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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, but Democratic opposition always takes the frame that our institutions work well and don’t need to change. So they can never successfully point out that Trump’s disruption is meant to benefit him and his cronies alone, not the average American.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 1d

The reign of disappointing and embarrassing administration continues

matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know who we need to bug about this?

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 2d

This is the problem with way too many liberals (Congressional Dems and media folks like EK, in particular): they hear only what the right says directly to them, and act as if they can’t hear or don’t believe what the right says to everyone else.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's secret police. With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started. Mother Jones takes a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where Trump is planning to build his new concentration camps. bit.ly/4nIoFrB

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 2d

hoo boy I read that as Betsy Johnson at first, glad that was a mistake

absolutely horrific that they’re saying white pride

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I assume Miller + Noem and their media operation are working together to create an alternate reality for him here. A lot of his statements sound like he’s just parroting something Miller has been telling him.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I never thought the shelter plan was going to work, but it's all the more essential now, considering the assault that Portland is facing, that the Mayor change course and do what's necessary to protect the people we've already profoundly failed. His legacy is on the line.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

We need bold action that will actually make up for years of housing underproduction, so that everyone has a permanent place to live. Unlock a massive building boom that will fuel a new era of growth in Portland.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

The Mayor also needs to bring a significant housing production package to Council for approval. City staff has prepared a ton of ideas in last year's Housing Production Strategy, but the things actually implemented continue tinkering around the edges.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

He should ask the Council for authorization to spend a significant chunk of remaining funds from the shelter plan to help PHB and Home Forward purchase more multifamily properties currently for sale at low prices.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Another one of the Mayor's strengths is his management background - he should be hands on with the new County COO and JOHS to get things managed more effectively and urgently. Things move way too slowly there, and there's no way to do this without the County.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Neighborhood pushback has been one of the biggest barriers to the pod villages that have been shown to be the best path out of homelessness. The Mayor should apply his resolve to a better solution: rapidly expand the villages. Leverage the unified City structure to get them permitted quickly.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

So at this critical moment, when the most vulnerable are facing their most serious threat in memory, what do we do?

We definitely don't give law enforcement more license to harass them.

What I've found most admirable about the Mayor's work so far is his willingness to stand firm against NIMBYs.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

This approach forces people who already don't know a moment's peace to live on their feet, staying moving all day after they've been booted from the night shelters at 6am.

We've poured millions of dollars in a budget crisis into somehow making their lives even worse.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I believe Mayor Wilson is fundamentally a compassionate man. What we will soon learn is whether he's one that can admit and own his mistakes: night shelters + campaign ban were never going to help people.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

As federal goons flood into Portland, there is no worse time for Mayor Wilson to be restarting enforcement of the City's so-called camping ban. Those who are the victims of failed housing and health policies are the most vulnerable to the ICE predators that are increasingly roaming our streets.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

This administration works non-stop to undermine the housing security of immigrants and minorities, from essentially halting fair housing law enforcement to pressuring landlords for tenant information.

Then, they villainize, harass, and persecute those living on the streets.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

In September 1933, the NSDAP organized Bettlerwoche across the Reich to "disappear" the homeless. In October 2025, Trump does this: At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown.

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Every day, some new horror. Building management at the Chicago apartments either coordinated with the feds on clearing out the building, or just took advantage of it and turned it into a militarized eviction raid.

Housing justice has gotta be a key pillar in our response to accelerating fascism.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I agree that it’s a difficult problem, and there’s no perfect decision. But when a far-right oligarch directly controls the algorithm, it’s not a free and open marketplace.

IMO, we should be more focused on undermining and disrupting it and the role it plays.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 4d

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 4d

oh my bad! I thought it was light rail, should’ve looked closer. It’s a no-brainer to me.

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 4d

make it HSR and Wilson might pay attention

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