BREAKING: Hundreds of tenants across four states are waging the first campaign in recent memory to bargain with a shared private equity landlord across state lines For @inthesetimes.com, this is the Tenant Union Federation’s effort to win a historic interstate lease inthesetimes.com/article/priv...

A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes. New report from @thomasbirm.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com on how tenant unions are taking on private equity landlords.

In NY, homeowners are 2x as likely to vote as tenants. Unless there are pro-tenant policies on the ballot, that is, like a rent freeze. In the mayoral race @tenantbloc.bsky.social tried to awaken the untapped potential of tenants as a political bloc. Read @thomasbirm.bsky.social on this strategy ⬇️

NEW: Since February, I've followed @tenantbloc.bsky.social's campaign to win a rent freeze in NYC. Now, Zohran Mamdani is on the verge of a victory that would deliver one. Here's a first look into how organizers brought over 20,000 tenants into Mamdani's coalition. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

"These are the moments where we need to turn to our coalitions. We need to have as much communication and joint organizing as possible." Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles, speaking with @thomasbirm.bsky.social

@thomasbirm.bsky.social spoke with Marissa Nuncio of the Garment Worker Center in LA. They discuss the ICE raids—at which two dozen garment workers were abducted—that sparked city-wide protests and how labor can respond to Trump's assault on migrant workers: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

I got to speak with Marissa Nuncio at the Garment Worker Center in LA for @inthesetimes.com. We discuss the ICE raids—at which two dozen garment workers were abducted—that sparked city-wide protests, and how labor can respond to Trump's assault on migrant workers: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Congratulations to @thomasbirm.bsky.social, a named a Livingston finalist for his groundbreaking investigation of a mold crisis in New Haven, CT, fueled by landlord neglect. Read his reporting here: inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

I'm so, so honored to be named a 2025 Livingston Award finalist for “As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root” in @inthesetimes.com. I spent 6+ months on this investigation, interviewing New Haven tenants who developed respiratory conditions thanks to landlord neglect. Read below!

As someone who was there, the Jewish student the YDN quoted as saying he was “blocked from walking through Yale’s campus”was: - Attempting to forcefully move into the circle of students while filming them - Was the first to inform admin the encampment was being built - Is a frequent Fox News guest

BREAKING: Yalies4Palestine, Yale’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, was deregistered as an official student org at 3 PM today by Yale admin. The move comes after 200 students built a new encampment last night, an action the group says they were unaffiliated with. 🧵

BREAKING: Under threat of imminent arrests, organizers have instructed the newly constructed Gaza solidarity encampment at Yale to disperse for the night. They instructed protestors to reconvene tomorrow, when war-criminal Itamar Ben-Gvir will be addressing a Yale society. 🧵

BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing. Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway. FREE PALESTINE!

BREAKING: I’ve confirmed that public housing authorities (PHAs) have been told that Trump’s funding freeze has been RESCINDED. Also received word from multiple PHAs that February Section 8 payments will go out as planned. See the email that went out today from HUD below:

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

"54 people died while experiencing homelessness in Rhode Island last year...When the polar vortex arrived, it exacerbated the already dire conditions for homeless residents throughout the state." Great reporting in @thenation.com from @thomasbirm.bsky.social.

New from me @inthesetimesmag! In October, I published a feature on the massive and underreported epidemic of hazardous mold exposure in low-income housing, focusing on New Haven. Less than two months later, the city held a hearing to begin addressing the crisis. inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

Less than two months after a @thomasbirm.bsky.social investigation @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social on the nation’s unrecognized mold health care crisis, one city at its center shows signs of taking action. inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

In case you need good news: This month, two Providence city councilmen turned City Hall into an emergency shelter, saving homeless residents from sub-20 temperatures. Their refusal to abandon their neighbors is becoming a statewide reckoning (for @thenation.com) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NOW: Displaced tenants from Concord Hills Apartments in Hartford, backed by Connecticut Tenants Union, have traveled all the way to Manhattan to their landlord Greyhill Group’s office to protest their negligence. Tenants were displaced by a fire in August. They are still waiting for repairs.

BREAKING: Yale student body has voted OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of divesting the university’s holdings in weapons manufactures, including “those arming Israel” Of 3,338 students, over 76% voted in favor of divestment. The Yale Daily News reports unprecedented engagement in the vote.

My latest for @thenation.com: I spoke with three local organizers with the new Tenant Union Federation. Each is low-income and elderly or disabled. Their stories show how TUF is transforming the most marginalized tenants into a political class to be reckoned with. www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...

"Israeli forces injured one of the only journalists left in north Gaza on Tuesday in an airstrike, after the military publicly threatened the Al Jazeera reporter with assassination in October."

Honored to be sprinkled in with this amazing crew ✊

Here's 50 storytellers and comrades we think are worth a follow go.bsky.app/5RpSsNS ... will share more soon too

Reupping this since there’s a lot of new people here and because Israel has further intensified the bombing here (& elsewhere) in the last couple of days On Urbicide in Beirut’s suburbs

Hey Bluesky 🫡 By way of introduction, I’m a reporter and intern at The Nation magazine, having covered tenant movements, housing conditions, and criminal justice for a variety of local and national outlets. Happy to be here, and I already feel my brain cells regenerating!

So honored to say I’m now officially a contributing writer for @TheNation.com 🎉 From Gaza to the pages of a publication I’ve long admired, this journey has been humbling. Grateful to everyone who’s supported my voice along the way. Here’s to telling more stories that matter! ✍🏼

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