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Tony Demoniano 🎃

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B+ dad and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette too

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · Nov 19

New Research Thread🧵:
We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1m

Larry David ass move

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Lmao

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1h

Jfc

Following his arrest in May, two federal agents from Minnesota were charged federally on sex offenses.
Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Timothy Ryan Gregg, 51, of Eagan was charged in June with coercing and enticing a minor to take part in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
A week later, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Anthony John Crowley, 52, of Minnetonka, was charged with possessing visual depictions of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Crowley pleaded guilty to his crimes on Sept. 26. His sentencing hearing has yet to be scheduled.

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 10h

What it terry looking at that makes him laugh like that 🤣

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 11h

A Minneapolis landlord broke state law when he tried to block two democratic socialist candidates from talking to prospective voters in his apartment buildings, an administrative law judge ruled on Wednesday.

Court: Minneapolis landlord broke law when he blocked democratic socialists from door knocking

John Wall, part owner of apartment buildings near the University of Minnesota, was fined for multiple violations.

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Michael Friedrich @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social · 3d

A group of former tenants has organized the first rent debt strike in U.S. history. They are refusing to pay back unjust debts to Equity Residential, a corporate landlord accused of widespread misconduct. I wrote about their campaign for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

Rent Debtors Strike Against Abusive Corporate Landlord

The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 23h

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a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen .

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen .

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Madrid, Nevada

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly wild that we have an obsequious tribunal that can, by fiat, decide what goes on our ballot.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

POWER GRAB: 6-5 majority of commissioners on this work group say council shouldn't get a confirmation vote for mayor's picks for directors of public works, community planning/economic development, civil rights, health, emergency management, regulatory services, assessor.

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1d

Aaand what is he going to do about it?

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

The Reformer's is more direct

Daily Reformer: Walz expects troops in Minnesota

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1d

We love our little brick shithouses don't we folks

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 1d

I consider myself pretty jaded, but this legit shocked me.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 2d

Tonight a resident posted a picture of racist and Islamaphobic language written on Johnson street that called for @omarfatehmn.com to be deported and wished death upon the Somali community. @doronclark.bsky.social and I showed up right away to get this racist garbage off of our streets

Elliott and doron cleaning up the shared use path on johnson

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't the same as credit default swaps, but it kinda seems like the same result. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like it's in really good shape too!

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my...

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

I think we should call it third third meal so things don't get confusing.

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

This bubble popping will be verystrange, I don't claim to know what's going to happen, but ironically a slow down of data center construction coupled with these corps running out of cash would end up mirroring 2008 in a lot of ways. Instead of empty condos we get a bunch of half-built data centers.

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

Will Minneapolis Mayoral candidates commit to doing this if this were to happen here? Is there any planning or coordination happening here in MN?? It's just a matter of time before they try to occupy us.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 3d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2d

Ope bsky.app/profile/tech...

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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