Ryan Bell
@ryanjbell.bsky.social
Housing is a human right
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"Ever since Mexico ceded half its territory to the United States in 1848, California has posed a challenge for America’s nascent fascists." Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cracked-costly-fantasies/
Cracked, Costly Fantasies | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
lareviewofbooks.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Ever since Mexico ceded half its territory to the United States in 1848, California has posed a challenge for America’s nascent fascists." Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cracked-costly-fantasies/
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Probably unreasonable to expect the Post editorial board to stay on top of economic research but there are three studies of California's fast food minimum wage (not just the one they preferred to highlight)
The average estimate across studies suggests the policy had essentially no employment effect
The average estimate across studies suggests the policy had essentially no employment effect
Opinion | Data from Calif. and D.C. shows how minimum wage hikes can hurt
Recent experience underscores the perils of raising minimum wage above what the market can bear.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Probably unreasonable to expect the Post editorial board to stay on top of economic research but there are three studies of California's fast food minimum wage (not just the one they preferred to highlight)
The average estimate across studies suggests the policy had essentially no employment effect
The average estimate across studies suggests the policy had essentially no employment effect
One of the great joys of reading is coming across insights and feelings that are familiar but you’ve never put in words.
This, from Overstory, arrested me.
“The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.”
This, from Overstory, arrested me.
“The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.”
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
One of the great joys of reading is coming across insights and feelings that are familiar but you’ve never put in words.
This, from Overstory, arrested me.
“The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.”
This, from Overstory, arrested me.
“The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.”
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Racist policing and unaffordable housing are central crises of our time. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle For Housing shows how they intersect in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County’s northern outpost and a key destination for those pushed out of LA. June 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social
November 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Racist policing and unaffordable housing are central crises of our time. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle For Housing shows how they intersect in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County’s northern outpost and a key destination for those pushed out of LA. June 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social
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"Nearly three million children risk losing their homes every year through the eviction process....Even the threat of eviction can increase the odds of school moves and disenrollment, moves to worse-off schools, and increased school absences and suspensions."
evictionlab.org/eviction-and...
evictionlab.org/eviction-and...
Losing your home, losing your school: how evictions affect kids' educational trajectories
Kids whose parents face eviction cases are more likely to leave their district, end up in schools with fewer resources, and experience an increase in absences and suspensions.
evictionlab.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Nearly three million children risk losing their homes every year through the eviction process....Even the threat of eviction can increase the odds of school moves and disenrollment, moves to worse-off schools, and increased school absences and suspensions."
evictionlab.org/eviction-and...
evictionlab.org/eviction-and...
I really appreciate @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social review of Agnes Callard’s “Open Socrates.” I haven’t read the book but the review captures what I find so annoying about so much of modern political discourse. Does anyone know of a book that accomplishes what Callard sets out to do, but better?
April 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I really appreciate @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social review of Agnes Callard’s “Open Socrates.” I haven’t read the book but the review captures what I find so annoying about so much of modern political discourse. Does anyone know of a book that accomplishes what Callard sets out to do, but better?
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Ah yes, blame the homeless. Classic move!
January 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Ah yes, blame the homeless. Classic move!
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What to do when you see ICE - resources in thread:
When informing your community, remember "S.A.L.U.T.E."
Report ICE/CBP sightings to a local rapid response network (more info below 👇)
When informing your community, remember "S.A.L.U.T.E."
Report ICE/CBP sightings to a local rapid response network (more info below 👇)
January 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What to do when you see ICE - resources in thread:
When informing your community, remember "S.A.L.U.T.E."
Report ICE/CBP sightings to a local rapid response network (more info below 👇)
When informing your community, remember "S.A.L.U.T.E."
Report ICE/CBP sightings to a local rapid response network (more info below 👇)
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Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
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Really proud and appreciative of my comrade and friend @ryanjbell.bsky.social / bro I stole this off your IG but it's too big up youuuu
January 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Really proud and appreciative of my comrade and friend @ryanjbell.bsky.social / bro I stole this off your IG but it's too big up youuuu
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Just an idea: How about we pause the Feb. 1 rent increases, ban no-fault evictions for tenants displaced by these fires, and enact a temporary eviction moratorium? #KeepLAHoused
January 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just an idea: How about we pause the Feb. 1 rent increases, ban no-fault evictions for tenants displaced by these fires, and enact a temporary eviction moratorium? #KeepLAHoused
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An already tight Los Angeles rental housing market, pushed to its limits by a natural disaster, shouldn’t be an opportunity to gouge victims of that natural disaster, no matter how much Richard Green and Stuart Gabriel would like you to think that this is simply the housing market at work.
