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it's so crazy that the 1986 tax law that created the Low Income Housing Tax Credit also eliminated accelerated depreciation on rental housing and the results were predictably terrible taxfoundation.org/blog/1986-ta...

Did 1986 Tax Reform Hurt Affordable Housing?

The increase in investment costs brought by 1986 tax reform changes to rental housing investment contributed to reduced construction of new multifamily homes. While other factors, such as high rates o...

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

squidward from spongebob looks out a window

ALT: squidward from spongebob looks out a window

media.tenor.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 1d

I can recall a time, not too long ago, where examples of "papers, please" governments were used as un-American counter examples.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Read @aselrod.bsky.social today on how there’s no amount of real crime fighting that will win a political battle over fake crime

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“There is no degree of acquiescence to Trumpism that will satisfy this administration or MAGA at large. All there is is a choice between offering a faint echo of the false reality they’re selling and creating dissonance by speaking the reality of the situation to the public.”

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

dailytarheel.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

Who has ever said Johnny Cash seemed deeply uncool

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

If the content of talk therapy is speech, not conduct, and subject to strict scrutiny, then governments cannot regulate therapy, because there is no licensing regime for First Amendment protected activity that can survive strict scrutiny.

Therefore, anyone can give legal advice.

Tell me I'm wrong.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

This Brian Potter post provides a thorough break down of the data on rising pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/construc...

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

open.substack.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

CX, JL and QR are great and oneworld is better than SkyTeam except insofar as they pair with 40+ weeks per year flying AA.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

Most travel is domestic, TATL matters more than TPAC intl, ME3 are rarely on the way ex-NA, DL has the best captive hubs in the markets with the best corporate contract and credit card spend potential, and DL coasts on a reputation from a time when OTP and product really did outshine United.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

Hop in da Benz, baby!

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

HE LITERALLY SURRENDERED TO THE TALIBAN. My god

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 4d

It has to be the latter. I refuse to believe otherwise.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5d

You wanna get ahead?

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 6d

When I was a kid, my parents paid some guy more than that to come to the house and fix our 32" CRT TV.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 8d

We really need to stop siting our public schools this way. Schools should be at the center of town.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

(10+1 is for ES. 20/30+1 for MS/HS was already settled 6-7 years before that.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

About 10 years after the final 10 acre plus 1 per 100 pupils standard was established is when active Transportation to school starts collapsing.

(I can't prove it's causal, but it's my belief that these standards + desegregation + suburban land use patterns generally that killed walk/bike.)

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bus is down 25% from 35 years ago, which is a LOT, but what's truly nuts is the utter collapse in active transportation to school.

You can basically see the collapse 50 years ago go straight to car and then the fall in bus go straight to car 15 years later.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

Recommended school sizes began to show up in the 1920s, themselves larger than what came before, they exploded after the war, and the long prevailing (massive) standard size recommendations for middle and high schools were already reached by 1957-1958.
mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

mcdonald.web.unc.edu

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

(In other words, the idea that you need 20+/30+ acres for MS/HS was already defined as the standard before class size reforms and Title IX.)

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

Recommended school sizes began to show up in the 1920s, themselves larger than what came before, they exploded after the war, and the long prevailing (massive) standard size recommendations for middle and high schools were already reached by 1957-1958.
mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

mcdonald.web.unc.edu

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 7d

(Many people are saying.)
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 8d

We really need to stop siting our public schools this way. Schools should be at the center of town.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 8d

A. Always
B. Be.
C. Combing.

Always. Be. Combing.

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