Andrea M. Beaty
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Assistant director at
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housing, ethics, anti-monopoly and more.
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Kieran Healy
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New data from the Bureau of What the Actual
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L.A. Tenants Union
1 day ago
On Wednesday, LA City Council will vote on strengthening the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, the law that protects hundreds of thousands of tenants from giant rent increases. Please make calls & send emails in support of the changes today, & join us on Wednesday at 8am at City Hall!
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Revolving Door Project
5 days ago
NEW in
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from
@hannahstoryb.bsky.social
: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.
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Exxonās Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary - The American Prospect
Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do th...
https://prospect.org/2025/11/07/exxons-latest-supreme-court-hail-mary/
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Prem Thakker ć
7 days ago
Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdaniās transition team: āI think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.ā
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More Perfect Union
7 days ago
BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdaniās mayoral transition team.
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Revolving Door Project
8 days ago
Trump 2.0 has eliminated over 160 federal advisory committees in 2025, gutting federal agencies of expert knowledge. These panels offer invaluable insights into the science and operations of specific industries, guiding agencies in crafting policy 1/5
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Trump Axes Expert Panels at Historic Clip, Defying Agency Advice
The Trump administration this year has eliminated about 160 expert advisory committees across the federal government, almost a third of them over the recommendations of the agencies that oversee them,...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-axes-expert-panels-at-historic-clip-defying-agency-advice-53
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"His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers that the FHFA was not cooperating with the inspector general's office, three of the sources said."
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Exclusive: Trump moves to fire watchdog of US housing regulator involved in crackdown, sources say
The internal watchdog for the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in President Donald Trump's targeting of perceived political enemies.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/watchdog-being-ousted-us-housing-regulator-involved-trump-crackdown-sources-say-2025-11-03/
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Useful analysis on the legality of Pulte's crusade against Trump's political enemies
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Are Pulteās āMortgage Fraudā Investigations Legal?, by Domenic Powell - Yale Journal on Regulation
Now that the Department of Justice has taken the dramatic step of indicting New York Attorney General Letitia āTishā James, plenty of ink and pixels have been spent assessing the procedural missteps o...
https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/are-pultes-mortgage-fraud-investigations-legal-by-domenic-powell/
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Alliance for Housing Justice
12 days ago
Since when does Sec. Turner care about delayed maintenance? He just fired HUD's entire building inspection team.
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Revolving Door Project
12 days ago
NEW: Over the past two weeks alone, the administration has: pardoned a crypto CEO who laundered money for terrorist groups, created pay-to-play opportunities with the White House ballroom, given government contracts to Don Jr., and more. Read more in our latest Corruption Calendar ā¬ļø
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Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration's latest rounds of corruption.
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/weeks-40-41-belle-of-the-ballroom
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Revolving Door Project
12 days ago
Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong?? Our
@dylangyauchl.bsky.social
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@prospect.org
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Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect
Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...
https://prospect.org/2025/10/31/making-banking-supervision-suck-again/
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Revolving Door Project
15 days ago
NEW statement by our
@jeffhauser.bsky.social
: "Melissa is poised to unleash unspeakable harm on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean... Americans will face hugeāand largely avoidableārisks if and when the game of dice comes up against us." See: Trump's life-threatening assault on NOAA & FEMA
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ryan cooper
15 days ago
bought and paid for!
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Hereās What Trumpās Ballroom Donors Want - The American Prospect
The price tag on Donald Trumpās garish White House ballroom, now up to $350 million, keeps increasing. Thatās because the cost of construction isnāt nearly as important as having an inventory of donat...
https://prospect.org/2025/10/28/heres-what-trumps-ballroom-donors-want/
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Rebecca Burns
16 days ago
That could set a dangerous precedent, says Jonah Karsh of
@mtochicago.bsky.social
: āIf landlords can just call the feds to get rid of who they want, then thatās a really bleak reality for tenants and their security going forward.ā
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Rebecca Burns
16 days ago
"It costs a lot more money to evict someone than to call ICE on them." A month after the military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, residents are still searching for answers about why their homes were targetedāand the role their investor landlord played.
inthesetimes.com/article/evic...
