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A $60 Billion Housing Grab by Wall Street - Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now owned by giant companies like Tom Barrack's Colony Capital & Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone - who are squeezing renters for higher profits, by @francescamari
nytimes.com/2020/03/04/mag…
“neighborhoods that were one of the few ways that working-class families and communities of color could build wealth and gain stability are being" turned into renter communities owned by "the biggest private-equity firms in the world”
nytimes.com/2020/03/04/mag…
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Wendy Siegelman
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When Trump sycophants defend him reporters should go off topic, draw attention to his authoritarian behavior & ask:

Trump got things wrong, it's on tape, why won't you acknowledge it?

Are you afraid to publicly disagree with him? Or admit a mistake was made? Provide an example
News hosts should push back harder to call out the cowardly behavior of guests who lie on behalf of Trump (better yet, don't have them as guests)

And in press conferences, reporters should back each other up and keep re-asking unanswered questions

3+ years into this presidency and so many in the media continue to fail at covering Trump - there are so many similar suggestions from 2016 (I probably made a few of them then myself). Sigh.
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Wendy Siegelman
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The flowchart shown yesterday afternoon of the 'Google' website is very similar to info released in an Oscar press release from yesterday afternoon HT @DemopJ

As @davidgura noted Google sister company Verily has invested in Oscar, co-founded by Jared Kushner's brother Josh
Here's @wired story on how

Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement - Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was. by @brbarrett @lmatsakis

wired.com/story/coronavi…
Here's thread by @davidgura on Google website that is actually being built by sister company Verily, which has invested in Josh Kushner's company Oscar
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Wendy Siegelman
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Something tells me the assurances of financial relief related to Coronavirus Trump is making right now may cause a little confusion in the coming days...
The entire speech reminds me of when he said grocery stores and banks would give a break to government workers during the shutdown
But it was nice of all the health insurance companies to agree to waive co-pays, I imagine their customer service departments may be busy in the next few weeks
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Rudy Havenstein, Chickenpox Survivor.
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"The Great Wall Street Housing Grab

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies — squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach."

#FedHistory #MissionAccomplished

archive.fo/wTRBR
Say hello to your new German landlord, America!
Or maybe you'd prefer someone from China? It's not like you can afford to compete with these buyers.
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Elli Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
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Vlad Doronin, Naomi Campbell's Russian oligarch squeeze:

Owns Aman Resorts.
Owns NYC Crown Building.
Brookfield Retail Group (GGP) controls the retail space in the Crown Building.
BROOKFIELD from the Cummings Report.📌
miamiherald.com/entertainment/…
Brookfield: the company that wanted to buy the only American builder of nuclear reactors, Westinghouse. Tom Barrack joined them because it looked like their bid was more likely to succeed.
Now: Brookfield is needing a new loan for the Crown building.
Signed terms with Apollo Group (Leon Black) (Cummings Report.)
Financed by Deutsche Bank.
"down the street, Brookfield last year signed an agreement with Apollo for $300m loan at 666 5th Ave."

therealdeal.com/2019/07/10/cro…
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Crusader for Justice #Kamala2020
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Folks don’t know that Rob Lowe is part of the Trump criminal orbit.

Rob Lowe is best friends w/Tom Barrack. Barrack is close friends w/@realDonaldTrump & chaired his Inaugural Committee. Lowe & Barrack own Colony Capital.

Which is under investigation 👇🏽

propublica.org/article/trump-…
Here is some more reporting by @ProPublica on the Trump inauguration, Tom Barrack, and Colony Capital.

I’m curious to learn just how much Rob Lowe & Colony Capital profited off of access to the Trump administration.

I hope @RepAdamSchiff investigates...

propublica.org/article/trump-…
SO: if you’re wondering why @RobLowe decided TODAY to finally be his racist, Trump-loving self publicly — it’s because the Feds are closing in on Barrack & Colony Capital.

Which likely means the Feds are closing in on Lowe. So he’s pulling a Trump: distract from crime w/scandal.
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The emails reveal that the relationship between the Emiratis and Trump insiders was initiated earlier than previously thought.
The correspondence is between al-Otaiba & Tom Barrack, who was chair of inauguration and friend of Trump for decades. aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/m…
A close friend and major Trump fundraiser Tom Barrack ‘is under investigation in Italy for allegedly evading $190m in taxes after the sale of a luxury resort on Sardinia’s Emerald Coast, the beach playground frequented by Gulf Arabs and Russian oligarchs’. theguardian.com/world/2017/may…
‘Barrack helped to recruit his longtime close friend, the former lobbyist Paul Manafort, who had a history of lobbying on behalf of Russian & Ukrainian interests close to Vladimir Putin’.

Manafort went yachting on the Mediterranean with Barrack after leaving the Trump campaign.
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