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Kathryn Sabbeth

@ksabbeth.bsky.social
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teaching, writing, and litigating about courts, civil justice, housing, & eviction • working on Courts & Capital (under contract with Cambridge) • prior writing: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu… LPE Blog, the Appeal & others

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A scientific paper already has a carefully thought out abstract & conclusions I can look at if I want an overview. A book is supposed to be a joy to read, an intellectual and emotional experience to relish. This is not something that advanced statistics can either add to or improve on.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
BREAKING: Louisiana Gov. Landry has signed one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country into law. HB211 will make it a crime to sleep outside, punishing homeless people with extreme fines and jail, while also setting the stage for forced treatment and even forced labor. buff.ly/f1BBIIZ
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Louisiana Governor signs one of the country's cruelest anti-homeless laws
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country into law. HB 211 will make it a crime to sleep outside in Louisiana, punishing homeless people with…
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The Jersey Bee @jerseybeenews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Jersey Bee updated our style guide this week to include the term “concentration camp,” using it to describe Delaney Hall, an ICE facility in Newark where nearly 300 detainees are alleging inhumane conditions and violations of their legal rights. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...
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Why we’re calling Delaney Hall a “concentration camp” – The Jersey Bee
The term describes facilities where targeted groups are held without due process under inhumane conditions.
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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Agreed! And civil rights firms need contingency fees today in part bc defense lawyers & Scotus have worked to undermine fee shifting statutes.
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What’s Money Got to Do with It?: Public Interest Lawyering and Profit
Definitions of public interest lawyering influence financial support, regulation of lawyers, and professional identity. This Article examines three contexts in
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 06/05/2026
NYC landlords to pay $31M penalty over Bronx building conditions, Mamdani says gothamist.com/news/nyc-lan...
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NYC landlords to pay $31M penalty over Bronx building conditions, Mamdani says
The mayor says it’s the largest in recorded history for the city's housing department.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Dissemation of the Voting Rights Act
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
An article from The Guardian:

‘She’s opening the bees!’ US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer

A beekeeper has been jailed for six months after she set swarms of her insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to carry out an eviction at a friend’s house.

Rebecca Woods insisted she only released her truckload of hives to allow the bees to enjoy the “lovely, flowering landscape” near the home of an elderly friend and cancer patient.

But a district court in Springfield, Massachusetts, heard that Woods, 59, admitted under questioning that she was trying to save him from eviction by freeing the bees in the presence of the deputies who had shown up to serve papers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/04/2026
This morning, I became the first New York City Mayor to visit Housing Court. And what I saw will stay with me for a long time. Families on the brink of losing their homes. Tenants navigating unsafe conditions, harassment, and uncertainty, searching for justice in an overwhelming system. Small property owners trying to keep up with their mortgage payments.
I met with Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas, New York City Administrative Judge Shahabuddeen Ally, and other members of the bench, and I walked through Resolution, HP, and NYCHA Parts. I spoke with people in intake, with legal service providers, and with the advocates who show up every day to stand beside New Yorkers who need support.
Housing court is where the promises we make about dignity, stability and public excellence are tested in real time.
In the months ahead, my team will work closely with the Chief Judge and the Chief
Administrative Judge to confront the concerns we heard - directly from judges, tenants, landlords, legal service providers, and advocates.
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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This @galvinalmanza.bsky.social piece is brilliant. While highlighting criminal justice implications, it reminds me of @hoffprof.bsky.social 's work on the link between transportation and eviction.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There are a lot of good lists out there. This is from someone who I trust to know who is who on the ground and how to best get resources where they need to go.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, y’all.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen." —Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/12/2025
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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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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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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…
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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... 🧵
A painting in shades of blue, green, and brown, labeled "Fit to Live in: Fixing Our Housing Stock." Two men stand in a dining room. In the foreground is black mold, a rip in the painting, and cockroaches.
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 03/12/2025
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.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/11/2025
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. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eD_3OU
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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.
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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/11/2025
“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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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.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“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
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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.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@apnews.com: Immigration Crackdown Inspires Uniquely Chicago Pushback That’s Now a Model for Other Cities By Sophia Tareen and Christine Fernando
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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...
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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2025
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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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
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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.
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Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org · 13/11/2025
“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/
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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.”
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to permit the government to starve Americans.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“I don’t know what else we have to do. I’ve complained. I called the cops. I called them to do the repairs, many of which I’ve done on my own, with my own money.” Via: @nextcity.org & @shelterforce.bsky.social nextcity.org/urbanist-new... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+
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‘Paying Rent to This Landlord Is Rewarding Neglect’: NYC Tenants Rally as Pinnacle Faces Bankruptcy
As Pinnacle Group’s rent-stabilized buildings head to auction, residents on rent strike are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made them unlivable.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
ICE raids day care and arrests teacher with citizenship papers; Alderperson Andre Vasquez says city can't wait for elections to fix Trump-era chaos, urges Chicagoans to act Nov 5, 2025 Chicago, IL
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
By the way, in the footage after Sandwich Guy said he was trying to draw the officers away from where they were, he declared, “I succeeded.”
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This thread about the sandwich guy trial is amazing.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER
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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 05/11/2025
Fascinating to watch MSM frame Mamdani’s win as some random event by repeatedly saying that NYC is not like most of America. Like…of course not, it’s one of our biggest, most populous cultural and economic centers. That’s why we are all watching.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran opens his victory speech: "As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." Unapologetic. Unafraid.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Huge win.
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