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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.

aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 603 120

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necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social

Great! Then you can blame them for getting exploited by the system you bought plus blame all your fuck-ups on the ones who can't defend themselves because you kicked them to the ground. It's not a bug, it's a feature for those profiting from suffering.

aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sir_LANs-a-lot @realsirlansalot.bsky.social

And then they'll be shipped out of the cities to the "camps" so the wealthy don't have to see them.

aug 31, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social

Excuse me they're sanctuary districts.

aug 31, 2025, 11:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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Sir_LANs-a-lot @realsirlansalot.bsky.social

I stand, corrected.

aug 31, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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All Your Money Now, Kid @allyourmoneynowkid.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 11:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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aragen.bsky.social @aragen.bsky.social

There are only two things we can do with the homeless, kill them, or get them into homes. Forcing them to stay on the streets kills them slower than the fascists would like, but it still kills them. Getting them into proper homes is the only morally acceltable option.

aug 31, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dadib @dadib.bsky.social

And for people to become more desperate. Which is never good for any society.

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 11 1 • view
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GoodBoyPilgrim @goodboypilgrim.bsky.social

Isn't it something when the Administration forces you to become a criminal because you have no choice but to become homeless?

aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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FIGHT BACK DAMMIT! @notallme.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 8:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Arch 🇺🇦 @arch45.bsky.social

Don't worry. Trump will send out the National Guard to remove them.

aug 31, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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cb-2025.bsky.social @cb-2025.bsky.social

Any day now

aug 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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@gperson.bsky.social @gperson.bsky.social

This administration regards everyone outside the top 20% as expendable casualties. People are treated as units.

aug 31, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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7isamagicnumber.bsky.social @7isamagicnumber.bsky.social

or start a revolution, if the people got any spine left.

sep 1, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social

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sep 1, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
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karenwootton.bsky.social @karenwootton.bsky.social

Tyranny increases my yearning for government as the mechanism to raise OUR CHIILDREN as we all want to: without the fear of losing sufficient income to provide basic food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, and safety. Tax the Rich & Fund Universal Basic Income.

aug 31, 2025, 8:00 pm • 5 1 • view
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Laura @ldbrin.bsky.social

You can only push people so far before they retaliate.

aug 31, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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CMaguire @cmaguire3.bsky.social

And then tRUMPutin will arrest them for being homeless, and US taxpayers will pay for them to go to prison 🤦🏼‍♀️

aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 4 0 • view
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Martha Elizabeth @mepowers.bsky.social

They want for profit private prison , which will be even worse.

aug 31, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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kelclou.bsky.social @kelclou.bsky.social

And then they will become free labour for the rich

sep 1, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Fight, Fight, Fight against the MAGA uneducated hordes. @pepe-mccormack.bsky.social

I guess they have planned for that contingency, and now are looking into putting homeless people into “work” camps. They started out by clearing homeless people from DC, it won’t be long before they make homelessness a federal crime.

aug 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lisa's Muffins @lisasmuffins.bsky.social

This is the basic bargain of society - the well off pay sufficient taxes to fund the poor and thereby avoid them turning up with pitchforks and flaming torches. If you forget that then you're dead

sep 1, 2025, 9:45 am • 0 0 • view
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emma6422.bsky.social @emma6422.bsky.social

Many countries are not very good at helping for their citizens many are though American isn’t one of them it seems

aug 31, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liberal Honky @liberalhonky.bsky.social

Yep, then ice will vacuum them up and send them to camps to be leased to corporate America.

sep 1, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
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tommytwopence.bsky.social @tommytwopence.bsky.social

... and the kidnappings begin.

aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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baaabyblu.bsky.social @baaabyblu.bsky.social

Which is why they criminalize homelessness and remove recovery options to fill private prisons and get a kickback for themselves

sep 1, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Art Nerd 🦋(Titanium)🦋 🌮🌮🌮 @titaniumartnerd.bsky.social

And then they’ll be rounded up and put in camps.

aug 31, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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vibewiththevoid.bsky.social @vibewiththevoid.bsky.social

So much of this story is administrators seeing an expensive line item and believing there there will be only good effects to cutting it. But healthcare, when cut, does not cure the symptoms but only delays treatment. The effects of these diseases are leading to social ills and around and around.

sep 1, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Cloudynatknit @cloudynatknit.bsky.social

And they're spending billions to round up these people and send them to god knows what fate.

aug 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social

Pretty sure the cutters view that as a feature, not a bug (which makes it all the more tragic)

aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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JonSam @jonsam1961b.bsky.social

yup. They are running a terror campaign to disrupt and destroy.

aug 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blue Gal @blueistheonlyway.bsky.social

That’s the goal. Then, they arrest them for being illegally homeless, and they go to prison to do free labor.

aug 31, 2025, 9:42 pm • 2 1 • view
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Eryq Ouithaqueue @eryq.bsky.social

It's just slavery with extra steps.

sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Blue Gal @blueistheonlyway.bsky.social

Yep.

sep 1, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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CoffeeBlooded @coffee216.bsky.social

They're doing it on purpose to have an excuse to arrest us, traffic us or use us for slave labor. Welcome to the privatized US prison system. Don't drop your soap.

sep 1, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view