Renters pay higher property taxes in NYC than single-family homeowners

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 23h ago

Editorial: New York’s democratic socialists put the squeeze on thousands of property owners

The Professional Managerial Class is the revolutionary class and the DSA is their conduit. Which is why the left nimby stuff was so counterproductive. Why are you trying to impoverish your own political base, moron?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Gavin Newsom moved $2 billion from a carbon mitigation fund intended for climate investments like public transit and infill affordable housing and gave it to literal oil producers. I’m so proud of @streetsforall.org for this chutzpah. Get his ass.

Carter Lavin@carterlavin.bsky.social · 2d ago

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

When I was 12, back in 2002, my neighbors paid me $4/hr to watch their three kids, including a baby. Nowadays I don’t think a 12 year-old could get hired to watch a cat, let alone small children.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

so a thing I have really noticed among the U.S. upper-middle-class is that they use babysitters far, far less than their parents' generation.

NYC owns and operates a dozen golf courses.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Mad Men is a great illustration of just how much consumer tastes and purchasing power have changed. The Drapers are supposed to be rich yet they have Formica countertops and linoleum floors, which was indeed typical for an upper class suburban kitchen.

"This is wrong because, if cost wasn't a constraint, I would prefer the more expensive product" -All of Bluesky, somehow missing the point in the same way.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Most of the land in most farm counties is owned by 1-5 families. They run the place like their own personal kingdoms. There is SO much resentment and straight-up fury about this in rural areas. The fact that no political party's even really trying to speak to it is wild.

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

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In all the AI economic doom scenarios the AI rents all accrue to big tech but reality probably is that they’ll accrue to people whose parents bought SF real estate in the 60’s

Hyperlexic@hyperlexic.bsky.social · 6d ago

San Francisco's rent scene continues to go wild. Median listing for a 2BR is over $6,000??? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Not just taxes, but even things like fines. I had a leg staffer use the “80% of people live paycheck to paycheck” line as the reason we couldn’t fine people who commit vehicular manslaughter.

This is where fuel subsidies go. When fuel prices are high, even many on the left demand that governments just subsidise more. All this does is outbid poorer countries for a resource they need too, inflate prices further & line companies' pockets. Reducing demand for fossil fuels is the only answer.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d ago

oil and gas companies profit off of human suffering and environmental ruin and their executives should all be tried at the hague 🫶

I think Zohran’s grocery stores are a worthwhile policy experiment. That said, the idea that people in food deserts eat less produce due to lack of access has been thoroughly debunked. The real problem is that low-income people can’t use SNAP for hot prepared foods.

Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing

@calizaybak.bsky.social · last wk.

I have seen this in so many places, I have no idea why police no longer care about enforcing traffic laws, it's bizarre! They're driving more than anyone! They have kids! Yet they don't care. Like do they get paid more dealing with crashes, the bloody the better?

So sick of the lying. Upzoning black neighborhoods created more homes that grew black populations. The areas that didn’t upzone lost black population Stop spreading such lies

June BlueSpruce@tupelotower.bsky.social · 2w ago

Then why do you and the City continue to push for upzoning in areas of the City that have the highest percentage of communities of color and low income people? areas that have already been harmed by red lining and other racist policies? The Centers and Corridors proposal would take away 1/

Big scoop: The solar permitting freeze is so bad a renewables developer — Clearway — asked Trump if they can swap an unpermitted solar farm in Nevada for a data center and gas power plant instead. My latest for @heatmap.news

Scoop: Clearway Asks Trump to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant

The large renewables developer changes tack “in response to federal energy objectives.”

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Harnessing anti-data center sentiment is good but unless it can be funneled into getting tech giants to pay for grid upgrades as part of going in they're just going to keep building them in the poorest parts of the South www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Sometimes I think it’s too reductive to say that a car is a uniquely deranging object to own, but then I see people who claim left politics compare the people trying to turn a carpark into a children’s home to Netanyahu and I think “no, the car has made you crazy”

Claire McNab@2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

@kayfourbee.bsky.social Local authority decision would exacerbate local reource shortage. But instead of seeing a better decision which doesn't create a resources crisis, your preferred solution is to tell people to eff off. That sounds liks the Netanyahu approach to urban planning […]

Neoliberalism was really about a forced transition from a wage economy of well paid union workers to an asset economy where prosperity is based on endless asset appreciation. Union busting and housing scarcity went together as government policy. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/def...

The Deflationary Bloc | Yakov Feygin

Yakov Feygin explores the class politics of inflation in the United States. And Hyman Minsky.

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Joe Cohen@cohenhouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Narrative violation: In the 1960's, when housing construction was the highest and most-profitable, California's construction industry was almost entirely unionized

On the same day she posted this, the LA Metro board (including Bass) awarded $100 million to freeway widening projects.

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

good op-ed in the daily news. replacing the brooklyn-queens expressway with a traditional boulevard and light rail (or super-express buses) is by far the best option.

The BQE’s broken math (and opportunity)

For decades, the city Department of Transportation has asked, “How should we rebuild the crumbling triple cantilever of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE)?”

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"Camera trap footage revealed that, over 15 months, the aerial wildlife crossings enabled 15,000 safe crossings by arboreal animals — and not a single roadkill."

Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 2w ago

I love seeing solutions like this. Great report from @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...

This is such an insane question to pose about a *public transit* renovation project.

Dan Miller@meelar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fun fact: literally the reason that the subway exists is so people can get jobs outside their neighborhood. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/23/b...

Interesting data from @micromobilityco.bsky.social's recent bikeshare webinar. 44% of all commute hour Lyft rides in NYC happen on Citibike In DC, it's 24%, and in Boston and Chicago, it's 20%. Bikeshare is now a serious mode of transportation in major cities.

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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