January 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An already tight Los Angeles rental housing market, pushed to its limits by a natural disaster, shouldn’t be an opportunity to gouge victims of that natural disaster, no matter how much Richard Green and Stuart Gabriel would like you to think that this is simply the housing market at work.
I'm working from a hotel room in the Long Beach today because the Air Quality Index at my apartment is still around 400. State and Local groups are frantically working on getting resources organized for folks who have been displaced.
January 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm working from a hotel room in the Long Beach today because the Air Quality Index at my apartment is still around 400. State and Local groups are frantically working on getting resources organized for folks who have been displaced.
I’m sitting here just crushed by this story. Today I spent the morning in eviction court with a friend. Then this remarkably reported story. I feel like the challenge of reclaiming our basic dignity from landlords and the state is too much to handle.
Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died looking for a place to live
Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or no retirement savings.
lapublicpress.org
January 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m sitting here just crushed by this story. Today I spent the morning in eviction court with a friend. Then this remarkably reported story. I feel like the challenge of reclaiming our basic dignity from landlords and the state is too much to handle.
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New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
December 6, 2024 at 6:55 PM
New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
1/2 - This is what the "brightest minds" in America devised!
"Tenants said they were evicted on short notice so landlords could lease their property to Fema, the state and private aid organizations."
"Tenants said they were evicted on short notice so landlords could lease their property to Fema, the state and private aid organizations."
A wild story about the recovery efforts in Lahaina.
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Poverty in Lahaina has doubled after 2023 wildfire: ‘We’re cutting down on what we eat’
Maui, struck by one of the deadliest blazes in modern US history, has seen tourism drop, a shortage of houses and persistent inflation
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:29 PM
1/2 - This is what the "brightest minds" in America devised!
"Tenants said they were evicted on short notice so landlords could lease their property to Fema, the state and private aid organizations."
"Tenants said they were evicted on short notice so landlords could lease their property to Fema, the state and private aid organizations."
A wild story about the recovery efforts in Lahaina.
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Poverty in Lahaina has doubled after 2023 wildfire: ‘We’re cutting down on what we eat’
Maui, struck by one of the deadliest blazes in modern US history, has seen tourism drop, a shortage of houses and persistent inflation
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM
A wild story about the recovery efforts in Lahaina.
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
"At the same time, greed has also hampered recovery.... Emergency housing programs, which offered property owners a premium to house wildfire survivors, have enabled landlords to engage in predatory behavior,
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Throwback to when one of the wealthiest landlord couples in Pasadena was featured in a hit piece against our rent control measure claiming to be renters. Good times!
December 3, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Throwback to when one of the wealthiest landlord couples in Pasadena was featured in a hit piece against our rent control measure claiming to be renters. Good times!
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Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
“The working-class dealignment could just as aptly be called a tenant dealignment.”
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Renters’ Republic | Charlie Dulik
In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward he...
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November 26, 2024 at 8:15 PM
“The working-class dealignment could just as aptly be called a tenant dealignment.”
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
This is as good a time as any to remind us all that this is what landlording is. Pure wealth extraction and transfer to people lucky enough to have money from people who work for a living.
November 25, 2024 at 8:18 PM
This is as good a time as any to remind us all that this is what landlording is. Pure wealth extraction and transfer to people lucky enough to have money from people who work for a living.
The Iran-Contra Affair is one of the the first foreign policy “events” I remember. I was about 13. This is exactly how I remember feeling about Reagan at the time.
Image from “The Show Must Go On” (New Yorker, Sept 16, 2024).
Image from “The Show Must Go On” (New Yorker, Sept 16, 2024).
November 24, 2024 at 10:10 PM
The Iran-Contra Affair is one of the the first foreign policy “events” I remember. I was about 13. This is exactly how I remember feeling about Reagan at the time.
Image from “The Show Must Go On” (New Yorker, Sept 16, 2024).
Image from “The Show Must Go On” (New Yorker, Sept 16, 2024).