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Johanna Heyer

@johannaheyer.bsky.social
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Occasional thoughts on air pollution/transportation/climate/tenants union movement. Organizing with @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I just submitted my letter to NSF responding to its proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I argue that doing so would be an astonishing and avoidable misstep, and that federal support for the institution should in fact be *increased.* [1/4]
Page 2 of letter by Daniel Swain. It begins: constructive suggestions regarding how the already remarkable institutional efficiency and societal impact of NCAR could be further enhanced through increased (not decreased) federal support in the years to come.
Please note: To ensure the highest level of technical rigor, this response focuses exclusively on the core atmospheric and natural hazard science topics within the author’s primary domain of expertise; for this reason, I have omitted a response to Topic 4 (Space Weather)."


NCAR weather modeling and atmospheric observing capabilities
a) Management and operations of weather-related observational platforms, modeling and science as a stand-alone activity.
The proposed management of weather-related research as a stand-alone activity is a scientifically regressive path that ignores the fundamental physical reality of the Earth system. Modern atmospheric science has demonstrated (largely, it is worth noting, due to groundbreaking researcPage 3 of letter by Daniel Swain. It begins: b) Management and operations of weather-related observational platforms, modeling and science as combined with other NSF investments/facilities.
The highly specialized nature of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) infrastructure represents an extraordinary value proposition that cannot be replicated by combining it with more generalized NSF programs. The NWSC is not a generic high-performance computing (HPC) facility; it is a laboratory uniquely optimized for atmospheric science workflows, with a hardware and storage architecture specifically designed to handle the massive, high-bandwidth data demands of Earth system modeling. Furthermore, its model of providing an excellent, free-at-point-of-use technical support team ensures that the focus remains on the science rather than the overhead of systems administration. This centralized expertise allows individual researchers, smaller labs, and even entire universities—who would otherwiPage 4 of letter by Daniel Swain. It begins: NCAR Mesa Lab (located in Boulder, Colorado)
a/b) Ownership of the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab building for public and private use.
Far more than just an office building, NSF NCAR Mesa Lab is an iconic and purpose-built facility designed specifically for the study of atmospheric science. Its position at the physical interface of the Rocky Mountain foothills and the Great Plains is a deliberate reflection of its mission, serving as a visible symbol—in an iconically American setting—of the federal government's enduring commitment to science in service of society. For many in the field, including myself, the Mesa Lab holds singular importance as a focal gathering point for the global atmospheric science community. My own early career exposure to weather and Earth system modeling, in fact, occurred within these walls, and I have long felt that the facility’s architecture and location inspire a necessary sense of awe regarding the atmosphere’s complexity aPage 1 of letter by Daniel Swain. It begins: Dear Acting Director Stone and the NSF NCAR restructuring team:

I am writing to provide a formal response to the Request for Information (RFI) regarding the proposed restructuring of the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its critical weather science infrastructure contained within the January 23, 2026 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) entitled “NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure.” I submit these comments in my professional capacity as an atmospheric research scientist within the University of California, where my research focuses on the physics and dynamics of atmospheric processes related to extreme weather events and their role in shifting natural hazard and disaster risk.

