Pluralistic: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis (24 Oct 2024)

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The housing crisis considered as an income crisis: "The wage is too damned low" vs "The rent is too damned high."
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Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023)

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Why they're smearing Lina Khan: She wants you to have nice things and they don't (it's really that simple).
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Newsom's California fiber dream: 100gbs symmetrical to every home in the state or bust!
The S&L crisis perfected finance crime: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination: Ghost-writing memos for GOP "public servants."
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Private equity looting public health in a pandemic: The math is part of the con.
MacGuyver mask tutorial: Crafter/filmmaker marriages for the win.
Prescient Reagan-era text-adventures: What we can learn from the 1985 Infocom game "A Mind Forever Voyaging."
Landlord accidentally organizes rent strike: When you're threatening 300 tenants, don't CC them all on on the email.
The Pandumbic: Fox News is a suicide cult.
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