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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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Homeless Fact #7 – America Hates Homeless People
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PLEASE Join Me on Discord
Community is this HUGE theme in my life. If we can come together I truly believe we can solve all the world’s problems. But the problem is “They” don’t want that. That love keeping us divided. If we can overcome that division I truly believe we can change the world. To that end, I’ve set…
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God According To Sage
Honestly, I wish I wasn’t writing this now. I have “more important” things to discuss with you than God right now. (Homelessness, Black Lives Matter and overall governmental and systemic torture and murder and oppression of people.) But if I don’t jot these ideas down now they will fade from memory. And I’d like to…
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My Position On Violent Activism – October 2020.
I watched a really powerful interview on Fox News with the president of Black Lives Matter in New York, Hawk Newsome: This interview was incredibly interesting to me because he is our modern day MLK or Malcolm X. He is responding to the police and government tactics of 2020. Many things are similar to the…
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Do The Right Thing
Do the lessons of the world yell at you like they yell at me? I worked at Perkins restaurant washing dishes when I was 14. The manager said I was doing too much. I played the trombone. I played the cello and I was in choir. He said I needed to quit something. I was…
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This Is Why You Don’t Rat Out A Shooter, Chief Ball
I’ve been thinking about getting a gun. I’ve been thinking about the Ruger AR-556 MPR As I was fantasizing about my new purchase, my obsession turned to murdering a particular drug dealer in my neighborhood. I thought about how, when, where… I was getting so into the idea that I had to just stop thinking…
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Sunday Morning With Sage – Trap Houses
We discussed trap houses this morning. It was recorded on August 16, 2020. Here is the audio version: Here is the video Version:
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The Societal Importance Of The Trap House
As someone who ran a trap house for a time, let me tell you… it’s a thankless job. People you’ve never met appear out of nowhere. They move in. They bring their belongings (of which they often have a lot). They build doors out of found objects. They mount hinged locks on doors in your…
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Podcast: Why I Resigned as Executive Director of The Homeless Charity
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The Collapse Of An Unsanctioned Homeless Camp
One of the nearly endless frustrations I have with this work is how there is not even a basic curiosity of how these homeless camps work. I’ve never understood why anthropologists aren’t swarming homeless camps to try to get a better understanding of how early civilization was formed. Every single homeless camp I’ve got to…
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To every thing there is a season
This is a friend of mine’s favorite verse in the Bible: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time…
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Copy from John Brown Page That Was Taken Down | The Summit County Historical Society of Akron
This page once was online here: https://www.summithistory.org/john-brown It now redirects to this page: https://www.summithistory.org/perkins-brown-partnership This is how the redirect looks on a server lookup: #1 Requesting: https://www.summithistory.org/john-brown Request > GET /john-brown HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.summithistory.org > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246 Response < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved…
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Reincarnation
It’s hard to argue with reincarnation when you understand the fundamental laws of energy in the universe. The first law of Thermodynamics states: The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one…
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Gary
This is my friend Gary. I won’t tell you how many felony “numbers” he has. But it’s not just a few. He’s the real deal. We have a true friendship. My life is SO much fuller and better for being friends with Gary. I love you man.
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I Just Want To Live
The sentiment of this sign keeps me marching forward. “I just want to live.” For me, it’s not about the food or the tents or any of that. For me, it’s about acceptance. Homeless people are going through a dark part of their journey. And the LAST thing they need is us telling them they…
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Destruction
To you, this may look like an empty field. To me it looks like destruction. This was a home. This was a village to people who the rest of society gave up on. And they were not allowed to exist. They were considered illegal. Citizens of their own country, considered illegal. There is an institutional…
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Social Warfare
I see myself as a freedom fighter. We have institutionalized homelessness in America. Government and corporate service providers have thrown up their hands. “They just don’t want our help.” So people are left to rot on the streets and in the woods. We live in a world where giving human beings a toilet is “encouraging…
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This Is Hate Speech
I wanted to point this picture out for exactly what it is: Hate. It is hate directed towards addicted people. The reason I want to point it out is because it is also VERY acceptable in most of American society. The words “Grow Up” in the bottom right reflect a complete ignorance of what an…
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Futility
The most futile feeling in the world is sitting in courtrooms and political chambers listening to politicians and appointed officials talk about how I have a “big heart” but zoning laws are more important than people dying on the street.
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Finding Your Path
I consider myself a searcher. I also consider my time here on Earth as that of a tourist. A person who is on an all inclusive cruise getting to taste some of the sights and sounds of Earth. Considering that our planet is 4.543 billion years old, my 100 years (if I’m lucky) is not even a…
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Personal Authenticity
I get to go out today and spend time with some of the most amazing and cool people I’ve ever met in my life. I bring food and water out to some homeless people on Fridays.I can’t think of any work in my life that makes me feel more alive, real and honest. #homelessness
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Do The Right Thing
This is Kenny Boldt. He has instilled within me a very powerful motto: “Do the right thing.” Very often I hear his words when I am tired or lazy. “Do the right thing.” A couple weeks ago a grandma, mom and 8 year old girl were on the street. This kind of tragedy is so…
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Ohio Supreme Court Declines To Hear Our Case
Our law firm, Institute for Justice, has fought as hard as anyone in this battle for the rights of homeless people. Our case has always been that a person should be allowed to shelter those most desperately in need on his own personal property. We have been beaten down every step of the way on…
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Ohio Supreme Court Declines to Consider Whether Lower Courts May Create Barriers to Lawsuits
Sadly, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear our case that our law firm, Institute for Justice, diligently attempted to be heard. Throughout this ENTIRE process we have been fought every step of the way by the mayor, city council, zoning and courts ALL on technicalities. We simply want SOMEONE to answer the question: Does an…
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Sunday Morning with Sage 4-19-2020
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Worried about her dad
80% of the time I’m able to emotionally distance myself (for my own psychological wellbeing) from the brutal suffering caused by homelessness. But sometimes it really hits me. Like this message I got last night. I’ve been friends with her dad for years. He’s lived on the street all the time I’ve known him. The…
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Sage’s Quarantine Plan For Homeless People In Regards To Coronavirus
I want to put this out there sooner than later. There is a possibility I have already been exposed to coronavirus. So, in the event I get sick I want to make sure my ideas are out there. Obviously, these are just my personal opinions and if I’m out of the game then others will…
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Sage’s Recommendations For Working With Homeless People In A Coronavirus World
I want to make very clear that I am not a doctor. I am simply a person who is as educated as many people are with what is happening in our world with Coronavirus. That said, I haven’t seen any realistic documentation and recommendations on how best to work with homeless people during this time…
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Episode 27 – Sage Against the Machine Podcast
Here’s the audio version: [buzzsprout episode=’2811331′ player=’true’] And here is the video:
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#26 – Sage Against The Machine Podcast
Here is the audio: [buzzsprout episode=’2574535′ player=’true’] Here is the video:
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