Thomas Silverstein
@tsilverstein.bsky.social
Executive Director at @prrac.bsky.social; adjunct clinician; Wizards/Nats/LFC; crossword solver; early morning dog walker
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I'm running a marathon - for the first time - in a little over six weeks and would be undyingly grateful for your support!
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To the PHAs out there, if you sign up for the "Work & Dignity Coalition" (all of the scare quotes), you are signing up to being used by the most banal, bad faith opponents of our social safety net as cover for draconian - and racist - policies like work requirements.
www.aei.org
September 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
To the PHAs out there, if you sign up for the "Work & Dignity Coalition" (all of the scare quotes), you are signing up to being used by the most banal, bad faith opponents of our social safety net as cover for draconian - and racist - policies like work requirements.
The continuing violation theory of when injury occurs (across all manner of causes of action) is grounded in unambiguous Supreme Court
precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.
precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.
“All this does is provide a pass to the bad actors who decided not to follow the law and locked people with disabilities out of housing in the process.” @nikitrabailey.bsky.social, @natfairhouse.bsky.social
Fair housing construction accessibility complaints now have a deadline, HUD says
Accessibility claims related to multifamily building design and construction must be filed within one year of the initial certificate of occupancy, the new guidance says.
www.smartcitiesdive.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The continuing violation theory of when injury occurs (across all manner of causes of action) is grounded in unambiguous Supreme Court
precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.
precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
States across the country are exploring new ways to set housing targets and hold local governments accountable.
What can they learn from New Jersey — and from one another?
Join us Oct. 22 for a national conversation on the fair share model.
Register: bit.ly/4dj59yE
What can they learn from New Jersey — and from one another?
Join us Oct. 22 for a national conversation on the fair share model.
Register: bit.ly/4dj59yE
September 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
States across the country are exploring new ways to set housing targets and hold local governments accountable.
What can they learn from New Jersey — and from one another?
Join us Oct. 22 for a national conversation on the fair share model.
Register: bit.ly/4dj59yE
What can they learn from New Jersey — and from one another?
Join us Oct. 22 for a national conversation on the fair share model.
Register: bit.ly/4dj59yE
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
Check out this helpful new guidance from progressive state AGs addressing how their state anti-discrimination laws protect against practices that cause unjustified disparate impacts, regardless of the status of the Trump Administration's attacks on civil rights!
www.mass.gov/doc/multista...
www.mass.gov/doc/multista...
www.mass.gov
September 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Check out this helpful new guidance from progressive state AGs addressing how their state anti-discrimination laws protect against practices that cause unjustified disparate impacts, regardless of the status of the Trump Administration's attacks on civil rights!
www.mass.gov/doc/multista...
www.mass.gov/doc/multista...
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
PRRAC is proud to support @vanhollen.senate.gov & Senator Young's Family Stability & Opportunity Vouchers Act. Investing in rental assistance & mobility counseling that helps families move to well-resourced neighborhoods breaks down entrenched segregation.
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Van Hollen, Young Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Boost Housing Mobility Vouchers, Increase Families’ Access to Affordable Housing | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) reintroduced their bipartisan Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act,...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
September 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
PRRAC is proud to support @vanhollen.senate.gov & Senator Young's Family Stability & Opportunity Vouchers Act. Investing in rental assistance & mobility counseling that helps families move to well-resourced neighborhoods breaks down entrenched segregation.
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
From friend of PRRAC Richard Rothstein, reviewing an interesting new book about how to curtail judicial supremacy.
The Making of a Judicial Coup
Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.
newrepublic.com
September 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
From friend of PRRAC Richard Rothstein, reviewing an interesting new book about how to curtail judicial supremacy.
Wilco, Stripes, Bjork, and - hardest (only hard) choice - leaning Wilco but may change my mind.
NEXT WEEK'S MATCHES
LAST WEEK OF THE TOURNAMENT
MON Wilco vs Björk
TUE The Strokes vs The White Stripes
WED 3rd Place Match!
THU Final Match!
FRI The Best Album of 2001 named
SAT closed for staff training
LAST WEEK OF THE TOURNAMENT
MON Wilco vs Björk
TUE The Strokes vs The White Stripes
WED 3rd Place Match!
THU Final Match!
FRI The Best Album of 2001 named
SAT closed for staff training
September 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Wilco, Stripes, Bjork, and - hardest (only hard) choice - leaning Wilco but may change my mind.
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
Really insightful thread from @nexusproject.bsky.social about the parallels between anti-trans hate and antisemitism. The same propagandists use the same playbook for both forms of hate.
THREAD 🧵
This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend.
In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish.
That's not a coincidence.
This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend.
In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish.
That's not a coincidence.
September 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Really insightful thread from @nexusproject.bsky.social about the parallels between anti-trans hate and antisemitism. The same propagandists use the same playbook for both forms of hate.
I’m not watching the match because of both work and (justified) bitterness towards David Ellison causing me to have canceled Paramount Plus, but it is objectively hilarious that Llorente scored against us (because of course he did). I hope his dog (Anfield) is happy.
September 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I’m not watching the match because of both work and (justified) bitterness towards David Ellison causing me to have canceled Paramount Plus, but it is objectively hilarious that Llorente scored against us (because of course he did). I hope his dog (Anfield) is happy.
Really nice to see Loris Karius play well for a historic club in one of the big five leagues.
