You consider the definition of gentrification mostly:
A) the act of poorer residents being displaced by an influx of wealthier residents and businesses
B) the increase in neighborhood desirability (new transit/parks, declining crime) causing an increase in demand and rent
Scoop: Zohran Mamdani to deliver a "major" speech Friday marking America 250, hours before Trump gives his own commemorative address in S.D.
Mamdani will speak from George Washington's desk at City Hall and be surrounded by recently naturalized citizens
https://t.co/SdMn8mIoPl
She has a law degree from Notre Dame, was fired from her law firm for publicly calling them out for not supporting Palestine after October 7, and at 29-years-old, made a total of $30K last year while being $250K in debt. And Democrats elected her to Congress.
@MariGO2thepolls terrible analysis. they lgbtq+ movement is losing because its focus was on liberal terms of identity rather than material access to transition and material flourishing for all its members
@MariGO2thepolls The LGBTQ+ movement is not unified on either of these things, esp. palestine, but do you really think that if the LGBTQ+ movement didn’t stand against zionism the anti trans moment wouldn’t be happening right now?
Trump: can I fire the fed chief
The SC: No, Congress set it up as a quasi private independent agency
Congress: so can we set up more quasi private independent agencies
The SC: ………………. no
It is actually perfectly normal for a government to prioritise rentiers interests over the interests of the working. Helping the the vampires to leech all the blood from the productive economy is the defaults scenario & requires no explanation
SCOTUS seriously needs to be reigned in. 6 people on this court are playing calvinball with our fucking constitution, totally ignoring the will of congress and the people from whom the constitution draws its power.