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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sad to report that most Democrats haven't just turned their backs on student debtors, they're actively making the system even more predatory. Read this piece by my comrade Braxton Brewington and then join @debtcollective.bsky.social. Without mass action debtors are going to continue to be crushed.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is a stepping stone to relegating higher education to a select class of wealthy white folks by the way.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

For context, the Department of Education functions as the 5th largest bank in the nation—and the largest debt collector. Imagine if Bank of America were to transfer their entire loan portfolio to JP Morgan. The data/privacy concerns here are massive, let alone legality.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Earlier this year, the Student Loan Ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wrote her annual report on student loans. It was deeply critical of Trump admin policies. So they fired her. Well, we just hired her.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Democrats shouldn't try to close ICE detention facilities but instead focus on fostering a culture of abundance within those ICE detention facilities

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Cannot emphasize enough that Teen Vogue has had stellar reporting, analysis and political commentary over the past several years. This is a huge loss for the media sphere and all of their youth (and former youth) readers.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Begging y’all to not use this as an excuse to feel sympathy for municipal police departments. There’s enough space to have two enemies at once, I promise.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process. We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Rage donations to abortion funds have waned, leading to the emergence of a new horrific phenomenon that reproductive justice organizers and debt-abolitionists are calling "Abortion Debt." In a new academic article for South Atlantic Quarterly, I write about its origins — and pathways to resistance.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We spoke to U.S. Catholic Magazine about debt injustice: [Debt Collective] points out that relief is "literally in the Lord’s prayer." It’s the ultra-rich who are culpable, [they] say— billionaires hoarding wealth, against biblical teaching. They're committing sins.” uscatholic.org/articles/202...

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What does the Jubilee have to do with debt justice?

The ancient tradition of Jubilee wasn't just about spiritual or personal practice. It had far-reaching ramifications for economic justice.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

News: With the Los Angeles Tenant Union, we're organizing a historic strike against the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States — and the largest in L.A. Today, dozens of tenants across two Los Angeles buildings are refusing to pay their utility bills to Equity Residential.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"In a nutshell, this bill says that only the wealthy few can attend college, and that working class students will receive no help from the federal government to learn or pursue a career," Braxton Brewington of @debtcollective.bsky.social says in a statement.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

NYT Daily with Chris Rufo on today to just spew right-wing ideology for all its listeners and all Barbaro offers up is the occasional "hmm." I would prefer if the Daily simply renamed themselves to "Heritage (Un)Spoken" or "AEI or DEI" or "The Right Take" or whatever they come up with.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The longest floor speech in United States history at 24 hours and 20 minutes and counting is an economic and moral damnation of billionaires and the wealthy elite.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/12/2024

Older people "are the fastest-growing demographic of student debtors," says @astra.bsky.social of @DebtCollective.bsky.social, who notes that 9 million people over 50 owe $400 billion. "People are aging into their student loans, not aging out." www.democracynow.org/2024/12/17/deb…

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Wrote about Biden, Harris, Gaza and student debt—why the issues are interconnected, and why we’ll need to see significant movement on both from a potential Harris administration. inthesetimes.com/article/bide...

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Biden, Harris, Gaza and the Student Debt Smoke Screen

President Biden has made appearances to be aligned with left-wing activists on student debt cancelation while holding back on his power to deliver it. How will Vice President Harris now approach the i...

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Braxton Brewington, press secretary for the Debt Collective, said the administration’s measures were “a reminder that despite the Supreme Court ruling, there are powers at the Biden administration’s disposal and they use them — but sparingly.” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/u...

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Biden Cancels Another $5 Billion in Student Loan Debt

Most of the borrowers who will benefit from the latest wave of relief are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others in public service.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Booyah—go Debt Collective!!!!👇🔥✊

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely. This is a no strings attached gift. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

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Activists erased $10 million in student debt for nearly 3,000 HBCU students — and said Biden can d...

"We're doing our part, and it's time Biden does his," the Debt Collective said as it erased debt Morehouse College students owed to the school.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

"Nobody has retirement security when you’re invested in the stock market. Nobody has housing security when your property, which you think is so valuable, is at risk of flooding or losing its insurance." Insightful interview w/ Astra Taylor + her new book: www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity

The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

“There is already precedent for ignoring the court, and white supremacists are mostly the ones who have set it.” Wrote about the reign of conservative judicial supremacy—and what we can do about it. For Hammer and Hope: hammerandhope.org/article/supr...

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The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Get the Last Word

What if we ignored it?

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Do you have more than a dollar of student loan debt? Than this new debt dispute tool, built by amazing team at the Debt Collective, is for YOU. Take 10-20 minutes to fill it out. Good things might happen. debtcollective.org/what-we-do/c...

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

New from me: Last month, in a hat-trick for right-wing litigants, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of structural racism, homophobia and mass indebtedness — in that order. inthesetimes.com/article/student-de…

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If Banks Can Be Bailed Out, Student Debt Can Be Canceled

Biden must act now to make student debt relief a reality—no matter what the Supreme Court says.

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

some blue sky for your Bluesky

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/07/2023

twitter is the submarine of social media

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Happy Renaissance World Tour Day to all who celebrate 🪩

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