September 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Really nice to see Loris Karius play well for a historic club in one of the big five leagues.
Missy / Wilco / Bjork / Drive-By Truckers / The White Stripes
NEXT WEEK'S MATCHES
MON Radiohead vs Missy Elliott
ROUND 4 OVER, ROUND 5 STARTS
TUE Wilco vs Gillian Welch
WED Daft Punk vs Björk
THU The Strokes vs Drive-By Truckers
FRI The White Stripes vs Radiohead OR Missy Elliott
ROUND 5 OVER!
MON Radiohead vs Missy Elliott
ROUND 4 OVER, ROUND 5 STARTS
TUE Wilco vs Gillian Welch
WED Daft Punk vs Björk
THU The Strokes vs Drive-By Truckers
FRI The White Stripes vs Radiohead OR Missy Elliott
ROUND 5 OVER!
September 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Missy / Wilco / Bjork / Drive-By Truckers / The White Stripes
This - from nearby - is an interesting hodgepodge of the most nonsense pretexts for opposing development & as strong of a basis for claiming an affordable component is inadequate as I can imagine. Why? Because 90% of AMI IS market rate for new construction.
streetcarsuburbs.news/63127/colleg...
streetcarsuburbs.news/63127/colleg...
Residents raise concerns over Aviation Landing plans
Residents expressed concerns over the proximity of a proposed multi-phase project to the College Park Airport during an Aug. 27 community meeting about the residential and commercial development. Afte...
streetcarsuburbs.news
August 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM
This - from nearby - is an interesting hodgepodge of the most nonsense pretexts for opposing development & as strong of a basis for claiming an affordable component is inadequate as I can imagine. Why? Because 90% of AMI IS market rate for new construction.
streetcarsuburbs.news/63127/colleg...
streetcarsuburbs.news/63127/colleg...
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts:
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Happy Mondays
The Mountain Goats
Dinosaur Jr.
Broken Social Scene
Dead Prez
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pharaohe Monch
Waxahatchee
The Vaselines
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Happy Mondays
The Mountain Goats
Dinosaur Jr.
Broken Social Scene
Dead Prez
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pharaohe Monch
Waxahatchee
The Vaselines
10 acts you've seen as support acts:
Low
Lucinda Williams
The Strokes
Ok Go
Supergrass
Blonde Redhead
Beta Band
Spacehog
Bardo Pond
Holy Fuck
Low
Lucinda Williams
The Strokes
Ok Go
Supergrass
Blonde Redhead
Beta Band
Spacehog
Bardo Pond
Holy Fuck
10 acts you've seen as support acts:
Wolf Alice
Lightning Seeds
Joshua Idehen
Self Esteem
Amy Winehouse
The Hives
Saint Etienne
Nadine Shah
Richard Hawley
Bernard Butler
Wolf Alice
Lightning Seeds
Joshua Idehen
Self Esteem
Amy Winehouse
The Hives
Saint Etienne
Nadine Shah
Richard Hawley
Bernard Butler
August 31, 2026 at 12:53 AM
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts:
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Happy Mondays
The Mountain Goats
Dinosaur Jr.
Broken Social Scene
Dead Prez
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pharaohe Monch
Waxahatchee
The Vaselines
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Happy Mondays
The Mountain Goats
Dinosaur Jr.
Broken Social Scene
Dead Prez
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pharaohe Monch
Waxahatchee
The Vaselines
This is as beautiful of a piece of writing about music as you’ll ever find.
deepest condolences to all family, friends and musical co-conspirators of Half Japanese’s David Fair
August 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM
This is as beautiful of a piece of writing about music as you’ll ever find.
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
a very pre-internet band, one you learned of by listening to college radio or haunting record stores. I think we live in a cynical age where no one believes a band might be making music just because they like how it feels to do so, but HJ were strictly business. Their music was for them. Rest easy.
deepest condolences to all family, friends and musical co-conspirators of Half Japanese’s David Fair
August 30, 2026 at 11:08 PM
a very pre-internet band, one you learned of by listening to college radio or haunting record stores. I think we live in a cynical age where no one believes a band might be making music just because they like how it feels to do so, but HJ were strictly business. Their music was for them. Rest easy.
Reposted by Thomas Silverstein
From our stalwart Board member Michael Allen in @shelterforce.bsky.social on the fight for accessible housing.
The Accessibility Rules Were There. The Enforcement Wasn’t. — Shelterforce
Federal accessibility requirements are only as effective as the local governments responsible for enforcing them.
shelterforce.org
August 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
From our stalwart Board member Michael Allen in @shelterforce.bsky.social on the fight for accessible housing.
Really appreciative of @newsday.bsky.social & @joshuasolomon.bsky.social for reporting this story, which describes some of the most egregious allegations of discrimination and maladministration by a PHA that I've ever seen.
Hempstead's public housing authority discriminated against people of color and with disabilities, feds say
The town's housing authority used an unlawful system to curate its waitlist for apartments, according to federal officials.
www.newsday.com
August 6, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Really appreciative of @newsday.bsky.social & @joshuasolomon.bsky.social for reporting this story, which describes some of the most egregious allegations of discrimination and maladministration by a PHA that I've ever seen.
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.
August 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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.
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?
But why should it?
Honest 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.
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.
Younger Than Yesterday
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
August 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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?
But why should it?
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.
www.vox.com
August 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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/
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!!
August 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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!
She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
July 31, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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!