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Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

Scatterplot showing large cluster of blue dots signifying the mention of Trump after the 2016 election Header: Trump In 1,670 out of 2,324 email threads

Trump was a subject in 72% of the Epstein email threads.

Data visualization by WSJ:
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

House of Blues Houston becomes first in chain to form a union A near-unanimous vote by Houston’s House of Blues workers has made the downtown music venue the first in the franchise to unionize, joining IATSE Local 51.

TEXAS UNION WIN ✊ House of Blues #Houston workers just unionized with @iatse.bsky.social Local 51!

Welcome to the labor movement, y’all!

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

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I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us. RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

Grover from the Monster at the end of this book lamenting that you turned the page. It's a Master class on how to use speech bubbles to evoke emotions.

I suspect this is the most influential splash page in the English language.

3 rolls of 3M Scotch brand masking tape.

this year marks 100 years of sticky tape!

Masking tape, the first adhesive tape, was invented in 1925 by 3M employee Richard Gurley Drew who noticed frustrated auto company employees using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars for painting then popular 2-tone paint jobs and stripes.

If Ann M Martin ain’t on there I dismiss your credibility.

Oh I forgot to post the baseball cards of the striking workers they were handing out. Genius.

Starbucks had the worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 companies in 2024. Their CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee.

We stand with @sbworkersunited.org as they fight for their fair share.

That column to the left is Kentucky.

That's $12 billion in rural health care cuts. The biggest cut to health care in US history, and we're hit hardest.

The KY GOP only talks about fighting for rural communities. But now they’re cheering on a bill that will devastate rural KY.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

This is part of the reason why the lawyerly explanations of why this decision isn't so bad miss the forest for the trees

a lot of things are happening, & a lot of folks are looking for something actionable to do—if you cannot do anything else, let wearing a respirator in your daily life be the tide-shifting behavior you seek. normalizing using this mitigation tool matters. seriously, watch👇🏻
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Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.

Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here

Y'all, we have ONE DAY left to leave feedback. ONE. Make your voice known. Leave a comment. Make sure they know that if this continues, they did this without our consent. Voicing your dissent is important and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Batman towering over you, snapping the wooden stock of a shotgun in half with his bare hands as he says "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it." The shotgun is labeled - fragmented where it has been snapped in half - "AI (even if you're making fun of it)"

what a visual

Great movement Medford Oregon around 3000 people and one place.

The Fine (R) win in the CD-6 special election of about 8 points is much, much different than the 33 point Waltz (R) margin in 2024. While I know a disappointment to some it is very difficult to move a district as much as this one did

vote in the wisconsin state supreme court election today so that elon musk has the worst night imaginable