Kathryn Sabbeth

It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that.

A scientific paper already has a carefully thought out abstract & conclusions I can look at if I want an overview. A book is supposed to be a joy to read, an intellectual and emotional experience to relish. This is not something that advanced statistics can either add to or improve on.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

BREAKING: Louisiana Gov. Landry has signed one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country into law. HB211 will make it a crime to sleep outside, punishing homeless people with extreme fines and jail, while also setting the stage for forced treatment and even forced labor. buff.ly/f1BBIIZ

The Jersey Bee updated our style guide this week to include the term “concentration camp,” using it to describe Delaney Hall, an ICE facility in Newark where nearly 300 detainees are alleging inhumane conditions and violations of their legal rights. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

Agreed! And civil rights firms need contingency fees today in part bc defense lawyers & Scotus have worked to undermine fee shifting statutes.

NYC landlords to pay $31M penalty over Bronx building conditions, Mamdani says gothamist.com/news/nyc-lan...

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

This @galvinalmanza.bsky.social piece is brilliant. While highlighting criminal justice implications, it reminds me of @hoffprof.bsky.social 's work on the link between transportation and eviction.

There are a lot of good lists out there. This is from someone who I trust to know who is who on the ground and how to best get resources where they need to go.

Renee Good’s wife Becca: “We had whistles. They had guns… the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.” Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, y’all.

"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen." —Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.

Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.

Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.

Props to @haelinchoi.bsky.social and the team from @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social and the 1000+ people (incl. Rosa & me) who turned out yesterday for training/organizing events in Brooklyn & the Bronx to protect our neighbors and get Trump’s ICE out of NYC.

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

1/ Housing problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations don't only affect your health. These issues also make the housing crisis worse. We're putting housing quality under the lens in our new series, Fit to Live in: Fixing Our Housing Stock. bit.ly/UTLhabitabil... 🧵

So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. A new short film follows three women as they navigate the subsequent months of uncertainty and upheaval. Watch here. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eD_3OU

I'm so proud of my people today. ICE tried to pull a quick early morning in-&-out raid in a quiet industrial part of Saint Paul. Instead they were met by hundreds of protesters, including the mayor and the local council member, whistles shrieking, braving the tear gas, forcing ICE to leave early.

Well, that was something. Showed up for deportation defense training in Borough Park, trainers arrived, said there was “evolving situation” in Bensonhurst, were we up for heading there, we said Hell yeah, went and met folks on the ground, ICE ended up driving out of the hood with no one detained 🔥✊

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

“On Saturday, community groups passed out another 10,000 whistles as part of a day of action put on by Hands Off NYC, a coalition that includes dozens of unions, community groups, churches and political groups, hosting a day of action and events across the city.” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Huge congrats @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on getting the platform to share the insights of workers pushed into homelessness. I'm already planning to show a recording to my students!

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

More than 5,000 rent-stabilized units connected to the Pinnacle Group are going up for auction in 2026. Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable. Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw #HousingJustice #RentStrike

“There’s also so many tragic stories of people’s breadwinning family members who have been abducted. They don’t deserve to be evicted right now; it is unsafe for them. They deserve to stay in their homes.” chicagoreader.com/news/ice-eviction-moratorium-pritzker-johnson/

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to permit the government to starve Americans.

“I don’t know what else we have to do. I’ve complained. I called the cops. I called them to do the repairs, many of which I’ve done on my own, with my own money.” Via: @nextcity.org & @shelterforce.bsky.social nextcity.org/urbanist-new... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

ICE raids day care and arrests teacher with citizenship papers; Alderperson Andre Vasquez says city can't wait for elections to fix Trump-era chaos, urges Chicagoans to act Nov 5, 2025 Chicago, IL

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

By the way, in the footage after Sandwich Guy said he was trying to draw the officers away from where they were, he declared, “I succeeded.”

This thread about the sandwich guy trial is amazing.

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

Fascinating to watch MSM frame Mamdani’s win as some random event by repeatedly saying that NYC is not like most of America. Like…of course not, it’s one of our biggest, most populous cultural and economic centers. That’s why we are all watching.

Zohran opens his victory speech: "As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." Unapologetic. Unafraid.

Huge win.