Ben Teresa

“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.

Market power is underestimated in rental markets bc scarcity is amplified in time- and place-bound housing searches. While overall in Richmond region there is 1 unit affordable for every 3 extremely low inc households, in a bounded search ELI HH would encounter more like 2 dozen competitors per unit

Bill Bolling doesn't know what he's talking about but sure is revealing that he assumes people are abandoning 47 on attitude alone. He is underwater on all his POLICIES.

Just a reminder. Just b/c new market-rate housing opens up units (good thing usually, if aren’t physically displacing low-cost units), including lower-cost units, 1) doesn’t mean that all those units will all go to low-income households; 2) doesn’t provide long-term, stable, deeply affordable units.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

You are a sophist

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?

Huh, look at that. I was told:

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

What does the end of Trumpism look like? Ironically, the breakup of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s might lend some insights 1/x

from your own comparison with the CRM, what do you see as the "success" of MAGA (or what would they consider their success)? Was it particular legislation they have passed in either Trump I or II? Overturning Roe? Is it simply achieving electoral success at the federal level?

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled and the Youngkin appointees who were voted down by the Senate from our college boards will NOT be taking their seats! This is a victory of enormous significance to the legislative branch and a reminder that we have no Kings in Virginia!

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Someone should ask him, since he's clearly stated he doesn't want to live in the same state as Lt Gov-elect Hashmi and she's not going anywhere, when is he leaving VA?

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

You are a sophist

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

yeah, I call it the Fascism Laundry podcast. Remember when he had Andreessen on who claimed Democrats were in control of federal regulation of tech when Trump was in his first term?

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

She does say Mandani's campaign is lying to people though. That is in there. "Was silence not an option?"

Republicans still being willing to carry on this charade for 15 fucking years is a direct indictment of the media

Opinion | We’re seeing haves and have-nots with Minneapolis rents While the housing cost burden is easing overall, it’s not the case for lower-income renters, the authors write.

Published my first Op-Ed w/ Professor Ed Goetz on how the national narrative about Minneapolis misses how zoning and market rate housing are necessary but not sufficient to help lower-income renters 🧵 www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Since the LIHTC program was created in 1986, the number of LIHTC units has risen every year as the program has become the major generator of affordable housing in the US.

Because of affordability expiration, however, the number of LIHTC units is expected to begin falling over the next decade.

wow the quarter pounder thing is pretty rough to read about and you're exactly right.

Interesting to consider that for decades now the largest "housing agency" in terms of spending is the IRS

The Federal Government Commits Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually to Reducing Housing Costs through a Variety of Mechanisms

The US federal government's spending on housing—directly through the budget, or through tax expenditures—amounts to more than $400 billion a year.

Only about 1/4 of that goes to low-income renters. The majority is spent on subsidizing higher-income homeowners.

www.urban.org/research/pub...

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...