@ifiwasdaking
Socialist NYC tenant lawyer, dad/husband, music fan, home cook. Be civil or be blocked. Lurking till someone posts about housing, or hates on poor people, or complains about the deficit. Rent control gives you the power to tell the landlord to go to hell.
I don't think Trump is looking for someone with a ton of worldly wisdom, or legal acumen. Certainly not someone with any ethics or integrity. It is a government of "yes" men and "yes" women.
I want to affect people like a clap of thunder. ...to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression. Picture of Rosa Luxemburg from the book Red Rosa
Happy 154th birthday to Rosa Luxemburg
If you want to avoid situations where cars and trucks block bike lanes, don't build bike lines on commercial corridors. Instead, build bike lanes on quiet residential streets and limit traffic on those streets to residents and, during pre-set hours, deliveries.
the universal democratic response to laws is "it won't pass today, so we should just give up"
I didn't say I was giving a definition. I said that affordability is a concept that is rooted in common sense. It has to do with what people can afford to pay. Not construction standards.
Why do yimby arguments always insist on the utter defiance of common sense? If existing rents are stabilized at, for example, $1,500 or less for a one-bedroom apartment, and a developer wants to charge two or three times that in the same neighborhood, that's luxury housing, in context.
Nobody is blocking housing, you ideologue. But there are plenty of places where there are serious homeless problems caused by escalating rents, and those rents come from demand by rich people to displace poor people, in places where the poor are not protected..
Why do I need to?
Right. Not credible. Absent robust rent controls, the construction of luxury housing causes massive displacement. Homelessness, housing inflation, the destruction of families and neighborhoods is what you are advocating for: archive.aessweb.com/index.php/50...
We are stuck working with tools fashioned by corporate lawyers in corporate litigation. It's been that way since the 14th Amendment was ratified.
100%
Or what I'd been doing when I get back upstairs.
One question I get asked a lot is why I still focus so much on pro bono and sliding scale eviction defense - it's always half my practice - when there's so much else going on.
Here's the answer.
Donald Trump, before he was anything else, was a slumlord.
Here in NYC, every landlord is a mini Trump. The open defiance of the rule of law, the obvious fraud, the treatment of every interaction as an opportunity for intimidation: Trump learned those things in a community of likeminded assholes.
You are the ideal person to review it, though. How much would you need to raise in a GoFundMe for that to happen?
Is Fulton County opposing the warrant in any way? They could move to quash, no?
yes, housing tenure. And job tenure too.
I went to the poison ivy.
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
JACK SMITH: “I have seen how the rule of law can erode. My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it.”
A bouquet? Fragrant!
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”
He probably has little to no personal experience with union contracts, civil service protections, or jurisdictions where employees have rights.
Like most conservatives, he thinks that everyone who isn't a boss is an employee, and, for him, the whole idea of any "good cause" restrictions on firing employees do not compute.
On January 18, 2026, during an ICE operation connected to protests in Minneapolis, federal agents deployed tear gas that flooded a family’s SUV carrying six children.
open.substack.com/pub/american...
Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer
Until Jonathan Ross is charged with murder, and until Minnesota officials stop whining about needing to "investigate" when they already have four videotapes and multiple witnesses, I can't agree.
Charge Ross with murder. Until then, you are leading an island of cowardice.