My perspective is informed by a public-sector career dedicated to bridging the gap between fundamental atmospheric research and real-world application in an academic context, with a particular focus on understanding and mitigating
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Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
RENT STRIKE WIN Yesterday, four months into their rent strike– the first in Raytown, MO history– Bowen Tower Tenant Union signed an agreement with their landlord. The agreement satisfies key demands and allows the union to de-escalate the strike by Feb 1.
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On Sunday, the DPH Local of SVTU met at 🔺 Park, where tenants shared stories of slumlord conditions, inc. sewage backups, leaks, + roach infestations. The union collectivizes the struggle, so we ❤️ to see tenants support one another, learn their rights, + brainstorm ways to hold LLs accountable.
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L.A. Tenants Union @latenantsunion.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We have been demanding an eviction moratorium in LA since the ICE attacks began here in June, and the LA County Board of Supervisors is finally considering new protections against eviction. Send an email here: tinyurl.com/stopICEevict...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
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Hotline operators report flood of calls for rental assistance as residents hide during ICE surge
211 calls from Spanish-speakers have increased more than 1,600 percent and requests for rental assistance have more than tripled, according to Greater Twin Cities United Way. Local officials are pushi...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Something that doesn't get nearly enough attention: nonrefundable application and "administrative" fees just to be considered for an apartment. I've heard from families who have spent hundreds—even thousands—of dollars on applications and are still without a home. This is legalized extortion.
Screenshot of an Atlanta apartment complex's fee table showing "Application Fee Per Applicant: $150" and "Administrative Fee: $300," both listed as "Due at Application."
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22/01/2026
1 of the 3 journalists killed in the Israeli airstrike on a clearly marked humanitarian vehicle in central Gaza early Wed. was Abed Shaat, a veteran freelance cameraman who worked closely with CBS News for years & regularly filed footage from Gaza, CBS News said on Wed. ➤ Shaat, 30, has recently...
One of the three journalists killed in the Israeli airstrike on a clearly marked humanitarian vehicle in central Gaza early Wednesday was Abed Shaat, a veteran freelance cameraman who worked closely with CBS News for years and regularly filed footage from Gaza, CBS News said on Wednesday

➤ Shaat, 30, has recently married, and was remembered by CBS colleagues as a brave, highly skilled journalist working under extreme conditions. He had also contributed to AFP, though he was not on assignment at the time.

➤ The two other journalists killed were Mohammed Salah Qashta and Anas Ghneim.

➤ The Israeli military said in a statement that its troops "identified several suspects who operated a drone affiliated with Hamas in the central Gaza Strip, in a manner that posed a threat to their safety," and then "struck the suspects who activated the drone."

➤ As Drop Site News reported earlier, the journalists were embedded with the Egyptian Relief Committee and were filming humanitarian aid distribution when they were struck. Israeli forces routinely justify killings by claiming an unspecified “threat” without presenting evidence, a pattern Gaza authorities say has accompanied the killing of 483 Palestinians since the ceasefire 100 days ago, more than 96 percent of them struck inside residential areas far from the so-called “Yellow Line.”
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE agents today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present. Full Story: bit.ly/3YwbaQR
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
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We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers
And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
we are hitting the ground running in 2026! Join us on Jan 10 and/or 11 for a Door-knocking training and outreach crawl: sacramento-valley-tenants-union.solidarity.tech/2026-trainin...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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Ariane Lange @arianelange.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I've been updating a spreadsheet of Sacramento traffic deaths. Just input the 30th death I've logged in 2025: a pedestrian. His name was David Zoellner, and he was 61. The deaths follow patterns: 26 of the 28 fatal crashes happened on the high-injury network, and 1 happened just outside the network.
