The pro-gentrification arguments are arguing for *theories* about how it can be good, when the REALITY of how it is bad is being LIVED BY PEOPLE

The point in cleaning up an area and building new stores and housing shouldn’t be to attract the affluent. It should be to have a better environment for the city’s current resident. Raise spirits, create opportunity, reduce crime, etc etc

Holy fucking shit

also see: dave chappelle. he told the town of yellow springs, if they created low income housing he would move himself and ALL of his rich friends out of the town.

If you don't want to invest in, 1) housing in high-amenity places (unaffordable) or 2) amenities in affordable-housing places (gentrification risk) How about the secret third thing: 3) jobs in affordable-housing places www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

See also: every new restaurant in Oakland, apparently. No, your reel with pop up hours from 3 weeks ago buried by 15 new posts does not substitute for a website with hours, an address, contact info, and a menu.

There's literally a book on it, written by Jane Jacobs www.worldofbooks.com/products/dea...

here is a free resource for folks to learn the technical definition (and impacts) of gentrification: rohcavamaintenant.free.fr/USB%20KEY%20...

atp just blocking every liar pretending not to know what gentrification is. not buying it. we've been talking about this for years. you're using feigning ignorance as an act to not blatantly say you don't care what happens to people who can no longer afford to live there. i wish things i can't post

.................... you don't get that way with a high salary for a couple years, you start this way and then chase the money.

Please go be thick and fine over there. I got this.

There is never any point to arguing with people like this. Sure, you're right

And this just reminded me folks were calling it the Bumps and Bruises tour when they announced it💀

CB has Usher dresssed like he’s 15 on 106 & Park during their closing set! 😩

🎶 What a difference a cape makes 🎶 Haven't thought about him since he was defending 1 abuser and launched a tour with another. This isn't far off from the residency but the moment has passed for a lot of us

Bestie. He always has been. Good people do not proudly get rich by destroying their neighbors with crack, & that’s what he was doing before he got famous. He was the hood kingpin off his earnings. And every single day on the street he’d pas people made zombies by what he sold them.

I find it very strange these Silicon Valley jamokes have it out for the rest of us. Paranoia, sociopathy run rampant in those circles. Just leave the rest of us alone. Build shit we *might* buy, but don’t impose your sickness on us.

Evergreen for all the brainrot breakthroughs

Didn't we almost have it all? 🥲

No cameras in his house though.

We have been here for almost a decade.

shoutout to the women like alice dunbar nelson & coretta scott king who preserved & pushed fwd their husbands' legacies after they died (in alice's case, in spite of the way he treated her)

Nothing tops this feeling!

⬅️ L.T.D. supremacist

Oh shoot is we counting sheets and stuff I have held onto some from my grandma's in the 70s, I LOVED the print. Linens from the elders hold up SO MUCH better than this trash out now. Misplaced an old quilt between moves I think.

Every country is dealing with climate change issues and our leaders are all evil/inept/apathetic

Blade died so Sinners could thrive but I'll stay mad about them fumbling this easy win until I have somewhere to walk in slo-mo in this leather duster. It's been like a decade. An unserious viral thread could have gotten us through like 6 drafts of a script in a few days

This is the power of independent journalism! @katiehonan.bsky.social of @thecityreporter.nyc — she gets results. (And you don’t have to bribe her, just support The City Reporter.) bsky.app/profile/thec...

I don’t know how much it landed outside the city, but one of Zohran’s first big breakout campaign moments was when he jumped into the water in a suit at Coney Island for the Polar Bear Plunge back when he was polling at <2%

Policy making via stove-touching, except instead of getting burned, he’s just killing babies.

Khadijah Farrakhan has died.

It's so wild to think about how we have this and Sinners because some Disney executive ****ed up Blade. This might be the one time racism worked out in black people's favor.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Distance only stop you if you let it.

The rest of the US watching Mamdanistan having fun with socialism while we're stuck in the house with dementia-ocracy.

Take that indecisive but wanna eat everything you order girlie on a dim sum date.

(This is why misogyny and homophobia both are inherently anti-Black).

Lol, yes, these are tenets of white supremacy, which is what y'all are discussing. It is *the* system of shunning the other, and the reason I liken it to a Swiss Army knife. It didn't start at "Black" or "Queer," but at "independent and powerful women." Everything else is an offshoot of that. 🫶🏾

Jealousy AND the accusations of unfair advantages. Bigots see your success as ONLY possible with help because they refuse to challenge their belief that you are inferior.

And literally all they have to do is mind their business.

Most folk know Richard Smalllwood for Total Prsise, I Love The Lord, and Center of My Joy. He did have a masters in ethnomusicology. This is a bossa nova boo that’s one of my favorites. music.apple.com/us/album/i-w...

Worst about this is that there’s nothing special about the pressings. No extra stuff. Even his wife will drop a photo book with her vinyl. This is outlandish.

People! I’m so excited! I am sharing here for free, from behind our Patreon paywall, me covering Reconstruction 101: youtu.be/16mULG5XyX8?...

I do not treat people and my relationship to them as a competition. Everything should not be framed a race. Either we are aligned or not.

Please send in a comment and share, folks. @lakemichigan13.bsky.social doesn't deserve this. 🥺

Hit em with the Falsetto