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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

“This is a bottom-up, multiracial, working-class movement that’s directly countering the catastrophe of the U.S. housing system and the power of landlords with the collective power of tenants.” We need an abundance of tenant unions, rent control, and social housing.

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Rising Tenant-Led Movement Aims to Bring Down Corporate Landlords

Tenant union organizers from Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and New York share hopeful news from the growing movement.

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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a good essay, but it almost seems… afraid… to say the thing that needs to be said out loud: small farming doesn’t work because it’s a form of estate farming, and estate farming is utterly unsustainable. A thread… time.com/6966324/amer...

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America’s Young Farmers Are Burning Out. I Quit, Too

"Getting young people into farming may not be the problem. Keeping them on the farm may be the hardest part."

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I have a suggestion for you. In times of trouble and strife, there is therapeutic benefit in being among trees and in physical contact with them. So if you can, go hug a tree today, the bigger the better. This huge old chinkapin oak is known as The Great God Tree.

A man dressed in brown and khaki hugging an enormous chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii. Source: Katherine Shaw

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