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Brett Taylor @brett-taylor.bsky.social · 3d

Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

The White House Building

Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

www.whitehouse.gov

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · 22d

Going on the world's shortest work trip, but still feel devastated leaving her behind 😭

A tortoiseshell kitten partially loafing on a yellow and orange plaid slipper chair. In the background is a backpack and small suitcase.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25d

Ah - the Kavanaugh stops continue.

(h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for the name!)

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · 25d

Working out of an office in the heart of Center City has its challenges, but it is so worth it to hear the Eagles Uber guy driving around.

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National Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · 26d

Are you a HUD or USDA tenant? Know your rights during the government shutdown!
🏢Continue paying your portion of the rent
☎️Contact an attorney ASAP if your landlord tries to hike your rent or evict you during the shutdown
🔍Check out nhlp.org/govshutdown for more detailed info on your housing rights

Graphic titled "HUD and USDA tenants' rights during the government shutdown" that explains what happens during a government shutdown, urges tenants to find legal help so they can know their rights, and notes that most tenants in HUD and USDA housing should not experience a disruption in their housing at this time because of the shutdown. There is a disclaimer at the bottom that notes this is not legal advice and if the shutdown lasts past November, tenants' rights will change and they should seek legal help.

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · 27d

the labradorite in the center is gorgeous!! I'm only at 2g, but I've always been envious of folks who have the space to show off a whole rock!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 27d

As HUD's leadership pursues a plan that could push millions of families into homelessness, here's what the agency's website is serving up this morning:

Screenshot of the HUD website. A red banner reads: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 27d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · Sep 25

This is still the reality in DC. Deploying the National Guard to stand around and pick up trash will cost $200 million.

Why can they always find money for guns and wars but not housing and healthcare and food?

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · Sep 26

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Sep 26

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · Sep 25

mad all over again

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 25

Workers complained of a lack of transparency and a bewildering array of new faces in their offices—some much less friendly than others.
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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National Housing Law Project @nhlp.bsky.social · Sep 24

Our government affairs director, @noelleporter.bsky.social, talked public housing with @monicapotts.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com and how we need to shift our housing system to one that puts people over profit.

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · Sep 23

It's called blacking out and swiping your cc during every Summer Sale, only to dump 300 more hours into cities skylines 😌

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Sep 23

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · Sep 19

Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

The injunction is silent as to the use
of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address
that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s
reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’
use of force and to prohibit excessive force.
To the extent that excessive force has been used, the
Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies
should be available in federal court. I agree with the
dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction
against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Sep 8

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Sep 5

America lost 7k construction jobs in August, and overall job growth in the sector is now at its worst pace since the pandemic

Over the last year, the US has lost 31k jobs in residential construction and only gained 78k jobs in nonresidential & civil construction

a graph of year-on-year change in US construction employment

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · Sep 4

Damnable.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.

Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

7. At all of the shelters visited in the middle of the night, ProBAR staff witnessed children who had been pulled out of their beds. They were confused and scared. At Hands of Healing Los Fresnos, one young girl was extremely distraught, crying and repeatedly saying that she could not go back to Guatemala. At New Hope McAllen, one young girl was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician. At Urban Strategies Alamo, one young teenager was scared that he might end up murdered like one of his family members. At Compass Connection in Harlingen, an attorney was able to meet with only one child. None of these children’s parents in their home country had requested their return. ProBAR’s client and named Plaintiff ARMD was at Compass Connection, but he was transported to a plane without notifying me as his attorney of record.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Aug 18

I need people to understand:

1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined

2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit

3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Aug 15

"Trump is preparing to revoke eviction protections for people living in federal public housing and project-based rental assistance programs."

"[I]n some jurisdictions, people [..] could receive no notice at all before formal eviction procedures begin."
#USA #Housing

Trump the Landlord Plans to Speed Up Evictions From Public Housing

The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.

theintercept.com

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 21

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

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Esteban @estebananza.bsky.social · Aug 19

The blooming continues. Added some natives to the front planting bed. Absolutely true what they say about agastache, lobelia, etc. being bee magnets. Several tried to follow us from the nursery to the car!

Agastache urticifolia, aka giant hyssop, with two honeybees combing through the many little purple flowers on an inflorescence.

A closeup of the inflorescence of Liatris spicata, aka gayfeather or blazing star. The hot pink flowers have relatively long, feather-like petals, making the plant look very seussical.

Lobelia cardinalis, blue cardinal flower. A bee is rooting around in a deep blue, conical flower. Its little abdomen (bee rump) is sticking out.

A full shot of my front yard. A star magnolia sits at the center of a mulched square plot. Planted around the tree are various native and non native plants, including Japanese barberry, cornflower, dwarf fothergilla, tickseed, asters, coral bells, blue eyed grass, various ferns, and a random mum that is absolutely thriving for no reason.

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