Here's Derek Guy with a brilliant take on clothing and respectability politics.

You mean Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend?

A guest lecturer (one of the top property investors in the US) told my Intro to Real Estate b-school class that the secret to making money in real estate was knowing where (upper) middle-class whites were going to go next.

My two houses & 17 years in the industry have only confirmed it.

Article about Edward Dolphin being convicted for soliciting millions of dollars in bribes to award contracts at Newark Liberty International Airport

Picture of a middle-aged white man who happens to be Edward Dolphin.

Screenshot of a tweet Edward Dolphin posted in July 2029 of a Trump 2020 flag with the text "In case folks wonder where we stand in 2020!"

This "merit hire" was just convicted for a decade-along contractor kickback scheme at Newark Airport.

So these are the guys who responded to those "IT jobs with Doge" ads on X. The first time I saw one, I thought, "Why is Musk recruiting hackers?"

Because I can't leave well enough alone. Just in case you missed it the first time, but now in light of Trump blaming a plane crash on DEI, Obama, and Biden policies without any proof - I can't stress enough how harmful these false flags are. I'll ring this alarm forever.

Florida's condo market faces "frightening" crisis Owners might have to sell property or face foreclosure thanks to safety laws requiring maintenance and repairs on older buildings.

Wait until all of those Florida subdivisions have to start paying to replace septic tanks that developers installed to avoid going through an entitlement process with county sewage and water districts.

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The biggest impact is eliminating the prohibitation of "discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin" in federal employment. Before it was signed it, black civil service employees faced rejection for promotions & higher paying jobs despite passing & scoring higher on service exams.

It really happened. #TikTokBan

Can't wait to see who he gives up and the prosecutorial domino effect this plea deal creates. This is the DOJ's second bite at the apple to clean up corruption in Cleveland, and I hope they don't just settle for a nibble.

Your Home-Insurance Bill Has Only One Way to Go: Up The propensity to build houses in disaster-prone areas is a big driver of the record underwriting losses roiling insurance markets, forcing rates ever upward.

I suspect Bessent received historic tax credits for all of these homes, given his penchant for historic properties and held them in LLCs, so the tax benefits probably offset any losses.
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TBH, I'm hoping Trump appoints some US attorneys with more spine than these Biden appointees because I'm tired of politicians selling out urban communities to buy themselves a future. It shouldn't take an R.Kelly/Diddy amount of evidence for the DOJ to pursue political corruption cases.

Maybe, but more than half of the population would argue that being afraid to cross or even cross paths with a "clown" is reasonable. #coulrophobia

Image of Variety magazine article, about the 50 Cent-produced documentary about the Sean Combs' abuse allegations

You're playing with fire. This man is known to harbor a grudge and invest time and energy on his payback. Rumor is that Sean Combs offered to take him shopping (one of the alleged tactics he used to lure in his male victims) over a decade ago, so he collected enough info on him to make a docuseries.

You mean the slave owner who raped & impregnated her great-great-great-great-grandmother?

This is a false equivalency. Go gaslight somebody else.

After serving on TWO charter boards, I would argue that Dem support for charter schools is driven by two groups: 1) liberal elites who want urban lifestyles for themselves & non-urban public educations for their kids; and 2) hedge fund execs hoping to capitalize on for-profit charter mgmt oppys.

Trump Demands ‘Commitment’ From BRICS Nations on Using Dollar US President-elect Donald Trump warned the so-called BRICS nations that he would require commitments that they would not move to create a new currency as an alternative to using the US dollar and repe...

Trump Demands ‘Commitment’ From BRICS Nations on Using Dollar www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Got it in one. This is pretty much what a lot of administrations do (not just in Cleveland) because they know that the legislative body (i.e., councils & trustees) don't have the will or discipline to penalize them.

Well, I recall the law dept having to do an upward adjustment a year ago because legal settlements come out their budget. I suspect the same is true for unanticipated vacation payouts.

Imagine attending an alumni summit and there's a "Lessons Learned from Katrina" session that he managed to turn into a brag fest about all of the "great things" he did to rebuild the city, then spending the next rest of the summit being repeatedly asked how much of it was a lie. 🤣

When I met her at the 2006 BIA holiday party, it was clear that she'd been propped up by Whites in Broadmoor to put a blackface on their efforts to gentrify one of the few remaining affordable uptown neighborhoods—efforts that now included leveraging the struggles of their displaced Black neighbors.

This is what happens when you release a bunch of debtors & thieves and set them up in prison colonies so you can create new markets and customers.

ChatGPT is just a highfalutin content miner and plagiarism tool.

Did you even read the article? If anything, it mirrors and confirms what Black Democrat strategists have been saying for almost two weeks.

Sorry, but I'm tired of white elites deciding that they have to sit at the head of the table in every room where they drive agendas that serve them, but don't serve the rest of us.

I was motivated by @bariawilliams.bsky.social to make the switch because I got tired of the toxicity. My goal is the same as on Twitter: to civil engagement with people whose opinions I respect & value regardless of whether or not I agree with them.
So far, I think it's going to be possible.

Developers & hospitality folks are the only people clinging to this association with rock & roll, and it's starting to feel like that guy in HS who gave himself a nickname that even his friends refused to use.

TBF, Memphis has a stronger claim to the genre. #cleveland