Is the housing shortage just a "blue city" problem? Not when you look at whether median income earners can afford median-priced single family homes. Homes have become unaffordable in red and blue states alike. This started before Fed rate hikes... 🧵

I've been wondering why monopoly utilities are rushing to socialize big load costs. It's not out of malice for other customers. It's because, without offering subsidized rates, the utilities would lose out on those big new customers to more efficient providers.

What these toplines mean for federal spending cuts: - up to 28% cut to student aid - up to 15% cut to Medicaid - up to 20% cut to food stamps All of this to fund a 4.2% tax break for the wealthiest Americans, amounting to $314k each. https://t.co/qF02uFXDzr

1. For decades, local grocery stores thrived. Then in the 1980s, the government stopped enforcing a key antitrust law. Rapid consolidation followed, giving rise to food deserts & a price spike. Our new graph shows the dramatic impact of this policy shift. https://t.co/Oautc1F8Tk

We live in an interesting world where, as a result of policy-by-tax-credit, Treasury now administers: Our largest housing program (LIHTC) instead of HUD Our largest energy program (ITC/PTC) instead of DOE One of our largest antipoverty programs (EITC) instead of SSA

I've just posted some important personal and professional news about my health crisis on my website. https://t.co/cCz1fmFYp8 please read and share with relevant folks in our struggle for justice. My best to you all--

It's officially a real book. https://t.co/WidsakrY5x

🚨 STATEMENT: Immigrant Advocates to Adams: Focus on NYC "If Mayor Adams really wants to learn more about the arduous journeys of asylum seekers seeking safety, he should spend a little more time speaking with them" @HeyItsMurad 🔗 https://t.co/HwFcscihRW

"...roughly 7 in 10 new scholarship awards are going to students already enrolled in private school, at what FPI estimates is a $676 million cost to the state. This is more than triple the initial estimate by the Florida House." Full statement 👇👇#sayfie https://t.co/AQIe4aQTPP

Wrote about the end of affirmative action and the very weird but expected fact that nobody’s really talking about the Asian plaintiffs or the extremely obvious discrimination they faced

Very proud of @nysfocus: “it would distinguish itself by concentrating on the way that power is exercised in Albany and how it filters down and affects almost everything. Against trend, there would be very little in the way of takes or opinion.” https://t.co/RM1RHYmr86

Chinese gov advisor on WB/IMF super senior status in debt restructuring “there is no law that requires WB loans to be prioritised”. Reflects old era of Western dominance. “If WB to take precedence over us, we need to have bigger voting rights" Fair? Non? https://t.co/8fLWEMiJKe

Lapham's Quarterly asked me to write about freedom and my favorite book-writing cave-dwelling vegan disabled abolitionist, the inimitable Benjamin Lay. May we each be a fraction as forward-thinking. https://t.co/io4hn8hFSw

Legislation that would make it easier to get death penalty decisions in Florida is one step away from passing both chambers in the Capitol.

“Organizations…recently wrote to New York state legislative leaders asking them to pass the New York Public Banking Act. “Private banks, they say, ‘engage in risky and abusive activities that run counter to the state’s public policy objectives.’” https://t.co/QX8O6xtHW5

They should make a needle but for if all the banks are gonna fail

If every school in the land is now a Paulo Freire social justice academy, a claim that the right makes daily, why would all the kids be majoring in health care, finance & entrepreneurialism when they get to college?

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In 2022, the six largest western oil companies made more money than in any year in the history of the industry: over $200bn, largely from pumping and selling the fossil fuels the world must replace to avert the climate crisis. https://t.co/Dqh6O3lExK