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Author & TED Senior Fellow. 📕 LITTLE RED BARNS out now! willpotter.com/littleredbarns

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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We disagree on some fundamental ethical questions, but that's that's exactly why I had this conversation with Agrarian Futures. The industry's attempts to criminalize journalism affect every one of us. We have the right to know where our food comes from www.agrarianfuturespod.com/episodes/int...
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Interview - Will Potter — Agrarian Futures Podcast
Our guest today Will Potter’s new book, Little Red Barns , started as a tale about censorship in journalism around industrial agriculture, but became something much bigger: a 10 year investigation ...
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This week on the pod Sam talks to investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social about the escalating repression under the Trump Regime, how we've gotten to this point, what this criminalizing of dissent means, where it's all going, and what can stop it. Give it a listen 👇
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From Prarieland to All of Us
Podcast Episode 299: Sam talks to investigative journalist Will Potter about the Prairieland case and the alarming new repressive turn this represents for everyone.
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This week on the pod Sam talks to investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social about the escalating repression under the Trump Regime, how we’ve gotten to this point, what this criminalizing of dissent means, where it’s all going, and what can stop it. Give it a listen 👇
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"From Prairieland to All of Us" with Will Potter
Episode 299 of the Refuse Fascism Podcast
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This follows in the footsteps of the September 25 national security presidential memorandum NSPM-7 on “countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence,” which @willpotter.bsky.social says demonstrates that the administration is “building a case against dissent itself.”
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From Activists to Terrorists
On June 28, 2025, locals from Dallas-Fort Worth met for a potluck dinner at a community garden, a garden that allows residents to partake in the seasonal
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
DOJ revives 4-yr.-old protest ag't Cop City in its bloodlust fr a thing called "antifa"–even as Ga. failed this wk. for 2d time to prosecute same case: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @willpotter.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @neonflag.bsky.social @arunkundnani.bsky.social @micahh.bsky.social
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Trump administration targets Cop City protesters in latest push to prosecute ‘antifa’
Critics say the government is ‘creating a boogeyman’ in its drive to use the ‘antifa’ label to frame protesters as terrorists
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Factory farming depends on secrecy enforced by criminalizing journalism and whistleblowing. And now the industry is even trying to overturn state reforms overwhelmingly approved by voters. Thanks to Kenny Torrella at Vox for chatting with me about my book! willpotter.com/littleredbarns
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Lessons in Drag by Kareem Khubchandani, with LaWhore Vagistan, @brandeispress.bsky.social & Little Red Barns by @willpotter.bsky.social, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
Book cover for Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable by Will Potter (City Lights): Behind the little red barns dotting the landscape and decorating so many of the products we consume is a dangerous threat. This groundbreaking investigation exposes the powerful forces at work to hide the harms of industrial agriculture, its outsize role in the climate crisis, and its links to the global rise of fascism. https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/little-red-barns/Book cover for Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties by Kareem Khubchandani, with LaWhore Vagistan (Brandeis University Press): Shortlisted for LGBTQ+ Studies in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview, the book unfolds in alternating chapters where the two exchange insights, stories, and critiques. Khubchandani delves into the lessons LaWhore’s drag practice offers about academia—shaping his approaches to research, teaching, and writing—while Vagistan reveals how Khubchandani’s scholarship influences her performances, inspiring her understanding of fashion, music, divas, and aunties. Together, their reflections and conversations weave a compelling tapestry of drag’s instructive power. https://brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lessons-in-drag-a-queer-manual-for-academics-artists-and-aunties/
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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Prairieland 9 were labeled ‘Antifa terrorists’ even before trial — for carpooling, wearing black, carrying a first-aid kit, and joining a book club. Insights from: @willpotter.bsky.social @crimethinc.com @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @rayacheson.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social
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From Activists to Terrorists
On June 28, 2025, locals from Dallas-Fort Worth met for a potluck dinner at a community garden, a garden that allows residents to partake in the seasonal
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Take warning: failing politicians are going to keep lashing out at immigrants and protest movements in desperate bids for power and relevance. This has nothing to do with "holding the line against antifa" as Carr says -- it's pure fear mongering
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
💥NEW EPISODE 💥 The Repression Grows We discuss growing state repression from the Green Scare through today with ICE violence in Minneapolis and the Prairieland “North Texas Antifa Cell” case. ft. @willpotter.bsky.social 🎙️: bit.ly/4mE0E5n
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The Repression Grows with Journalist Will Potter
Journalist Will Potter returns to Green and Red, in part one of two episodes, to discuss the current state of state repression under the Trump administration. Listen in: bio// Will Potter (@will_po…
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
💥NEW EPISODE 💥 The Repression Grows We discuss growing state repression from the Green Scare through today with ICE violence in Minneapolis and the Prairieland “North Texas Antifa Cell” case. ft. @willpotter.bsky.social 🎙️: bit.ly/4mE0E5n
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
~NEW EPISODE~ Part two of our conversation with @willpotter.bsky.social We discuss his book “Little Red Barns” and how animal agriculture is harming animals, people and democracy. 🎙️: bit.ly/4efHyAo
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
~NEW EPISODE~ Part two of our conversation with @willpotter.bsky.social We discuss his book “Little Red Barns” and how animal agriculture is harming animals, people and democracy. 🎙️: bit.ly/4efHyAo
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Cheryl Moss @betterlife4animals.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Have you read Little Red Barns by @willpotter.bsky.social It's a game changer for sure on how you view the picturesque images we grew up with. Check out the whole episode at www.BetterLifeForAnimals.com/055-will-potter
Promotional graphic for the Better Life for Animals podcast featuring a man with short hair and tattooed arms standing with arms crossed against a brick wall. On the left side, a quote reads: “The fight over factory farming is not only about animals or food systems. It is also about the right to expose wrongdoing. When governments and corporations label peaceful activists as threats, it raises serious questions about whose interests are really being protected.” Small illustrations of a chicken, pig, and cow appear below the quote. A red banner at the bottom includes the text: https://www.BetterLifeForAnimals.com/Podcast/055-Will-Potter
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The "Green Scare" is being cited in the UK case as evidence of why a fugitive animal rights activist wouldn't get a fair trial if extradiced. I talked to Ali Winston about the FBI's obsessive campaign against animal and enviro activists as "terrorists" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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An animal rights activist was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for 15 years. Will he be returned to the US?