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Ariane Lange @arianelange.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“Instead of hiring qualified full-time civil service staff, these agencies have opted to privatize public services at two to three times the cost,” a union president said‼️ www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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CA auditor confirms unions’ concerns that contractors are taking state jobs
As vacancy rates at several medical and correctional facilities climbed in recent years, California has come to rely on contracted workers.
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Ariane Lange @arianelange.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"A Post analysis found that of 27 cities that had at least five pedestrian deaths each year before adopting Vision Zero, all but one now have the same or higher pedestrian death rates than when those declarations were made." Not surprised. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/11/2025
NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did. By @natlash.bsky.social
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How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
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Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Just published! Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world, the book I edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, is out now from @uclpress.bsky.social It's OPEN ACCESS, part of the "Work Around the World" series by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
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Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This means that some 70,000 American tenants' rent money is being funneled, in part, into a company linked to the displacement and genocide of Palestinians 6,000 miles away, while facing rent hikes and eviction filings themselves. (10/10) Read it all here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
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Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org, I looked into American Landmark, a major landlord filing evictions far more than the national average. I found they are owned by an Israeli company with ties to the IDF, including during the Gaza genocide. (1/10) www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today's must-read by @thomasbirm.bsky.social: a major corporate landlord is fueling homelessness across the U.S. *and* the mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.
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The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 02/10/2025
Tenants urge Supervisor Rich Desmond to meet with them and adopt protections other local California governments already have.
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Tenants say county failing to act, enabling ‘renovictions’ at Arden Arcade complex
Tenants urge Supervisor Rich Desmond to meet with them and adopt protections other local California governments already have.
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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 01/10/2025
Tenants urge Supervisor Rich Desmond to meet with them and adopt protections other local California governments already have.
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Tenants say county failing to act, enabling ‘renovictions’ at Arden Arcade complex
Tenants urge Supervisor Rich Desmond to meet with them and adopt protections other local California governments already have.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11/10/2025
CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege. Continued below ⬇️
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The Lever @levernews.com · 19/09/2025
Homebuilding giant Lennar has launched an e-marketplace, with a potential “kickback scheme,” to help corporate landlords buy up properties and raise rents. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...
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The Corporate Home-Search Site Making Housing Unaffordable
Homebuilding giant Lennar has launched an e-marketplace, with a potential “kickback scheme,” to help corporate landlords buy up properties and raise rents.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/09/2025
New from Drop Site: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since. By Amel Guettatfi 🔗 Read: dropsitenews.com/p/the-disapp... Watch the AJ Fault Lines documentary at the link below.
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The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/07/2025
"One Meal Every Three Days": Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground
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“One Meal Every Three Days”: Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground
The BBC, Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse have all called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza as starvation there becomes imminent. In a statement, the news outlets said,...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Today:


