I think that it's really important to name how terrifying it is to like exist in a housing system where your entire access to a basic human need is controlled by someone else who doesn't see you as a human being with human needs who sees you as a check at the same time I think it's really important to like

cultivate the defiance that everyone feels right like everyone knows that in the first of the month that something is fucking rotten Hey everybody welcome to the Bituation Room

podcast live show stream thing situation.

I'm your host Francesca Fiorentini so glad you decided to stop by decided to press play decided of your

and and decided to press play, decided to catch you up on your favorite podcast, slash show, slash situation ever. We have the most jam-packed show. We're talking about rent. What if we

abolished it? Yay, problem solved.

So we're going to get into a little bit of that with Tracy Rosenthal who wrote a book that is

out now called Abolish Rent rent we're thinking radically people enough of this reformist

beating you know sort of nibbling around the edges of progress let's go for the full thing, we know what we want, and if you don't agree, you might

by the end of the show.

So hold that thought, hold that wine, and if you do agree obviously, you know because landlords are the worst.

We also have comedian David Nguyen excited to have him, I think for the very first time on the

bituation room a friend from the Bay Area wonderful comedian we're going to be

digging into not fun stuff like Israel once again continuing to do genocide and that is

and there's more details in fact there might be

the United States might be threatening a weapons embargo what

we'll get into that in a little bit we're also going to talk about a new a case out of Georgia

basically a ruling which says that no you have to certify the election.

When people vote, part of the whole process of democracy or whatever,

is it election officials in each county have to say,

yep, we counted them, it it's all good we have confirmed them so we'll get

into that and we'll get into sort of the war of words on Republicans and

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