Sophia J
@sophia-says.bsky.social
Lawyer by trade, radical by spirit. Housing and Critical Enviro Justice. Cheeky lil bugger
It’s Giving…generosity to Seniors during the holiday season.
Please help me fundraise for Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s giving month! We help seniors stay in their homes and sustain incomes to pay for basic necessities in DC.
www.givelocaltogether.org/p/sophia-jay...
Please help me fundraise for Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s giving month! We help seniors stay in their homes and sustain incomes to pay for basic necessities in DC.
www.givelocaltogether.org/p/sophia-jay...
My Give Local Together Fundraiser
LCE's mission of serving senior residents matters to me because there is an unspoken agreement
www.givelocaltogether.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s Giving…generosity to Seniors during the holiday season.
Please help me fundraise for Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s giving month! We help seniors stay in their homes and sustain incomes to pay for basic necessities in DC.
www.givelocaltogether.org/p/sophia-jay...
Please help me fundraise for Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s giving month! We help seniors stay in their homes and sustain incomes to pay for basic necessities in DC.
www.givelocaltogether.org/p/sophia-jay...
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DC always an extreme. That said, LIHTC never designed for efficiency. Was invented by Nixon GOP to replace HUD public housing & grant programs w/ RE tax shelter & private control. And it worked! Created distinct & complex industry of developers, operators, lawyers, accountants that all get to eat.
June 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
DC always an extreme. That said, LIHTC never designed for efficiency. Was invented by Nixon GOP to replace HUD public housing & grant programs w/ RE tax shelter & private control. And it worked! Created distinct & complex industry of developers, operators, lawyers, accountants that all get to eat.
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Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security every month.
What they experience is often maddening.
What they experience is often maddening.
Callers to Social Security wait for hours to get help. Hear their ordeals.
Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security every month.
What they experience is often maddening.
What they experience is often maddening.
Peeping #2 on the NYC ballot.
Looks good until you read the fine print. Charter revisions that reshape the tripartite nature of NYC’s governance should always be viewed with skepticism.
The affordable housing commitments have very little teeth for deep affordability.
Looks good until you read the fine print. Charter revisions that reshape the tripartite nature of NYC’s governance should always be viewed with skepticism.
The affordable housing commitments have very little teeth for deep affordability.
October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Peeping #2 on the NYC ballot.
Looks good until you read the fine print. Charter revisions that reshape the tripartite nature of NYC’s governance should always be viewed with skepticism.
The affordable housing commitments have very little teeth for deep affordability.
Looks good until you read the fine print. Charter revisions that reshape the tripartite nature of NYC’s governance should always be viewed with skepticism.
The affordable housing commitments have very little teeth for deep affordability.
The Yimby In Chief
Just build baby build.
Just build baby build.
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Yimby In Chief
Just build baby build.
Just build baby build.
The political segment traditionally responsible for upholding free speech, i.e. Liberals have abandoned their posts by remaining mute on Gaza and these university witch hunts. Its receding presence gives Conservatism an expanded reach to control the public discourse.
The irony of these “free speech” committees is that these will lead to something that the legislature has tried but failed to do for the past two sessions:
A statewide bounty system where students, or anyone for that matter, can report profs to the state who teach things they don’t like.
A statewide bounty system where students, or anyone for that matter, can report profs to the state who teach things they don’t like.
The committees were made to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and come as university faculty have come under online scrutiny.
September 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The political segment traditionally responsible for upholding free speech, i.e. Liberals have abandoned their posts by remaining mute on Gaza and these university witch hunts. Its receding presence gives Conservatism an expanded reach to control the public discourse.
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absolutely savage
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
absolutely savage
The Indian and Sicilian inside me has been warring over this NYC mayoral primary.
Just kidding, it’s always been about M A M D A N I! Heyyyy let’s go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Just kidding, it’s always been about M A M D A N I! Heyyyy let’s go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Indian and Sicilian inside me has been warring over this NYC mayoral primary.
Just kidding, it’s always been about M A M D A N I! Heyyyy let’s go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Just kidding, it’s always been about M A M D A N I! Heyyyy let’s go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Time to revisit the works of #SamirAmin, #ArghiriEmmanuel, #Wallerstein #Frank, and a large body of literature on #drainofwealth #extraction produced during the anticolonial movement across Asia and Africa.
