Will Potter
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Author & TED Senior Fellow. š LITTLE RED BARNS out now!
https://willpotter.com/littleredbarns
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Bruce Springsteen
24 days ago
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. Itās 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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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:
26 days ago
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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
https://kimstallwood.substack.com/p/little-red-barns-by-will-potter
about 1 month ago
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RMS
about 2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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 ā 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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They wonāt 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 canāt advocate for them under authoritarian rule. Fight back now while we still have some time
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FoodPrint
3 months ago
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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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...
3 months ago
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
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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https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/social-justice-centre/2025/12/03/will-potter.html
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This week Iāll be having a conversation with
@honestdogbooks.bsky.social
about my new book Little Red Barns, out now from
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
ā itās free and you can sign up at
honestdogbooks.com/events
. Hope to see yāall there!
4 months ago
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Jan Dutkiewicz
4 months ago
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.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/466465/hunter-gatherers-meat-myths-carnivore-paleo-maggots
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Books and punk rock will get us through š¤ 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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4 months ago
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I'm excited about these 3 very different events coming up in San Francisco: š 10/26 - panel on resisting political repression š 10/27 -
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
reading! š 10/28 - USF Law - press freedom discussion with Bernice Yeung of
@berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
See you there!
4 months ago
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
5 months ago
"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."ā
@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.
http://bit.ly/42yPciF
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Animal Justice
5 months ago
š· 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 activismā& how we can fight back.
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Kirk Murphy šØš¦ šŗšø āš
5 months ago
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
https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2011/05/green-new-red-crackdown-environmental-activists/
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
5 months ago
@willpotter.bsky.social
discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with
@democracynow.org
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...
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āLittle Red Barnsā: 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...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/little_red_barns_author_will_potter
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
5 months ago
"This is what fascists do."ā
@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!
5 months ago
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
5 months ago
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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Last week at Powellās in Portland. Trying to celebrate the wins during dangerous times. Thanks everyone for a full house and great event
5 months ago
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Timothy Pratt
5 months ago
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 didnāt.":
@danimmergluck.bsky.social
@marisapk.bsky.social
@willpotter.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Prosecutorsā āCop Cityā 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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors
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!!! Living vicariously through my book at these Propagandhi shows
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5 months ago
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TONIGHT! What a wild week for an event like this. I donāt 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
5 months ago
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 exposƩ of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.
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⨠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. š I'll be in conversation with journalist
@abbymartin.bsky.social
. Really looking forward to this!
6 months ago
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
6 months ago
Portland!!
@willpotter.bsky.social
returns to Powell's City of Books on Friday, Sept 12, 7pm!
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
6 months ago
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
6 months ago
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
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Our Hen House
6 months ago
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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Andy Fleming
6 months ago
#STRAYA
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@willpotter.bsky.social
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
6 months ago
Listen to
@willpotter.bsky.social
on
@projectcensored.bsky.social
radio discussing his new book LITTLE RED BARNS, just published by City Lights!
www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...
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From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power
Uncover hidden truths behind factory farms and digital control in a show on industrial ag, climate, fascism, and online threats to democracy.
https://www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm-firewalls-corporate-power/
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"This is what journalism must be nowānot merely a mirror, but a moral force..."
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
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When Neutrality Is a Constraint
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitlerās rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/when-neutrality-is-a-constraint.php
7 months ago
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Thank you to
@unchainedtv.bsky.social
for the wonderful review of Little Red Barns!
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
unchainedtv.com/2025/07/30/w...
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Why Little Red Barns Is This Decade's Most Important Book - UnchainedTV
Little Red Barns exposes the truth behind factory farming, censorship, and climate collapse. A must-read for activists, media, and consumers
https://unchainedtv.com/2025/07/30/why-little-red-barns-is-this-decades-most-important-book/
7 months ago
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Had a great time talking with New Day NW on
@king5news.bsky.social
this morning about Little Red Barns! TONIGHT I'll be at Elliott Bay Bookstore at 7pm for a reading!
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
www.king5.com/video/entert...
