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Carol Ott 🏚️

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@CarolSOtt on Instagram. Tenant Advocacy Director. I season my food! Also cats, anti-racism, family. These are my tweets, not my employer's. Work: http://econaction.org -- use our Tenant Advocacy Intake Form if you have any landlord-tenant issues!

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2h

That's a really good deal! Let me know how it works out after a few weeks/months with speeds and availability!

Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2h

Oh it's a 30-day pass and you have to log into one of their hotspots.

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2h

Now let's do this in Maryland. RUBS fees are out of control, and there's zero accountability. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

LA Tenants’ Strikes Forced a Major Landlord to Refund Opaque Utility Fees. Their Fight Isn’t Over.

Ratio utility billing systems can allow landlords to quietly shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s time to break open the black box.

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2h

Wait, what? I pay $100 a month!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6h

After the Missouri GOP passed a new gerrymander at the expense of Black voters, over 2,400 Missourians gathered together to collect 106,000 signatures to veto the measure. However, the state is doing everything in its power to stop them.
https://bit.ly/47fy2rH

Missouri Secretary of State Erects New Hurdle for ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander

Read more here.

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 22h

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 6h

If you're a furloughed federal employee and you live in Maryland, please go here for information about assistance: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...

Utility Bill Information for Furloughed Federal Employees | Economic Action MD Fund

Because the federal shutdown has lasted longer than 7 days, protections for certain residential utility customers are now in effect.

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 7h

So who was paying this guy to forge the lead certificates? Why aren't they going on trial, too? www.wmar2news.com/local/maryla...

Maryland inspector pleads guilty to falsifying lead paint certificates

Rodney Bryan Barkley, the owner of Green Environmental, LLC, was found to be using a radiation machine without proper licensing.

www.wmar2news.com

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no! I’m glad you’re okay! You got the scar by fighting dragons. That’s the story and we’re sticking to it.

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 9h

What happened?

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 9h

Happy Thursday!

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

Idaho CEO found in Baltimore hotel died from methamphetamine, medical examiner says

Idaho CEO found in Baltimore hotel died of methamphetamine intoxication

The Idaho medical center CEO found dead in a Baltimore hotel over the summer died of methamphetamine intoxication, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

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Hugh Bailey @hughsbailey.bsky.social · 1d

Even places well over the 10 percent threshold constantly take anti-housing stances.

"Why can't we build all the housing in cities?"

Ansonia mayor pushing to keep housing, burning company out of Copper & Brass site www.nhregister.com/news/article...

Ansonia mayor pushing to keep housing, burning company out of Copper & Brass site

Mayor David Cassetti will be presenting a resolution creating a deed restriction preventing residential housing and any burning or combustion-based facility.

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 1d

A late start today! Happy Wednesday!

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2d

One is good and the other can go straight to hell.

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 2d

David Rubenstein is interviewing Gov. Wes Moore at #ImpactMaryland today.

“I do not have a personal beef with the president. But if you’re coming for our people, then I am going to have something to say about it.”

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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know why, but I had a great experience. The mood swings were a little beastly, but otherwise no real ill effects. And I feel so much stronger now, if that makes any sense.