@agoets.bsky.social
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When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.
September 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.
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Trump and Noem still plan to destroy FEMA, despite the temporary pause in overt threats to the agency.
The hatred of FEMA is hard for outsiders to parse. So I wrote this short, readable explainer of why MAGA loathes the emergency relief agency so much.
www.salon.com/2025/07/14/w...
The hatred of FEMA is hard for outsiders to parse. So I wrote this short, readable explainer of why MAGA loathes the emergency relief agency so much.
www.salon.com/2025/07/14/w...
Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA
No, Trump has not given up on the conspiracist mania to kill the popular agency
www.salon.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trump and Noem still plan to destroy FEMA, despite the temporary pause in overt threats to the agency.
The hatred of FEMA is hard for outsiders to parse. So I wrote this short, readable explainer of why MAGA loathes the emergency relief agency so much.
www.salon.com/2025/07/14/w...
The hatred of FEMA is hard for outsiders to parse. So I wrote this short, readable explainer of why MAGA loathes the emergency relief agency so much.
www.salon.com/2025/07/14/w...
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This is an act of policy violence that could literally be a death sentence.
We should NOT be deporting anyone to a nation still dealing with a grave humanitarian crisis like Haiti.
I stand with our Haitian neighbors and urge the Trump Administration to reverse course.
We should NOT be deporting anyone to a nation still dealing with a grave humanitarian crisis like Haiti.
I stand with our Haitian neighbors and urge the Trump Administration to reverse course.
Trump ends TPS for Haitians. More than a half-million people now face deportation
Trump ends TPS for Haitians; over a half million now face deportation
www.miamiherald.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is an act of policy violence that could literally be a death sentence.
We should NOT be deporting anyone to a nation still dealing with a grave humanitarian crisis like Haiti.
I stand with our Haitian neighbors and urge the Trump Administration to reverse course.
We should NOT be deporting anyone to a nation still dealing with a grave humanitarian crisis like Haiti.
I stand with our Haitian neighbors and urge the Trump Administration to reverse course.
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Good morning rebels...
June 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Good morning rebels...
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Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.
June 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
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Why do I have to go to the Guardian to learn about this and why can’t I find it in US papers?
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Why do I have to go to the Guardian to learn about this and why can’t I find it in US papers?
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Adriana Smith should be here with her 5-year-old son. Her severe headaches were dismissed and at 9 weeks pregnant she was declared brain dead, the result of blood clots.
Her family visits her constantly. Her son asks when she’ll wake up.
Her family visits her constantly. Her son asks when she’ll wake up.
May 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Adriana Smith should be here with her 5-year-old son. Her severe headaches were dismissed and at 9 weeks pregnant she was declared brain dead, the result of blood clots.
Her family visits her constantly. Her son asks when she’ll wake up.
Her family visits her constantly. Her son asks when she’ll wake up.
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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
apnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead.
This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend
www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...
This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend
www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...
April 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead.
This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend
www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...
This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend
www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...
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If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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Historically, we will remember the Pope’s final act of diplomacy as asking the US Vice President to have mercy and compassion for immigrants and the poor.
That’s remarkable.
That’s remarkable.
April 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Historically, we will remember the Pope’s final act of diplomacy as asking the US Vice President to have mercy and compassion for immigrants and the poor.
That’s remarkable.
That’s remarkable.
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Old North Church, where Paul Revere saw two lit Lanterns, signaling the British were coming by sea... had some messaged for the 250th anniversary--
April 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Old North Church, where Paul Revere saw two lit Lanterns, signaling the British were coming by sea... had some messaged for the 250th anniversary--
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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The plan from M*sk et al is to put academics and dissidents to work in the mines-- it's not hyperbole it's a refreshed vision of forced labor and indentured servitude in the name of techno fascism
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The plan from M*sk et al is to put academics and dissidents to work in the mines-- it's not hyperbole it's a refreshed vision of forced labor and indentured servitude in the name of techno fascism
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I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.