I have a lot of antipathy for the ADL, but I did not need to wake up this morning to Mark Zuckerberg shoving Nazi conspiracy theories/disinformation about Leo Frank (so as to discredit the ADL) down my throat.
Thomas Silverstein
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Executive Director at @prrac.bsky.social; adjunct clinician; Wizards/Nats/LFC; crossword solver; early morning dog walker
This is between the first three Velvet Underground albums and the first three A Tribe Called Quest albums for me, which reinforces that my musical taste hasn't changed since I was 18. But why should it?
Frank Kogan@koganbot.bsky.social · 2d agoHonest answer: The Stooges Funhouse Raw Power But on The Stooges I never listen to "We Will Fall" (10 mins. of side 1), I skip last third of Funhouse, and for Raw Power it's the Bowie mix BUT also need that mix's remasters to really *hear* "Penetration," and "I Need Somebody" is still a dead spot.
This is a train that I've been on for a long time, and I'm not getting off. Interestingly, DC proper (not its suburbs) is one place where this doesn't really work. There are four courses in DC, none of them private with three on NPS land & one on DoD land. 1/
The case for turning golf courses into affordable housing
A major housing project in Nevada used to be a fairway. Other states should take a swing.
vox.com
Don’t love that the named sponsor of DC’s hometown pro tennis tournament is a sovereign wealth fund controlled by the same people who have been fomenting genocide in Sudan in recent years!!
If Haley Stevens ever met a representative group of let’s say ten Jewish Americans, it might dawn on her that perhaps three of them would be ride or die for Abdul (with a mix of because of and despite his views on Palestine) & that rhetoric like this is extremely offensive to them!
@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d agoShe knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
If you're at an institution that sometimes pays honoraria, please, please, please give people the option to choose to have their honoraria go to their employer rather than to themselves as individuals. 9 times out of 10 I've done whatever I'm doing to merit the check in my day job capcity.
Really would not want to see Hendo playing for Chelsea. Him going to Saudi should have made me not care, but it'd still be sad. Brentford and Ajax were both totally fine.
I have been making some pretty compelling maps for AFFH analyses over the past few years. Here is a simplified version.
Great piece from fair housing advocates in OR about the need to require mapping & spatial analysis in AFFH efforts, including positive case studies & cautionary tales. Worth chewing on in states that don't have AFFH laws but might consider them & in places with existing, underveloped structures.
See No Evil: Oregon Retreats on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Initiative — Shelterforce
Oregon passed laws requiring city housing plans to affirmatively further fair housing. But many cities are refraining from mapping.
shelterforce.org
That was certainly one of the halves of football I’ve ever seen.
There are so many commentary duos who would be better for this than Strong and Holden.
I'm really glad that the Odyssey is supposed to be good, not as vindication for wokeness (though I'll certainly take that!) but because I was that kid who was really excited for the Armand Assante version in the 90s and who was mildly personally offended when there were some bad reviews at the time.
Wondering how long it’ll be until the NYT realizes that Aurora, IL rather than Aurora, CO has the worst AQI right now.
This was a small problem in Brazil in 2014 too but seemingly not in Japan and South Korea in 2002, but it is ridiculous that the European TV audience is being prioritized to such a degree for the semis that the matches are functionally unwatchable for most people with jobs in the host nations. 1/
There is an ironclad case that Messi is better than Ronaldo, but isn't there also an ironclad case that Divock Origi is better than either? In this thread and to mark Divock's retirement, I will...
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4w agoI did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...
If you're not reading Ruthy and Jacob, what are you really doing? rentroll.substack.com/p/the-govern...
The Government is Financializing Your Home Part III
“Only the Little People Pay Taxes”
rentroll.substack.com
I really don’t want to go to sleep right now, but I gotta. Go Mexico!
A thread worth reading for anyone who cares about fair and/or affordable housing.
Thomas Silverstein@tsilverstein.bsky.social · last mo.A little more than a decade ago, the Supreme Court denied cert in CBIA v. City of San Jose, allowing the respondent’s inclusionary zoning ordinance to remain in effect. I had become obsessed with the case, which had been pending before the California Supreme Court when we...1/
A little more than a decade ago, the Supreme Court denied cert in CBIA v. City of San Jose, allowing the respondent’s inclusionary zoning ordinance to remain in effect. I had become obsessed with the case, which had been pending before the California Supreme Court when we...1/
Excited to be at NFHA's conference today and tomorrow and looking forward to the panel on which I'll be speaking about some hot topics in rental assistance tomorrow morning!
"Silverstein...told me that '[]Unlike prior hostile administrations, there is no point in staying; you can’t even do modest good things, in stark contrast to George W. Bush or even the first Trump administration." thebaffler.com/latest/famil... Actually please stay around to rebuild BUT...
Family Values | Oksana Mironova
A traditionalist bent has always been present in American housing policy—going back to even before the founding of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
thebaffler.com
I'm relieved to announce my retirement from Wordle. We had a blast together, but it was time. At some point during my most recent streak, I said to myself: when this streak comes to a natural end, I'm calling it. Yesterday, I was camping & forgot to do it. Today, I realized my omission. So it ends.
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