems like the best candidate to me (remediating large brownfields is pricey) but wherever you decide to go, go hard.

@mobtownhon I got all of it but the cash but I’m working on it! I’ve got all of the rest of the ingredients I think lol!

Policy isn’t written where protests happen but if you want to support a bill to get black youth a safe recreational space to ride that would be more useful.

@CatalinaByrd I mean this with all respect: a black guy/gal with vision, charm, access to cash, and cracker moonshiner’s “get on board or get out of my way” attitude is what’ll get it done in BC. Basic plans are already out there. Need 60-80 acres & $$$.

@mobtownhon We have some amazing architects - I think it could be figured out.

@CatalinaByrd Unpleasant, but some version of that applies to every sports facility in this city. A ballpark at Camden Yards was 1st proposed in ‘72; didn’t open til ‘92 and only because the Colts left in ‘84 & scared the politicians into acting to save the O’s.

@mobtownhon Because we can never get that far because immediately gets shouted down by people like the one I was talking to earlier that don’t think our kids deserve it.

@CatalinaByrd Meanwhile, my cousin insists the Carmelo Anthony/Mugsy Bogues of motorcycling is riding the streets of BC rn & could be making $$$ on the circuit with training & sponsors.

@CatalinaByrd Unfortunately, it does. Can’t do soccer and motorcycles there. Only weighing in here bc folks have been talking about creating a place to ride in BC for 10-20 yrs now but I’ve never seen any details on site/layout/funding.

@CatalinaByrd 60 acres would seem to be a minimum size. Need decent straightaways for speed and showing off.

@CatalinaByrd MD legislators just declined to fund a soccer stadium/academy at 60 acre Carroll Park golf course. Maybe advocate for a slightly smaller version of a legendary 80 acre race course near Detroit there. waterfordhills.com/club-history.h…

@DavidGrassmick @PolitiBunny Nah, we’ve all seen how the govt spends housing $$$

@PolitiBunny You realize if the federal government took all the money spent the recent war with Iran, it could’ve built and given away for free 80,000 1/2 million dollar homes

No. Governor Healey is forcing taxpayers to provide $25k in assistance to more first-time homebuyers. Where do you think that money comes from?

@IFoughtTheDoor @AllisonPearson @RAFCRANWELL The soil and the plant aren’t the same. But you know that.

@AllisonPearson @RAFCRANWELL Islam and Islamist extremism are not the same. But you know that.

When I interviewed David Cameron after he became Prime Minister he said the thing that shocked him most was “the scale of the domestic Islamist terrorist threat”. An RAF cadet has been suspended for seeming to make the same point. @RAFCRANWELL

@CzarOfGreenland @Dartagan_Llore Mt. Washington, Hampden, Woodberry & Canton are minority communities? Learn something new every day.

@Dartagan_Llore Baltimore’s highway routes tended to go where there was least political resistance [poor, minority communities]. I-83s route has lasting effects making the city less walkable and limiting development in areas that could use it the most. 83 aint going anywhere though.

Baltimore City it’s time we tear down the Jones Falls Expressway so we can have the Jones Falls Riviera. This is what Baltimore City *should* look like :

@ElGato05086184 @washghost1 Agree. Stood where Pickett’s Charge started and def felt it

@washghost1 I went to visit Gettysburg in the late 1970's...I didn't see any ghosts, but let me tell you, there is some heavy vibe in the air around the battle fields.

I remember seeing this video on unsolved mysteries and being shook

@jemillerbalt Galatians 2:11-13. The Apostle Paul confronts the first pope, Peter.

I don't think criticizing the Pope about theology is a good strategy

@Romans8_5 @Brad49649135 @JennMGreenberg @Caripka If Jesus had brothers, why did He entrust her to John on the cross? She would have been His brothers’ responsibility.

@Brad49649135 @JennMGreenberg @Caripka Mary isn't divine. She was a faithful woman that God selected. The Bible mentions directly on multiple occasions that Jesus had brothers. There is no reason to believe their descendants would do anything better than what is happening today.

I never understood the purpose of this doctrine. Obviously Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, but why must she remain perpetually so? Especially when the Bible talks about Jesus’s brothers. She was married to Joseph and sex within marriage is good, not sinful.

@Socia_Redseed @dakekang Jesus was never unemployed. He worked every day but the sabbath his entire life.

@dakekang A healthy human mind/body need rest, especially long-rest. Some of the greatest minds were un-employed for long-time. Modern: Marx, Einstein, etc Ancient: Jesus, Buddha, Confucius. Out of millions, the chance is never zero, especially if they've adequated material conditions

Albee Zhang writes about China's young, low-cost retirees, quitting careers before thirty and taking advantage of China's slowing economy to chill out in semi-abandoned, shockingly cheap housing complexes: apnews.com/article/china-…

@justin_fenton @Orioles Here it is … The OPACY seats would go under the canopy. Make it so, O’s! You’ll help a lot of people in need take a load off their feet! TIA!

These have been here a few weeks, are they opening day giveaways or free to a good home? Please confirm @Orioles

Soon

@dpheneghan1 @kevinvdahlgren Drugs such as xylazine, a horse tranquilizer, leave extensive necrotic tissue at the injection site. Untreated (as it often is) it can cost the user his/her limbs.

@kevinvdahlgren Are people really losing their limbs in Portland due to frostbite? Maddening.

One of the biggest barriers to ending our homelessness crisis isn’t a lack of money. It’s our ideological divide. On one side is the recovery model, focused on helping people address addiction, mental illness, and instability so they can reach self-sufficiency. On the other

@BillyRober55287 @Hinduism_sci Great question. Anyone have a depth chart?

@Hinduism_sci The question I have is, how many "senior IRGC officials" are left?

BREAKING 🚨 Huge setback for Iran’s Islamic regime 🤯 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 U.S. and Israeli air forces have reportedly struck an underground IRGC command center in Tehran. Reports say 50+ senior IRGC officials were killed while meeting to plan attacks for the coming days.