(and incidentally I say this a lot but if you’re looking for a way to organize around a university issue, starting with an independent/collaborative budget audit is always a good place, as the @debtcollective.bsky.social has shown for institutional debt)

Note the difference: Congress didn't authorize these tariffs. Congress did pass the HEROES Act which explicitly in black & white says the Sec of Ed can waive student loans.

⚠️Big difference⚠️

Wish that mattered to journalists covering this.

In order for there to be any equivalence between Trump's tariffs and Biden's student loan cancellation things would have to be like this:

Congress passes a law to impose massive tariff hikes, Trump executes the law, and SCOTUS uses MQD to strike down the tariffs because they disagree.

This is a false equivalency. SCOTUS doesn't need the MQD to kill Trump's tariffs. They just need the constitution. Only Congress has the power to impose tariffs.

We are going to see this framing on hyperdrive if SCOTUS uses the "Major Questions Doctrine" to kill Trump’s tariffs, and all of the journalists are going to say that Trump’s tariffs = Biden’s student loan cancellation, and the journalists are going to help SCOTUS cement the MQD in the process.

Tenants have demanded transparency, a renegotiation of the utilities clauses of their leases, and an end to RUBS utilities billing in Los Angeles and beyond.

Amid the strike, Equity Residential (EQR) has already returned more than $25,000 to tenants.

Tenants are still on strike.

In June, tenants in the Virgil Square Tenants Association — supported by the Los Angeles Tenants Union and the Debt Collective — began collectively withholding thousands of dollars in utility payments, while still paying their base rent, to Equity Residential each month.

As the increased cost of utilities in the United States becomes the ‘new price of eggs,’ 1 in 20 households are being sent to collections for utility debt. An avalanche of rising energy bills are “driving households deeper into debt,” with Black and brown families bearing the brunt.

agreed. we can do both. for example, College for All doesn't stop at free tuition. it means cops/ICE off campus, faculty/staff/grad students paid a living wage, fully funded arts/humanities, land given back, critical academic freedom, not operating as a landlord, reparations dispersed, etc