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Reaching Housing Stability for Youth Ending homelessness is possible and it starts with preventing youth homelessness. We can change what’s possible if we work together.

The @raikesfoundation.bsky.social continues to dare to ask the question,"Imagine a future where all young people had a safe and stable home."

If you know of a trustworthy, reliable local food bank or similar organization that could take some donations right now during the US government shut down and SNAP benefit crisis, reply to this comment with a link! We’d be happy to share it.

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Trump Aims To Infect Your Credit Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to stop states from wiping medical debt from your credit report.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will issue guidance blocking states from wiping medical debt off credit reports — siding with debt collectors over patients. The move could keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.

www.levernews.com/trump-aims-t...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

I'm loving season one of #Murderbot, and can't wait for ART next season. BFFs forever! ❤️

The media shuffles this aside because either oh it’s Trump being Trump or because they’re running cover for him. And it’s easy to dismiss as more nonsense. But suggesting members of the opposition party are clones/robots/NPCs is dangerous: it unpersons them, makes them likelier targets of violence.

Hmm, how much more do blue states put into the Federal tax coffer than red states already? I've been wondering how the red states were going to be protected from harm from all the programs being cut by this administration. By punishing blue states AND stealing/redirecting even more of their $$$ 🤔

Cartoon of 2 chocolate rabbits. One with a bite off its behind saying, "My butt hurts" and the other missing its ears saying, "What??"

4. An ivory figurine of a 'lion-man' (or ‘lion-ess-woman') from the Stadel Cave in Germany (c.32,000 years ago). The body is human, but the head is leonine. This is one of the first indis-putable examples of art, and probably of religion, and of the ability of the human mind to imagine things that do not really exist.

4. An ivory figurine of a 'lion-man' (or ‘lion-ess-woman') from the Stadel Cave in Germany (c.32,000 years ago). The body is human, but the head is leonine. This is one of the first indis-putable examples of art, and probably of religion, and of the ability of the human mind to imagine things that do not really exist.

Happy #Caturday!

Text from Yuval Noah Harari's book, "Sapiens."

Photo by Thomas Stephan

Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe.

My latest piece @thenation.com is how perilous it is for us Jews to swallow the lie that a criminal regime of antisemites is really “fighting antisemitism”. The reality? Trump has ordered a hit on Judaism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins. A little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on US democracy.

A little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on US democracy.

This brain-dead take is becoming the conventional wisdom on the struggles of young men but it's false. From homelessness to suicide prevention to opioid regulations to higher minimum wages, Democrats' platform and rhetoric are *far* better for men than anything coming from the right.

this argument about left scolding sounds initially plausible but does not survive contact with hearing how these manosphere people talk to young men

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A drawing of two cats tucked in bed with their eyes wide open as 13 owls, perched all around the bed, stare at them.

Happy #Caturday!

Luis Wain "Cat's Nightmare" 1904

As The Fog Begins To Lift An Epiphany On MAGA Christianity

"How is it that the same evangelical Christians who insisted on the highest standards of personal morality, who were deeply committed to the Constitution..who resisted leaders of authoritarian regimes do a complete about-face & support a president...who represented the opposite of all those things?"

Chairman Musk and his young acolytes bring a Mao-like cultural revolution to Washington What is happening now is best understood as an outburst of homegrown Maoism in America.

even when it's nazis doing nazism, the press has to call them communists

As someone who has been working with and advocating for runaway and homeless youth for almost 30 years, I can tell you that this hurts children.

Picture of a meme with LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The top half of the image is him with a hand up in a "slow down" kind of manner, captioned with "do not comply in advance." A short list includes reasons not to use that phrase, including "it's bossy, it's already a cliche, and it implies permission to comply later." Then in the bottom half of the image, his "glasses" are flaring red and he's giving the go-ahead. This image is captioned with: "Fuck you, make me," with another short list, this one of reasons to use that phrase. The list includes: "leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, and easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner."

FUCK YOU, MAKE ME

Photo of flags and anti-deportation signs waving with blue police light reflecting, with words 'Abolish ICE' in large white print and "Large march against deportations sweeps downtown" in smaller print

On Feb. 3 a large anti-deportation protest swept through downtown Asheville. Over 300 people took the center of town while a major police response failed to intimidate them.

More on this, and how it signals the depth of local opposition to escalating fascism: ashevilleblade.com?p=5269 #avlnews

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.

California Just Debunked a Big Myth About Renewable Energy

Myth: Renewable energy isn’t reliable.
Reality: California just debunked that.

Here's a thread based off of this @gristnews.bsky.social article: grist.org/energy/calif...

#CA #California #Renewables #Energy

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Opening crawl of the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace which says "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."

'The taxation of trade routes' and the like doesn't seem so funny now, does it?

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Musk isn’t just the wolf who has been given the sheep. He’s been given the location of the sheep, their farms, their shepherds. He’s been given maps to get to his prey and the keys to the gates that keep them safe. Musk, unelected, now has his hands directly on the levers of power, illegally.

A screen grab of a quote tweet from Tom Zohar responding to a tweet that asks, "How did we go from Brat Summer to Hitler Winter" with a pic of Liza Minelli from the film Cabaret with a blank speech bubble.

My aplogies, @tomzohar.bsky.social, if I've broken a sacred seal by cross-posting something you haven't shared here yet. But, it is just too good. 🤣

This is the Second Amendment moment that gun nuts have been fantasizing about for decades. But because it's their guy committing the tyranny, ain't nobody talking about the Second Amendment now.