I can't hate the Knicks when they have all my favorite role players-- Hart, OG, and Bridges

Any corporate SFR regulation that doesn't force companies to divest themselves of (some share of) their existing portfolios is a big nothingburger, and shows that you don't actually care about tenants as such, only homebuyers.

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will have essentially no impact on "institutional investors" (i.e., corporate landlords) in the SFR market The targeting of build-to-rent wouldn't have been my 1st (or 5th) choice for how to rein in these corps, but it was the only SFR provision with any impact

Case in point

I have been beating this drum for a while as far as housing is concerned. Household-level rent to income ratios are much more important than aggregate statistics and will show that lower income households are much worse off in terms of what share of their income goes towards rent

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

"It's James Harden Time" -James Harden

"It's James Harden Time" -James Harden

Extra bball baby 😎

hey @normcharlatan.bsky.social nation, how are doing, how are we feeling?

Like with the former Pretium porfolio, there are a lot of opportunities to make up for (in a small way) decades of disinvestment on the North Side and not make the mistakes local governments made during the foreclosure crisis.

Reporting here confirming that Anoka and Scott County are actively working with ICE handing people over. That may seem far away because we’re Hennepin county, but you have to remember Anoka county directly borders Minneapolis with Columbia Heights. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Video link for the webinar is here for anyone interested! us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/DND...

74 new racket members in 24 hours!!! y'all kick ASS. help us keep filling that cartoon thermometer: racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

We need a Zapruder breakdown of this ASAP

Good morning to Denvis and Denvis ONLY

A better world is possible (dang I want to go fishing)

Spurs-Thunder Game 1

I love Wemby so much

My goodness lmao

Rent debt in Minnesota--the whole state!--may have as much as doubled in Jan-Feb due to Operation Metro Surge (estimated range of increase: 61%-115%) A calamity even for the families who weren't directly, physically harmed by ICE/DHS Even w/o OMS, typical MN rent debt is 10x rental assistance $

This looks awesome

Well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social

The little old ladies at the coop loved my shirt. Happy Art-a-Whirl

This Day in Labor History: May 16, 1934. Truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action that would lead the way for the Teamsters to represent truckers across the nation and help lay the groundwork for the organization of industrial workers across the nation during the 1930!!!

Mary Poppins - the original manic pixie dream girl

This fucking rules

Fair State beer is still union made & just as enjoyable as ever. Make it one of your top picks

It's foamer season

For our series Fascism's Building Blocks, Rahim Kurwa (@rahimk.bsky.social) argues that “secure and dignified welfare programs enhance people’s ability to act as citizens, but precarious and repressively run programs degrade that citizenship.”

I wrote about my anecdotal experience with my anecdotal sense that far fewer people ride than they did in the early 2010s thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/t...

This is beautiful, one of my all time favorite songs

Met Council TBI is a gold standard representative household survey. some fun pre- v post-COVID graphs... 1) telework went from 15% to over 40%

2) trip purposes are diverse! this is always the issue with using ACS journey to work, because while it is a regular trip it is not the most frequent or even longest trip. and going down since 2019

Insights is a tall order at first coffee! but: 1) these are small numbers to begin with so small pp diff = huge % change per area 2) suburban transit to work def shifted partly to drive to work 3) there was a real decline in bike access to downtown jobs from Cedar Lake Trail closure…

3) mode split is slightly better than ACS when accounting for all trips. but still only 1-2% of regional daily trips are bike or transit each. Walking to destinations is much more common!

Important study that indicates larger single family landlords treat tenants more poorly. Consistent both with literature on larger landlords filing evictions more frequently, and with some. journalistic reports on institutional SFR owners.

Congrats to everyone involved for pushing the city and MPD to clear unhoused and addicted people from Uptown. You’ve moved the problem back to Blaisdell. Nothing has been solved, but you can continue to give yourselves a round of applause if it makes you feel better.

According to ACS data on social explorer, the number of workers who commute by bike in Minneapolis decreased by over 40% between 2014-2024? Is that reaonsable?? Transit to work dropped 40% too. For comparison "drove alone" only dropped 4%. I'm sure w4h is a big part, but what else is going on here?

New report from the Family Housing Fund written by @curaumn.bsky.social based on a survey of over 1k tenants living in single-family homes in the Twin Cities. Big takeaway: Large landlords (inclduing private equtiy, and REITs) scored worse across all metrics even after controling for other factors 🧵

Little Joe still has the juice imo, especially as young and unproven as Frankie is I don't get Boston wanting to go full rebuild around Frankie.

Real Klobuchar preview here for us Minnesotans

Cool

The Red Sox lost the 1986 World Series!

Aaron Sorkin's The Lord of the Rings

I love realizing that I missed most of the discourse because I have the main character muted (that volts guy has always been annoying. Terminal vox brain)

The Spurs did a moment of silence for Jason and Brandon Clarke and commented that Jason "broke barriers". Which barrier did he break 🤔🤔🤔 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Please fill this out of course, but it seems to be messed up. There are check boxes for the likert questions which makes no sense? Does somebody have the contact info for the creaters so they can fix it??