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Zohran Mamdani argues that “freeze the rent” is not just a way of delivering relief from exorbitant housing costs—it is the only way to get enough voters on board with a growth agenda. Rogé Karma spoke with Mamdani to see if he has a point.
Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control
The YIMBY case for rent control
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November 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Zohran Mamdani argues that “freeze the rent” is not just a way of delivering relief from exorbitant housing costs—it is the only way to get enough voters on board with a growth agenda. Rogé Karma spoke with Mamdani to see if he has a point.
On this lovely Thanksgiving eve, our Los Angeles #rentcontrolledbuilding was informed our building had been sold (its a huge private equity firm, took some doing but we found them!). On Monday we all have to have paper checks again to pay rent and get them to an office over 30mins away.
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
On this lovely Thanksgiving eve, our Los Angeles #rentcontrolledbuilding was informed our building had been sold (its a huge private equity firm, took some doing but we found them!). On Monday we all have to have paper checks again to pay rent and get them to an office over 30mins away.
What happens when a 40+ rent stabilized apartment building goes on the market for $14million? Can the new buyer toss out the tenants? What rights do tenants have?
Having affordable rentals taken away should NOT be tolerated in a state espousing to fight for the 99%. Apartments are HOMES for many.
Having affordable rentals taken away should NOT be tolerated in a state espousing to fight for the 99%. Apartments are HOMES for many.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What happens when a 40+ rent stabilized apartment building goes on the market for $14million? Can the new buyer toss out the tenants? What rights do tenants have?
Having affordable rentals taken away should NOT be tolerated in a state espousing to fight for the 99%. Apartments are HOMES for many.
Having affordable rentals taken away should NOT be tolerated in a state espousing to fight for the 99%. Apartments are HOMES for many.
@lacity.bsky.social Lots of 1099 and creative contractors I know just got notices that they must apply for a Business Tax Registration Certificate. This is one more pass through tax that is hurting many lower and middle class workers who aren't being employed full-time.
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@lacity.bsky.social Lots of 1099 and creative contractors I know just got notices that they must apply for a Business Tax Registration Certificate. This is one more pass through tax that is hurting many lower and middle class workers who aren't being employed full-time.
American People: We want affordable healthcare, housing & groceries. We want our children to not get shot in schools. We want fair, free democracy. And also, tax billionaires.
Billionaires: here is something unwanted, harmful, expensive and purely capitalistic. Please tell me how awesome I am.
Billionaires: here is something unwanted, harmful, expensive and purely capitalistic. Please tell me how awesome I am.
of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
September 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
American People: We want affordable healthcare, housing & groceries. We want our children to not get shot in schools. We want fair, free democracy. And also, tax billionaires.
Billionaires: here is something unwanted, harmful, expensive and purely capitalistic. Please tell me how awesome I am.
Billionaires: here is something unwanted, harmful, expensive and purely capitalistic. Please tell me how awesome I am.
Cuts for the poorest who can least afford it, not cuts to the richest who have more than enough for many lifetimes? We should be uplifting ppl so that no one has to struggle at demoralizing levels ever again. What about reaching our hands out & down rather than hoarding, fear-mongering + abusing?
Republicans in Congress want to cut health care for millions of people... to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires.
May 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cuts for the poorest who can least afford it, not cuts to the richest who have more than enough for many lifetimes? We should be uplifting ppl so that no one has to struggle at demoralizing levels ever again. What about reaching our hands out & down rather than hoarding, fear-mongering + abusing?
So tired of the performative, substance-lacking world we live in, void of curiosity or empathy.
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So tired of the performative, substance-lacking world we live in, void of curiosity or empathy.
As a long-time @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social fan, I will no longer be attending or watching games if he becomes our quarterback. This is not the culture I except from my hometown team nor will I support it. Utterly shameful.
Keep this man out of the AFC North. Please.
March 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As a long-time @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social fan, I will no longer be attending or watching games if he becomes our quarterback. This is not the culture I except from my hometown team nor will I support it. Utterly shameful.
Doesn't the The Posse Comitatus Act prevent this without Congress?
"In effect, the move would turn the buffer zone into an expansive military installation..."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump team makes plans for military to hold migrants at border
If enacted, miles of buffer zone would become a temporary military installation, giving U.S. troops their most direct role yet in Trump’s enforcement mission.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Doesn't the The Posse Comitatus Act prevent this without Congress?
Once again asking the wrong questions. Prior to the bill progressing, why didn't Dems use other means + procedures to delay/halt/destroy this atrocity? How is that when Dems control all branches they can still be thwarted, but when Republicans do, Dems can do nothing?
Sen. Schumer defended voting with the GOP to pass the government funding bill, saying a "shutdown had to be avoided."
"They could furlough employees forever and just have the federal government shrink to half its size en masse," he said. "That would have been the worst, worst, worst alternative."
"They could furlough employees forever and just have the federal government shrink to half its size en masse," he said. "That would have been the worst, worst, worst alternative."
'We had an awful choice': Schumer defends voting with GOP saying shutdown would be worse
Democrats have few options for challenging President Trump and GOP majorities in Congress. Some on the left say they had a chance last week, but top Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer voted with the GOP…
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March 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Once again asking the wrong questions. Prior to the bill progressing, why didn't Dems use other means + procedures to delay/halt/destroy this atrocity? How is that when Dems control all branches they can still be thwarted, but when Republicans do, Dems can do nothing?
