Trap economist and landlordology scholar
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The largest corporate landlords in the United States are surgically evicting Los Angeles' Black tenants.
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Many interesting things to think about. One is the contradiction between a socialism which identifies its aim with a dispassionately defined general good, little different from liberals, and one which identifies itself with the aims of constituencies of organized working people.
A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
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HAHAHAHA. The Atlantic visits a Maine trailer park where residents are fighting a corporate landlord over soaring rents and brown tap water. Then it visits a nonprofit teaching women and LGBTQ people how to become welders.
The author sees a trans flag at the welding school and somehow turns this into a lecture about a “professional-class insurgency” alienating working-class voters.
Maine's own workforce directory describes the school as providing blue-collar job training, including instruction in workers' rights.
Apparently, a welding torch becomes a symbol of professional-class elitism the moment somebody hangs a fucking trans flag nearby.
Remarkable what passes for class analysis these days.
Troy Jackson is courting working-class voters in Maine—while championing a set of policies that many of them don’t support, @Tyler_A_Harper argues. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
Honestly I can’t even get into the mindset of someone who would care about this. It’s like trying to understand the experience of a sea sponge.
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this is also true of evictions for nonpayment of rent, although that data is harder to parse where there are not just-cause protections that require the landlord to specify a reason for eviction. the rent eats first...
Sometimes being from an immigrant family is like being in a Marquez novel:
Greatgrandpa “died from too much red meat”
Great uncle “died from too many cherries”
Cousin “cured crohns by eating apples”
Grandpa “cured cancer by eating raw onion, learned from an albanian at sea”
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across the USA homeowners are asking why they can't be interred in their homes after death, accompanied by a ritually sacrificed doordasher and favorite appliances, the entire property set ablaze. "what 'gas lines'?" asks one "if i'm not alive, does the subdivision even exist?"
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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– at Ohio, USA
Ohio had the steepest decline in homeownership affordability between 2020 to 2025, according to new reporting from the National Housing Conference ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/…
Property taxes should be 5-6x higher actually the only people who benefit from lower taxes are mortgage lenders
There may be no such thing as monopoly capitalism but there sure are tons of monopolies around in my capitalism 🤷♀️
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+1 for the "mentally ill"!
"Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All." politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Maybe he just has bad vibes?
Jack Weis has applied to more than 2,300 jobs since he graduated from Princeton in 2024 with his Ph.D. in chemical engineering. He still doesn’t have a job. on.wsj.com/4sfxSLc
