Xaun

[Stagnation @stags4th]

Legendary pull.

He didn't like my questions about his Menachem Begin t-shirt.

[Dobberman Postmoderne @DasRingo]

débuts d'organisation syndicale

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Mic drop

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Abdul Sayed has never supported Islamism or advocated for any kind of violence.

But here’s Eli Lake wearing a tshirt of Menachem Begin who led a Zionist militant group that bombed the King David Hotel, killing almost one hundred people.

[𝔐egalith @Psychic_Driving]

New hires at NASA in the 1960s

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy in the cowboy hat next to LeBron spends about $500,000 a year on courtside seats, and he pays for it with rent from retirees who can't take their homes and leave.

His name is James Goldstein. He's been to more than 5,000 NBA games, and he owns trailer parks in Southern California.

Here's the thing about trailer parks most people never think about. You own your home, but you rent the little patch of dirt it sits on. And "mobile" homes almost never move. The Supreme Court looked at this back in 1992 and noted that only about 1 in 100 ever gets moved once it's set down. Moving one can eat a huge chunk of what the house is even worth, and a lot of parks won't accept older homes anyway.

So if the landlord raises your lot rent, you can pay it, or you can walk away from a house you own outright.

That's basically the whole business model. It's why more than 100 cities and counties in California put rent control on mobile home parks, and it's why Goldstein has spent decades fighting them in court.

In 2006 he bought Colony Cove, a park for seniors in Carson, for about $23 million, most of it borrowed. The next year he asked the city to let him raise rent $618 a month per lot. The city said no. He's sued Carson at least eight times since, including a $78 million claim a state judge threw out. A federal jury gave him $3.3 million in 2016, and an appeals court took it back two years later.

In Palm Springs he tried something smarter. He moved to break his El Dorado park into individually owned lots, which can knock out local rent control and leave residents choosing between buying the ground under their own house or paying market rent. The city paid him $937,500 to settle, and the appeals ruling from that fight gave park owners all over California a legal path to do the same thing. It took a new state law in 2013 to let cities block those conversions when residents don't want them.

To give him his due, Goldstein argues rent control is unfair to owners, and when it comes to apartments a lot of economists would back him up. Trailer parks are where that argument gets a lot harder to make, because leaving means hauling your house down the freeway.

Now do the math on that 2007 raise. $618 a month comes out to about $7,400 a year per lot. The raise on roughly 67 lots would pay for an entire season of his courtside seats.

[faith 🤎 @_renaey_xx]

You should be worried about how they found out.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

I’ll never get over this being the literal only video we have of the Burmese coup lol

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Poor Jane can't catch a break, can she?

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

Described Trump as the Last Boomer at the pub last week, and it does feel like that. That he’s a human instantiation of the suspicion many of us non-boomers have that the boomers want their demographic exit to be exactly coterminous with the end of the world.

[shredded Denim @denimneverdies]

Let this be a lesson if you're any kind of marginalized group, Dems do not care about you, they will abandon you at the first opportunity and send their whores out to justify it. There is only one path to having civil rights and that's outside pressure as we did in the 60s

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

I’d be a little more sympathetic to these cloying rejections of “violence” from liberals if they dropped comparable 300 word statements decrying it every time an Israeli murders two Palestinians.

But they don’t, of course. That would mean 10 statements a day. And there’s the rub

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Please understand that when schools push students and teachers to use AI, they are not just making everyone involved dumber, they are also doing this

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

1984 type shit. pure totalitarianism
orwell rolling in his grave

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Sure hope this isn’t a plan that everybody has

[THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast @TIRShowOakland]

@alexskopic Thank you again for taking the time to come on and speak with us. Shoulda had you make a Johnny cash play list!

[all of garden @hamburgers911]

we cookin up antibiotic resistant adhd

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

One thing YIMBY’s aren’t telling you is that tenants who are forced out NYCHA units aren’t guaranteed the same number of bedrooms. A family of 4 who lived in 3 bedrooms can be jammed into 1.

Not to mention the well known eviction issue w/ PACT.

Many mechanisms for displacement

[Noah Samsen @noahsamsen_]

Can we really blame her for confusing democratic socialism with social democracy when the DSA itself does the same thing? (by running and endorsing social democrats)

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Google did this to build a data center in Finland.

It was illegal, but they did it anyway.

Big Tech is out of control.