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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own.

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    Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social

    So it turns out that Cuomo's slam at Mamdani's lodgings wasn't just a know-nothing misrepresentation of homelessness, rent control, and rent stabilization, it was also a stealth boosting of the landlord lobby's coming messaging on why rent stabilization should be gutted.

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    Peter Sterne @petersterne.com

    A top executive at the landlord lobby echoes Andrew Cuomo's call to means-test rent-stabilized housing.

    It's a look into the kind of messaging the real estate lobby could use to try to undermine Zohran Mamdani's popular call to freeze the rent.

    Tweet from Jay Martin: Many lawmakers themselves live in rent stabilized housing that they then pass laws restricting rents and raise expenses on. We have done outreach and focus groups over the last 6 months with thousands of renters and while rent stabilization and rent control remain extremely popular, when informed of the 150,000 wealthy New Yorkers and some politicians benefiting from rent stabilization opinions went sour quickly. Black, and Asian New Yorker renters oppose 70%^, Latinos over 60%. White Manhattan and Brooklyn renters/homeowners were the only group that didn’t care if wealthy people or elected officials took rent reduced housing that they didn’t need. Make of that what you will.
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    Joé McKen @joemcken.net

    Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

    The damage is generational.

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    Other People Want Pierogis Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social

    how could they breach PACER, that system is the pinnacle of 1998 technology

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    Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social

    Just out from me at Cato: in its case against Maryland federal judges, the Trump administration is advancing the dangerous and open-ended argument that legal checks on a president's actions "diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him." Whoa! /1

    The administration is arguing that when courts restrain Donald Trump’s actions in the name of the law, they “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him” as a “representative of the people” wie...

    Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”?

    The administration is arguing that when courts restrain Donald Trump’s actions in the name of the law, they “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him” as a “representative of the people” wie...
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