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Staff writer at . Texan. I write about housing and architecture and art and chili. kriston.capps@gmail.com

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    Mar 3

    This is a story about Monarch, the fastest growing landlord in the Midwest. and I tracked how Monarch uses evictions to squeeze tenants and spike rents — "popping the clutch," as Monarch's CEO puts it — even when evictions were banned.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Ashkenazy Acquisition also owns Hechinger Mall — one of the largest retail centers in the city, about the size of the Union Market wholesale district — but development plans have been reportedly thwarted by a long-term lease held by Ross Dress for Less

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Amtrak is looking to use eminent domain to seize Union Station, which is owned by the U.S. but operated by Ashkenazy Acquisition, which has leasing rights until 2084 but doesn't seem to want to do much with them

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Here's a local paper still doing the necessary work to say, yes, vaccinations are safe; no, the things that these conservatives are saying about vaccinations aren't true

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  5. 13 hours ago

    Next shoot a scene of a housing protester at a sweep interrupting a shoot of a scene depicting a housing protester at a sweep, which gets interrupted by a . . .

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  6. 13 hours ago

    A shoot for a scene in "Good Trouble" depicting a fictional sweep of a tent encampment coincided with an actual sweep in downtown Los Angeles. Cruel meta, from :

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  7. Retweeted
    Apr 14

    I kind of like the audacity of bringing back Captain Picard and then not doing anything that anyone wants from the character.

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    Apr 14

    Grunge Frasier

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  9. 18 hours ago

    WOOF this house sold for $293,000 in 2020! What a flip

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  10. 18 hours ago

    Kim Jong-un's secret ally: NIMBYs

    <Just last year, a defector school was unable to find a new and bigger site, facing “not in my backyard” sentiments from South Koreans, with one district official calling the school “unwanted” simply because “children of North Korean defectors go there.”>
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  11. 18 hours ago

    A recently renovated Charles Goodman home goes for a lot less than I would have guessed. Anyway if you like my tweets please hit that tip jar button with $829,000

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  12. 19 hours ago

    What's wrong with this house? I can't afford it but still this seems too cheap for a bougie lil modern nugget in Silver Spring

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  13. 19 hours ago

    Engineering highway blockades at U.S. ports of entry through excessive inspections is a twist on trucker protests. It's also an escalation, as political elites take up populist tactics designed to hold the economy hostage.

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  14. 19 hours ago

    There's another difference between left and right highway blockades. Black Lives Matter protesters were more intimately connected to streets and freeways as sites of violence:

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  15. 19 hours ago

    There's one major difference between left and right highway blockades: Black Lives Matter protesters were pitting their bodies against cars, not in them, an act of vulnerability borne of urgency.

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  16. 19 hours ago

    BLM highway occupations enraged conservatives. Dozens of GOP-led states introduced laws granting immunity to drivers who strike protesters. Most bills only fizzled after a driver did exactly that in 2017 — killing Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.

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  17. 19 hours ago

    Rightwing traffic blockades follow several years after progressive protesters blocked highways in mass demonstrations at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    Of course highway protests extend beyond the U.S. Recently they've overtaken all of North America. Peruvian truckers just blockaded the Pan-American Highway and other roadways around Lima to protest food and fuel prices:

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  19. 19 hours ago

    Bonus shot of the Tractortown protests passing by the then-brand new East Building in 1979. This photo sounds like a banjo.

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  20. 20 hours ago

    The '70s saw some wild traffic spectacles, like the slow-moving tractorcade that showed up in D.C. to protest ag policies, turning the National Mall into "Tractortown" for several weeks:

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  21. 20 hours ago

    Traffic protests go back much further than the trucker convoys that paralyzed Ottawa and circled D.C. Dan Albert argues that the highway blockades following the 1973 OPEC oil embargo gave rise to the outlaw archetype of the trucker, which persists today:

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