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Canadian woman has been imprisoned by ICE for the last 9 days over paperwork issues with a work visa while trying to enter the United States According to KGTV San Diego, she was transported to a detention facility in Arizona where she was "wrapped in chains" and kept in a cell with 30 other people

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NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...

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christ

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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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Wrote a post w/ new details about JCHA's redevelopment of Holland Gardens from a 192-unit public housing complex into a 719-unit mixed-income community w/ a library, retail & more. Many exciting details & renderings, including JC's first mass timber building forcefields.substack.com/p/new-detail...

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you’re telling me that yet another one of these guys is a degenerate sex criminal? i’m shocked

submitted 8 hours ago • 214 comments

Problem with having a freakishly plugged in, high-info base is you cannot possibly get away with this kind of thing. Everyone will understand what you’re doing.

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'Let me be clear, government can get in the way, especially local government. This restrictive zoning, often a legacy of Jim Crow era racism, lets be clear, is a persistent problem. Its a problem even in blue cities under democratic leadership" - @warnock.senate.gov

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Senator Kennedy (R-Louisiana) was absolutely cooking in today's Senate Banking Committee hearing on housing. He's nailed the problem--state & local growth controls + permitting constraints--and is conceptually locked in on a federal solution to incentivize reform (!) www.youtube.com/live/4ulJ6UC...

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Some professional news: I'm thrilled to be affiliating with the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management as a Fellow in the Transportation and Land Use program. I am a longtime admirer of their work on transportation finance and transit capital projects and I look forward to future collaborations.

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Two weeks ago, I wrote that Democrats are facing a problem, where they may be seriously underrating the rage of their base and their own Tea Party moment. If they vote for this CR, it'd amplify that. Durbin, Hickenlooper etc would all be facing major discontent. split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

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USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include: —Green infra —Bike infra —EV infra —Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.

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When you see the raised prices for beer at the store, make sure to thank Donald Trump for that.

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PA ranks 44th out of the 50 states for new housing construction www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

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This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

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Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

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You would be shocked how fast a fundamental change to the fabric of the built environment goes from being heartily resisted by nearby homeowners to a beloved symbol of a community.

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one of the stories Kevin Drum championed over his career was the causative link between environmental lead poisoning and other societal ills. I think it's one of the most important stories of the last 20 years and Drum was one of the main reasons people knew about it. RIP

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"The populist right is powered by scarcity. When there is not enough to go around, we look with suspicion on anyone who might take what we have. That suspicion is the fuel of Trump’s politics. (...) The answer to a politics of scarcity is a politics of abundance."

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So, to the point on in-house staff: yeah, it's useful. But New York had a large in-house staff until shedding it in the 2000s - whereas its cost explosion happened in the 1920s and 30s with the IND. Good procurement practices work with in-house staff but aren't reducible to in-house staff headcount.

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Inject this directly into my veins

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Ooof www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...

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There's a bill that will likely come up for a vote in the next month which would make it a mandatory ground of deportation for having been convicted of a single DUI. His Chief of Staff was just arrested for a DUI and Johnson is almost entirely downplaying it.

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Los Angeles joins the list of cities, states, provinces, and counties around the U.S. and Canada to take steps to allow taller single-stair apartment buildings. Find out more on the Center for Building’s website: www.centerforbuilding.org/trackers

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As some of us feared, the NJ Department of Community Affairs goofed badly last year when making affordable housing calculations for every town in the state. They included non-buildable land in their calculations. The state may now miss out on 14,000 affordable housing units...

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For @thephilacitizen.bsky.social I wrote about the sad history of expanding Philly’s ADU ordinance in a bunch of tiny ways that didn’t work. It’s a microcosm of the political problems Mayor Parker’s 30,000 Homes agenda could face on City Council thephiladelphiacitizen.org/are-we-on-th...

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@jongeeting.bsky.social ftw

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TRUMP SEEKS TO PUT 443 FEDERAL PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

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Gov. Wes Moore launches initiatives to support federal workers with 130,000 job openings, more www.wbal.com/gov-wes-moor...

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This story is tough to summarize in a catchy way, but I'll try: The DHS asked the IRS to share the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, and the IRS said no because that's not legal. Nixon was nearly impeached for a similar move. gift link: wapo.st/4bkjoAY

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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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I am perennially fascinated by this aspect of the current moment. The people most invested in masculinity as a political project have an idea of it that seems bizarre to me. Not just in the sense of: I disagree with them about what would be good. Obviously. But it's more than that...

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People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

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