Yo, #billionaires!

Highwaymen used to give a choice to those they held up, "Your money or your life?"

If all y'all are sooo smart, why don't you know:

- #Unions are the enlightened alternative to #violence, including violence upon #owners and their minion #bosses.

- #Taxes are the mechanism for ensuring the #distribution of the #wealth created by our #social and #economic #systems to all of the #people participating in these systems and keeping them operating.

Your #opposition and outright attacks on unions and taxes demonstrate extreme ignorance and/or self-delusion.

Violence is never the answer until it becomes the only available option.

Like they say in the game, choose wisely.

#economics #history #landlords #guillotineswork
#revolution

I have no artistic skills. Which is sad, because I have GREAT visualizations; I dream amazing things, but I can't depict them in anything other than words.

But if I •could• draw, I'd make a Mao-style poster (lots of red) portraying peasants bayonetting landlords.

#Art #Landlords

#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

Landlorditis (noun, informal):
A state of chronic psychological distress and nervous system hyperarousal, directly induced by the erratic behavior, bad-faith negotiations, or systemic breach of duties by a housing provider.

#quotes
#landlords
#NewWords

#Beirut will recover, but what urban realty is formed through repeated cycles of war, and who will inhabit it ?
Since late 2024, more than a million people in #Lebanon have been displaced. In a country of six million, this movement alters how space is inhabited and organized.
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/06/field-notes/war-and-the-production-of-space-notes-from-beirut/

#housingcrisis #landlords #Lebanon #rent #Urbanism