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How the fuck do you think that I'm in any way tolerating the status quo? You are arguing against a non-existent position. How about get on with your life and quit yapping at me with your obtuse bullshit. Good luck gaining more understanding of the world.
What is with you? Have you never met any people who ran out of rent money? Did you read any of the quote up there? What part of "People need affordable housing and trashing their medicines and documents is a problem" is not getting through to you? I'm not pro-encampment, I'm anti-screwing people. ๐
So you shouldn't listen to the people it's actually happening to. Got it. Super useful.
Well, get informed as to how he's not a good guy; and then if you still like him, then go fuck yourself. A lot of people don't know about the crappy stuff; it doesn't get reposted anywhere as much.
some of which can prove their identity,โ Kushel told KTLA. โA lot of harm can come from sweeps, and ultimately, if you donโt offer people a real outcome, theyโre just going to have to move someplace else because they canโt dematerialize; they will show up someplace else.โ (3/3)
โWhat we know from homelessness displacement or sweeps is that it does a fair amount of harm and disconnects the people from service providers. It removes people from their belongings, which includes sentimental things like peopleโs pictures of their families, medications and peopleโs documents, 2/3
From last summer: "KTLA spoke with Jeff Levine, ... director of Long Beach Rescue Mission, a organization that provides services to unhoused individuals, and Dr. Margot Kushel, ... director at Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. (1/3)
I'm not saying that emcampments are great, and that's a very weird assumption to take from what I am saying. Transition beds are a help, but there also needs to be affordable permanent housing; imo there needs to be less Air BnB; there needs to be rent control, there needs to be a lot of changes.
Are there? I have yet to see an article that said that, so how am I to know? If there are, that's excellent; they should be. But every image you see is just stood getting shoveled into trash bags; a lot of people have reported having important papers, medications, or personal possessions trashed.
??? ๐คจ No, I'm idealizing not throwing people's stuff away. How many people who are "cleared" in these "sweeps" actually get into any kind of shelter? Got any numbers on that?
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How many are in LA? How many are already occupied? More to the point, how does destroying the very few belongings anyone has left in any way alleviate homelessness? How does chasing them out help?
What part of "someone can go into bathroom and molest no matter how they're dressed" are you not getting? And don't tell me about your friend's kid who got molested. I was molested as a kid, I'm familiar with the damage it does, thank you. Still no excuse for being mean to trans people.
So by your logic, nobody should ever leave a kid at a church. And your friend's kid is not the only kid who's ever been molested.
I don't see anything there that indicates any such sentiment. American culture is pretty rough on men on certain ways. I feel for the fellas... ๐
CHICAGO
1. I was joking. B. You can get a decent laptop for $500 that is way better than a $2500 desktop was in 1995. I'm glad for you that you had this, but go ask your parents what they have up in order to get it. Computers were NOT cheaper then! 247wallst.com/special-repo...
AI isn't going to do that! It is comprehensively appalling and disgusting that a self-described "teacher and union advocate" calls for use of AI in teaching. You are trying to put thousands of teachers out of work, and depriving children of real opportunity. Real teachers do far more than talking.
Racism, sexism, unconscious bias, and the*entire existence of trans folks* are all things that the GOP doesn't want "AI" to know about.
so when they trot out gavin newsom & rahm emanuel or whoever for senate or congress or state assembly or especially schoolboard, cis folks, if you actually stand with trans people, NOW IS THE TIME TO PUSH BACK. about 10 years ago wouldโve been better, but NOW IS CRITICAL to say hell no to bigots.
A perv can go into a bathroom and molest a kid regardless of how they're dressed. If you're that concerned about keeping children safe from predators, you could advocate for more oversight in churches and related youth groups. That's a much more significant area of opportunity. And not anti-trans.๐
Not even with Steven Miller's dick...
Oh, is someone giving them treatment and housing? Where would that be, pray tell?
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender โ 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender โ 4,193. Hope that helps.
if corporations are people then Tesla and Musk both deserve a death sentence
This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit. It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
@jerusalem.bsky.social makes an accurate observation on Twitter about the true nature of the rightโs project - eliminating trans people. I am curious if we will see The Argument cover the implications of this observation - that there is no grand bargain to be made on trans rights (cont)
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
This has me at the edge of tears because I can't show it to my friend Aaron, who put himself through college to get a philosophy degree because he felt like it... Thank you for this. ๐
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
AaarrooooOOOOOOOooooooo... ๐
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1. The US Dept. of HHS, headed by RFK Jr., has announced that it will hold $81 million in sex-ed funding hostage unless schools drop all mention of trans people. It could lead to a decimation of sex-ed funding in needed areas. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
How many Dems voted for those confirmations?
Really? Because it's working gangbusters for Newsom.
Yeah, it's a couple of years to the election. It's not like we have to anoint the final candidate right this minute. ๐ How many people outside of Illinois had ever heard of Obama in 2005?
You know, I really wonder about that. Harris was ever so moderate and, wow, did it not work...
I mean, at least they're doing someone useful... I suggest that ICE join in, and do nothing else.