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Eviction By ICE?
Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in ādeliberate and systematic ways.ā Theyāre still searching for answers about their landlordās role in the raid.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants
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Revolving Door Project
19 days ago
NEW FOR
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Our Toni Aguilar Rosenthal and Julian Scoffield call out the hollowness of the RFK Jrās populist rhetoric by revealing the corporate revolvers he has brought into HHS
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Meet RFKās Corporate Underlings - The American Prospect
The administrationās rhetoric about breaking corporate power in health care rings hollow, as several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interest...
https://prospect.org/2025/10/24/meet-rfks-corporate-underlings/
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The Washington Post
21 days ago
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trumpās planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would āoverwhelm the White House itself,ā which spans just 55,000 square feet.
https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
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Revolving Door Project
21 days ago
Our
@hannahstoryb.bsky.social
examines how the Trump administration has embedded AI chatbots in its operations, both as feeble replacements for fired workers and as increasingly empowered decision-makers involved in everything from personnel decisions to war games to surveillance.
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The Chatbotification of the Federal Government
The Trump administration uses AI to fulfill its typical antisocial ends: eroding worker power, violating civil liberties, and reducing transparency and accountability.
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/the-chatbotification-of-the-federal
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Greg Sargent
22 days ago
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Janeese4DC
22 days ago
First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.
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Revolving Door Project
24 days ago
"The most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build." Read more from
@andreabeaty.bsky.social
in this weekās newsletter.
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Big Business Will Not Save Us | Revolving Door Project
Scrutinizing the āideological warfareā a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist. This article was originally published on the Revolving Door Projectā¦
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/big-business-will-not-save-us/
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FYI, Greystar +other corporate landlords are trying to distract from the real story: their recent settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged they conspired to inflate rental prices using RealPage software. The 'rental fraud' claims come out like clockwork after every corporate landlord L
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
27 days ago
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
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Alliance for Housing Justice
27 days ago
šØ HUD just fired its entire building-inspection team ā days after a Bronx public housing collapse. No federal staff remain to oversee safety in subsidized housing nationwide.
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Affordable Housing Left Vulnerable After Trump Fires Building Inspectors
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/after-bronx-public-housing-collapse-hud-laid-off-its-building-inspectors
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ProPublica
27 days ago
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally ā almost certainly incomplete ā includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. Theyāve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally ā almost certainly incomplete ā includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Timi
27 days ago
@andreabeaty.bsky.social
: āIn other words, thereās no longer any practical room for Democratic administrative policy to be friendlier to Big Business than Trump. By definition, enforcing some rules is more hostile than enforcing no rules.ā Lots of good stuff ššæ
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Murshed Zaheed
27 days ago
āThe most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build.ā If that alienates monopolies, billionaires, big business - so be it.
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Revolving Door Project
27 days ago
NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats āalienatedā Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame. Our full response in todayās newsletter:
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Big Business Will Not Save Us
Scrutinizing the āideological warfareā a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/revolvingdoorproject/p/big-business-will-not-save-us?r=18upq0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Alex Taliadoros
about 1 month ago
Evictions in DC reached record levels in 2024. The data for 2025 so far shows that the number of evictions per month this year is even higher. More DC families than ever are losing their homes, yet rental assistance has been slashed and protections for tenants are actively being gutted.
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@capitolforum.bsky.social
reported today that FHFA director Pulte met w/ the FBI weeks before his mortgage fraud tirade against Lisa Cook. Pulte also met with Goldman Sachs and BlackRock CEOs + UBS execs as the White House considers privatizing Fannie and Freddie attn:
@gregsargent.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Corporate Americaās mouthpieces claim the few limits on corporate influence we helped win during the Biden admin drove Big Business to board Trumpās tyrannical train. If so, how can Big Business ever be trustworthy participants in a democracy? Our
@jeffhauser.bsky.social
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@wsj.com
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Opinion | Why Did Business Jump on the Trump Train?
