Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

Confession time: when we run a profile of a group that is doing several totally different interesting things at once, it's SO hard to write a headline. So we didn't get the "including group homes proactively in a subdivision part" in. But now you know. shelterforce.org/2025/09/17/m...

I'm so happy to be able to share all these positive stories about community ownership with you all. It's been a comfort to work on during these tough times.

Just made a batch of popcorn in my ancient microwave power presto popper in which every single kernel popped and it's not burned. Where do I apply for my trophy?

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Good resource.

THERE ARE NO SHELTERS IN DC FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO. 900 ppl sleep outside each night. There are 40 open shelter beds. Ppl will be arrested for being unable to afford rent. Every reporter needs to ask Trump and his cronies where he wants people to go. Maybe his new ballroom?

How getting a nosocomial infection, that could have been prevented, equates to "living one's life" is beyond me.

More ambulances leaving Alligator Alcatraz. One at 10:30 am today and the other at 6:30 pm. Another at 11:57 pm last night, 6:10 pm on July 31st. Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates the site, refuses to confirm hospitalizations but they are happening.

I'm not a Christian, but I do admire those few who take the compassion and justice messages of that faith seriously, even when it's not easy. I knew on first listen I wanted to share this poem (and it was worth the work it took to track the poet down for permission). shelterforce.org/2025/07/16/p...

Putting together these remarks for a @groundedsolutions.bsky.social panel on housing messaging in an age of disinfo made a few things click for me—and based on the enthusiastic response I got, many others agreed. Perhaps it will be useful to you too! shelterforce.org/2025/07/14/h...

Lying by an officer should be a one-strike-you're-fired situation, and the officers who did so should all be prosecuted. I won't hold my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp. This broke me… “32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones

Read Marisa today for the stories that you’ll see in the NYT tomorrow. Bonus: she won’t grant stupid white nationalists anonymity to settle witless fights with mayoral candidates.

Support California farmworkers. When they strike do not buy produce. They are striking for immigrants rights. #huelgaparaladignidad #immigrantsrights

It’s fucked up the @nytimes.com is okay with using anonymous race science accounts to smear Zohran with hacked bullshit, but isn’t okay with Jamelle Bouie criticizing them for it. That’s, like, four different levels of racist simultaneously.

Any housers who celebrate this bill are showing that they only care about their piece of the LIHTC industrial complex and not the people they purport to serve. My latest editorial for @shelterforce.bsky.social.

Trump’s Tax Scam now heads back to the House, where Republicans can only afford to lose 3 votes. The bill barely squeaked by with a single-vote margin the first time, and it’s only gotten more divisive since. Anyone who tells you this is a done deal doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house. It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.

Seriously.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

The choice between Cuomo and Mamdani comes down to this--Mamdani can make up for being light on experience by hiring really good commissioners and deputy mayors; Cuomo can't undo being a corrupt, narcissistic, bully. #DontrankCuomo #NotoCuomo

Reminder: We have defeated billionaire-backed candidates before. We can do it again NYC! #DontRankCuomo

Here's an idea: The 1st troops we send into Iran should be all the Jan 6th traitors currently cosplaying as ICE agents in L.A.

who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

And this, folks, is why a bunch of us were raising the alarm about the strident calls to preemptively police fellow protestors. That kind of pearl clutching is not only not strategic, it’s dangerous.

The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

Time to start saying “Masked men purported to be ICE agents” until ICE shows identifying information when detaining people.

“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social

I have to admit that Missouri wouldn't have been in my top 10 guesses for a state that required protections for tax credit tenants beyond federal ones. Luckily some tenants noticed. shelterforce.org/2025/06/12/l...

People citing the "3.5% rule," please check out this episode. It doesn't mean what some of you think it means.

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

US white evangelicalism is a death cult

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

There’s more fight in you than you realize…

Where were the 200,000+ people who were supposed to be at Trump's military parade? Right here:

Love ya Albany, and everyone else who turned out today around the world or did some other necessary piece of resisting.

Responding to Padilla’s detention with “We need answers” is such a profound misreading if the situation. We have answers. We saw a cabinet member say she’d “liberate” LA from its leaders before one of them was thrown to the ground. We need a response. Articles of impeachment could be one start.

So they want us to believe that people who were seeking work at Home Depot are a threat to our community?? The same people who suburban families invite into their homes to complete tiling and roofing projects?! That’s who we’re supposed to fear and not the thugs in riot gear?!?

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

one thing about americans, we will make our own lives worse and more expensive if it means a group we think is “undeserving” gets punished

some people confuse the "ruthless pursuit of power *in order to win advance one's political projects, principles, and values*" Realism with "ruthless pursuit of power that betrays the absence of political projects, principles, and values" Realism. there's nothing serious or adult about the latter

One of the few unions explicitly telling its members to NOT RANK CUOMO.

15yo is preparing a presentation on the subtle bias in their AP history textbook. Seeking your recs for sources to cite on, and I quote, “how white men take on a position of objectiveness and act as if they have no bias, and other ways to handle bias without doing that.” 🧡 Love this kid. Send links.