Atlanta Beltline Inc. has hired a new "vice president of transit innovation" despite signs it may never do any actual light rail (& hasn't since Beltline began in 2005.) But when your $260M budget is >25% of entire City of Atlanta's general revenue budget, you can keep hiring those C-suite folks.

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

White folks get all upset at the notion of “reparations” but don’t seem to mind that we continue to have what are essentially reverse-reparations in this country, especially in much of the South, where folks whose wealth came from slavery continue to strip Black families of land and property. 1/2

The past is ever dead. It’s not even past.

Here's a cleaner version of the graphic with my error omitted. There are almost innumerable things I could have included in this graph, and maybe I'll make a version with many of them, but I didn't want to assign too homework. The point is to demonstrate how recent these events are.

The Carlyle Group is the majority owner of the Seattle Reign. 🤦‍♀️

“It is essential to invest in impoverished/historically neglected communities, Hernández added, but too often investors’ interests are not in sync with those of a neighborhood’s original residents.”

"Lenders, to office owners in particular...increasingly believe that structural changes around the workplace and hybrid work have permanently reduced demand for most office space." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

"His campaigns helped to normalize Black women’s leadership beyond the ballot box as organizers, decision-makers & strategists. In the years since... Black women have shaped party leadership & helped define the direction of American politics." Rest in Power, Rev. Jackson 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess...

Back in 2023, I met up with Noni Session at Esther’s Orbit Room, the historic but long-shuttered blues and jazz club that had been a staple of the 7th Street Corridor that once made West Oakland the “Harlem of the West.”

There’s a lot to dislike about this particular nugget of terribleness amid an avalanche of terribleness but it makes me think about how this wasteful, self-indulgent slush fund type spending by these pieces of shit makes all other public spending look guilty by association.

Watched and rewatched that Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara pair free skate at least five times now. Can’t stop. Locked the fuck in. Jeezus. The world needed that. Even the reaction to the score. Just amazing. Love a generational moment in any sport and performance art. Ugh.

absolutely shocked shocked shocked that a movie made by a woman being consumed by mostly women is being gleefully and publicly eviscerated! that’s so weird

Tried my best to line these up right. In 2023, Adelphi Bank became the first new Black MDI chartered since 2003: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

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Not to make light of a various serious and troubling issue, but bravo on that headline 🤌🤌🤌

The headline and the whole premise of this piece is so shitty and at least a little bit racist if not full blown obviously blatantly racist www.geekwire.com/2026/a-warni...

If you thought Pepper was mad about Trump trying to demolish the Kennedy Center, wait till you hear his take on the administration taking the PRIDE flag down at the STONEWALL National Monument.

Seattle created a social housing development authority, funded it, elected a socialist mayor & then won the Super Bowl. As a lifelong Philly sports fan I'm not above following other cities' formulas for inducing the favor of the sporting gods. I'm just saying. iexaminer.org/advocacy-acq...

If I had a nickel for every time an ICE employee was arrested in a Bloomington, Minnesota underage sex trafficking sting, I’d have ten cents. Not a lot, but weird that it happened twice!

“Do no evil” theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Beautiful day. Just ignore the buildings. For now.

“In Quezon City, we’re establishing the city’s first member-owned, city-supported cooperative made up of domestic workers.” nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Is there a point, I wonder, past which at least some corporations decide at least some of this administration’s actions are so wildly illegitimate and stupid they’ll be reversed in a few years anyway and just start operating under that assumption. www.fastcompany.com/91475644/wha...

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#BadBunny opening up with a gauntlet of street vendors 🔥🔥🔥

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Team USA Women’s Hockey putting on a clinic this morning Textbook goal off faceoff Textbook odd player rush Textbook five hole (and by a defender no less!)

This story is a great example of why, when I'm sometimes asked what's a good book to read as an introduction to racial or economic justice work or urban planning or community development, #1 on that list for me is always The Warmth of Other Suns.

There are ~3,900 community banks out there. While they represent just 11% of assets among federally-insured banks, community banks represent 31% of commercial real estate mortgages, 32% of small business loans, and 33% of construction loans. Source: banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-sui...

Today marks one year since the publication of my first book, “The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Just Economy.” (If you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Or leave a review on Goodreads or Storygraph if you have the time). www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Pepper is displeased by the news of the administration temporarily closing and possibly going so far as to demolish and rebuild the Kennedy Center. I mean he REALLY needs to crank out his hot take on all this.

"“S,” a longtime Baltimore community organizer who withheld their full name because of safety concerns, said residents are responding in the ways they know best: by building community and relying on networks that already exist." baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people." lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

“…it would be a great thing if we reserved the more positive term “investor” for the smaller group of folks and organizations that actually invest, and called a speculator a speculator.” shelterforce.org/2025/02/05/w...

Mayor Mamdani just invited everyone waiting out the snowstorm in NYC to enjoy free access to Heated Rivalry through the NY Public Library system www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...

Banks in the United States have obligations under the Community Reinvestment Act to meet the needs of low-income communities, including credit needs, in a safe and sound fashion.

“If you spend some time working inside the bureaucracy and you keep your eyes open, you can learn a lot about the points of leverage that leftist politicians and outside advocacy groups can press to their advantage.” dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

"CM Gabriela Santiago-Romero, who was raised in SW Detroit, has said that [immigration enforcement] presence is not new. What has changed, she and others argue, is the scale, speed, and opacity of enforcement — and the city’s limited ability to intervene." thelatinonewsletter.org/p/detroit-we...

"...with every new video of a dude in sweats leaning over the back of a sofa and smiling when two men on Heated Rivalry kiss, a tiny counternarrative gets its wings." www.vulture.com/article/heat...

Last Friday I stopped by the Brooklyn Supported Agriculture storefront, on Marcus Garvey Blvd in the heart of Brooklyns Bed-Stuy. It's run by Brooklyn Packers, Black-led, worker-owned cooperative that's part of a growing regional food ecosystem rooted in food sovereignty & cooperative economics.

everyone you see arrested in this video is a U.S. citizen

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Hey you know I appear on podcasts sometimes. Here's one that came out today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...