June 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Time to revisit the works of #SamirAmin, #ArghiriEmmanuel, #Wallerstein #Frank, and a large body of literature on #drainofwealth #extraction produced during the anticolonial movement across Asia and Africa.
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Shameful. This guy is so earnest and patient in describing what happened—something truly un-American. I hope his girlfriend and the family behind them are okay.
June 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Shameful. This guy is so earnest and patient in describing what happened—something truly un-American. I hope his girlfriend and the family behind them are okay.
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NEW:
Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan
"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.
hellgatenyc.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
NEW:
Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
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Of course Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo have “always gotten along”
Both men are serial sexual harassers driven by massive ego and the desire to weaponize literally anything for personal political gain.
Both men are serial sexual harassers driven by massive ego and the desire to weaponize literally anything for personal political gain.
April 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Of course Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo have “always gotten along”
Both men are serial sexual harassers driven by massive ego and the desire to weaponize literally anything for personal political gain.
Both men are serial sexual harassers driven by massive ego and the desire to weaponize literally anything for personal political gain.
The revolution will not be billable.
Biglaw is a cross that the rest of the profession gets to bear.
No solidarity for Perkins Coie so far coming from the highest ranks of BigLaw, according to @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/494a...
March 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The revolution will not be billable.
This is disturbing and shameful.
It’s been 72 hours since federal agents abducted a legal permanent resident from our city and Andrew Cuomo still hasn’t said a word.
March 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is disturbing and shameful.
Behold, the only effective Title VI investigation in recent history. Glad our principal civil rights law is being used to protect our most vulnerable: wealthy zionists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Federal Funds to Columbia University
The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Behold, the only effective Title VI investigation in recent history. Glad our principal civil rights law is being used to protect our most vulnerable: wealthy zionists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
While the feds go after HUD spending, @mayorbowser.bsky.social is gutting tenant protections in DC. She won’t even commit to our access to justice initiative.
Apparently landlords bottom line matters more than tenants’ basic housing rights. This is why we need #socialhousing.
Apparently landlords bottom line matters more than tenants’ basic housing rights. This is why we need #socialhousing.
February 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
While the feds go after HUD spending, @mayorbowser.bsky.social is gutting tenant protections in DC. She won’t even commit to our access to justice initiative.
Apparently landlords bottom line matters more than tenants’ basic housing rights. This is why we need #socialhousing.
Apparently landlords bottom line matters more than tenants’ basic housing rights. This is why we need #socialhousing.
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Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
www.bostonreview.net
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”
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“You’re going to need somebody who is willing to break the stranglehold of the two-party system.... What we need is someone who can coalesce the energies in this country ... into another party which can respond to the needs of the people. The Democratic Party cannot do it.” —James Baldwin, 1968
Baldwin’s Lonely Country - Boston Review
When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
www.bostonreview.net
February 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“You’re going to need somebody who is willing to break the stranglehold of the two-party system.... What we need is someone who can coalesce the energies in this country ... into another party which can respond to the needs of the people. The Democratic Party cannot do it.” —James Baldwin, 1968
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The New Jersey judge said "the wider public interest in new affordable housing overwhelmingly outweighed the towns’ arguments that they’ve been overburdened by the affordable housing they’ve been asked to build in their communities."
gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
Judge rejects 26 NJ towns’ attempt to stop affordable housing law from moving forward
Judge Robert Lougy wrote that the public interest in developing more affordable housing in the Garden State “overwhelmingly” outweighed the towns’ arguments.
gothamist.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The New Jersey judge said "the wider public interest in new affordable housing overwhelmingly outweighed the towns’ arguments that they’ve been overburdened by the affordable housing they’ve been asked to build in their communities."
gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
Knew I picked up the right book, but didn’t know I was in for the special treat of tearing down Samuel Huntington’s work within the first chapter ☺️
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Knew I picked up the right book, but didn’t know I was in for the special treat of tearing down Samuel Huntington’s work within the first chapter ☺️
It also has some of the most advanced #completestreets infrastructure for bicycl and pedestrians
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM
It also has some of the most advanced #completestreets infrastructure for bicycl and pedestrians