Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
We have known this for decades - it’s much cheaper to house the homeless than to have them living on the streets. Conservatives claim to be about fiscal responsibility - but they’re just caught up in hard right cultural nonsense
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Today marks the anniversary of the Selma march that helped deliver the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court decision that upheld the law. Sixty years later, the Court has largely reversed this civil rights victory.
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@frozen-cranberry.bsky.social Just hoping you know about (and might spread the word?) that I'll be at Seminary Coop next Saturday at 3, in conversation with Steve Garnett. Hoping for a crowd of people who care about justice!
A reminder for the people who slept through their humanities classes: a representation of a thing is not the thing itself. The Mona Lisa isn’t human, Juliette had nothing to do with photosynthesis, and your mechanical Turk ain’t conscious. This isn’t a conversation worth entertaining.
The cats have been hitting the litterbox hard today. Donate at least $5 to my fundraiser for EveryLibrary to make sure they’re peeing with purpose. Thanks!
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
This is going to result in so many deaths. It's horrific. I'm sure that is this admin's plan, too.
Cuban doctors and other medical professionals have brought high-quality care to the region for years, most recently during Hurricane Melissa. Caribbean and S. American nations are turning their backs on Cuba due to US pressures - the same US that will exploit the dis-ease of those very nations.
It's covid all over again
every last one of these people need to be tried and jailed as the goons and criminals they are. No exceptions.
And there appears to be a history of disappearing people into Dodge County: bsky.app/profile/unra...
The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.
Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.
"bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide." apnews.com/article/suic...
Yeah if someone thinks it's not okay to work at Lockheed Martin but wants to vote for Oysters McTotenkopf then I feel like I know a lot about them.
I think if you’re OK with Graham Platner working for Blackwater, you have officially lost the moral high ground required to yell at anyone else for working for a military contractor or being in the military ever again
Like sorry you gotta choose!
This is genuinely terrifying. What are they doing to this woman??
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Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi's sister said that earlier this evening, her phone had been pinging from the Broadview, IL ICE detention center.
I just spoke with an officer at the Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin who said he didn't have a record of a Sundas Naqvi being checked in tonight.
damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte
We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.
Border Patrol is detaining another US citizen and lying about it.
She’s part of a group of citizens and green card holders who have been disappeared after their travel plans were disrupted.
Timeless skeet from the man who brought you the truck full of rice.
More on this:
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Text from Sunny "I think I'm in ICE detention!"
Screencap of Sunny's phone pinging at Broadview
UPDATE: An attorney I am in contact with, asked for her cell phone number to share with someone with the US Attorney General‘s office to try to find the phone in the facility, conveniently enough shortly after her phone unlocks she sends out this text message 1/3
Idk whether it's the first or the second with these losers.
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And they've either lost one of these people or stuffed her somewhere and are lying about it.
Update from Broadview where Morrison told me CBP told Raja Krishnamoorthi and him that she was released last night
But Morrison said CBP now says she was never detained despite her phone pinning at Broadview as of around 9pm
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
This is horrifying
