new piece in @metropolitiques.bsky.social excavates history of -- + FHA support for -- Black-owned housing co-ops under Section 213 url:https://metropolitics.org/The-Apartment-You-Can-Own-with-Pride-Federally-Insured-Black-Housing.html

For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...

“On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away”

Whoa...

This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.

It is mind-bending to see Obama’s treasury secretary + purported academic leader debase himself in this way. Just…barf

Every day, more atrocities (and more in the pipeline) with this administration.

In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…

I will not vote for anyone who does not promise to abolish ice and put every single one of these goons in prison.

New in @metropolitiques.bsky.social : 🔥https://metropolitics.org/Urban-Theory-and-the-Cold-War-Reflections-on-the-Political-Economy-of-Urban.html

I’ll be giving my official ONLINE book launch for "The Menace of Prosperity" November 3rd! I'll be partnering with the @GothamCenter and joining @robertwsnyder to discuss NYC's economic history and its implications. RSVP today! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

It's kind of funny comparing Zohran Mamdani's endorsements to Andrew Cuomo's. For example, Zohran has 44 members of the state legislature; Cuomo has two. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

Love this!

In 1937, Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on City Planning produced a book for children, titled The ABC of City Planning. And…they had a section on Municipal Markets! Good inspiration for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is that time of year where New Yorkers find out that more of our neighbors are students who are homeless. This year tally comes out to 154,000 or nearly 1 in 7 students. There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...

Long Island City rezoning does not go far enough in guaranteeing housing affordability or preserving public land for public good.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Not familiar with Alden and colburn’s work, will check it out

Are you saying you doubt the correlation between supply and prevailing rents or just that there is a disconnect between market supply and lower income brackets? Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?

Pritzker is looking presidential

Every state should immediately start arresting and prosecuting ICE who violate the state laws.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents? MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

The media has barely covered this. Imagine if it was a conservative judge who had ruled in favor of Trump. We'd never hear the end of it.

yeah okay

Here’s what we at Local 476 have to say about the White House memo: 👉🏾 Go f* yourself. The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 guarantees back pay — period. No memo, no spin, no “reinterpretation” from OMB can override federal law. #AFGE476 #UnionStrong #FederalEmployees

Whenever I see something talking about "The West," I mentally substitute "The White Nations" or "Christendom".

Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

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Well if they would like to denounce political violence....

Reading this, one has to wonder if the Trib editorial board wasn't a bit excited to see the holiday weekend's bloodshed. God forbid they try to lift the city up. And the call for measured cooperation with the Trump White House is, to put it nicely, completely detached from reality.

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