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Dan Immergluck
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Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies, Georgia State University

Immergluck Housing Analytics LLC

Affordable/Fair Housing/Finance, Cities, Community Devl't, Expert Analysis & Witness
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · Aug 21
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I am Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies & Public Policy at Georgia State University & a (part-time) consultant for nonprofits & government on affordable & fair housing, community development, housing & community development finance, and related policy & planning. Latest book:
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta [Immergluck, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18h
Who from Illinois is introducing/sponsoring this? @quigley.house.gov @ramirez.house.gov @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @robinkelly.house.gov @underwood.house.gov

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stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Reposted by Reece Jones, Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma , and 8 more

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Reposted by Robert Wolfe, Anne Norton, Dan Immergluck , and 2 more

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
I also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d
Been a close Fed watcher and critic for over 30 years. Did a year in the system as a visiting scholar.

This is different. Finally speaking up. Should have come > 6 months ago.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d
Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 2d
Saw these large wheat pasted posters tonight around the south side. These particular ones are on boards that went up on the new development at Nicollet/31st. This was the site of a Wells Fargo bank that burned in 2020.

RENEE NICOLE GOOD
AMERICAN MOM

MURDERED
BY ICE

Minneapolis, January 2026
RENEE NICOLE GOOD AMERICAN MOM MURDERED BY ICE

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
...in case anyone is interested in learning more about the larger story(ies) surrounding the anecdote I describe in the reflection, there is a (very) long piece that begins with the family and incident(s). It was at the Bailey family's house.
In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.
www.politico.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Some words and pics about the very full life of my 94 year-old dad, who passed away this evening after a sudden decline in recent months. In September, he was still riding his e-trike around the condo association. Res well, Dad.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Well, I had it down to either Oster or Demsas, who said about a year ago that Dems should "work with DOGE..."
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5d
Can you guess who authored this piece without looking at the byline? Who might not have any relevant expertise in nutrition, but would make it a habit of trying to hand it to RFKJ?
Opinion | Kennedy Is Telling Americans How to Eat. It’s Not Crazy Advice.
www.nytimes.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
🙏🙏🙏 even better!

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Good to hear. I am still on season one. Thanks!

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Oh, I didn’t know this. Well then…

www.ucpress.edu/books/red-ho...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Me, late to watching The Guilded Age because I can’t resist anything that smacks of urban history. So far also waiting it to contain more actual urban history rather than just pretty architecture (and not particularly great dialogue). But I’ll try to stick it out longer.
a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Precisely.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
But people like radio free Tom the Reaganite, or whoever he is, over at @theatlantic.com say it's not fascism.

Fascism, like most important political phenomena, is a process, not just an event or an end-state. Call it "fascisting" if you want, FFS.
nicholasbednar.bsky.social Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 3d
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
“Choices have consequences” is the new MAGA mantra this week.

*Unless you try to do a right wing coup, are a POTUS protected by a corrupt SCOTUS, or pay for a pardon, or... Then they don’t.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Posted a few weeks ago that reason Bovino had moved center of his terror campaign to Evanston (a liberal white suburb with few Latino residents, but substantial numbers of Latino workers) was to intimidate white liberals.

Some on here said "no they just ran out of folks on SW side" (they didn't)
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
put the word Gaza in a post and spend a half hour blocking people who totally missed the point of the post, or didn't even read it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò , and 1 more

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
vcdgf555.bsky.social Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 3d
Shouldn't you be doing government shit?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”

ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”

UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”

ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*

(H/T @Mollyploofkins)

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 3d
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

Reposted by Will Jennings, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dan Immergluck

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 3d
Shouldn't you be doing government shit?

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
And I feel like I won the Pulitzer Prize last year.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."