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Certainly multiple things going on (insurance rates ⬆️, "overbuilding"), but could also be ⬇️demand in some big Red-state cities: Dallas, Austin, Tampa, etc. Could also reflect ⬇️interest in folks willing to move there, or more leaving. Too early to say. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Having read the stories about this, my question: Wouldn't brief in-person meetings with applicants end almost all of these scams?

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

Something that would be extremely valuable to Elon and other oligarchs would be a blacklist of employees who have filed NLRB complaints or testified in NLRB hearings that they could fire or refuse to hire! Would be wildly illegal to use such a list but so is this:

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

I don't think I'll ever stop being mad about how the Biden administration wasted the opportunity to prevent a second Trump term, instead devoting all their ire for the students simply asking colleges to stop cosigning a genocide carried out by US bombs.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

Everyone in DC seems to agree that China Bad and that the most important thing in the world is to Compete with China. OK, well: China is electrifying its economy faster than any other country in the world. Guess we better get on it!

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

They might be exposed to science that hasn't been pre-approved by the administration

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

How is this different than what Republican senators say about Trump

submitted 5 days ago • 238 comments

My entire life right-wingers have been warning about national ID and the “papers please” elements of fascism and now Trump is the one speed-running that version of dystopia.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

“making a purchase is tantamount to someone stealing from me”

submitted 8 days ago • 130 comments

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 9 days ago • 721 comments

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

submitted 12 days ago • 433 comments

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled. Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

I made a site today that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Check it out. I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

2 more days to contact elected officials in New York and tell them you do NOT support the proposed mask ban. These bans criminalize masking. The medical exemptions aren’t good enough. Anti mask sentiment, public perception and rampant ableism already make maskers a target. Bans make it worse 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

On Friday, Elon Musk said he would travel to Wisconsin on Sunday to "personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote." This vote-buying scheme shows how far he’ll go to extend his plan for oligarchy.

submitted 17 days ago • 127 comments

The linked article is absolutely enraging. Road redesign is extremely important, but we also need a legal system that is far less tolerant of chronic reckless driving. This woman should have gotten her keys taken away for good long ago.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

France’s new tidal turbines aim to power thousands of homes with clean energy supplying electricity to 8 million people. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

If you believe that only the “fit” should survive and the rest are excusable deaths, that’s eugenics. Every life is important. Every disabled person is worthy of life. Disability is part of nature. If you live long enough, you will become disabled. We’re all vulnerable and all valuable.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 19 days ago • 481 comments

The state Senate's housing committee just gave the green light to Washington's rent stabilization bill, clearing its first hurdle in the upper chamber. The version adopted today includes a 20-year sunset. www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/13/w...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe. 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refugees-court-case-against-hungary-just-improved-trans-rights-across-all-of-europe/

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

submitted 23 days ago • 64 comments

So am I understanding this right? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith asked the Trump/MAGA regime (who are currently attacking Canada) to time their attacks in order to influence the Canadian Federal Election and benefit Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party? In an economic and sovereignty crisis?

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

The most consistently pure distillation of American conservatism is “my car gives me the right to do violence to everyone else”, and this is an interesting escalation of that

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

A bipartisan bill to implement part of Project 2025, designed to destroy independent websites that aren't Big Tech–owned. Democrats are collaborators.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."

submitted 25 days ago • 62 comments

Here we go. The dam is breaking. Call your D senators and reps and tell them that Schumer has to step down as the minority leader in the Senate. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

Someone needs to please tell the Press Secretary to put the eyebrown pencil DOWN

submitted 38 days ago • 94 comments

Britain and Germany have now issued travel warnings for the U.S. www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Graduate assistants at UNLV are among those at NSHE institutions statewide seeking collective bargaining rights via the United Auto Workers, whose members nationally include roughly 100,000 people working in higher education.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Ok so he’s been just straight up ignoring court orders and rulings that don’t go his way… so now what?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Oh boy.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

submitted 28 days ago • 217 comments

people can smell a phony from a mile away!

submitted 29 days ago • 153 comments

One reason I left Twitter was because of the nonstop (in-) fighting between the centre/centre left and the left in housing circles. In an effort to build a bridge early on here, I’m going to talk about my experience, both lived, and as an academic/activist. To kick things off: zoning is racist.

submitted 147 days ago • 16 comments

The abundance debate has quickly reached a level of abstraction that borders on incoherence. “Is deregulation good or bad” is a nonsense question absent any specifics. “Whose fault is all of this” is a useless question in the absence of historical analysis or an examination of coalition politics.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 28 days ago • 83 comments

to be clear, USIP staff spoke to MPD prior and then called them to report DOGE as trespassers and when the cops showed up they instead held the door open for Musk’s thugs.

submitted 29 days ago • 77 comments

Has any upzoning in the last 20 years when actually implemented sparked any major backlash? The vast majority of them appear not to do so.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

The Social Security Administration is considering cutting payments to 170,000 people. The agency is circulating a proposal to ban payments to people without Social Security numbers. The move would affect thousands of people getting retirement and disability payments.

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

submitted 31 days ago • 27 comments

Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.

submitted 30 days ago • 31 comments

It isn't even about age-related capability, it's about responsible transition of leadership. You give the next generation a chance to get their sea legs in a position of formal leadership while their predecessors still live, so the new leaders can receive the wisdom of the mentoring retirees.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments