When Sleeping Is a Crime
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.
A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:
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anyone, eg federal employees, wanting to contact me securely can hit me up on Signal: ryanlcooper.71
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Trump Deploys Troops To D.C. To Distract From The Epstein Files
- the only headline you need today
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Live updates: Trump announces federal takeover of D.C. police, deploys National Guard to fight crime
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term and the Republican-led Congress.
Responding to President Trump’s plan to put District police under federal control, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb called the move “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.”
“There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” Schwalb said.
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DC is one of the safest cities in America. These guys are both liars and giant fucking babies.
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Key quote. We are well down a slippery slope...
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captive dreamer
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Asked if it's time to recognize a Palestinian state, Pete Buttigieg replies: " I think that that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Israel's right to survival in the diplomatic scene."
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Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
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Look if your choices are "Free Palestine" and "supporting a genocide in which journalists and children are mass murdered and hospitals and aid workers are carpetbombed" I'm pretty sure "Free Palestine" is the better, more moral, and less deadly option
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The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations
U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical…
During several speeches before the U.N., U.S. delegates have denounced so-called “gender ideology” or pushed for language that “recognizes women are biologically female and men are biologically male," which leaves no room for the existence of intersex, transgender and nonbinary people.
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And the BBC has their blood on its hands
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This is bad
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An old picture from the 1930s with a caption that says -
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
This is awesome 😎
Read the caption! 🤣
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This is an indictment of …everyone.
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"Prominent Democrats"
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McDonald’s Can’t Even Sell Breakfast (Something’s VERY Wrong)
Americans can't afford hashbrowns.
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Democrats with an eye on 2028 reject some parts of liberal orthodoxy
Some presidential prospects have embraced “Sister Souljah moments” that demonstrate their independence from left-wing orthodoxy.
The path back to power for Democrats is to go harder against the most powerful people in the country—not the least powerful people in the country.
The answer isn’t to move right, but to show the people on the bottom they’re willing to fight against the people at the top.
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Never forget or forgive the pundits, academics, journalists, politicians, lawmakers, think tanks, media outlets, doctors, lawyers, corporations for promoting, selling, lying for & covering up today’s holocaust in Palestine. Imperial boomerang means what’s happening over there will happen over here.
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I do not value the life of a journalist over any other person but when they are assassinated singularly, or as in Gaza, en masse, it symbolizes something different:
Look at what we can get away with lol.
And what are you going to do about it?
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After murdering Anas al-Sharif and 4 other Al Jazeera journalists in a strike on their tent, Israel claimed Gaza’s most prominent journalist of the past 22 months was moonlighting as a Hamas fighter. Analyst Muhammad Shehada shows exactly how much to value Israeli claims.
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#ImmigrantsAreNotTheEnemy
#OligarchsAreTheEnemy
Act accordingly.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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Who could have possibly predicted this? 🧐🤨
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how about you just be a decent fucking person and pay back into a system you exploited without begging for cookies on social in a country where the affluent extraction class already pays disastrously low taxes
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corp taxes are already at zero what the fuck are you talking about
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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