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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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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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

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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 · 10h

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

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 6h

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

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 7h

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 · 14h

Aaand what is he going to do about it?

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 14h

The Reformer's is more direct

Daily Reformer: Walz expects troops in Minnesota

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

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 · 16h

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

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 15h

We love our little brick shithouses don't we folks

Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 16h

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

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 1d

Thank you!

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Looks like it's in really good shape too!

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Oh my...

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

Ope bsky.app/profile/tech...

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

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

This post is what trigged my thead lol bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

this isn't possible i'm sorry! A gigawatt of data center development is currently taking about 2.5 years (see: abilene) and that's with established partners and chips that have actually launched (the mi450 hasn't). Do they even have the land?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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

Insight brought to you by Peter Brown, a super smart guy who wrote a whole book on how developers think. Certainly not relevant at all right now with the AI economy... (3/3)

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

Developers realized the market was softening and the goal was to complete your building before the other guys and lease up/sell your units before the bottom dropped out. Incidently, usally the tallest building is the last one finished right before the crash. (2/3)

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

One big turning point in bubble markets is when actors begin to realize they are in a bubble, but don't really change their behavior as opposed to accelerate their efforts to beat the popping. The 2008 condo bubble is a perfect example. (1/3)

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

alec karakatsanis talked about how police make it easy for media to cover crime by providing so much info, leading to other crime not getting covered. “stick a reporter in housing court,” he suggests covering bad landlords. i just think of john wall’s residency faking going unreported here!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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