#ChrisHedges | Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report

"[M]y campaign is fighting to end all military aid to the Israeli state, to end weapons and #tech for #genocide and imperialist war. We’re fighting to stop the #AI data center and mass layoff juggernaut. We are also fighting to shut down #ICE and the #DetentionCenters, to win #FreeHealthCare for all funded by taxing the rich, to win national #RentControl and a massive expansion of #AffordableHousing, also funded by taxing the rich, and for a $25 an hour national #MinimumWage."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fighting-the-corporate-duopoly-at

#TaxTheRich #KshamaSawant #Palestine #DataCenters

Can't have nice things, chapter 2,386...

#Massachusetts #SJC blocks #rentcontrol question from ballot
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/23/sjc-blocks-rent-control-question-from-ballot/

Just got a text survey about housing issues in my state, particularly the ballot question which would remove the ban on rent control that was passed about 30 years ago (although the survey never mentioned that fact).

I am probably not a good person to survey, because I am far more radical than any person they consider as a possible respondent. Specifically, I would like to see every landlord CENSORED in the CENSORED, then forced to CENSORED their own CENSORED. Followed up with a final close-up and personal experience with a good old-fashioned CENSORED, after which their CENSOREDs would be flung into a mass CENSORED.

Too extreme?

#survey #landlords #Massachusetts #rentcontrol

@toolie.rr, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

I was today years old when I found out Georgia doesn’t have rent control.

@lollipop_bridges_mrshmllw_sky replied:

It's not just the corporate landlords.

#georgia #rentcontrol #minimumwage #blackwomen #92percent #blackmastodon

The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]

https://www.rhawa.org/file/secure/shs-the-impact-of-rent-control-in-st-paul.pdf

#HackerNews #RedistributionHousing #Wealth #RentControl #StPaul #HousingPolicy

#Maine Court Slams #Landlords, Confirms #RentControlLaws Initiated by #MaineDSA

Posted by Ethan Strimling | Apr 10, 2026

"On March 18, a Maine Superior Court judge summarily rejected the latest attempt by landlords to gut Portland’s rent control law and stifle the power of tenant unions. In fact, in her sweeping decision, Justice Darcie McElwee solidified rent control’s power to keep rents affordable in Maine’s largest city in a way many of us have been fighting for since it was enacted.

This is a big moment, and Portland administrators, as well as those looking to confront the housing affordability crisis across the state (I’m looking at you, candidates for governor), should take notice."

https://pineandroses.org/opinion/maine-court-slams-landlords-confirms-rent-control-laws-initiated-by-maine-dsa/

#DSA #MaineDSA #MainePol #USPol #RentControl #PortlandME

May 30 - #DougFord Protests in #Ontario

Just some issues:
Cuts to OSAP for further #education
Losening Environmental protections
Public #Healthcare underfunding in favour of the private sector
Protecting his governments' actions from The Freedom of Information Act
Ending of #RentControl, abandoning #tenants
#SpeedCamera removal, risking community & school zones.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.

https://protestdougford.com/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@TenantsUnionTO/116519818854191380

We’d more than a full house yesterday for our second orientation, if you couldn’t make it for any reason please don’t worry you can still join as a member here: https://www.tenantunion.ca/membership 😈

#ONPoli #TOPoli #Bill60 #RentControl #Landlord #Tenant #Scarborough #Etobicoke #Weston #York #EastYork #NorthYork #Toronto #TenantUnion #TenantPower #StrongerTogether #TenantRights #HousingIsAHumanRight #TorontoTenantUnion #TTU