CanLen 🕙🇮🇷

Native Texan / NYC | politically homeless | obsessed w/ dogs. “The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.” – George Jean Nathan

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

As sure as the sun will rise…

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Twitter cycle after a big serious news event:

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

The impulse to demand that executive power get used to solve every single perceived problem is the number one thing eroding American democracy

[Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon]

Native American shamans in California are earning $826 a day in federal Medicaid funds to perform drum circles and spiritual dances aimed at treating drug addicts.

It’s part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s embrace of “indigenous knowledge” as alternative medicine, and there’s little evidence that it’s working, @AndrewKerrNC reports.

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@SenatorWarnock @MrGeorgeWallace Why do you keep spreading such false assertions? Are you trying to further divide this nation?

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

NEW: In 2024, Portland nearly doubled its spending on race-based homeless services.

But outcomes for homeless minorities got worse.

Rather than rethink its approach, Portland doubled down and argued that "lived experience" mattered just as much as measurable outcomes.🧵

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

Would be a nightmare having this Dad in your class

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@chrisboettcher9 Actually, it’s better to let kids play independently

[Corey Clayton @CoreyClayton]

Gotta love when a @Newsweek hack rushes to get a “Caitlin Clark trade to Sparks rumor” piece out for engagement farming, and forgets to delete their AI chat prompts from the piece.

#NowYouKnow @IndianaFever #WNBA

[Zetetic Advocate @ZeteticAdvocate]

This guy sums it up nicely. With AI we don’t need the government defining the winners. We don’t need to resurrect the MA Bell era with MA AI. Let the marketplace pick who the winners and losers will be. And definitely don’t fall for the big AI companies telling us they need to be heavily regulated—what they mean is please regulate us with lots of regulation creating a moat of regulation around them blocking future competition. If we had done this with the Internet, Yahoo and its crappy service would be the dominant search engine.

[Zetetic Advocate @ZeteticAdvocate]

How about instead: neither. Don’t allow the government to make semi-monopolies in the style of MA Bell. And also don’t tax the crap out of it, driving the cost of use beyond the means of new young businesses and individuals who want to use it. Let’s not do crony capitalism (favoring big AI with regulations that build a moat of regulatory control around them, freezing out new players) or crony socialism (taxing the crap out of it once again, driving costs higher for consumers and benefiting big business and big government).

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@ChristinaPushaw @AsheSchow @RonDeSantis California did this and it hasn’t worked out well. It’s not conservative and it is pitting people against each other

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This show should get back to its roots and only talk to random normies. (And the occasional up-and-coming comic.) It feels kind of hokey recasting celebrities on managed press tours as man-on-the-street ornery subway riders.

[Crime In NYC @Crime_In_NYC]

Absolutely fascinating: NYC has been begging and pleading with nonprofits to invest in distressed rent-stabilized buildings, and very few have shown interest.
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New York City is relying on nonprofits to save its distressed rent-stabilized housing stock. But they have yet to become the white knight that renters need.

In April 2025, the city relaunched its Neighborhood Pillars program, which aims to provide financing to nonprofits seeking to acquire and rehabilitate multifamily properties. More than a year later, the city has yet to close on a project.

NYC provides a subsidy of up to $380K per dwelling unit, along with full or partial property tax exemptions. To be eligible, a building must exhibit signs of financial or physical distress, such as having high levels of housing code violations.

In exchange, the new ownership must rehabilitate the property, abide by affordability limits and set aside at least 20% of units for formerly homeless individuals.

Currently, one project “is getting close to the end of the pipeline.”

Multifamily distress has escalated following the passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which limited the ways that landlords could increase rents and stopped owners from deregulating properties. As a result, property values have plummeted, while many landlords, including nonprofit operators, have seen costs exceed revenue.

Approximately 60% of properties are in the red after expenses and debt services are paid, according to the analysis of more than 37,000 affordable homes, 64% of which are owned by nonprofits.

https://t.co/eBvySycHrS

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

I provided Avila Chevalier's campaign with a copy of the tweet in question yesterday morning, so she has definitely had time to review the context.

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

This is chilling and is basically doomer communism on steroids.

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

This is the result of more than two years of research of 45 direct contributors and in continuation of many international initiatives and a much longer research tradition on inequality and the climate crisis.
Find report, website, research papers and more here: https://t.co/Hr5mIJhkaj

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@PikettyWIL You’re the type of person that can justify oppressing people for the “greater good”

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

Wow.
“In the most extreme cases (e.g., anthropology), we see a widespread deterioration in scholarly standards grounded in a pervasive repudiation of ideals of objectivity together with a toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished.”

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@CityAndStateNY Stop erasing women by referring to them as “pregnant people”

[JM US @JMUSPatriot]

Indians are not "one of the lowest" beneficiaries of US government benefits, they are THE LOWEST beneficiaries per capita of government benefits.

Indians are not "one of the biggest" net tax contributors in the US economy, they are THE BIGGEST tax contributors in the US economy.

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@bradhoylman Lies. Absolutely vile lies

[CanLen 🕙🇮🇷 @CandiceLen]

@HQNewsNow What an asinine question. What the dell does the government have to do with NBA finals ticket prices?!