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Laura Wolf-Powers

@wolf-powers.bsky.social
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Prof of urban policy and planning, CUNY Hunter College (not implicated in my posts). Currently thinking about how govt policy can discourage the private extraction of land rent. Proud supply skeptic.

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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
thefactcoalition.org/oecd-side-by...
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Under U.S. Pressure, OECD Agrees to Deal Allowing Continued Tax Abuse by Big U.S. Corporations
Today’s announcement by the OECD that U.S.-headquartered corporations will continue to be exempt from key elements of the global minimum tax regime represents a regrettable setback for the global figh...
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
new piece in @metropolitiques.bsky.social excavates history of -- + FHA support for -- Black-owned housing co-ops under Section 213 url:https://metropolitics.org/The-Apartment-You-Can-Own-with-Pride-Federally-Insured-Black-Housing.html
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away”
nytimes.com
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Whoa...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It is mind-bending to see Obama’s treasury secretary + purported academic leader debase himself in this way. Just…barf
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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Every day, more atrocities (and more in the pipeline) with this administration.
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Kate Howell @drkatehowell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I will not vote for anyone who does not promise to abolish ice and put every single one of these goons in prison.
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New in @metropolitiques.bsky.social : 🔥https://metropolitics.org/Urban-Theory-and-the-Cold-War-Reflections-on-the-Political-Economy-of-Urban.html
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Urban Theory and the Cold War: Reflections on the Political Economy of Urban Land and Real-Estate Development in Southeast Asia – Metropolitics
The Cold War's repressive politics of land and law still underpin the region's contemporary struggles over land rights, urban space and democracy. ---- Series: Provincializing the “Real-Estate Turn”…
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I’ll be giving my official ONLINE book launch for "The Menace of Prosperity" November 3rd! I'll be partnering with the @GothamCenter and joining @robertwsnyder to discuss NYC's economic history and its implications. RSVP today! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...
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The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 — The Gotham Center for New York City History
In The Menace of Prosperity , Daniel Wortel-London argues that cities are made and unmade by “fiscal imagination.” Convinced that local government depends on attracting wealthy firms and resident...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It's kind of funny comparing Zohran Mamdani's endorsements to Andrew Cuomo's. For example, Zohran has 44 members of the state legislature; Cuomo has two. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/10/2025
Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/10/2025
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Love this!
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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In 1937, Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on City Planning produced a book for children, titled The ABC of City Planning. And…they had a section on Municipal Markets! Good inspiration for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.
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Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand
Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21/10/2025
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It is that time of year where New Yorkers find out that more of our neighbors are students who are homeless. This year tally comes out to 154,000 or nearly 1 in 7 students. There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...
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154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High
The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, is larger than the entire Dallas school system.
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Long Island City rezoning does not go far enough in guaranteeing housing affordability or preserving public land for public good.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/10/2025
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Not familiar with Alden and colburn’s work, will check it out
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Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Are you saying you doubt the correlation between supply and prevailing rents or just that there is a disconnect between market supply and lower income brackets? Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?
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winterdreaming.bsky.social @winterdreaming.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Pritzker is looking presidential
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Klaatu Barada Necktie ANTIFA Slava Ukraini Refuse Illegal Orders @reasonmustwin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Every state should immediately start arresting and prosecuting ICE who violate the state laws.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2025
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents? MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The media has barely covered this. Imagine if it was a conservative judge who had ruled in favor of Trump. We'd never hear the end of it.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Why haven't we heard more about
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump.
Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized.
MEDIA: Do your f**king job.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
yeah okay
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AFGE Local 476 @afge476.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Here’s what we at Local 476 have to say about the White House memo: 👉🏾 Go f* yourself. The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 guarantees back pay — period. No memo, no spin, no “reinterpretation” from OMB can override federal law. #AFGE476 #UnionStrong #FederalEmployees
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Whenever I see something talking about "The West," I mentally substitute "The White Nations" or "Christendom".
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2025
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
publicpowerny.org/take-action/...
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Take Action — Public Power NY
Events More coming soon
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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Well if they would like to denounce political violence....
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