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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · 2d

Some homeowners want more than profit.
They want to leave a legacy of affordability.
Douglass CLT is making that possible.

👉 bit.ly/4nCdYGQ
#CommunityControl #AntiDisplacement

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 5d

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10d

Some news: Psyched to announce that I'm joining @thebulwark.com as economics editor next month.
I'm currently still on mat leave, but will return to co-hosting @theweekendprime.bsky.social as well soon.

crampell.substack.com/p/nu-news

Nu, News

I'm joining The Bulwark as Economics Editor.

crampell.substack.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14d

The core contradictions are right there on the surface. Universities need to adopt strong policies "protecting academic freedom"—and must at the same time blatantly violate such policies by "transforming or abolishing institutional units" that so much as "belittle" "conservative ideas."

A vibrant marketplace of ideas requires an intellectually open campus environment, with
a broad spectrum of ideological viewpoints present and no single ideology dominant, both along political
and other relevant lines. Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to
create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that
purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. Given the importance of
academic freedom to the marketplace of ideas, signatories shall adopt a policy protecting academic freedom
in classrooms, teaching, research, and scholarship.

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Grounded Solutions Network @groundedsolutions.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know that Grounded Solutions Network members receive an automatic discount on Training Institute Online courses? And if more than one person from your organization registers, you receive an additional discount! Spaces are filling up quickly, so register today! learning.groundedsolutions.org

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 14d

Congrats! Great to have your coverage in the next year.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 16d

Yikes.

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 16d

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis

This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Keep your dishonest framing to yourself.

Klein’s housing policy fails to address the fundamental cause of this housing crisis.

In the US, there are currently 15mil vacant homes. There are ~650,000 homeless.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17d

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing
www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17d

“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there.

Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 17d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 18d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 18d

Seems like Schnegg is hurt.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 18d

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin
Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference
September 16, 2025
Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation.
Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time.
Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost.
Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..."
And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma.
First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or
"irregardless.
"

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I.
The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny.
The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us?
The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed."
That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed.
A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%).
The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration.
But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20d

It's also just illiterate when it comes to the issues at hand. A central part of the YIMBY argument is that building more homes undermines the power of incumbent landlords and REITs.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20d

people like Sirota, who have an almost pathological opposition to building more housing, fascinate me

David Sirota
@davidsirota • 20h
Live shot of the 2026 electoral map if
Democrats embrace the Abundance strategy of telling Americans that price-gouging landlords and real estate investment tycoons are actually the good guys who aren't really the problem.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24d

The news literally CANNOT report good crime news without throwing in a "but."

Homicides in Boston are lowest SINCE THE 1950s!!

... but, you know, a few extra deodorants got stolen.

So ... a wash, I guess?

(You'd NEVER see the opposite: "SHOPLIFTING DOWN! Tho some increase in homicides.")

Boston sees lowest homicide numbers since the 1950s, though shoplifting is up

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 24d

There's quite a bit to be skeptical about where this team is headed and the idea that winter transfers will include "Designated Player and/or U22 Initiative tiers" is curious, since there should be no "or" there.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25d

Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away.

It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.

WSJ headline: "Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’"

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Reuters @reuters.com · 29d

US single-family housing starts approach 2-1/2-year lows amid excess supply reut.rs/469dVvZ

US single-family housing starts approach 2-1/2-year lows amid excess supply

U.S. single-family homebuilding plunged to a near 2-1/2-year low in August amid a glut of unsold new houses, suggesting the housing market could remain an economic headwind this quarter.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29d

“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.”

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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Adam Pagnucco @adampagnucco.bsky.social · Sep 15

How to Stop Housing Construction - Montgomery Perspective

By Adam Pagnucco. Blunt as ever, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich recently told a meeting of the District 18 Breakfast Club that the county’s affordable housing...

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