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The English exported potatoes during the Irish famine — never underestimate the willingness of one group of humans to let another starve.

It’s time to EAT THE RICH, friends.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We won’t 😑
When pressed by the NYT, Zohran said not only disavowed his previous comment about the NYPD being "racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety" but also said he would apologize to NYPD officers for making it: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...
Mamdani Says He Will Apologize for Calling the N.Y.P.D. Racist in 2020
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Yesterday, I published an investigation into a secretive & abusive NYPD unit led by Mayor Eric Adams’ buddies.

Adams has embraced the unit, the Community Response Team, even after NYPD officials raised red flags.

This is what that has wrought.

**All caught on video we obtained.**

THREAD.
March 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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this is so sick. where are the orgs? where is nyc tenant bloc?
February 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair monopoly, which is the strongest punitive action the federal government has ever taken against a company over restricting right to repair

www.404media.co/ftc-sues-joh...
FTC Sues John Deere Over Its Repair Monopoly
Deere "has illegally restricted the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combines."
www.404media.co
January 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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And it should come as no surprise to find the main culprits are the same companies I receive hundreds of complaints about every year:

· Morgan Properties
· Bozzuto
· Greystar
· AvalonBay
· UDR, Inc.
- Highmark Residential, LLC
January 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Hundreds of L.A. landlords have hiked rents on desperate people fleeing the wildfires.

Landlords for at least 400 properties appear to have ignored the law and the warnings of California's Attorney General and illegally raised rents since the fires began.

www.yahoo.com/news/hundred...
Hundreds of L.A. landlords hike rents to capitalize on 'desperate' fire evacuees
Price hikes of more than 10% are illegal during a state of emergency. But that hasn't stopped landlords seeking to profit from the L.A.'s ongoing disaster.
www.yahoo.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Every bad thing about landlords really is true
Hundreds of L.A. landlords have hiked rents on desperate people fleeing the wildfires.

Landlords for at least 400 properties appear to have ignored the law and the warnings of California's Attorney General and illegally raised rents since the fires began.

www.yahoo.com/news/hundred...
Hundreds of L.A. landlords hike rents to capitalize on 'desperate' fire evacuees
Price hikes of more than 10% are illegal during a state of emergency. But that hasn't stopped landlords seeking to profit from the L.A.'s ongoing disaster.
www.yahoo.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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One of the most important threads you'll read here today

#tenantorganizing #LAfires #mutualaid #peoplepower
The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters.

Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters.

Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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You can report price gouging landlords from anywhere!
January 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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AI software owned by a private equity firm costs U.S. renters an extra $3.6 billion per year, artificially driving up rents and increasing housing insecurity.

We criminalized homelessness when we should’ve criminalized price gouging housing instead.
popular.info/p/ai-costs-a...
AI costs American renters over $3.6 billion annually, according to new report
The property management software used by many corporate landlords, RealPage, is deploying AI to artificially inflate rental prices in the United States by more than $3.6 billion annually, according to...
popular.info
January 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“Families with kids are at twice the risk of facing eviction as families without kids. It’s just a lot harder to find places to rent and to keep  that housing stable,” our associate director Peter Hepburn told @wnyc.org's @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social

www.wnyc.org/story/homele...
Homelessness Hits Record High | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
Homelessness in the United States hit record high in 2024.
www.wnyc.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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RealPage - the software landlords use to illegally coordinate rent hikes - cost tenants an average of $70 per month or $3.8 billion in 2023.

h/t @oaktenantsunion.bsky.social
The Cost of Anticompetitive Pricing Algorithms in Rental Housing | CEA | The White House
Housing costs remain one of the biggest challenges for many American households.  While the root cause of high housing costs is the under-supply of housing, insufficient competition in the housing ind...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 26, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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“The right to housing, will take another kind of housing system, another kind of state, and another kind of world. The tenants union is the vehicle to move toward that world now.”

Read a ✨new✨ excerpt from “Abolish Rent,” by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

inthesetimes.com/article/abol...
How the LA Tenants Union Fights Displacement with Community
Lessons from a decade of building tenant power
inthesetimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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“Double-digit increases in rents across the state have now led to more persons being housing unstable or not being able to afford quality housing.”

spectrumnews1.com/oh/dayton/ne...

#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
Lower Columbus eviction rates and combat affordable housing crisis
Eviction rates in Franklin County are skyrocketing.
spectrumnews1.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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We are 10 years into the failed YIMBY project, and it’s clear that the for profit real estate industry is not coming to the rescue to deliver housing for the working class.

Disaster capitalism won’t deliver the housing we need. Social housing will.
December 19, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Ok now do Steve Donzinger @sdonziger.bsky.social
Breaking News: President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, saying his prosecution was political and designed to hurt him politically. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
December 2, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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NYPD officials say a massive, citywide hunt for overtime pay is underway.
This Fox segment on the search for the shooter is incredible. Look at how the NYPD searches Central Park lol
December 8, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Ok now do Steve Donzinger @sdonziger.bsky.social
Breaking News: President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, saying his prosecution was political and designed to hurt him politically. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
December 2, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Can anyone show me where the cats hangout on here?

@newyorkshitty.bsky.social lead the way!

#TwitterMigration
November 18, 2024 at 5:05 AM
🙌 @tad-doyle.bsky.social AND @dannybland.bsky.social both on @bsky.app !

Feels like the migration from Twitter is REALLY happening.

#FuckElon
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Thrilled that @oaktenantsunion.bsky.social on here repping their tenants!

Love from coast to coast ✊❤️✌️
November 18, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Tenants in NYC are some of the toughest, most resilient people on the planet.

Our collective power when leveraged is HUGE. We need to remember that, daily. We need to remind our electeds, who they work for, daily.

When neighbors talk, good things happen. Build❤️
November 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Love that @fuelgranniebluesky.bsky.social is on @bsky.app

keeping this a safe space from astroturfers and yimby logic!
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 AM