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Jerome Hodos
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Lost in Megalopolis: Global urbanism, sociology, city politics, planning, street vitality. Professor, Franklin & Marshall College; mistakes all my own.
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andersem.bsky.social
A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects.

2023 paper

haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Kit Includes! Parmesan snow, among other things.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Graffito of the Week, No. 031: Viva el Punk; Quito, 2010. #GotW
A text graffito in angular, burnt-orange letters on a whitish-gray wall: VIVA EL PUNK. The N is backwards, like a Cyrillic letter, and the I has an x above it instead of a dot.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
Hoo-whee. This UVA story is ugly, and seems to run afoul of all kinds of good organizational governance rules.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d
The current rector, then only a board member, hired legal counsel for the board without informing the rest of the board. This counsel was hired (allegedly) to push Jim to resign and the person acted (allegedly) unethically in the chat. If this is who I think it is, the DC bar needs a phone call.
Screenshot of the first part of some text, which reads: In one of our conversations, Rachel indicated that I should talk to a friend of hers, Beth Wilkinson, who was a lawyer who apparently did some work with Columbia University during their dispute with the federal government. Rachel said she would be able to walk me through what it might look like for mepersonally if we tried to fight against the federal government. I asked if she was working for the Board,and Rachel said they might need to hire her if we did get into litigation with the federal government, because McGuire Woods did not have the capacity or sophistication. Beth reached out to me on Tuesday, June 24, two days before I resigned. She got quickly to the point, saying that she heard I was willing to resign and wanted to walk me through what that would look like. Startled, I said I thought she was going to talk about her experience with Columbia, but instead she was focused solely on persuading me to resign. I told her, as I had told Rachel and Paul, that I would resignif it were in the best interest of UVA, but that it wasn’t clear to me it was. I also asked her if she was working for the Board as their lawyer, and she told me she was. This surprised me, both because Rachel did not indicate that Beth was already working for the Board, and also because lawyers representing a potentially adverse party have an ethical duty to indicate as much—and not pretend they are the same side. The conversation continued to be tense, and at one point Beth told me that I was going to be kicked out one way or the other, and that if I didn’t resign, the Board would fire me. This was obviously different from what Paul had told me days earlier, namely that the Screenshot of the second part of text which reads: decision to resign was mine alone. Beth then indicated that the Board might even try to fire me for cause if I did not resign, which would mean not just leaving the presidency but losing my tenured faculty position and being kicked out of the university altogether. A little flabbergasted, I asked how inthe world could the Board possibly fire me for cause. She fumbled with the question and then offered one reason: that I walked out of a Board meeting. That never happened. I called Paul to tell him how stunned and angry I was that he and Rachel were not honest with me about Beth’s role and about her threats against me on behalf of the Board. I also called Robert Hardie, who was still the Rector, to ask if he knew that Rachel had hired a lawyer, ostensibly on behalf of the Board. He did not know, and he was quite upset about it and conveyed as much to Rachel and Paul. In a heated conversation subsequently with Rachel, she defended her authority to hire a lawyer for the Board because she was chair of the audit committee. I pointed out that even if she had the formal authority, on a normally functioning board the Rector would at least have been notified of the appointment and not told about it after the fact.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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benzipperer.org
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.

The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
Figure 9 from a paper by Troup Howard, Mengqi Wang, and Dayin Zhang showing the house price response to the Secure Communities immigration enforcement policy
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
The news today from Texas A&M and Indiana U. was not good. They're taking an axe not just to academic freedom, but to public higher education overall, and ruining their own institutions in particular.
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
Some really dystopian controls being put in place here. The “approved” content is completely subjective and this will be weaponized to attack professors and instructors who teach about ideas that go against the prevailing statewide political winds. This is anathema to academic freedom & free inquiry
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3d
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”

These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Yes, clearly, it was the wanting of the braces that counted as the butterfly wings "setting off" this whole chaotic series of events. Matt Gaetz himself had no agency in the process.

Not "ended up," and not "was left vulnerable." *Was exploited*, by older men who knew what they were doing.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
Matt Gaetz, wearing a paisley tie and black suit jacket. A headline reads: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-year-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation." Photo by Kenny Holston/New York Times
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
I endorse this change. I think it's a much better arrangement. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
MLS announces calendar change, will play fall-to-spring from 2027 onward
The North American league will do away with the calendar in use since its 1996 founding, starting in July and ending in May in a single table format
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Reminder to self: Never let Megyn Kelly near any children I know of any age.
accountablegop.bsky.social Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · 3d
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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jamellebouie.net
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
Pennsylvania has a budget, more than 4 months late. It contains additional spending to support public education, but, sadly, no additional funds for mass transit. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
Pa. lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro have approved a $50.1 billion state budget, officially ending monthslong impasse
Pennsylvania lawmakers formally approved the 2025-26 fiscal year budget, ending the impasse that had for months stalled payments to counties, schools, and nonprofits.
www.inquirer.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The science backing up the idea that race can make someone a good or bad scientist or airline pilot is as solid as the logic behind “orcs can’t be wizards” or “a hobbit can never become a great fighter.” This vision of racial rigidity, in which people can be sorted into categories that quantify their potential, has nothing to do with genetics; it is a political creation, a descendant of the same racist pseudoscience that was prominent in Tolkien’s time. In this sense, what we call “scientific racism” could be called “fantasy racism” instead, a belief that people can be reduced to quantifiable numbers, like so many digits on a character sheet. The races might be fantasy, but the effects of racism are real. After Musk’s DOGE gutted USAID, he insisted that “no one has died.” That wasn’t true. People had already died, and hundreds of thousands more will follow every year because America cut its food and medical aid to the world’s poorest. Anyone could have predicted this catastrophic human cost; Musk must not have cared. Perhaps he saw the dead of the global South as so many nameless orcs.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
An ugly and kinda depressing summary of what all that infrastructure spending is getting us: very little, especially very little change toward shifting transit modes.
yonahfreemark.com Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 4d
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.

US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Evolutionary psychology had no greater institutional champion
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
British politics currently giving off strong "Spain/Podemos in 2015" vibes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
They may lack Labour’s party machine, but Zack Polanski’s burgeoning popularity could have seismic consequences for British politics, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
No score at halftime and I am here for it. My kind of content.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
I think we're seeing a whole lot of filler words mostly because Trump is having a whole lot of trouble with words he wishes he could find
darthbluesky.bsky.social darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d
what is with the whole “are you ready” verbal tic lately
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
INGRAHAM: Is affordability a voter perception issue of the economy, or is there more that needs to be done by Republicans?

TRUMP: More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats. Are you ready? Costs are way down.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Tl;dr. No.

It's just about whether these developments make the clubs richer. It has nothing - at all - to do with community revitalization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/r...
Can Soccer Stadiums Revitalize American Cities?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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rauchway.bsky.social
“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
in the Virginia governor race exit poll:
the Virginia governor race, broken down by race and gender.
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
jhodos.bsky.social
Good times. This was an absolutely classic, iconic screw-up.
adambonin.bsky.social Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 9d
Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
Four Seasons Total Landscaping
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
jhodos.bsky.social
Cold night, so they’re cozying up.
Two cats, one black and one gray, curled up together in a cat bed, looking skeptically (you aren’t gonna give us treats, are you) at the picture taker.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM