Kathryn Sabbeth
@ksabbeth.bsky.social
teaching, writing, and litigating about courts, civil justice, housing, & eviction • working on Courts & Capital (under contract with Cambridge) • prior writing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1537444 LPE Blog, the Appeal & others
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Renee Good’s wife Becca: “We had whistles. They had guns… the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.”
Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Renee Good’s wife Becca: “We had whistles. They had guns… the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.”
Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, y’all.
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, y’all.
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"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen."
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
January 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen."
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
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Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
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Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield
An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…
lpeproject.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
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Props to @haelinchoi.bsky.social and the team from @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social and the 1000+ people (incl. Rosa & me) who turned out yesterday for training/organizing events in Brooklyn & the Bronx to protect our neighbors and get Trump’s ICE out of NYC.
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Props to @haelinchoi.bsky.social and the team from @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social and the 1000+ people (incl. Rosa & me) who turned out yesterday for training/organizing events in Brooklyn & the Bronx to protect our neighbors and get Trump’s ICE out of NYC.
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i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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1/ Housing problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations don't only affect your health. These issues also make the housing crisis worse. We're putting housing quality under the lens in our new series, Fit to Live in: Fixing Our Housing Stock. bit.ly/UTLhabitabil...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1/ Housing problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations don't only affect your health. These issues also make the housing crisis worse. We're putting housing quality under the lens in our new series, Fit to Live in: Fixing Our Housing Stock. bit.ly/UTLhabitabil...
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i hate that i have to post this (and will likely delete after today), but please don't @ me with your spotify stats.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i hate that i have to post this (and will likely delete after today), but please don't @ me with your spotify stats.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
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listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
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In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. A new short film follows three women as they navigate the subsequent months of uncertainty and upheaval. Watch here. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eD_3OU
Lives in Upheaval After an Eviction, in “Last Days on Lake Trinity”
Charlotte Cooley’s short film follows three women as they navigate months of uncertainty after the shuttering of a Florida mobile-home park.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. A new short film follows three women as they navigate the subsequent months of uncertainty and upheaval. Watch here. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eD_3OU
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I'm so proud of my people today.
ICE tried to pull a quick early morning in-&-out raid in a quiet industrial part of Saint Paul.
Instead they were met by hundreds of protesters, including the mayor and the local council member, whistles shrieking, braving the tear gas, forcing ICE to leave early.
ICE tried to pull a quick early morning in-&-out raid in a quiet industrial part of Saint Paul.
Instead they were met by hundreds of protesters, including the mayor and the local council member, whistles shrieking, braving the tear gas, forcing ICE to leave early.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm so proud of my people today.
ICE tried to pull a quick early morning in-&-out raid in a quiet industrial part of Saint Paul.
Instead they were met by hundreds of protesters, including the mayor and the local council member, whistles shrieking, braving the tear gas, forcing ICE to leave early.
ICE tried to pull a quick early morning in-&-out raid in a quiet industrial part of Saint Paul.
Instead they were met by hundreds of protesters, including the mayor and the local council member, whistles shrieking, braving the tear gas, forcing ICE to leave early.
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Well, that was something. Showed up for deportation defense training in Borough Park, trainers arrived, said there was “evolving situation” in Bensonhurst, were we up for heading there, we said Hell yeah, went and met folks on the ground, ICE ended up driving out of the hood with no one detained 🔥✊
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Well, that was something. Showed up for deportation defense training in Borough Park, trainers arrived, said there was “evolving situation” in Bensonhurst, were we up for heading there, we said Hell yeah, went and met folks on the ground, ICE ended up driving out of the hood with no one detained 🔥✊
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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“On Saturday, community groups passed out another 10,000 whistles as part of a day of action put on by Hands Off NYC, a coalition that includes dozens of unions, community groups, churches and political groups, hosting a day of action and events across the city.”
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“On Saturday, community groups passed out another 10,000 whistles as part of a day of action put on by Hands Off NYC, a coalition that includes dozens of unions, community groups, churches and political groups, hosting a day of action and events across the city.”
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social
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@apnews.com:
Immigration Crackdown Inspires Uniquely Chicago Pushback That’s Now a Model for Other Cities
By Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando
Immigration Crackdown Inspires Uniquely Chicago Pushback That’s Now a Model for Other Cities
By Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando
Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that's now a model for other cities
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal governme...
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
@apnews.com:
Immigration Crackdown Inspires Uniquely Chicago Pushback That’s Now a Model for Other Cities
By Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando
Immigration Crackdown Inspires Uniquely Chicago Pushback That’s Now a Model for Other Cities
By Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando
Huge congrats @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on getting the platform to share the insights of workers pushed into homelessness. I'm already planning to show a recording to my students!
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Huge congrats @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on getting the platform to share the insights of workers pushed into homelessness. I'm already planning to show a recording to my students!
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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More than 5,000 rent-stabilized units connected to the Pinnacle Group are going up for auction in 2026.
Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable.
Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw
#HousingJustice #RentStrike
Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable.
Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw
#HousingJustice #RentStrike
Rats, Faulty Heating, and Mushrooms on the Ceiling: Inside the Fight Against Pinnacle
As more than 5,000 rent-stabilized units head for auction, residents warn would-be buyers of disrepair that made those units unlivable.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
More than 5,000 rent-stabilized units connected to the Pinnacle Group are going up for auction in 2026.
Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable.
Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw
#HousingJustice #RentStrike
Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable.
Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw
#HousingJustice #RentStrike
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“There’s also so many tragic stories of people’s breadwinning family members who have been abducted. They don’t deserve to be evicted right now; it is unsafe for them.
They deserve to stay in their homes.” chicagoreader.com/news/ice-eviction-moratorium-pritzker-johnson/
They deserve to stay in their homes.” chicagoreader.com/news/ice-eviction-moratorium-pritzker-johnson/
Chicago tenants demand eviction moratorium amid federal invasion
Housing organizers are warning against putting people out on the street “as long as ICE is in our city.”
chicagoreader.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“There’s also so many tragic stories of people’s breadwinning family members who have been abducted. They don’t deserve to be evicted right now; it is unsafe for them.
They deserve to stay in their homes.” chicagoreader.com/news/ice-eviction-moratorium-pritzker-johnson/
They deserve to stay in their homes.” chicagoreader.com/news/ice-eviction-moratorium-pritzker-johnson/
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.