The largest corporate landlords in the United States are surgically evicting Los Angeles' Black tenants. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

It is one thing to be realistic about the constraints faced by SIO. It is another thing to valorize TINA logic, and to fall in love with solving problems that shouldn’t exist.

The word *while* is doing a lot of work here

Dino Guastella and Damage have the magic formula: "patriotism over globalism, family duty over self-expression, and tradition over cosmopolitan sophistication." Insular philistinism—works for Trump! substack.com/inbox/post/2223…

Over 100 million Americans rent their homes. Here's a new report from @TenantFed, our first attempt to compile available facts/figures to understand the political and economic realities facing tenants– in other words, The State of The Nation’s Tenants: stateoftenants.org

Despite Maddow making her name breathlessly covering Trump's connections to Russia, the MSNOW host has been silent on the Trump clan's sprawling––and far more numerous and overt––ties to Israeli influence operations. I wrote about Maddow's conspicuous refusal to cover IsraelGate.

Explaining the concept of the downwardly-mobile petite bourgeoisie to a physics student

"It's cost Americans $1 billion already in excess healthcare costs. So that's in the real world, in this political economy, that is what AI is doing to healthcare." Ash Sarkar (@ayocaesar) is joined by Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) and Astra Taylor (@astradisastra), to discuss AI and its impact on the economy. Watch the full episode of Downstream IRL on our YouTube channel.

Some of the clearest evidence that the more student debt you cancel, the better off families and the economy is.

YIMBYs are so funny to me. "I've made a fascinating observation. It turns out that people don't like it when their neighborhoods undergo massive disruption"

We need to impose professional licensing requirements on film criticism

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.

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.