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The housing shortage isn’t just about homelessness.

It’s also the young person who can’t afford to move out. It’s the couple who can’t get a place big enough to have children. It’s the people stuck with roommates (or even in abusive relationships) because they can’t get a place of their own.

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

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Illustration of the American flag composed of barbed wire stripes and a chain link canton representing the grid of stars to suggest the conditions facing immigrants today.

A depressingly relevant rendering of the flag on this 249th celebration of American Independence.

Illustrator: Aïda Amer.

Reposting this one for the Fourth.

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Disgusting excuse for a human being.

i don’t care about trump trolling musk. i care about him attending the grand opening of a concentration camp.

if watching children pulled from under the rubble doesn’t move you, ask what part of you had to die to look away.

Louder for the people in the back!

Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans-even people on private insurance. 1) Medicaid cuts cause millions to lose health care 2) People without coverage can't pay for the care they need 3) Rural hospitals lose significant revenue 4) Health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close 5) Entire communities lose health care services

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it. -- Banksy

U.S. Recycling Industry Is Struggling To Figure Out A Future Without China China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed — it can't keep up with the plastic being churned out. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

I imagine that having places like the US and Australia and other ship their trash to China until as recently as 2018 has a role to play in this. Seeing a lot of judgment in the comments that doesn't really take into account the global systems at play.

www.npr.org/2019/08/20/7...

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

"Violence is never the solution"

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

What happened last night and today was manufactured propaganda by the Trump admin to justify using the military against Americans. Let us be clear: the military should never police civilians without a request from the state. So much for the so-called party of states’ rights and law and order.

Saw a quote the other day where a guy from Goldman Sachs asked if "curing patients was a sustainable business model"

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.