An allegory for health care in the United States: Just now—at a press conference in the Oval Office—a Big Pharma exec collapsed. President Trump, clearly unbothered and annoyed, did nothing. Some White House officials left the room entirely. They don't care about you at all.

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

Do you have student loan debt? Have you recently received a “Welcome to Default” letter about your student loans (yes, they’re called that)? Send it to us. We want to help. You have options they aren’t telling you about.

Mamdani pulled together a diverse coalition of voters on a political message of economic populism and affordability. But it's not just Albany who may stand in Zohran's way—it's also Wall Street. Some thoughts on Wall Street's grip on municipal finance. www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

Huge win.

Need a lot more of this. Especially in areas where privatised essential services (energy, water, etc..) are ripping people off. Just stop paying until they are brought into public ownership and profit motive is removed.

It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.

TOMORROW "First of three sessions on autoreduction or the tactic of collectively setting prices as a means of fighting back against a hostile capitalist system." @debtcollective.bsky.social

Americans are falling behind on their bills at rates not seen in years. Credit card debt quietly crossed the $1 trillion mark in 2023. Buy Now Pay Later services are a rising threat. Nearly 1-in-5 Americans are in crushing medical debt. This is an economic crisis. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

You’ve probably seen headlines that read “Trump administers student loan relief” That’s not exactly true — he’s just following mandated law, and is only doing so because he was embarrassed in court. Here’s an explanation:

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Have you ever gone to pay your rent and there's a $3 fee on top of rent? Or maybe it costs $10 to pay with a credit card? Yeah. So that convenience/junk fee is actually illegal in several states. Landlords do this all the time — but it's often illegal and makes the lease void.

Most people are just one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. That's not a secure economy. Everyone is living on the edge, underpaid by their bosses and overpaying their creditors.

The Virgil Square Tenants Association in Koreatown is 5 months into a RUBS utilities strike against their landlord Equity Residential. @debtcollective.bsky.social shelterforce.org/2025/10/10/l...

Join us for this @debtcollective.bsky.social Jubilee School session on Oct. 21. Ill be talking about military labor and debt (even as footage of military workers in food pantry lines is all over the news) debtcollective.org/event/is-a-d...

We're on month 5 of a utility-strike in Los Angeles. Tenants are fed up with a bogus utility system — ratio utility billing system (RUBS) — in their building owned by corporate landlord Equity Residential. So they're withholding payments—and making wins. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord Remember Debt Collective, the group that helped start the student debtors movement? They've announced the "EQR Nine," who are refusing to pay back rent to the nation's fifth largest landlord. truthout.org/articles/ten...

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...

Please sell us the debt we promise to do the right thing [cancel it]

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.” We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A group of former tenants has organized the first rent debt strike in U.S. history. They are refusing to pay back unjust debts to Equity Residential, a corporate landlord accused of widespread misconduct. I wrote about their campaign for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

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🔥Tenants are striking—not against rent, but against rent debt. Former residents of corporate giant Equity Residential say bogus fees + predatory practices left them owing thousands they don’t actually owe.

Organized with support from the @debtcollective.bsky.social, former tenants of Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust that owns more than 80,000 apartments nationwide, are refusing to pay rent debt they say stems from predatory practices. inthesetimes.com/article/tena...

If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process. We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.

Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike. They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.

Today, we're launching the first ever rental debt strike in U.S. history against Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the nation. 9 brave folks —the EQR 9— will collectively refuse to pay their rental debt. Equity Residential (EQR) has an annual income of ~$2 billion.

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

Tomorrow activists are launching a novel rent debt strike against one of the largest corporate landlords in the country. I report on their strategy and national goals

Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.

New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space. We're organizing a debt-strike. Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord. And we're going to win.

"Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from families if one household member is in the country illegally." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Next Wednesday, we're announcing something we think could really shift the landscape for tenant protections. Join us — and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib — as we roll out a new legal-tech tool and novel strike. RSVP: BIT.LY/DEBTSTRIKE2025

On Oct 1, @debtcollective.bsky.social is taking on one of the country's biggest landlords by launching: ⚡ Debt Strike: Brave individuals who owe back-rent will collectively refuse to pay. ⚡ A new tool for renters to fight debt + junk fees Debtors are organizing. RSVP: bit.ly/DebtStrike2025

Speculative real estate investment is one of the main ways billionaires get richer. It's important to understand that housing — and from the working class' perspective, paying rising rent — is very much essential how the rich are making money off of the 99%.

Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords. We've had enough. Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better. debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

If Democrats want to take economic populism seriously, they would be talking about broad-scale medical debt relief, wide-spread student debt relief, and rent-control + tenant protections. People's largest bill every month is usually rent. If not rent, probably a debt payment.

Wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few is incompatible with democracy. It is good for democracy if we take the masses amounts of wealth that billionaires have and redistribute it among the masses of people — people who are trying to feed, house and clothe their families.

There is a lot happening today — from free speech censorship to racist violence to deportations. To defeat fascism, we will need all hands on deck. Google "general strike 2028" and start reading. Share it with your friends. Share it with your coworkers.

Proud to be a debt collective supporter ✊🏽

We launched the first student debt strike in U.S. history 10 years ago. Now, we're launching another bold, historic action uniting tenants and evicted debtors for the first time ever. Join us on October 1 to hear about it first: debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords! @debtcollective.bsky.social @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...

This is ridiculous. DEI for conservatives already exists — it’s called the status quo. The default in this country — the hegemonic order — is built on conservatism.

Completely misleading headline from NYT. Trump is cutting $350M in (1) federal grants at minority-serving institutions + minority students in STEM programs + schools w/ large Latino population + gifted and talented programs that combat segregation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

The far-right doesn’t take free speech seriously today because sure it never took free speech seriously. That’s why they hate college campuses — when people are presented with opportunities to critically think, they tend to oppose false, bigoted narratives like white supremacy.

I couldn't figure out a way of not looking yellow/gold. I tried every lamp in the house. Nothing worked. Anyway, here's a recording of the Back to School Finance workshop I did with @debtcollective.bsky.social. We're going to do more soon! Watch this space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEV7...

You cannot become a billionaire through hard work. You become a billionaire through others’ hard work.

Thank you to Straight Arrow News for covering my student debt repayment journey alongside reps from @debtcollective.bsky.social, the nation’s largest debtor’s union and how even those who are trying to pay their loans back are being blocked from paying. Link: san.com/cc/student-l...