Dan Immergluck
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Dan Immergluck
@danimmergluck.bsky.social

Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer

Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development.

Occasional film noir, music comments.

DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between

Opinions my own. .. more

Economics 68%
Sociology 10%

I urge the Milwaukee Brewers to let me pitch their next game.
TRUMP: I URGE IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL

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TRUMP: I URGE IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL

How many $$ (including to consultants) went into this mostly do-nothing zoning “reform”? Now it’s being scrapped.

No mention here that this all stems from the Mayor’s 2021 campaign pledge to pull back from serious zoning reform.

(Yet his admin continues to get praise for housing efforts.)
Atlanta zoning code rewrite will undergo a rewrite
A city-commissioned review warns the current proposals could make it harder to expand Atlanta housing choices.
www.axios.com
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins.

Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
www.propublica.org

Apparently some folks have forgotten that phones can be used without using/blasting the speakerphone, you know by just holding it up to an ear and turning the speaker option off.

An amazing feature really.
In sworn testimony, the Treasury Department says it hasn't seen the money from Venezuela, and doesn't know where it's gone. Time to figure out who's pocketing it. In an overall kleptocracy, this may well be the most brazen act of embezzlement so far. www.ft.com/content/0588...
US state department under pressure to disclose Venezuelan oil takings
Trump administration holds back from revealing how much money it has collected and how much it has sent back to Caracas
www.ft.com

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Do I have this right? #$DASH confirmed the driver ICE shot and abducted was one of theirs but absolutely nothing else on the matter?

I will continue to never use the service or own the stock.

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And notice the group that’s paying the most for it, APS, opposed it.

Why give schools their money when we can take it and give it to developers to develop along the Eastside Beltline?

The Atlanta Way.

I hope this is missing key details, because 7% affordable
(at only 80% AMI) is < Beltline IZ & city’s subsidy ordinance requirements.

And why is Atlanta subsidizing (effectively) market-rate housing in one of the hottest parts of the city?

@civicatlanta.bsky.social
@julianbene.bsky.social

Hinson (R) is going to announce she wants to nationalize the oil companies tomorrow.

19 years.

full article open access at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rereading @tyredden.bsky.social's excellent piece, "Cop City in Wakanda" and hadn't noticed that Atlanta Mayor Andre Dicken's calling me a "classic gentrifier" (among other things) in his angry (someone else called it "unhinged") response to a Linked-In post is now memorialized in scholarship. 🤣

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal.

As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
New from me @jasonbcook.bsky.social & @elizabethacox.bsky.social with CBPP on SNAP

Administrative burdens can lead to procedural denials, where applicants are rejected not due to ineligibility, but because they are unable to navigate the complex processes

www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The effectiveness of the SNAP program is hampered by complex administrative processes that create significant barriers for potential participants.
www.cbpp.org

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#ExportBan ⛽️

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One of the all-time bangers. Apparently posted in 2022.

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While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
evanstonnow.com

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Thanks to several people who pointed to Gelman’s blog, which discusses the unbelievable results in math too.

But, this piece does an excellent job raising questions about the reading results:

www.skeptic.com/article/miss...
The Mississippi Miracle: Smoke and Mirrors vs. Reality
Mississippi’s test scores have soared, but is it a genuine education breakthrough or statistical sleight of hand? Two researchers expose seven inconvenient truths behind the celebrated “Mississippi Mi...
www.skeptic.com

This is all the fault of those student protesters in 2024!!
(🙃)

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Y'all ready to do some good this week?

How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors.

As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know.

unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...
When Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things Happen
How I’d Fix Atlanta was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […]
unduemedicaldebt.org

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Austin City Councilman Mike Siegel

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chicago!

if you're in or near the 32nd ward and want to synch with a genuine people's movement for better city government, come to a party this thursday!

meet neighbors, make progressive community, food and fun, q & a with Patrick Gilsenan!

6pm near Damen+Armitage; ping me for address!
So in addition to being a former clerk to SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mike Davis’ lobbying clients include Hewlett Packard and Walmart. Have the CEOs of those companies been asked to “disavow” and “sever their relationships” with Mike Davis?? He is a grotesque racist.

I think @chicagotribune.com gets the award this week for strangest mismatch of article and photo/caption...