@daeshikjr holy fuck! as a pedestrian it feels like the close calls never stop, I'm sorry this happened to you and i'm glad you came away relatively unscathed.
Denver gave homeless people $1,000 a month, no strings attached. A year later:
*45% secured housing
*Taxpayers saved $590k because of fewer visits to the hospital, jail and shelters
*People used the money on groceries, rent, hygiene, clothes and transportation
*Mental health improved and they could spend more time with their kids and grandkids
Amazing what happens when you give people a chance
given the state of trans rights and the labor party in the UK i do not expect a biden victory to usher in any safeguards for LGBT+ people the way liberals would have me believe.
A person in my outer social circle died of Covid last week. 53 years old, just one of hundreds who died in America. It’s summer in the US. Plz eat & gather outside when you can, mask indoors & fight for clean indoor air & universal mask precautions in healthcare settings.
Almost impossible to find trash and recycle bins in the middle of downtowns. Zero public bathrooms to use. But we are still blaming the unhoused for “trashing our cities”
Crazy KUOW piece! The owner of University Village *texted* Mayor Bruce Harrell directly about the Denny Blaine nude beach—and how he wanted it closed. Then, Parks and Rec came up with the idea of making a playground for kids seemingly as a way to deter the nude beach
Anytime there’s a mass-scale protests, people get arrested who aren’t familiar with the carceral system.
Inevitably, it leads to outrage over certain police actions or jail conditions, as if the protestors are being targeted for abuse.
The truth is so much worse. It’s mundane.
MIT students have been barricaded, put behind a literal wall, denied entry/exit to camp, had power and supplies cut off, and now looted by the pro-Israel folks.
As drones fly overhead and a huge # of cops encircle them.
A little too on the nose?
Remember these moments when the cops do their annual budget cry for more money and capital-D dems gladly hand them more blank checks for “public safety” as your neighbors starve and your libraries close.
In 2020, a Native mom learned that her teen son died in a police chase. But when she went to the station to ask what happened, there was no one there...the entire police force had DISBANDED, without explanation. For two years I've been investigating 1/x https://t.co/ehDp7jIjpB
lmao why the fuck is my first tweet back on here in weeks about this stupid #oneseattle plan. the amount of contempt the mayor and the chucklefucks who voted for him have for all of us is insulting.