And how can it ever be considered trustworthy participants in a democracy?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-did-business-jump-on-the-trump-train-corporations-df99a1a4
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Greg Sargent
about 1 month ago
Trump just got Letitia James indicted despite insiders leaking that the case against her is incredibly weak. He had to get his handpicked stooge to do it. This only shows how corrupt the whole thing truly is:
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CREW
about 1 month ago
It's hard to overstate how alarming NY AG Letitia James's reported indictment is. This is the second time in weeks that a political opponent of Trump has been indicted, at his urging, against the advice of career prosecutors and Trump's own appointees.
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Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general
Justice Department wins indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud in 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/09/letitia-james-grand-jury-trump/
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, two of the nation's largest rail companies, are trying to merge. Unions and impacted industry groups oppose the deal. That hasn't stopped the rail behemoths from trying to astroturf the appearance of public support. A guest post from Brett Heinz:
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Railroad Barons Launch an Astroturf Campaign For Their Mega-Merger
Those supporting a new railroad monopoly include paid-off politicians, business partners, and⦠an anti-monopoly group?
https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/railroad-barons-launch-an-astroturf
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Jeff Sharlet
about 1 month ago
Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
about 1 month ago
Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter. I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
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Soren Spicknall
about 1 month ago
Aaron's thread breaks down key parts of the expository text. It's extremely unusual in many ways, and ultimately pessimistic about the idea that the lower courts can change any big-picture outcomes right now. In the face of that realization, Judge Young writes of a crisis he can't stop.
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Soren Spicknall
about 1 month ago
I'm not usually a courts fetishist, but this document is a pretty remarkable...cry for help? from somebody who has spent decades in the middle of a system that worked as intended, and is currently experiencing a total breakdown of things he built his life's work around.
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David Dayen
about 1 month ago
This is against the law FWIW
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David Dayen
about 1 month ago
The Department of Housing and Urban Development website is having a normal one.
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
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Revolving Door Project
about 1 month ago
šØ "Boeing is regaining authority from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform final safety checks on its 737 MAX." Rather than increase agency capacity to conduct independent inspections and improve aviation safety, Trump's FAA will allow Boeing to certify the safety of its own planes.
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Exclusive | Boeing Clears Key Hurdle From 737 MAX Crashes
The aerospace giant is regaining some authority from regulators to perform final safety checks on jets.
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/faa-to-ease-restrictions-on-boeing-aircraft-deliveries-1a2e4389
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Katie Prout
about 2 months ago
According to reporters on the ground, ICE is now **deliberately firing** what appears to be "non-lethals" at press at this morning's protest in Broadview, IL. One
@unraveledpress.com
reporter got hit. Unraveled has been putting in serious work during this crisis--throw them some cash if you can.
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The Nation Magazine
about 2 months ago
Trump and his henchmen rail against the supposed violence of progressives. But Sasha Abramsky asks what do you call throwing Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, into jail to pressure him into self-deporting to a country in which he will likely die?
@sashaabramsky.bsky.social
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Meet Rodney Taylor, the Double Amputee the Trump Regime Has Locked Up, Ready for Deportation
The so-called āworst of the worstā immigrants that the Trump administration is holding in detention facilities are mostly just regular people trying to make ends meet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rodney-taylor-ice-deportation/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The%20Nation%20Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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In These Times
about 2 months ago
Hundreds of tenants across four states are uniting to take on the mega-landlord Capital Realty Group, demanding collective bargaining for safe and dignified housing. Inside the Tenant Union Federationās bold new campaign
inthesetimes.com/article/priv...
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Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/private-equity-landlords-tenants-union-organizing-tuf-housing
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Itās rich that Jay Parsons, the 'economist' who literally pitched RealPageās rent-setting software, is now scolding tenant advocates to work āin good faithā for accessible affordable housing. Where was that good faith when RealPage was squeezing every last penny out of renters?
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The American Prospect
about 2 months ago
Sen. Ted Cruz introduced new legislation seeking to protect AI initiatives from federal regulation. It's the latest in a string of attempts to insulate Big Tech from public oversight and democratic accountability. From Dylan Gyauch-Lewis:
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Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a bill allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
https://trib.al/XtUrh9p
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Andrew Lawrence
about 2 months ago
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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