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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 19h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 19h

All of the above activities are important (not sure where you are but there have been pro-James actions in NY), so I'd say pick whichever feels best to you!

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful, thank you again!

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, I'm not sure how to donate via one of the other channels but I bet it's doable

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 1d

I admit I'm most interested in another part of what I'm hoping he covers. I'm writing a book about courts and capital, and my research is leading me to believe the story of civil courts can't be told without incorporating the story of debt.

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 1d

How did I not know about this book on debt? Just ordered it from the library. Thank you!!

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 5d

We've organized nine former tenants — all of whom were pushed out by the fifth largest corporate landlord in the country, Equity Residential — to withhold their back-rent debt payments. Collectively.

That's right, we're on debt-strike. Introducing the EQR-9.
truthout.org/articles/ten...

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord

Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

truthout.org

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for raising the Q about how people can support James.

secure.actblue.com/donate/james...

I just gave to Letitia James!

Will you join me in fueling her fight for justice, progress, and true equality?

secure.actblue.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, Corinne! And of course totally understand if not feasible.

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 6d

I so wish I could attend but will be teaching Property starting at exactly 6 pm. Any chance it will be recorded?

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, this is helpful. And here's another source of info www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

www.thecity.nyc

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Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social · 8d

Yep, that’s what I thought when I saw the news. South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s... I read this and think, “Could building owner have driven this to clear out building?”

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 15d

Trump just called us "the enemy within"

Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 15d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22d

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/usda-puts-food-researchers-on-leave-ef287cd7

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 23d

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23d

Of course Trump is destroying fair housing enforcement. Really solid article laying it out.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

www.nytimes.com

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 25d

Such an important reminder! Thank you for this, and wishing you the best in your recovery journey.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27d

The arrests happened after an hour long standoff where law makers refused to leave, here is AM Marcela Mitaynes explaining in Spanish why she came today.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks for this. I'm the one that dropped the ball on the communication afterwards, so I will try to get it going again

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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 27d

I actually did this in the subway about a month ago but failed to follow up/follow through after a couple messages. Life is busy but I should try again.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 15

Yes Ivanka is Donald's daughter but please don't forget that Jared Kushner is one of the country's largest slumlords and an early adopter of securitizing eviction judgments (usually against poor Black tenants who can't afford a lawyer) for profit - their leases are predatory and DESIGNED to fail

Jared Kushner’s Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving & Cheating Tenants in Baltimore’s “Kushnerville”

A property management company partly owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to pay a $3.25 million fine to the state of Maryland and to reimburse potentially tens of thousands of ...

www.democracynow.org

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · Sep 14

Tenant power is victorious in NYC, @thomasbirm.bsky.social and @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reporting.

"All told, real estate donors poured more than $6M into the campaign of former governor Andrew Cuomo (now running as an independent) — and were roundly rebuffed by voters."

The Real Estate Pity Party

Tenant power helped carry Zohran Mamdani to victory—and the landlord lobby is none too pleased.

inthesetimes.com

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