Daniel Andreas San Diego, now 47, is fighting extradition from the UK amid accusations he set off three pipe bombs in 2003
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Wonderful to see the new book being used like this. Thank you @rmaios.bsky.social !
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Accused of arson, finally pled to lesser chg and probation: "..case was never about justice for an alleged crime. It was about instilling fear in a strong movement" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @willpotter.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @micahh.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social
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After jail, house arrest and an ankle monitor, a reprieve for a ‘Cop City’ protester: ‘The process was the punishment’
With no conviction, John Mazurek’s felony arson case for allegedly torching police motorcycles will finally be resolved
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kathleengage.bsky.social @kathleengage.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If you think you know about factory farming, you may want to rethink this. @betterlife4animals.bsky.social and @willpotter.bsky.social pull back the covers. betterlifeforanimals.com/podcast/055-...
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BOOTLICKING DOESN'T WORK. This was from my Democracy Now interview about Trump designating anti-fascists as terrorists. I've spent my entire life as an investigative journalist studying political repression and authoritarianism. Here's the one lesson I need you to hear:
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Kim Stallwood is truly a citizen historian of the animal rights movement, and I mean that in the best way--he has documented it while living it. It's a pleasure to chat about my new book and the link between factory farms and rising fascism kimstallwood.substack.com/p/little-red...
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Little Red Barns by Will Potter
Author Interview
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RMS @rmaios.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The truth about #factoryfarming, by Will Potter, for a special edition of Current Affairs. @currentaffairs.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
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FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In writing his book, @willpotter.bsky.social investigated the laws that hide the harms of factory farms from the public. But he also uncovered something even more disturbing — that these measures are deeply rooted in facism. We talk with him in our new podcast episode: foodprint.org/what-youre-e...
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
They won’t stop here. But this is the full-on fascist playbook. And it will keep moving from the margins to the middle until only the obedient remain. No matter what issues you care most about, you can’t advocate for them under authoritarian rule. Fight back now while we still have some time
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FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On our podcast, we talk with @willpotter.bsky.social, Leah Garces of @mercyforanimals.org, Tyler Lobdell of @foodandwaterwatch.bsky.social and Mike Callicrate about the laws that keep us from knowing the full truth about how animals are raised for us to eat. Listen: foodprint.org/what-youre-e...
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Press freedom is under attack globally. Honored to be speaking with journalism students and working journalists at this event hosted by the American University of Armenia. It'll be broadcast and you can sign up here: www.linkedin.com/events/telli...
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The next episode of our podcast, LIVE! From City Lights, is up! It features a conversation w/ author @willpotter.bsky.social about his new book, LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth From Farm to Fable. Give it a listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Soundcloud! open.spotify.com/episode/0FKg...
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Social Justice Centre - Centre de justice sociale @socialjusticecu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth for farm to fable | Events - Concordia University
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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...
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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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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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!
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"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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"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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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🐷 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.
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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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Green Is the New Red: The Crackdown on Environmental Activists
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@willpotter.bsky.social discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
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“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...
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"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
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2025
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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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Toronto! @willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Last week at Powell’s in Portland. Trying to celebrate the wins during dangerous times. Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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...
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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
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
!!! Living vicariously through my book at these Propagandhi shows
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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.
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Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
✨ 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!
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Portland!! @willpotter.bsky.social returns to Powell's City of Books on Friday, Sept 12, 7pm!
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Toronto! @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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Mariann Sullivan @marisul.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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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Our Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 22/08/2025
NEW EPISODE: Investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social joins @marisul.bsky.social in a conversation that connects factory farming to rising authoritarianism. #AnimalRights #OurHenHouse
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