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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…
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An Update To Demass Learning
Back in 2012 I created something called “Demass Learning“. I then got pulled really hard into the homeless humanitarian disaster in America. But I’ve recently come back to exploring Demass Learning a bit more. The concept is that of a “prosumer” idea. That we are both the consumer AND the creator. This is wildly different…
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More Murders In Akron Than Ever Before
I woke up to this headline: Man, 19, killed in West Akron shooting, adding to record year for killings And then the article is mostly spent trying to unwind how Akron defines a murder compared to a homicide. That’s the plan in Akron Ohio. If you don’t like the statistics just confuse people. (We have…
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The Church Has Always Abandoned The Poor
“If religion has so neglected the needs of the poor and of the great mass of workers and permitted them to live in the most horrible destitution while comforting them with the solace of a promise of a life after death when all tears shall be wiped away, then that religion is suspect.” This was…
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Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless People
STAND STRONG @TacHousing! We all must stand with our homeless brothers and sisters in this brutal and cruel and torturous homeless system in America. Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless People
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Lost to COVID-19: Akron native Rev. Tom Weller died of COVID-19
Doug Livingston of the Akron Beacon Journal did a very nice piece on Tom Weller here: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2020/12/28/lost-covid-19-akron-native-rev-tom-weller-died-covid-19/3910018001/ My ears always perk up when I read a story of a person committed to “the least of these.” The stories fill me with both happiness and sadness. I’m happy to be reminded that there are so many…
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132 Homeless Kids in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Ardmore, Oklahoma population is 24,795. The racial makeup of the city is 73.02% White, 11.27% African American, 8.78% Native American. About 13.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.9% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over. There about approximately 3000 students in…
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Boston shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives
Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are…
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Denver Opens Its First Safe Open Space
Given the state and structure of the United States of America, Safe Open Spaces, aka sanctioned tent villages, are inevitable and absolutely critically needed NOW. Denver’s first legal homeless encampments only a first step, experts say Certainly, the need is there for the encampments, also called safe open spaces, they say.
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Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction
We MUST fight along side our homeless brothers and sisters for their fundamental right to live in their own country. Thank you Santa Cruz for standing strong. Santa Cruz activists halt homeless camp eviction – Santa Cruz Sentinel The more than 75 activists and homeless individuals gathered along the park’s Dakota Avenue entrance facing off…
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How effective are protests?
I just came across this quote: The problem I experience is that individual people are good but organizations become soulless. Almost the instant they are created they come alive as a unfeeling, compassionless robot. “I. Must. Do. What’s. Best. For. The. Organization.” I see this so clearly in churches and nonprofits. The organization is more…
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Poverty Is Coming Back To America
I now firmly believe that the era from about 1950 – 1980 was an anomaly. There was money. And it was spread widely across America. But that’s not how capitalism is meant to work. Capitalism is a game played by capitalists. And I’m sorry to say, if you don’t own property that creates income for…
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What Sleeping Outside on Christmas Eve Did to Me
My wife loves when my actions take the moral high ground. That’s why she supported our homeless tent village. And that why she supported me spending Christmas Eve night sleeping outside in solidarity with homeless pregnant women. That’s exactly what Mary was, after all. Many of my current rants are vindictive and sometimes down right…
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Human Rights of Homeless People MUST Be Fought For
Homeless Encampments – The Shift #RIGHT2HOUSING The Shift has developed several resources to help ensure the rights of encampment residents are upheld. Download them and use them in your community!
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LA Homeless Camp Sweeps Continue Despite CDC Guidelines
Attorneys decry ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments during pandemic in LA – Lookout Local Santa Cruz “There is simply no public health justification for continuing the displacement of unhoused residents at this time,” write Catherine Sweetser of Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes LLP, along with Pui-Yee Yu and Shayla Myers of the Legal Aid Foundation…
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The visual stain of homelessness
St. Paul clears out homeless camp in Kellogg Mall Park; 7 more to be vacated | Duluth News Tribune “We only care (about housing the homeless) when we see it visually,” said St. Paul resident Joe James, disgustedly. “We only care because we see people out here and we want to remove the visual…
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Still No Room At The Inn
I am planning a peaceful protest on Christmas Eve night. I will be building a makeshift shelter in rememberance that thousands of years ago a man and woman, who was very late in her pregnancy, were traveling (apparently to pay taxes). As the story goes, there was no room at the inn. So they slept…
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NYTimes: How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline
This is a pretty shocking expose of the immediate power of police unions. How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline https://nyti.ms/3aAMONS
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The Akron Law The Homeless Won
I want to make sure this does not get lost either by the city law department OR the city as a whole. On September 6, 2016 these homeless Akronites won a settlement and consent decree against the city of Akron. Those homeless people were: WILLIAM BUKER, NICOLE GOULD, CARL LYNCH, PATRICK MOE, MELVIN THOMPSON, and…
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Why Can’t Akron Have These Pallet Tiny Homes?
