Cathy Proctor

America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.

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Jeffrey Epstein shut down Congress.

"the number of shipping containers carrying US imports fell for a second straight month, setting the stage for one of the sharpest year-on-year reversals on record thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war” bloomberg reports:

Roughly 140 EPA staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter are put on leave Trump officials have placed 139 employees who signed a letter of dissent protesting the Environmental Protection Agency’s current direction and policies on leave Thursday.

And you can’t say “climate change.” Meanwhile, the Trumpsters whine all the time about being “cancelled.”

Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff watch fireworks at the White House on July 4, 2024.

This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.

But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.

White house memo From Court to Congress to the Mideast, Trump Tallies His Wins There are serious questions about the wisdom and durability of President Trump’s policies, but on his terms, he can point to a string of accomplishments.

Good God. Destroying the Constitution and the rule of law with the compliance of denuded legislatures and courts is not a "winning streak." It is fascism. #BrokenTimes.

Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.

UPDATE: Judge Brian Murphy says 8 men deported from US and stuck in Djibouti en route to South Sudan can't be sent there despite #SCOTUS ruling today. He cites dissent for his conclusion. But #SCOTUS majority explained nothing so he could be right! www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

100% police instigated.

A piece of advice from an old retired soldier to the commanders and leaders currently serving:

Review the regulations & policies addressing political behavior when wearing the uniform, and then address those standards with your teams.

It appears the peace treaty hasn’t been negotiated yet.

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

They’re doing the meme.

By changing CDC guidelines on who can get the COVID vaccine

It will likely not be covered by insurance and Medicare/Medicaid

So if people want it, they’re going to have to pay for it

Meaning that those who can’t afford it are out of luck

Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.

There it is. Trump confirms what we've said all along - he's been protecting Putin this entire time.

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody."

But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.

Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

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Washington Post journalists are plugging Will Lewis’s latest memo — about returning to the office — into an A.I. writing detector. Screenshots:

‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift Pedro Pascal has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s attacks against artists, as the director of a conspiracy theory satire starring the actor said he feared the political messages of films could be weaponised by US border guards. “Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” the Game of Thrones and The Last of Us actor said at a press conference at the Cannes film festival, promoting Ari Aster’s new film Eddington. “And fight back. And don’t let them win.” Continue reading...

‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants

Shorter Stephen Miller: The president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants--including American citizens.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Friday News Drop:
- Trump Admin floats suspending habeas
- ICE thugs arrest Newark mayor; manhandle members of Congress
- Escalating war between nuclear armed states
- Chicago still gloating over pope

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Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Chicago high school cheers White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV — 'He's one of us' While Robert Francis Prevost didn’t attend St. Rita of Cascia High School in Ashburn, his connection to the school runs deep. In the 1980s, he was a substitute and summer school teacher at the school ...

And the Sun-Times got a photo of the new pope at a Sox Game (yes yes the 2005 World Series) — chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

“…lawless, arbitrary and dictatorial. The stuff of Mad Kings.”

ANALYSIS: USC deliberately escalated ‘structural deficit’ A doubling debt and egregious management growth place blame on the university.

Incredible reporting from USC student journalists about how a ginned-up financial crisis is being used to crush faculty and staff power.