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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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Bacon’s Rebellion
Do you know about Bacon’s Rebellion? In 1675 he united poor white people and black slaves to fight against rich white people. This is my dream. To unite Proud Boys with Antifa. To unite QAnon with BLM. The powerful have always intentionally divided poor people. And we fall for it every time. United we stand.…
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Addiction In The Homeless Community
There is yet again another mean and hurtful conversation going on in the homeless community on facebook here: I’m being accused of being a piece of shit. It’s really nothing new. It comes up from time to time. The conversation is going on that there are drugs in a transitional house run by the Homeless…
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Police Are Sending Homeless People To Places They Are Clearing Because There Is Nowhere Else To Send Them
This is how fucked up homelessness has become. They close services and then send people to those services because there is no other place to send them. Police OFTEN sent homeless people to our tent village that the city eventually closed. Body cam footage captures Seattle officers directing homeless person to Cal Anderson Park…
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Fire At Homeless Camp During Inauguration Rehearsal
It’s like a cry for help (that was completely ignored). Capitol lockdown lifted: Inauguration rehearsal participants briefly evacuated after fire in homeless camp | NewsNation Now The U.S. Capitol complex temporarily locked down Monday during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after a fire in a homeless encampment about a mile away sent a…
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“Only” $200,000 Per Bed to house homeless people in this one test project.
L.A. project shows homeless housing can be done quickly, cheaply – Los Angeles Times From start to finish in under five months and at a cost of about $200,000 per bed, it has shaved years and hundreds of thousands of dollars off a traditional homeless housing project. ARE YOU FUCKING ME RIGHT NOW? There is…
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Small managed homeless encampments are part of the answer
Guest Commentary | Small managed homeless encampments are part of the answer – Santa Cruz Sentinel We believe that small, managed encampments that have sanitary facilities, some measure of self-governance, security and on-site access to services and case management, including mental health and addiction services, are the reasonable and humane solution. The encampments need to…
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Akron had more killings than ever in 2020
According to a Beacon Journal analysis of Akron police data, there were 843 gun-related crimes in the city in 2020, up from 473 in 2019. The neighborhoods hardest hit by the increases were East Akron (150), West Akron (137) and Kenmore (92). I get the opportunity to work with some drug dealers and addicted adults…
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A bodybuilding pastor: Homeless advocate Scott Wagers is unapologetic about his calling – San José Spotlight
A bodybuilding pastor: Homeless advocate Scott Wagers is unapologetic about his calling – San José Spotlight In 1997, in the middle of a cold El Niño winter, Wagers opened an informal homeless shelter at First Christian Church on South Fifth Street. About 100 people came in to sleep, according to Wagers, so he didn’t flinch…
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Needles Clog Bathroom In San Jose
Bullshit! Needles don’t clog toilets. using t-shirts for feminine products does. San Jose cuts water in park with large homeless population, blames needles – San José Spotlight But the water was turned off on Dec. 14 when drains in one of the bathrooms clogged and the facility flooded. Both of the restrooms were closed for…
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Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman describes why he immersed himself in the homeless community
It’s unfortunate that the mayor’s conclusion ended so simplistically and unnuanced. “Those hippies just want to do drugs” does very little to think rationally about the situation. It also is extremely condescending to people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol and yet again made to look like losers by their mayor instead of what…
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Lansing Michigan Throws Away Homeless People’s Belongings
Garbage trucks arrive at Back 40 homeless camp day after death LANSING — City-funded garbage trucks arrived a homeless encampment Thursday morning, carting away several tents, sleeping bags and trash as residents broke down in tears. We must end this cruel and inhumane form of punishment for being poor. Cities hate homeless people. That’s the only reason…
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Aurora Colorado Mayor Goes Undercover As a Homeless Man
I don’t know a lot of details about this situation. But apparently the mayor’s conclusion after doing this is that staying at a camp is a lifestyle choice versus going to a shelter. I guess that’s true if you are willing to: lose all your belongings. Leave your dog unattended in the freezing cold. Leave…
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Homeless Hate Is Real
Vandal damages Portland tiny home village designed for homeless – KTVZ PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Multnomah County officials and police say the opening of a tiny home village for homeless people in North Portland has been delayed after a vandal damaged nearly every sleeping pod in the shelter. Officer Melissa Newhard, a Portland Police Bureau…
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St Paul Homeless Camp Sweeps are Illegal Evictions
The way we shut down camps is absolutely illegal and cruel and inhumane. It must end NOW. As St. Paul homeless camps cleared, tough questions emerge | Duluth News Tribune “How the (expletive) are you going to kick people out in the cold when I’m already out in the cold?” said Lance, who has made…
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What forms of direct action are acceptable?
