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Tania D
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NYS Deputy Secretary for Housing 🏘️; Build, Baby, Build (More Housing🌇) Opinions my own. America Has No King. WE THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · Jul 2
We have an estimated 800,000 home shortage to tackle over the next decade from generations of inaction.

We do not tell enough stories about what 800,000 more homes means to New Yorkers in every part of our state. To finally have a place to call home.

But sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words:
Shavira Pittman and her family seeing their new home for the first time with NY Governor Hochul. 1 year ago, Hochul delivered $225 million in state funding, allowing the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to demolish 27 vacant buildings and construct 405 new homes.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1h
Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)
Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h
Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 1d
WE DID IT!!!
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d
Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 1d
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 1d
Relevant today
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d
Christopher Wells starts for the state of Illinois:

"Rebellion. Invasion. Insurrection. War. These are heavy words. The people who wrote our constitution understood the weight of these words. The people who wrote our constitution had lived these words."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d
"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1 Indeed, in the past few days, the President has repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed. These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention. The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S. military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 2d
We gave SCOTUS its broad power to interpret the constitution impartially. If they break their end of the bargain to actively deprive the American people of their most fundamental rights to be protected from govt, siding w any regime in all matters, that power must simply be taken back to the people.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 2d
It is important to see now, bc when not if this cons. majority next attack the constitution brazenly, as they are doing around (5) due process, (4) search, (1) free speech/press/assembly (3) quarter, (10) states, and of course (14) birthright citizenship, we must see that itself as unconstitutional
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 2d
It breaks my heart to say, that this venerated institution, that has in the arc of history moved closer to achieve (to me) a peak of human civilization in creating an ordered society based on fair rules or law over generations, be recognized as broken.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 2d
I mean we know from history that what SCOTUS is currently doing- enforcing the might of a regime above democracy indeed above all- echoes to us from extremely dark times.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 2d
This is why the Calvinball Court is an apt description.

It’s certainly not guided by law. That would mean it followed rules.

A rulebreaking lawless court that operates in shadows forfeits its legitimacy.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d
But that is precisely the situation right now according to SCOTUS itself. They are constantly deciding major issues via the shadow docket, without any reasoning or final order, to ensure those rulings are *not* legally binding and can be reversed whenever they feel like it. That is illegitimate.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d
"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 3d
New York, NY - Ahead of today's City Council rally against commonsense measures that would make it faster and easier to build smaller and more affordable housing projects across the city, members of the 50+ organization coalition YES on Affordable Housing released the following statements to educate New Yorkers about Proposals 2 through 5. These four historic pro-housing ballot measures would equip City government with new, necessary, and long-overdue tools to address the city's long-running, acute, and worsening housing affordability crisis. Governor Kathy Hochul said, "Affordability is my number one priority, and that starts with housing. The cost of living is too damn high - especially when it comes to the sky-high rents and mortgages families pay every month. The only solution to New York's housing crisis is to build more housing, and we must use every tool in the toolbox to get it done. Props 2-5 will help ensure New Yorkers can live, thrive, and raise their families in the city they call home. It's time to say yes to more homes, lower costs, and a stronger future for New York families.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d
Housing is too expensive to build and too expensive to afford.

Donald Trump's solution? Make it even MORE expensive with his chaotic tariffs.

Americans can't afford Donald Trump's housing market.
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Tania D @tsts240.bsky.social · 4d
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A Wave of New Apartment Buildings Are Set to Take Over Midtown Manhattan
Projects to turn Pfizer’s old company headquarters into apartments are being spurred by tax incentives and zoning changes that are reshaping the middle of Manhattan.
www.bloomberg.com