Get your shit together. The American people are begging for PROACTIVE responses. Enough head-scratching about the break down of norms. The norms are broken. Now, DO SOMETHING!
People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.
March 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Get your shit together. The American people are begging for PROACTIVE responses. Enough head-scratching about the break down of norms. The norms are broken. Now, DO SOMETHING!
How many times do we need to move the goal posts?"He won't do that..." Then he does, and all you say the next time is "Well he won't do that..."
How many times must he show you what he is before you believe in the evil and become PROACTIVE??
How many times must he show you what he is before you believe in the evil and become PROACTIVE??
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How many times do we need to move the goal posts?"He won't do that..." Then he does, and all you say the next time is "Well he won't do that..."
How many times must he show you what he is before you believe in the evil and become PROACTIVE??
How many times must he show you what he is before you believe in the evil and become PROACTIVE??
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Again, it's far past time for the women to lead the Democratic Party, and pretty much everything for that matter.
March 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Again, it's far past time for the women to lead the Democratic Party, and pretty much everything for that matter.
The smug grotesque smiles + laughter from a bunch of pompous cowards who are endorsing an unprovoked invasion of an ally country is despicable. War, destruction, poverty, inhumanity...these things are the farthest from funny and yet everyday these monsters yuk it up at their coffee klatch.
Lutnick: "The best way to actually merge the economies of Canada and the United States is for Canada to become our 51st state ... Canada is gonna have to work with us to really integrate their economy, and as the president said, they should consider the amazing advantages of being the 51st state."
March 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The smug grotesque smiles + laughter from a bunch of pompous cowards who are endorsing an unprovoked invasion of an ally country is despicable. War, destruction, poverty, inhumanity...these things are the farthest from funny and yet everyday these monsters yuk it up at their coffee klatch.
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Staging a Tesla commercial at The White House is not only unethical, it’s a blatant violation of the law.
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain.
An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise….
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain.
An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise….
5 CFR § 2635.702 - Use of public office for private gain.
www.law.cornell.edu
March 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Staging a Tesla commercial at The White House is not only unethical, it’s a blatant violation of the law.
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain.
An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise….
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain.
An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise….
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"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
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This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
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Democratic lawmakers should stage a walkout tonight during the State of the Union. This feels like common sense.
March 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Democratic lawmakers should stage a walkout tonight during the State of the Union. This feels like common sense.
People who lie, cheat and steal, usually see others in the same light. I don't know why it is so hard to understand and prepare to counter attack...everything they say, they are doing themselves.
Grilled about the inflationary impact of Trump's impending tariffs on CNBC, Peter Navarro claims, "Why are we doing this? It's because the world cheats us."
March 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
People who lie, cheat and steal, usually see others in the same light. I don't know why it is so hard to understand and prepare to counter attack...everything they say, they are doing themselves.
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Sigh...
[places needle back on record player]
This would be a great time for all national Democratic leaders to get together and offer something in the way of a coherent plan, some kind of vision for what the party should be doing right now.
[places needle back on record player]
This would be a great time for all national Democratic leaders to get together and offer something in the way of a coherent plan, some kind of vision for what the party should be doing right now.
March 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Sigh...
[places needle back on record player]
This would be a great time for all national Democratic leaders to get together and offer something in the way of a coherent plan, some kind of vision for what the party should be doing right now.
[places needle back on record player]
This would be a great time for all national Democratic leaders to get together and offer something in the way of a coherent plan, some kind of vision for what the party should be doing right now.
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They canceled Katie Phang as well mass firing Black hosts...I will be boycotting MSNBC and all cable news from now on. www.thedailybeast.com/ex-host-tiff...
Ex-MSNBC Host Calls for Network Boycott Over Joy Reid Firing
“Don’t watch where you’re not welcome,” Tiffany Cross, who had her show canceled on the network in 2022, told Black viewers.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
They canceled Katie Phang as well mass firing Black hosts...I will be boycotting MSNBC and all cable news from now on. www.thedailybeast.com/ex-host-tiff...
It's ok to be wrong.
It's ok to not be educated about something.
It's ok to say "I was wrong"
It's ok to not speak and just listen.
Let's normalize not always having to be right and teach people how to take accountability. These things are not inherent.
It's ok to not be educated about something.
It's ok to say "I was wrong"
It's ok to not speak and just listen.
Let's normalize not always having to be right and teach people how to take accountability. These things are not inherent.
February 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's ok to be wrong.
It's ok to not be educated about something.
It's ok to say "I was wrong"
It's ok to not speak and just listen.
Let's normalize not always having to be right and teach people how to take accountability. These things are not inherent.
It's ok to not be educated about something.
It's ok to say "I was wrong"
It's ok to not speak and just listen.
Let's normalize not always having to be right and teach people how to take accountability. These things are not inherent.
Really think that we need more basic studies in sociology, psychology, philosophy and anthropology starting in elementary school. Understanding more than your small corner of the world opens a mind up to complex ideas, critical thought and empathy, driving connection and reasoning skills.
February 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Really think that we need more basic studies in sociology, psychology, philosophy and anthropology starting in elementary school. Understanding more than your small corner of the world opens a mind up to complex ideas, critical thought and empathy, driving connection and reasoning skills.
Why are we always acting shocked?!?
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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
time.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Why are we always acting shocked?!?
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