I moved from a city that is seriously abusing TIFs (TADs) to another city that is... And for billionaires in both cities! Centennial Yards/Gulch in Atlanta and a new soccer stadium (that was supposedly not going to be subsidized 🤣) in Chicago.

Hate to agree with son of billionaire cofounder of Carlyle Group, but he is arguing for NOT diverting $100s of millions of public $$ (that could go to transit) for a parking garage & other miscellany for a new stadium for (another) billionaire's soccer team. www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/07/15/2...

Wait, I thought big landlords were good actually?🙃 Gift article.

In this case it was "tenant protections are bad because they might increase rents; this paper says they do" when it actually says they lower evictions a lot more than they raise rents. (And the paper says that renters of all types are drawn to places with stronger tenant protections).

If I had a ... for every market-fundamentalist urbanist who *selectively* slights an (often anti-regulation-framed) article from the economics literature, an article that actually doesn't say what they claim it does...

“iCE needs to improve its performance” 🤬🤬🤬

Last June, Rep. Stevens voted with Republicans to thank ICE “for protecting the homeland.” Michigan deserves a real Democratic fighter like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social who will hold Trump’s thugs accountable instead of praising them.

I knew I liked this pizza place

In Little Village, Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo signs

The plan to put half of AI company's equity into a "sovereign wealth fund" is like a parody I would unfairly make up to criticize socialists enamored with sovereign wealth funds in 2016.

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

“SHOULD EVERYONE HAVE A DECENT HOME? OBSCURE HUD DOCUMENT SUGGESTS NO” By Alan Mallach shelterforce.org/2026/07/13/s...

Yes, it's not *just* about funding science. It's about authoritarianism across government funding more broadly.

Just make the world a little bit better. 👇

I consider Matt Ygelsias the unflavored jello version of Bill Maher. He long ago learned that bosiding everything was more profitable, but then the performance and inherent narcissism of the bosider persona poisoned his actual persona.

It's not clear to me why there should be a single Democratic senator who voted with Republicans to sanction the International Criminal Court for doing its job and indicting a war criminal for committing a war crime.

"If my grandmother were alive today, she’d shake her head and say it again: Magda Goebbels made a great strudel. She’d remind us that when the media decides to downplay the ideology of killers, it isn’t objectivity – it’s indulgence. It’s complicity."

The NYT has now significantly expanded its obit of Graham, including his many policy reversals, and his attempts to undo the 2020 election. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

And to Atlanta sports boosters who argue Mercedes-Benz Stadium was needed for the World Cup, the Georgia Dome hosted 2 Super Bowls, 3 Final Fours, the Olympics, and many soccer games. The venue was always fine. It's the city and the fealty to FIFA that matter.

Back-to-back World Cup games held at 40 and 50-year-old stadiums, one of which was privately built. Remember that the next time a politician tells you they need a new taxpayer-funded stadium to attract world-class mega-events. It's bullshit.

The Economist ranks Atlanta as the second most livable US metro. Let’s see: -among most car-dependent -no Medicaid expansion -no state minimum wage -minimal tenant protections -last for economic mobility of poor -among highest for eviction -voter suppression Wonder if these were in their index?

Shocker.

Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?

Well as a tourist’s choice at Taste of Chicago, Lou Malnati’s is probably the wise choice.

Shocker.

She isn’t bugging me to play with her. She doesn’t like me sitting in this chair, because it is hers.

See. Easy answer. Don't do genocide...

Quick reminder! "Rahm Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was born in Jerusalem, where he was a member of the Irgun, a Zionist p̷a̷r̷a̷m̷i̷l̷i̷t̷a̷r̷y̷ [terrorist] organization." Tell me again how the anti-genocide protests didn't move the needle. (& also don't ever vote for this man)

Property tax & expenditure limits (PTELs) are bad for a variety of reasons, but one of them is that they make it harder for cities to capture enough of increased land & property values to use for making cities livable for the lower-income households most vulnerable to displacement & exclusion.

Anyway…

Property tax & expenditure limits (PTELs) are bad for a variety of reasons, but one of them is that they make it harder for cities to capture enough of increased land & property values to use for making cities livable for the lower-income households most vulnerable to displacement & exclusion.

What are words, anyway? “ceasefire”

A real vote of confidence in the city's people and the people's mayor

“…the high-water mark for Democrats when it comes to both popularity at the polls and achievements in office – was one in which communists, socialists and other assorted radicals had considerable influence.”

Many said the same thing about credit default swaps in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Me, still wondering where all the City of Atlanta's supposed housing trust fund $65 million in commitments has gone, when the city's own housing tracker only shows $10M going to actual housing development projects (closed and in pileline) in the city as of today. 🤔

Curious about the impact of the impact of the Mayor's updated Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative (NRI) on Atlanta Public Schools? I built a #shinyapp where you can see how changing TAD closures impacts future Atlanta Public School revenue. Check it out here - nickspiva.shinyapps.io/tad_app/.

Me, still wondering where all the City of Atlanta's supposed housing trust fund $65 million in commitments has gone, when the city's own housing tracker only shows $10M going to actual housing development projects (closed and in pileline) in the city as of today. 🤔

This kind of s*&t really pisses me off. (The arrests; not the dismissals). This is what CEOs whining for more cops downtown get: Cops arresting and harassing street vendors. "For others, the arrests upended their lives...Salazar Perdomo is expected to be deported to Ecuador this week."

FIFA says all goals scored by the US will count double for the remainder of the World Cup. 😆

This kind of s*&t really pisses me off. (The arrests; not the dismissals). This is what CEOs whining for more cops downtown get: Cops arresting and harassing street vendors. "For others, the arrests upended their lives...Salazar Perdomo is expected to be deported to Ecuador this week."

Inflation is not a big deal for poor folks if they just use their smartphones! Just be “scrappy”! Says the hedge-fund-owned @chicagotribune.com editorial page.

Reminiscent of @ajc.com -level slander against CopCity protesters. uggh @chicagotribune.com

Reminiscent of @ajc.com -level slander against CopCity protesters. uggh @chicagotribune.com

Donald Trump's corruption is allowing him to do what he never achieved in his business career. He's finally making a profit.

FIFA is Doing Corruption the Right Way by Ezra Klein

My accomplishments in competitive sports are “scattered.”