Will Potter
@willpotter.bsky.social
Author & TED Senior Fellow.
📕 LITTLE RED BARNS out now! https://willpotter.com/littleredbarns
📕 LITTLE RED BARNS out now! https://willpotter.com/littleredbarns
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Book launch of Little Red Barns by Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social
Little Red Barns is the result of a 10-year investigation into factory farms, ag-gag laws, and freedom of the press.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Join us in person or online.
Food and drinks will be served.
Little Red Barns is the result of a 10-year investigation into factory farms, ag-gag laws, and freedom of the press.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Join us in person or online.
Food and drinks will be served.
Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth for farm to fable | Events - Concordia University
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November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Book launch of Little Red Barns by Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social
Little Red Barns is the result of a 10-year investigation into factory farms, ag-gag laws, and freedom of the press.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Join us in person or online.
Food and drinks will be served.
Little Red Barns is the result of a 10-year investigation into factory farms, ag-gag laws, and freedom of the press.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Join us in person or online.
Food and drinks will be served.
This week I’ll be having a conversation with @honestdogbooks.bsky.social about my new book Little Red Barns, out now from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social — it’s free and you can sign up at honestdogbooks.com/events. Hope to see y’all there!
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This week I’ll be having a conversation with @honestdogbooks.bsky.social about my new book Little Red Barns, out now from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social — it’s free and you can sign up at honestdogbooks.com/events. Hope to see y’all there!
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Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
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@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
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The myth of the carnivore caveman
You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Books and punk rock will get us through 🖤
Thank you to Type Books and everyone who came out to talk "Little Red Barns" in Toronto!
Huge thanks to Vince Neil for grabbing some photos and making me look way cooler than I am. Propagandhi always the soundtrack.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Thank you to Type Books and everyone who came out to talk "Little Red Barns" in Toronto!
Huge thanks to Vince Neil for grabbing some photos and making me look way cooler than I am. Propagandhi always the soundtrack.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Books and punk rock will get us through 🖤
Thank you to Type Books and everyone who came out to talk "Little Red Barns" in Toronto!
Huge thanks to Vince Neil for grabbing some photos and making me look way cooler than I am. Propagandhi always the soundtrack.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Thank you to Type Books and everyone who came out to talk "Little Red Barns" in Toronto!
Huge thanks to Vince Neil for grabbing some photos and making me look way cooler than I am. Propagandhi always the soundtrack.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
I'm excited about these 3 very different events coming up in San Francisco:
📕 10/26 - panel on resisting political repression
📕 10/27 - @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
reading!
📕 10/28 - USF Law - press freedom discussion with
Bernice Yeung of @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
See you there!
📕 10/26 - panel on resisting political repression
📕 10/27 - @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
reading!
📕 10/28 - USF Law - press freedom discussion with
Bernice Yeung of @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
See you there!
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm excited about these 3 very different events coming up in San Francisco:
📕 10/26 - panel on resisting political repression
📕 10/27 - @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
reading!
📕 10/28 - USF Law - press freedom discussion with
Bernice Yeung of @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
See you there!
📕 10/26 - panel on resisting political repression
📕 10/27 - @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
reading!
📕 10/28 - USF Law - press freedom discussion with
Bernice Yeung of @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
See you there!
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"I have now spent most of my life bearing witness to humanity at its worst, and in doing so I have placed myself in positions where I have also been able to witness humanity at its best."— @willpotter.bsky.social in conversation @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42yPciF
"Little Red Barns" investigates factory farms & rising fascism
Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"I have now spent most of my life bearing witness to humanity at its worst, and in doing so I have placed myself in positions where I have also been able to witness humanity at its best."— @willpotter.bsky.social in conversation @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42yPciF
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🐷 Public concern for animals is growing, but governments are cracking down on advocates instead of abusive industries.
At #ALAC2025, Dr. Tayler Zavitz & journalist @willpotter.bsky.social examine ag gag laws & global repression of animal activism—& how we can fight back.
At #ALAC2025, Dr. Tayler Zavitz & journalist @willpotter.bsky.social examine ag gag laws & global repression of animal activism—& how we can fight back.
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🐷 Public concern for animals is growing, but governments are cracking down on advocates instead of abusive industries.
At #ALAC2025, Dr. Tayler Zavitz & journalist @willpotter.bsky.social examine ag gag laws & global repression of animal activism—& how we can fight back.
At #ALAC2025, Dr. Tayler Zavitz & journalist @willpotter.bsky.social examine ag gag laws & global repression of animal activism—& how we can fight back.
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And - as @willpotter.bsky.social showed in Green Is The New Red - expanded their entrapment attempts against/ infiltration of non violent green activists...
Green Is the New Red: The Crackdown on Environmental Activists
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September 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
And - as @willpotter.bsky.social showed in Green Is The New Red - expanded their entrapment attempts against/ infiltration of non violent green activists...