- Israeli forces bomb a kindergarten
- Israeli forces attack World Health Organization buildings, stripping and tying up staff and family members, taking some hostage
- Reporters from AFP, world’s oldest news agency, announce this is the first time in their entire history that their colleagues may die from starvation
- United Nations staff say they will stay at their humanitarian hub in central Gaza, despite Israeli displacement orders
- Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook says war on Gaza must expand, even if that endangers the hostages
- Israeli soldiers arrested in Belgium due to accusations of war crimes
- 28 nations, including the UK, Canada, Japan, Spain, and France, condemn Israel’s blocking of aid & killing of people seeking food and water; demands Israel to not block aid and not ethnically cleanse Palestinians
- The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – demands world leaders:
    - "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
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Robin Epley @byrobinepley.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The city of Sacramento is attempting to hide a $2.6M budget item for the police (in a deficit year!) on the consent calendar tonight. The technology is flawed and the contract is already expired. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...
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Is ShotSpotter worth it? Sacramento may spend millions on questionable tech | Opinion
Sacramento Police’s ShotSpotter program is not only costly to contract and uses unreliable technology, it is costly to maintain, writes Robin Epley.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/07/2025
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making.
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We looked into it and found quite a few PAMA properties right here in Sacramento. If you want to join the fight against slumlords like this, join us at a meeting soon! Check out our map here: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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PAMA Properties - Google My Maps
PAMA Properties
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 The Israeli military just bombed Iran's state TV studio while it was live on air:
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
Factsheet (from April 2025) detailing various statistics regarding the partnership between the University of California and the federal government.
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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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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Palms Tenants have been fighting displacement for over a year now and as Ms. Jackie says in the clip, "That's the whole thing in a nutshell: we do not want to leave this place. This is our home!" youtu.be/ycqlwlvEh1M?...
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Sacramento tenants fight to stay in their apartments amid alleged tactics to push them out
YouTube video by FOX40 News
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Announcing our amazing co-hosts for the Palms Tenants' Anti-Eviction Block Party THIS SUNDAY! @sacpunkshows.bsky.social will be hosting the food distro and @norcalresist.bsky.social will be tabling with fresh produce 🥰🌱✊ We hope to see you there!
Flyer for Anti-Eviction Block Party hosted by the Palms Tenants. 2421 Marconi Ave, Sunday June 1st 12-4 PM. Image of bbq saying food, music, and tenant power. Logos for Sacrament Valley Tenants Union, NorCal Resist, and Sacramento Punks With Lunch. Sign with Palms logo reads Hands Off Our Homes! Community Gathering & Legal Defense Fundraiser.
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Join us for the Anti-Eviction Block Party hosted by the Palms Tenants to feed their neighbors, share their story, and collect donations for their legal defense fund to stay rooted in their community and not be renovicted. This is a family friendly event for tenants of all ages!
ANTI-EVICTION Block Party flyer with an image of a bbq and a sign saying "Hands off our homes!". Event details: Sunday June 1st, 12-4 PM, at 2421 Marconi Ave. Food, music, and tenant power!
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CalBike @calbike.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
California cut $400M from active transportation. That’s bikeways in neighborhoods like yours. Tell lawmakers: restore the funding now. go.calbike.org/a/restore-40...
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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lots of great details in this new piece from @rebeccaburns.bsky.social including how much profit-seeking landlords are gambling that they can buy buildings, quickly remove the tenants, & flip or refinance it. + how all that makes them vulnerable to rent strikes. inthesetimes.com/article/chic...
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Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike
How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/05/2025
How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.
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Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike
How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NEW: We're uncovering a new racist, classist pattern of eviction carried out by corporate landlords in places like Los Angeles — and we're fighting back. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns
A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.
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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.
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Michael Friedrich @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A new study shows that large corporate landlords in LA are disproportionately evicting Black tenants in the post-pandemic housing market. The findings are disturbing, but they also raise possibilities for tenant organizing. I wrote about it for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns
A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.
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Sana Saeed @sanasaeed.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
You’re here and not necessarily hearing / reading the experiences of Palestinians in Gaza in real time. Here are just some of the tweets from Palestinians in Gaza as Israel turns this into one of the bloodiest nights of the genocide.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Last week, we held a press conference in Los Angeles with tenants from two buildings. Why? We're taking on Equity Residential — one of the biggest corporate landlords in the country — to push for the banning of a Ratio Utility Billing Systems, known as “RUBS."
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
After nearly a year of struggle the Palms tenants took their fight to Dan Wayne's $7M mansion in a picturesque gated community in Irvine that includes a private golf club with an 18 hole course, a fitness and swim club with a junior olympic pool and spa, tennis courts, and extensive hiking trails.
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thank you, @latenantsunion.bsky.social! 💖 Two weekends ago, SVTU traveled with the Palms Apartments Tenants Association SoCal to pay their landlord a visit and spend time with our LATU comrades in the Flower Drive Tenants Association, Mohawk Tenants Association, and the Highland Park local.
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The ‘badass’ Echo Park renters who defeated their landlord. The tenants formed a union and won new protections against evictions for all renters in Los Angeles. lapublicpress.org/2025/04/the-...
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The ‘badass’ Echo Park renters who defeated their landlord
They formed a union and won new protections against evictions for all renters in Los Angeles. Tenants in a building on Echo Park's Mohawk Street organized to pressure the city of LA into passing a law...
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Sacramento Valley Tenants Union @sacvalleytenants.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Forever inspired by the Mohawk Tenants, who we had the honor of visiting and learning from a few weeks ago. Through their collective struggle, they won their own fight to stay in their homes AND used their fight to win protections against renovictions for their neighbors across the city of LA!
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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Venezuelan man went to Sacramento to change his address. Now he’s in ICE custody
“He was trying to do things right and now he’s just detained,” his girlfriend said.
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Trevor Aaronson @trevoraaronson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Think a Venezuelan gang is invading the U.S.? My story today in @theintercept.com is about how that panic really started — not with a crime wave, but with an alleged slumlord in Colorado and a PR firm in Florida. (1/7) 👇
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