‘Pallets’ pop up around Lane County to shelter homeless people The county purchased 120 shelters for $888,300, which was covered by money from the federal CARES Act. The county allocated $1.25 million in coronavirus Relief Funds toward winter sheltering. While the structures are sturdy, secure and warm, service providers emphasize that they are meant to serve…
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Salem Homeless Camps Washed Away By Flooding
‘This is heart-wrenching’: Salem homeless camps washed away by flooding | kgw.com “This is the first time I’ve been homeless like this and it’s really been an emotional drain for me. It’s heartbreaking to see how there’s no rescue. The only stuff that we have is priceless to us and we’re losing all of that…
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Akron evictions delayed by mail service, COVID-19 orders, moratorium
“And tenants who’ve lost jobs and wages to the pandemic can continue to file for eviction protection until Jan. 31 under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order that would have expired Dec. 31.” I know this is difficult for landlords. I’m one myself. But there is REAL desperate need out here. We cannot…
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Portland sees dramatic rise in deaths of homeless people
This is going to be a brutal winter for homeless people all over the world. Mass evictions plus less shelter space due to social distancing = More Dead Homeless People. Portland sees dramatic rise in deaths of homeless people – Portland Press Herald More than 60 homeless people died in Portland in 2020, a dramatic…
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National Coalition for the Homeless 20 Years of Hate – National Coalition for the Homeless
https://nationalhomeless.org/20-years-of-hate/ California saw the most crimes against people experiencing homelessness in 2018 and 2019. Often considered ground zero for homelessness, Los Angeles, in particular, saw almost 10% of overall incidents recorded, from acid attacks and video-taped stabbings to police officers murdering a homeless man after a noise complaint. I can’t even think of something to…
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Thou Shall Not Be Poor
Let’s be honest… We are capitalists. We are swimming in a giant lake of capitalism. We have never swum in any other lake. This lake provides for us. And we all love to talk about how absolutely incredible this lake is (even though ALL of us know this lake has some real problems). So it…
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Melise Gave Away $1000 of Chick-fil-A to Homeless People
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Lansing Sweeps Homeless Camp Despite CDC Guidelines.
Lansing officials tell people to leave homeless camp by Monday “Clearing encampments can cause people to disperse throughout the community and break connections with service providers,” the guidance says. “This increases the potential for infectious disease spread.” Why do they not adhere to CDC guidelines? It’s simple. THEY HATE HOMELESS PEOPLE. IT’S ALL ABOUT HOMELESS HATE.
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St. Paul Homeless Camp Fire
Fire breaks out at downtown St. Paul homeless encampment – StarTribune.com Friday’s fire comes as city officials are preparing to close eight homeless encampments in the city, including the one at Kellogg Park, and relocate residents to shelters starting next week. They cite a risk of fires and exposure to the cold for the impending…
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Another Akron Murder
Man shot to death Saturday in home invasion I don’t know what to do other than report this shit. The despair in Akron and Ohio in general is brutal and severe and tragic. It all comes back to jobs. And that is a crushing failure of both Democrats and Republicans because they want the money…
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Seattle Police Arrest Homeless People
Seattle police clear homeless camp, make arrests | TribLIVE.com SEATTLE — Police cleared a homeless camp in Seattle early Friday morning after a judge declined to block authorities from removing the people and tents. Police arrested 24 people and accused them of various offenses including failure to disperse, trespass and resisting arrest, the Seattle Police…
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Ohio deaths from drug overdose may set new record in 2020
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/17/ohio-deaths-drug-overdose-may-set-new-record-2020/3916549001/ Addiction is not a weakness. Addiction is not a moral failing. Addiction is an actual transformation of the brain. We need safe injection sites. All drugs must be decriminalized. Pot must be legalized. Everyone needs to be able to grow their own marijuana. This is how you win the war on drugs.
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