Amid Federal Subpoenas and Funding Threats, Can Blue States Still Protect Trans Kids? transitics.substack.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
Why do people keep talking like Newsom is the *only possible* candidate for '28?! "Newsom or Trump!" Pritzker, AOC, Walz, Polis; hell, Jon Stewart could run and might well beat Newsom if he did. *Newsom is not the only option.* *Talking as though he were is not helping!* First they came for, yo!
No idea what Pritzker is doing?! ๐ Go look at my feed, it might help.
The goal is to die with more signed CDs than not. ๐
spending way too much time on SEC filings today has caused me to stumble across a truly un-fun fact, which is that Thurgood Marshall, Jr. literally sits on the board of directors for CoreCivic, one of the largest private prison companies contracting with ICE. also Third Way. nothing to see here.
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Itโs continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
So when do the adults get put back in charge of, you know, everything? The overgrown toddlers need to be put in a permanent time-out.
Jesus Christ.
I'm not great about hydrating at home, but every day at work I down at least 1.2 L of TradMeds Throat Coat; much of my job is just talking. I like their Breathe Easy as well. ๐ซ
WORD UP.
Fuck bipartisan. The GOP have gone completely off the rails and there's nothing to agree with there. Fight tooth and nail to recover or democracy!!
Are Traditional Medicinal teas available in your area?
I'm really hoping that someone gets a group rate...
What Jeffries and Schumer can do? How about making sure that GOP bullshit doesn't get supporting votes from Dems? How about standing up to the lines he drew instead of saying "Well, is he does this, that's too far. Wait, no; if he does *this*, that's it. No, it's actually if he...".
Understand that every time you say "bipartisan", everyone with even half a brain reads "we'll work with fascists". Stop evoking bipartisanship like some kind of fucking magic spell. Collaboration with monsters is the same as being a monster.
That do seem to be the case, yeah.
Oh, it's only my replies to Schumer and Jeffries. Who think they're really making a bold stand by saying "shit" in a skeet. While claiming to oppose the GOP and then providing votes to confirm the GOPs picks. Yeah, I have a problem with that.
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?!
You and I agree on a lot of things, but being supportive of people who say they will help the people and then help the fascists instead is not one of them.
So saying nothing while they do nothing is somehow better? I'm accused of being a Russian operative because I'm disgusted at how Schumer and Jeffries talk big and then assist the GOP? Looks more like they're the ones working for the Kremlin, with all the giving the one passing vote the GOP needs. ๐
AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT, CHUCK?!
Thank you!
Ah, here it is.
Pritzker said a lot more than that...
This has been the video of the guy burning the flag, but it has been deleted for whatever reason. This is going to make an interesting court case...
How soon until it's your city?
No one ever says "how am I supposed to explain this filth to my child?" about war or poverty.
I love Gir SO MUCH. ๐
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
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Ah. Like willful ignorance. I was asking when rather than what, but that's a good answer. ๐ I think around 35 might be a reasonable answer; if people aren't more mature by 35 than they were at 20, then it's not that likely that they will ever be...
?? What about it?
I meant to do this as a quote post, and it won't let me delete my repost of someone else's post... That headline can't come soon enough...
Trump signs an executive order: "If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail."
Everyone starts out emotionally immature. The question is when do you call it that they're never going to improve? Some do, some don't...
If one could punch someone through a computer screen, I'd have a very sore fist. "Crisis actors"... Love you, Mabs ๐
Thank you for not pushing yourself. ๐
Supreme comes with guac, doesn't it?
Oh, how awful! I'm so glad you have been rescued from limelessness! How is it that you were so deprived?!
Letโs be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished โ and disappeared โ because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Not really sure what the idea would be behind "Go back to 1985" would be?
โWhy would you not want the government to put a corrupt finger on the scale of the market, allowing my cronies, toadies and proxies to vastly enrich themselves, while sending the signal that private enterprise needs to pay official graft to my regime in order to succeed in America?โ
Next up: banning of wearing masks in public unless youโre an ICE goon
I will never forget and I will never forgive the people who voted for this madness.
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Not sure why you keep saying "chill out"? Nobody is yelling or being mean to you, dude...
RIGHT?! SO hard to get anything else done when you can't breather. I really do feel ya, I really have been there...
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Well, see, this is what we call "being ill", and resting is always step one for dealing with such. May swift and thorough healing for to you wings of relief... ๐
You said: "Bingo. If humans were not cruel, evil beings, there'd be no reason for religion." I disagreed, with good reason. Feel free to think whatever you think, just don't expect that everyone will join you.
I'm chill already. ๐ Maybe go study more indigenous religions, of various parts of the world, and came back to this. Yes, many religions have aspects that can be weaponized for controlling people. But that's not where they came from or what they're for.
Please explain to me how Shinto can be twisted in such a way. Just for starters...
*sigh* AGAIN, there's lots of religions and plenty of them aren't about controlling the masses through a single "mouthpiece of God". I really wish people would just SAY Christianity when they're taking about Christianity. ๐
I've seen people say things a lot stronger than "disturbing echoes". .