Apr 3, 2024
The politically connected San Francisco Tenants Union, which has helped shape the city's housing policy for years, links to a list of properties where people can squat
Through a closely associated organization (with whom it shares a website) the union offers a how-to guide for 'stealing' other people's homes
The associated organization in question, Homes Not Jails, recruits homeless people to do organized takeovers of vacant buildings, sometimes permanently
“There are two basic problems squatters have in gaining tenants’ rights:
the union who sponsored the proposal is trying to scale. the academics who wrote and influenced it are trying to counter billionaires' control over 'prevailing ideology'
drones, prediction markets, and starlink terminals are redefining war, right now, in ukraine. if america wants to win the battles of the future, we have to go there and see it for ourselves.
mehdi hasan claims 'muslims built america' and frames the transatlantic slave trade as uniquely bad, ignoring the fact that arab slaveholders have existed for millennia and still do