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Professor Emeritus, Public Policy & Urban Studies, Georgia Immergluck Housing Analytics LLC Affordable/Fair Housing/Finance, Cities, Community Devl't, Expert Analysis & Witness CHI->ATL->CHI Opinions = own More info: https://tinyurl.com/3n9py

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · Aug 21

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I am Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies & Public Policy at Georgia State University & a (part-time) consultant for nonprofits & government on affordable & fair housing, community development, housing & community development finance, and related policy & planning. Latest book:

Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta [Immergluck, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

Happening in America. Right now. To us.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 11h

Your attendance is requested at City Hall!

At 10am on October 14th, the Zoning Committee will vote on the Broadway Land Use Framework, allowing thousands of new homes to be built next to four brand-new Red Line stations. 🏘️🤝🚇

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1769724907...

Tell the Zoning Cmte. to Support 1000s of New Homes in Uptown & Edgewater

City Council's Zoning Committee will take up the Broadway upzoning ordinances on 10/14/25.

www.eventbrite.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 20h

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15h

"Neighbors and officials are calling on Friedman Real Estate to block federal agents from using the Yards Plaza’s parking lot to stage their operations."

To contact the MI-based firm, the co-COs are: David & Jared Friedman: 248.324.2000 [email protected], 248.848.3511 [email protected]

SW Side Organizers Demand Property Owner 'Kick ICE Out' Of Parking Lot

Neighbors and officials are calling on Friedman Real Estate to block federal agents from using the Yards Plaza’s parking lot to stage their operations.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15h

SW Side Organizers Demand Property Owner 'Kick ICE Out' Of Parking Lot

Neighbors and officials are calling on Friedman Real Estate to block federal agents from using the Yards Plaza’s parking lot to stage their operations.

blockclubchicago.org

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 17h

how do these people pray?

Like "Dear God, give us the courage to beat the shit out of peaceful protesters, the wisdom to zip-tie children together, and the strength to drive combat vehicles towards small groups of grandmothers..."

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 17h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 17h

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 20h

There are folks on the neighborhood FB group who, when even any sort of disturbance or petty crime is reported, say things like "the National Guard can't come soon enough" and it's driving me absolute bonkers. (And I stay off the "crime watch" group where it must be incessant.)

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 22h

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 7d

📢 In Chicago we don’t put up with wannabe kings or tyrants. Join us at noon on October 18th for a rally and march at Grant Park. Let’s come together to say: #HandsOffChicago and #NoKings!

🗓 Saturday, October 18th
⏰1 2-2 PM
📍 Grant Park, Chicago (Jackson & Columbus)

Hands Off Chicago / No Kings! Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago

Here in Chicago we know how to rise up, fight back, and support each other. It is more important than ever that we do that together on October 18th as we show the nation and the world that Chicago is ...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 23h

When you are a local public affairs news outlet and you put out what certainly appears to be a paid PR piece glorifying a developer whose favorite book is…(wait for it)

The Fountainhead.

saportareport.com/atlanta-base...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

😬 awkward

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Not being a doomer, but we have got to do something about becoming a country where it often feels like our only hope is that some of the biggest idiots in the country finally "sour on" fascism...

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

..more on the Divvy story and other on Mathew here: finance.yahoo.com/news/law-stu...

Law Student Settles With Landlord Over Repair Demands

Affordable housing advocate and online publisher Mathew Cardinale was sued by his lease-to-own landlord, Divvy Homes, after he requested thousands of dollars in repairs to the northwest Atlanta house ...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew was always out there shining light on many #AtlantaWay shenanigans (& worse). He once exposed a contract-for-deed seller, Divvy, by becoming a customer. They sued him claiming he tricked them by becoming a customer with purpose to pursue consumer protection claims. He won (settled). RIP.

Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 1d

Councilmember Andrea Boone acknowledged the passing of Matthew Cardinale, longtime editor of Atlanta Progressive News.

atlpresscollective.com/2025/10/02/m...

Matthew Cardinale, 1981-2025, ¡PRESENTE! Obituary

Matthew Charles Cardinale, 44 was the founder and news editor of Atlanta Progressive News and a vocal advocate for transparency.

atlpresscollective.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

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vladimir.theatl.social @vladimir.theatl.social · 1d

at the same time as property tax exemptions targeted at cutting school funding are going on the ballot bsky.app/profile/vlad...

vladimir.theatl.social @vladimir.theatl.social · 2d

Wrote a little more. Please share with anybody in Fulton County and vote against the measures.
safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/10/vote...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d

Atlanta has been been rapidly gentrifying for years & seen tremendous growth in property values since 2011. Yet the public schools starve. And now Mayor wants to extend its tax increment districts, which include some of city’s hottest areas, for 25 years, diverting more $ from schools. #AtlantaWay

Center for Civic Innovation @civicatlanta.bsky.social · 2d

(3/6) Atlanta Public Schools presented a stark financial outlook marked by rising costs, declining enrollment, and revenue shortfalls. Leaders are looking to consolidate facilities, moderate pay growth, and review program efficiency to restore financial health. youtube.com/watch?v=LvB1...

APS budget report warns of “math problem” as spending outpaces revenue

At its Budget Commission meeting, Atlanta Public Schools (APS) presented a stark financial outlook marked by rising costs, declining enrollment, and revenue shortfalls.

Major cost pressures include state health insurance and pension increases (about $25 million combined), competitive teacher pay, and under-enrolled schools. Enrollment in APS’s traditional public schools has dropped 16% since 2016 as charter and private options have expanded. The report cited an “immediate need for efficiency and sustainability,” warning that extending tax allocation district (TAD) agreements could further constrain revenue.

APS leaders are looking to consolidate facilities, moderate pay growth, and review program efficiency to restore long-term financial health.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Tumlin (Marietta in NW suburban Atlanta) needs to go. In 2015, when observing a new development he had pushed to demolish apartments that housed low-income Brown & Black families, he said “It’s almost like a dream. It’s almost like it’s 1970 again." (See: #RedHotCity)

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 1d

A @runforsomething.net race to keep an eye on: Sam Foster, a 24 year old community activist, running for mayor in Marietta, GA, against a 78 year old incumbent who's been holding the office for 15 years & vetoed a resolution on Juneteenth, among other things. www.mdjonline.com/opinion/arou...

AROUND TOWN: Youth vs. experience: Foster challenges Mayor Tumlin in heated Marietta race

The Marietta mayoral race is heating up as candidate Sam Foster has turned to punchy videos on TikTok and Instagram to sharpen his challenge to longtime incumbent Steve “Thunder” Tumlin.

www.mdjonline.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

NEW: Illinois's lawsuit against the Trump admin to block the deployment of the Texas National Guard there has been assigned to Judge April Perry, a Biden appointee.

CASE ASSIGNED to the Honorable April M. Perry. Designated as Magistrate Judge the Honorable Jeffrey T. Gilbert. Case assignment: Random assignment. (Civil Category 2). (khg, )

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