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'Little Red Barns' takes a closer look at the state of industrial agriculture - New Day NW
Investigative Journalist Will Porter spent 10 years researching how the industrial farming industry negatively impacts local communities. #newdaynw
https://www.king5.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/little-red-barns-takes-a-closer-look-at-the-state-of-industrial-agriculture-new-day-nw/281-38437645-f68a-45c2-8688-e49d4e0298da
7 months ago
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
7 months ago
@willpotter.bsky.social
in Seattle at the amazing Elliott Bay Bookstore tomorrow eve! More info here:
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47318
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SEATTLE! Iām excited to return to the gorgeous Elliott Bay Book Company to read from Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth from farm to fable! šļø Tuesday, July 29th at 7pm. Please spread the word and bring a friend! See you there.
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47318...
7 months ago
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Francesca Rheannon
7 months ago
I just posted your great interview on Writerās Voice and the transcript to the Writerās Voice Substack š§ Listen:
tinyurl.com/yfp79z74
#AgGagLaws
#FoodJustice
#InvestigativeJournalism
Read transcript:
writersvoice.substack.com/p/exposing-h..
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Exposing Hidden Agendas: Will Potter on Factory Farm Secrecy & Project Censored on Press Freedom Under Siege
Writerās Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform Episode Summary Today, a double episode on press freedom under siege. Investigative journalist and author Wiā¦
https://tinyurl.com/yfp79z74
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LITTLE RED BARNS in Rolling Stone today! The rise of authoritarianism we're witnessing right now is being directly shaped by corporate interests who profit from the repression. In
@rollingstone.com
, I take a look at the playbook that Big Ag helped pioneer.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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TONIGHT! With ICE raids escalating and the police state on full display, there couldnāt be a better time or place for this. Book release for LITTLE RED BARNS at Skylight Books at 7pm. See you soon LA!
www.willpotter.com/littleredbarns
8 months ago
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
8 months ago
Happy Publication Day to
@willpotter.bsky.social
! "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable," Will Potterās groundbreaking investigation, exposes the powerful forces at work to hide the harms of industrial agriculture. Proudly published by City Lights!
citylights.com/city-lights-...
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šØ LITTLE RED BARNS publication day!šØ Oof, all the feels today. I had so much anxiety leading up to this, and the reception (before it was even out!) has blown me away. Book release in LA at Skylight Books this Wednesday. LFG. šŗ Watch the trailer:
Willpotter.com/littleredbarns
8 months ago
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Lit Hub
8 months ago
@willpotter.bsky.social
examines the psychological and social impact of the over saturation of cruelty in the digital age.
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How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age
āThe violence is not new, itās the cameras that are new.ā āTa-Nehisi Coates *Ā It has been a couple decades since I saw my first video of a factory farm. Since then, Iāve seen countless more and goā¦
https://buff.ly/TS95ujs
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Jennifer Molidor
8 months ago
Look past the fantasy of cowboy cool that reassures us āfarms and feedlots are fine places.ā Lydia Milletās review of LITTLE RED BARNS:
@willpotter.bsky.social
ās deeply researched investigation into how US factory farms are steeped in cruelty, the climate crisis, extinction & secrecy.
bit.ly/4eJpP2s
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Review | This book about farms will make you rethink whatās on your plate
Will Potterās āLittle Red Barnsā is an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/05/little-red-barns-factory-farming-abuses-will-potter-review/
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Writing āLittle Red Barnsāāa book about fascism and factory farmsāhas been a long journey, and an isolated one. Coming out the other side to have authors I admire engaging with this story means the world to me. Thank you Lydia Millet &
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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You donāt need grad school to write your book. But if you can swing it (I went nights while working) itās a rare way to go deep into the craft. And I still conspire with our crew from 15+ years agoāOliver Uberti from grad school designed the cover of Little Red Barns!
willpotter.com/littleredbarns
8 months ago
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Andrea - Narrative Sovereignty
8 months ago
So proud of @will_potter! Witnessing the depth of his commitment to truth-telling in our residency left a mark-as did my own "illegal" visit to a factory farm yrs ago. His work is powerful, necessary journalism. Iāve ordered my copy & can't wait to dig in. I hope you get yours too!
#meatthevictims
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Investigative journalism doesn't often make the beach read lists, so really appreciate this. Thanks
@altajournal.bsky.social
"Little Red Barns affirms the important role of investigative journalism in our society."
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Pretty cool to have a book on factory farming and fascism at #1 on Amazon's labor and industry section. Excited for the release next week!
www.amazon.com/Little-Red-B...
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