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Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

Just a few days ago, the UN warned that 24 million people in Sudan are suffering from acute hunger, 630,000 are on the verge of famine.

Yet not a single major outlet or activist has spoken up.

Ask yourself why.

Since so many organizations are dancing around it, I wanted to say it directly.

Today, we celebrate Jackie Robinson because he broke a decades long color barrier. Thanks to his perseverance, and talent on the field, the door was opened for POC to play in MLB. 👏

Praise the sun!

Same here. Growing up autistic, inhuman yet hearbreakingly human characters like Data from Star Trek were something I held dear because they were created to validate others like me. The bullshit AI we have in meatspace wants to do the opposite and deny humans of their humanity.

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

This is an interesting marketing strategy for LibreOffice.

I used to really connect with AI characters in scifi, like Data, since they thought and saw the world differently, like I did, but holy shit as time goes on I really think the Butlerian Jihad was right.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card

Sec. 8. Directives to the Department of Justice. The Attorney General shall: (a) review Department of Justice enforcement of section 116 of title 18, United States Code, and prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation; (b) convene States' Attorneys General and other law enforcement officers to coordinate the enforcement of laws against female genital mutilation across all American States and Territories; (c) prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud, and violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation; (d) in consultation with the Congress, work to draft, propose, and promote legislation to enact a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, which should include a lengthy statute of limitations; and (e) prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end child-abusive practices by so-called sanctuary States that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children, including by considering the application of the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act and recognized constitutional rights.

Trump just signed an executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide (under 19). Specifically directs the DOJ to investigate providers under criminal and federal consumer protection laws. drive.google.com/file/d/1oTIm...

YouTube thumbnail featuring a syringe propped up between two vials of medication. Text reading "THIS VIDEO IS LEGAL (for now)". The backdrop is a trans flag.

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo

youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

Well, day one. Take care of each other, everyone. All we can do for now is build community and solidarity and keep aware of what's going on. Correct disinformation when you hear it, look out for those being targeted, and please mask.

How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK's Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights On this Martin Luther King Day, Autostraddle remembers the activist legacy of Coretta Scott King and her fight for gay rights.

On this day, let’s also remember the work and legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King: www.autostraddle.com/how-coretta-... #MLKDay

Via @maketheroadny.bsky.social: If ICE shows up, know your rights.

“ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.”

maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/

“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.

…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

I’m somewhat optimistic. Vine could do amazing things with 6 seconds. We’ve got ten times that.

Eaton Fire Devastates Historic Altadena, Displacing Black Families and Destroying Legacies While celebrity losses grab headlines, the Eaton Fire has destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in Altadena, displacing Black families who’ve shaped the community for generations. Here's a brief history o...

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

meet the California couple who uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined how megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion dollar empire

very simply, it's them or us

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Why can’t these “replace the gut biome” people ever just eat yogurt?

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Briana Boston said "delay defend depose" to an insurance corp. She owns 0 guns—but was arrested, charged w/terrorism, & given $100K bond

Brad Spafford called to assassinate Kamala. He has multiple illegal guns, 150 bombs, & lied to FBI—but NOT charged w/terrorism, & given $25K bond

Beyond Absurd.

F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.

The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

Your mental Thundercats are on the move. Your mental Thundercats are loose.

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

90s space art was something else. Though to truly appreciate it at its finest, one must see it printed upon a school homework folder.