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@willpotter.bsky.social discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with @democracynow.org
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism
We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to e...
www.democracynow.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
@willpotter.bsky.social discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with @democracynow.org
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
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"This is what fascists do."— @willpotter.bsky.social on the administration's labeling Antifa a terrorist organization in their war on dissent
Watch his interview with @democracynow.org -- bit.ly/3KjMk2M
Watch his interview with @democracynow.org -- bit.ly/3KjMk2M
September 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"This is what fascists do."— @willpotter.bsky.social on the administration's labeling Antifa a terrorist organization in their war on dissent
Watch his interview with @democracynow.org -- bit.ly/3KjMk2M
Watch his interview with @democracynow.org -- bit.ly/3KjMk2M
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What's behind President Trump's executive order deeming anti-fascists to be terrorists? Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social says it's a "radical escalation" in the administration's "war on dissent and the war on protest."
September 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What's behind President Trump's executive order deeming anti-fascists to be terrorists? Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social says it's a "radical escalation" in the administration's "war on dissent and the war on protest."
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Toronto!
@willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.
@willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.
September 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Toronto!
@willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.
@willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.
Last week at Powell’s in Portland. Trying to celebrate the wins during dangerous times.
Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
September 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Last week at Powell’s in Portland. Trying to celebrate the wins during dangerous times.
Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
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Pol. sci. @josephmbrown.bsky.social: "Georgia pol's tried to fix a legitimacy problem by indicting their critics. [But] even to abuse the law, you have to read it first. They didn’t.":
@danimmergluck.bsky.social @marisapk.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@danimmergluck.bsky.social @marisapk.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
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Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges
Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pol. sci. @josephmbrown.bsky.social: "Georgia pol's tried to fix a legitimacy problem by indicting their critics. [But] even to abuse the law, you have to read it first. They didn’t.":
@danimmergluck.bsky.social @marisapk.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@danimmergluck.bsky.social @marisapk.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
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!!! Living vicariously through my book at these Propagandhi shows
Toronto: @willpotter.bsky.social’s must-read Little Red Barns seen for sale on the merch table at the @propagandhi.com show!
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
!!! Living vicariously through my book at these Propagandhi shows
TONIGHT! What a wild week for an event like this. I don’t have the answers, but looking forward to this convo with Abby Martin at Powell's downtown, 7pm
Join @willpotter.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social this Friday, Sept 12th, 7pm, when he discusses his latest, "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable" with Abby Martin of the The Empire Files !
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
TONIGHT! What a wild week for an event like this. I don’t have the answers, but looking forward to this convo with Abby Martin at Powell's downtown, 7pm
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Join @willpotter.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social this Friday, Sept 12th, 7pm, when he discusses his latest, "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable" with Abby Martin of the The Empire Files !
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Join @willpotter.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social this Friday, Sept 12th, 7pm, when he discusses his latest, "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable" with Abby Martin of the The Empire Files !
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
✨ PORTLAND! I hope you'll join me September 12th, 7pm, at @powells.bsky.social downtown for the release of my new book LITTLE RED BARNS.
📕 I'll be in conversation with journalist @abbymartin.bsky.social . Really looking forward to this!
📕 I'll be in conversation with journalist @abbymartin.bsky.social . Really looking forward to this!
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
✨ PORTLAND! I hope you'll join me September 12th, 7pm, at @powells.bsky.social downtown for the release of my new book LITTLE RED BARNS.
📕 I'll be in conversation with journalist @abbymartin.bsky.social . Really looking forward to this!
📕 I'll be in conversation with journalist @abbymartin.bsky.social . Really looking forward to this!
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Portland!! @willpotter.bsky.social returns to Powell's City of Books on Friday, Sept 12, 7pm!
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Portland!! @willpotter.bsky.social returns to Powell's City of Books on Friday, Sept 12, 7pm!
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Toronto!
@willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!
@willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!
August 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Toronto!
@willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!
@willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!
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What a privilege to be able to have this extraordinary conversation about the obvious, and completely ignored, connections between fascism and what we do to animals with the extraordinary @willpotter.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social joins @marisul.bsky.social in a conversation that connects factory farming to rising authoritarianism.
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
August 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What a privilege to be able to have this extraordinary conversation about the obvious, and completely ignored, connections between fascism and what we do to animals with the extraordinary @willpotter.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE: Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social joins @marisul.bsky.social in a conversation that connects factory farming to rising authoritarianism.
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
NEW EPISODE: Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social joins @marisul.bsky.social in a conversation that connects factory farming to rising authoritarianism.
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
#AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
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To spell it out: an animal welfare watchdog had video evidence of animal cruelty at an abbatoir. The abbatoir (which was committing animal cruelty) successfully sued the watchdog for copyright infringement and got a six figure settlement
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Listen to @willpotter.bsky.social on @projectcensored.bsky.social radio discussing his new book LITTLE RED BARNS, just published by City Lights!
www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...
www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...
From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power
Uncover hidden truths behind factory farms and digital control in a show on industrial ag, climate, fascism, and online threats to democracy.
www.projectcensored.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Listen to @willpotter.bsky.social on @projectcensored.bsky.social radio discussing his new book LITTLE RED BARNS, just published by City Lights!
www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...
www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...
"This is what journalism must be now—not merely a mirror, but a moral force..."
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
When Neutrality Is a Constraint
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
www.cjr.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"This is what journalism must be now—not merely a mirror, but a moral force..."
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...