The January 6, 2021 siege on Capitol Hill is still very fresh in my mind. Three days later (it feels like 3 months later), as you might imagine, I and the rest of the world have some thoughts on the matter. At 7:30am the following morning I wrote this on Twitter and Facebook: Our Trump…
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Ogden, Utah people turn out en masse at council meeting to protest homeless camp dispersal
Ogdenites turn out en masse at council meeting to protest homeless camp dispersal | Local News | standard.net Castillo and several of the speakers at Tuesday’s council meeting noted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines dealing with homeless camps. According to the CDC, if individual housing options are not available, people who are living…
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Concord New Hampshire Report finds a ‘tidal wave’ of homelessness
There are a lot of great statistics in this article about homelessness in New Hampshire. Report finds a ‘tidal wave’ of homelessness In January, the point-in-time study found that homelessness had grown by 21% (293 people) over 2019 with a total of 1,675 unsheltered people. “And that’s before the pandemic, which is almost sticker shock,”…
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Denver’s first sanctioned homeless encampments offer a glimmer of hope, stability
This is such an obvious need I can’t believe we have to fight so hard to make them happen. Denver’s first sanctioned homeless encampments offer a glimmer of hope, stability Benjamin said the safe outdoor space has given him a spot where he can keep his few belongings and leave his well-behaved dog for the…
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The Generator Experiment – Introduction
1/5/2021 If I see my friend Ashleigh Hughes as the potential Evangelical Dorothy Day, I see myself as the homeless anthropologist equivalent of Jane Goodall. The problem with my comparison to Jane Goodall, of course, is that she actually has a Ph.D. in Ethology, the scientific and objective study of animal behavior. Whereas I am…
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Thomarios Construction Is Dan Horrigan Pillar Of Power We Must Attack
A standard approach of bringing down a dictator like Dan Horrigan is to attack his pillars of power. You go after the people that help him maintain power. Thomarios is a long-term benefactor of scraping money off of Akron. Not only do they get really juicy contracts, they also got the Cannabis grow house in…
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Sweeping Kansas City homeless camp killed Scott “Sixx” Eike
Man froze to death after sweep of Kansas City homeless camp | The Kansas City Star On New Year’s Day, Eike, 41, was found dead from exposure, said Nellie Ann McCool with Free Hot Soup. Temperatures were below freezing the night of New Year’s Eve, just before the metro endured a sizable storm of snow…
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Dismazed and Driven: My Look at Family Homelessness in America by Diane Nilan
Telling stories is how humans learn best. I’m so thankful Diane Nilan has created this memoir: Dismazed and Driven Memoir – Diane shares stories from her 15 years on America’s backroads as she chronicled family homelessness. Living full-time in a small van, her solo travel to non-urban locales included adventures and unforgettable encounters. Dismazed & Driven…
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Akron City Council Votes To Resume Shutting Off Your Water
Remember this when the city comes to shut off your water and your children ask why they can’t get a drink of water and then the city comes to evict you become you have no water. Mike Freeman, Brad McKitrick and Sharon L. Connor did this to you. They voted to shut off your water…
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It Never Matters That People Are Freezing To Death On The Streets of The Richest Country In The World
I’ve been following this story since it began. Basically, an activist group occupied a hotel and put homeless people in it. Some with chronic illnesses. Some with Covid. And then what happened next is what always happens: The activists were shut down, no real solutions were created. And the only actual solution that came out…
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Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City
When is enough enough? American homelessness is a needless and tragic and cruel humanitarian disaster. Second homeless person dies in the cold in Kansas City A deceased person was found in a vacant building Sunday Night, two days after a man was found dead in a wooded area in Kansas City.
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Boston Doesn’t Have Enough Homeless Shelter Space
Massachusetts shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives BOSTON — As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen.
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Downtown construction to restart on Akron’s Main Street
What I might hate about Corporate Democrats most of all is how they aren’t actually for business. They are just for their corporate friends’ businesses. Dan Horrigan is killing businesses on Main Street in Akron. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2020/12/29/downtown-construction-restart-akrons-main-street/4074505001/
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Akron City Go Home Owner’s Taxes Just Went WAY Up
If you aren’t aware of this, you should be. I was just reading this Letters to editor: Property taxes rising amid pandemic, thanks to Summit County office The property value of my home went WAY up. I can afford to pay these new significantly higher property taxes. BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAN’T?…
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Get on the spectrum of voluntary poverty
We in America have been so indoctrinated into the cult of Capitalism that an alternative economic philosophy seems like pure and total madness. I am not a Communist. Not that I have anything against the communist movement. I’m not afraid of Communism as the big and mighty U.S. of A. seems to be. I just…
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[The Washington Post] The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry
The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry By Hamza Shaban and Heather Long https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/stock-market-record-2020/ “The recovery has been incredibly lopsided. High-income workers have been back to full employment for six months, but the recovery has stalled for low-income workers and we’re still missing millions…
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