jon

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 47103    🔁 8192    💬 252    📌 220

You have to get out of your head. Stop "thinking about" doing things and just do them. You have to ACT. The End.

19.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 197    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 0

Abolish ICE! Solidarity with all those resisting fascism.

10.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 680    🔁 123    💬 7    📌 4

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

06.05.2025 14:50 — 👍 6950    🔁 1605    💬 96    📌 54

Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia You can’t fight fascism with cozy memories.

This is excellent. Progressive values and neoliberal policies are incommensurable, and people both know it and are rejecting it. Doubling down on a polite, white, nostalgic repackaging of neoliberalism as "safe" and "comfortable" is delaying far right encroachment. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

25.03.2025 16:02 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

01.02.2025 17:15 — 👍 17846    🔁 2998    💬 182    📌 54

Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments.

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

29.12.2024 20:29 — 👍 1866    🔁 1011    💬 36    📌 90

People like Musk love linking homelessness to addiction and mental illness because it allows them to divert attention from the true causes of this worsening crisis—soaring rents, poverty wages, a lack of tenant rights—while shifting blame onto individuals instead of the systems that brutalize them.

11.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 291    🔁 71    💬 8    📌 1

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

The whole article is worth a read - equal parts keenly observant and deeply heartbreaking

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

26.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The quote reads: "The definition of homeless is we have no home, no place to go. If “I think, therefore I am” is true, we are people who are. We are, and we stand on this ground. If you deny us ground, you are denying us our “I am.” Isn’t that negation of our existence? We are here and we are you and we are yours. Many of you could be where we are—on the street—but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate. This is part of your rejection, this fear that it could be you. You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us. And the moneyed reject us because they know they create us, that we are a consequence of their impulse to accumulate more than they need, rooted in a fear of life and the death that comes with it."

Found this quote from Patrick Fealey's writing on experiencing homeless in America particularly moving:

26.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BREAKING: A coalition of 41 Councillors from across Ontario stand united against the use of the notwithstanding clause to clear encampments. Urban, suburban, and rural, these Councillors stand for evidence-based solutions to homelessness and the protection of the Charter. Read their letter👇

18.11.2024 15:53 — 👍 96    🔁 25    💬 5    📌 14