@cjc this is a fair point (and one I agree with), but the opening anecdote is unintentionally revealing. the 5k apt example isn’t representative, but the 4k apt is?
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@idkdude
twitter is good only for inane thoughts. here are mine
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When I moved to SF in 2013, I was making $100K a year. My boyfriend and I found a 1br apartment for $3,800/mo and split it down the middle. As a percentage of my income, I was paying more for rent than the couple profiled here could easily rent a 1br apartment for.
It seems to me that the real issue with the article isn't just that it ignores the root cause of rising prices, which is our systemic failure to build enough housing. It's that the writer chose a bizarrely unsympathetic focal point.
There are plenty of people who genuinely cannot afford to live in San Francisco anymore. The starting salary for a public school teacher here is around $70K. Librarians average about $85K. These are the people who actually keep the city running, who anchor communities, and who are being priced out by the market.
Instead, the piece focuses on tech workers making well over $180K who gave up their housing search because they couldn't find a place under $5,000 a month after three months. Anyone who opens Zillow can see there are hundreds of 1-bedrooms available for less than that right now.
One reason for this framing might be the narrative allure of the "AI boom vs. traditional tech" friction, but it ends up sounding incredibly out of touch. San Francisco has always required trade-offs, and it has always been expensive. But if we are going to talk about the crisis of affordability, we should probably focus on the people who are actually struggling to survive, not those who are just struggling with expectation management.
Emmy Martin@emmymrtin
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.
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@jadler1969 he’s an election law scholar at Stanford who started a firm to do election cases. what a lame potshot
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I'm starting to think VA AG might want to start relying on VA lawyers.
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@jimmy_esq @2Aupdates it’s a boutique started by (and might just be) a former constitutional scholar who is now doing election law work.
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All else aside, why is the Speaker of the Virginia House of Representatives—probably the state with the highest number of lawyers per capita—hiring a California legal team to represent him in his official capacity? At least have a little in-state loyalty.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein
BREAKING: Dem officials in Virginia ask #SCOTUS to put hold on state Supreme Court ruling nullifying redistricting referendum. VA argues that its high court is in conflict w/fed law (& Trump position) on what's Election Day & intruded on legislature. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/2811…
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@EWess92 @billyez2 @TheJusticeDept @HarmeetKDhillon @JesusOseteDOJ Why would this pose any issue? Under the 10th amendment’s anti-commandeering doctrine, states are not required to facilitate enforcement of federal law.
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@billyez2 @TheJusticeDept @HarmeetKDhillon @JesusOseteDOJ I definitely don't intend to post rage bait. Let's say an attorney has information that he believes is a violation of federal law. But he is not a mandatory reporter. Can he report it? Under this, I'd say no. It's not "required"
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It is quite troubling that lawyers--officers of the Court--are being asked to potentially defy federal law as a condition of practice. Probably worth close scrutiny from the Civil Rights team at @TheJusticeDept (CC: @HarmeetKDhillon & @JesusOseteDOJ )
Ian Speir@IanSpeir
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law. Please understand: - I do not practice immigration law. - I do not practice criminal law. - Nothing about my civil practice has anything to do with this. And yet because I cannot log into the State's official e-filing system without saluting The Resistance, I now cannot represent my clients, file lawsuits, access cases, file documents in existing cases, etc. If I click "Decline," it kicks me out of the system. I must click "Accept" to access the system and continue representing my civil clients -- again, in cases that have absolutely nothing to do with immigration law or policy. I've read SB 25-276 (the law referred to below). It does not regulate me as a private attorney or any of the clients I represent in civil matters. This is outrageous draconian overreach. I have ethical obligations to my clients to represent them competently. My existing cases have running deadlines that I must attend to. Judges issue orders in my cases that I must follow. If I don't click "Accept" in order to access the State's e-filing system, I will harm my clients, torpedo my practice, and probably commit malpractice. So, I have no choice. I'm clicking "Accept" under protest.
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@beau_baumann @danepps yes. it’s all too possible that there’s something I’m missing, and that there’s shade here. but it was bizarre to see what inspired this passionate response. are we that scandalized by the idea that academics can be selectively critical?
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Abstracting from you for a minute, isn’t it kind of a banal claim? The people writing against the birthright citizenship stuff were told they were being too mean by saying their interlocutors were just straight wrong unambiguously. I means this happens all the time. The legal academy obviously is pre-loaded with its own respectability politics.
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Pretty sure I'm one of the folks Mark's subtweeting. While I don’t feel compelled to respond, this actually provides a beautiful lesson for how academics and other serious observers might think about engaging with the Court and law. (thread, trying again after lots of typos)
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@NewYorker please find someone other than jay caspian kang to cover your sports beat - I beg of you
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After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits came out against legalized sports betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7tQVbk
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Reminiscing about my childhood narnia box set with the original pauline haynes illustrations and then suddenly remembering that I’m an adult with adult money
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Kamala Harris would be only the second lawyer-president with a law degree from a school not in the T-14.
law.com/nationallawjou…
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no. 7: carrie goes to her friend's place for a party and is told she must leave her shoes at the door. when carrie goes to leave, someone has stolen her shoes. her friend apologizes and offers to pay for them, but when carrie says they cost $575, the friend refuses. who's right
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okay let’s relitigate old sex and the city conflicts. number one: steve works nights, miranda works days. he wants to have sex in the morning when she has to go to work, she wants to do it at night when he’s exhausted after work. who is right
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@glerghsglalt I’m so happy for you. I hope pleasant visualizations are on the way. Just the best thing
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@hannnahmmarie agreed. it’s also just bad writing. the prefatory paragraph makes clear what both QPs are. why even bother repeating them at that point
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