Esteban
@estebananza.bsky.social
I'm an affordable housing attorney and this is where I post my personal views. Talk to me about trains, cities, and safe, healthy, attainable homes for all. Temple Law/UR Alum | 🏳️🌈 he/him | 📍philly :)
world's wokest gender identity question making me check all the genders 😡😡😡
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
world's wokest gender identity question making me check all the genders 😡😡😡
When was the last time another adult yelled at you at work? Because it just happened to me after a peaceful stretch of not getting yelled at, and I wonder if anyone else finds it as surreal as I do.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When was the last time another adult yelled at you at work? Because it just happened to me after a peaceful stretch of not getting yelled at, and I wonder if anyone else finds it as surreal as I do.
Purralegal asleep on the job again 🙄
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Purralegal asleep on the job again 🙄
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This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
Reposting instead of just bookmarking because I had to lift up this line:
"most policy books should just be a long Atlantic article" ‼️‼️‼️🗣️
"most policy books should just be a long Atlantic article" ‼️‼️‼️🗣️
As you head out to your local favorite indie bookstore this weekend (because of course that’s what you’re doing, right?!), here is my list of my 25 favorite books of the year:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
My favorite books of 2025
25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposting instead of just bookmarking because I had to lift up this line:
"most policy books should just be a long Atlantic article" ‼️‼️‼️🗣️
"most policy books should just be a long Atlantic article" ‼️‼️‼️🗣️
Se o Brasil consegue fazer isso... então talvez...?
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Se o Brasil consegue fazer isso... então talvez...?
Reading a housing advocates listserv just before the holidays... why did I think logging On Here after that would be some kind of pick-me-up 🫠
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reading a housing advocates listserv just before the holidays... why did I think logging On Here after that would be some kind of pick-me-up 🫠
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
Girl WHAT
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Girl WHAT
I don't think I can consume any more information and there's still a whole day left in this workweek
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I don't think I can consume any more information and there's still a whole day left in this workweek
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October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
I always craft on election night. This year I made a broom 🧹
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I always craft on election night. This year I made a broom 🧹
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Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Another one bites the dust.
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Another one bites the dust.
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
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From the union statement in the story below:
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
From the union statement in the story below:
Just replaced the clutch in my washing machine I feel invincible
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just replaced the clutch in my washing machine I feel invincible
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Yet another study showing the federal Opportunity Zone is flowing predominantly to neighborhoods already showing signs of gentrification & probably subsidizing continued gentrification rather than fostering responsible reinvestment.
By
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
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@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
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October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yet another study showing the federal Opportunity Zone is flowing predominantly to neighborhoods already showing signs of gentrification & probably subsidizing continued gentrification rather than fostering responsible reinvestment.
By
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
By
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Reinvestment Fund report on Philly corporate RE investment IDs "13 high-volume investors that bought 100 or more properties, and 8 investors that bought more than 200 properties during the study period", finding that they "operate primarily as landlords, rather than as developers or flippers."
What Philly’s corporate investors mean for renters and homebuyers
A new study finds investors are snapping up properties in neighborhoods like Germantown and Cobbs Creek — and it could change who can afford to live there.
whyy.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reinvestment Fund report on Philly corporate RE investment IDs "13 high-volume investors that bought 100 or more properties, and 8 investors that bought more than 200 properties during the study period", finding that they "operate primarily as landlords, rather than as developers or flippers."
Rebranding from "perpetual dilettante" to "maintains a sense of childlike wonder about the world."
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Rebranding from "perpetual dilettante" to "maintains a sense of childlike wonder about the world."
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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
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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...
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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.