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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 2d

Given that elections have been drawn into question, specifically with electronic voting, how would you prefer the vendors to market their services?

Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 2d

What language is ostensible disturbing here?

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 11d

The reasons the new PTA movie works as well as it does are extremely depressing to think about

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 12d

Legal history on this period is William Forbath Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. On the transition from the Knights of Labor to the AFL I also like (in addition to Montgomery) Gerald Grob’s first book Workers and Utopia.

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 12d

Goodwyn’s Populist Moment has a good chapter on the Southwest railroad strike. The larger context and dramatic union narrative in which to understand it is Montgomery.

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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 19d

meanwhile, "alarm" is being raised about "lax lending standards" in corporate debt ...

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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 19d

Text says: “Nothing bad has happened yet.”

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 21d

Pretty much forever? Hard to think of an historical institution fitting that bill.

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 21d

Dean why do you think the New York Times is this way?

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 24d

I've shared news of the book before, but there are also interviews at Phenomenal World and the University of Chicago Press blog
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
pressblog.uchicago.edu/2025/09/18/5... (2/2)

Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein

An interview with Daniel Wortel-London

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

Adding Value | Phenomenal World

Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...

www.phenomenalworld.org

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Sep 14

Great piece from @brentcebul.bsky.social and Michael Glass on the limits of subsidy-driven housing development www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

In the aftermath of the subprime mortgage collapse, the goals of national housing policy have swung from expanding home ownership back to increasing the supply of rental housing. Given the return of this goal, the history of public-private rental housing merits reflection. The midcentury FHA scandals show that loosened regulations and public subsidies—the main planks of today’s abundance agenda—are not enough to deliver sufficient affordable housing. Fred Trump did not just exploit the FHA system; he embodied its core logics of liberalized credit, socialized risk, and privatized profits. Trusting the same class of builders and recycling similar incentive schemes would be a mistake. Because developers, homeowners, and local governments are all deeply invested in maintaining or boosting property values, clearing out regulations and pouring in subsidies risks fuelling the same kind of speculative, profiteering frenzy that defined not only the windfall profits scandal but also the 2008 financial crisis.

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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 25d

“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.”

Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein

An interview with Daniel Wortel-London

www.phenomenalworld.org

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 25d

A wonderful interview of @dlondonwortel.bsky.social on his fantastic new book, "The Menace of Prosperity" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), by Kim Phillips-Fein for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social; of interest to all #skystorians! www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein

An interview with Daniel Wortel-London

www.phenomenalworld.org

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 27d

Chelsea Kirk writing for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social .

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

Loosening the Markets | Chelsea Kirk

The guiding logic of contemporary housing policy is disarmingly simple: if we just build more, prices will fall. Expanding supply—by deregulating and streamlining approvals, eliminating rent control, ...

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 29d

Tenants rights advocate Chelsea Kirk brings our analysis of the failures of supply side housing incentives up to date: "Far from delivering affordability, efforts to accelerate private development...fuel speculation, inflate land values, and displace tenants"

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 28d

At Boston South Station trying to use the Auntie Anne’s WiFi

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's hard to look at the boat attack in the Caribbean, and not see the Israeli rules of engagement getting generalized.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · Sep 5

Eric Adams is about to ascend to become King of Abundance as was foretold by the Prophet Yglesias

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · Aug 31

if they rescue openai after values collapse it’s gonna be the stupidest shit

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · Aug 31

Only the U.S. government could turn competition within the labor movement into something akin to competition to certify a class in a class-action plaintiff’s suit. And yet it’s not clear to me that’s set back labor in the U.S. anymore than in any other advanced capitalist county.

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · Aug 31

What on earth could cause people to think it’s acceptable to conflate Israeli policy with Judaism?

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · Aug 27

“The problem is that they’re scared of public opinion, in particular the opinions of the swing voters who elected Trump.” newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing Voter

The party is responding to Trump’s authoritarian abuses with timid messaging that sounds as if it’s been poll-tested to death—because it probably has been.

newrepublic.com

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