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Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of putting our thumbs out a city police car stopped and...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 08:31 AM PDT
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This cartoon is written by me and drawn by the always-great R. E. Ryan. It's not just cruel - these laws are literally demanding the impossible. Human beings are, alas, embodied physical beings existing in a physical universe, and it follows that we...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 07:23 AM PDT
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I have been hearing about efforts to help the homeless, here in Wichita, Kansas.
I started thinking about the topic, and some ideas came to me.
I am not an expert of any kind, but as I was ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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I just read this brief article “Ohio pastor charged for opening church to homeless people in freezing weather” by Julia Conley from Common Dreams, 20 January 2024, on Alternet. www.alternet.org/… Full disclosure: I am an atheist. I was raised Nazarene...
by Obiwan711
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 06:04 AM PST
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“Period poverty is rampant in the US, with serious health and economic implications,” states a 2023 story in the Guardian. The story goes on to explain that nearly seventeen million persons living in poverty need period products each and every month....
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM PST
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An old Nevada rancher refuted me, “Fact checkers? Who believes them?” Pulitzer Prize credibility danced on the tip of my tongue. But why bother? We used to have a generally accepted consensus on what makes a fact. Now algorithms serve up information...
by speedboat
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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An old Nevada rancher refuted me, “Fact checkers? Who believes them?” Reference to Pulitzer Prize credibility danced on the tip of my tongue. But why bother? We used to have a generally accepted consensus on what makes a fact. Now algorithms serve up...
by speedboat
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 07:36 PM PST
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Eligible voters are being purged off of national voter registries by MAGA-inspired “ conservative activists. ” These so-called activists are targeting young voters, people of color, and homeless ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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It used to be that there’d occasionally be someone selling flowers at the traffic light. Now there’s often someone there with a sign asking for help. It used to be that these people were almost always men. Now they’re often women. And lately these...
by stephr
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 03:12 PM PST
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Failed Republican speaker candidate Rep. Jim Jordan went to his social media account on X (formerly Twitter) to post an attack on “Democrat-run San Francisco.” -Restaurants shutting down every week. -Rampant drug use -Vandalism -Crime It is a sentiment...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 01:09 PM PST
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To Governor Newsom Last night's episode of 60 Minutes, using your recorded words, implied that dealing with strongly psychotic people will help the homeless dilemma. It won’t. We are not experiencing an epidemic of psychosis. Hordes of psychotic people...
by Frankly Speaking
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 10:26 PM PDT
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As I wrote ten months ago, Corporate America is buying up homes at an alarming rate, changing those houses into rentals. Now, in September 2023, corporate investment ownership has surpassed twenty-five percent of single-family homes. Stated in a Google...
by Frankly Speaking
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 05:24 PM PDT
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San Diego recently banned tent camping in the city; the homeless just moved to a riverbed just outside town. West Palm Beach Florida has banned feeding homeless people; the penalty is a $500 fine and 60 days in the town jail. In Maryland, some school...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 08:08 AM PDT
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Dear Kossacks, Rocky Mountain Refuge is suspending our care giving. I deeply appreciate everyone who’s donated and contacted us since our last posting here on DailyKos. When we opened in the first part of the year we knew we had enough money to stay...
by JPH102
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on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 09:40 AM PDT
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Commissioner Brian Welch attacks the Homeless of Tallahassee Florida Dear reader, here in Florida we live in a time of crippling inflation and increased homelessness, Where the cost of living is skyrocketing and many American households are struggling...
by Robertbuccellato
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 04:53 AM PDT
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) is not holding back when he is voicing his support for 24-year-old Long Islander Daniel Penny, who was recently released on $100000 bond after being arrested for the chokehold death of 30-year-old homeless man Jordan...
by OK Dodo
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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Donald Trump recently, and in all apparent sincerity, suggested putting homeless and indigent people in forced governmental housing—a 21st-century concentration camp, really. A lot of people have focused attention on the barbarity of the suggestion....
by novapsyche
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on Mon May 08, 2023 at 01:09 PM PDT
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Just a brief and very sad update. John, my friend in Ghana who has been performing a ministry of helping those in most extreme need, has fled to Accra. After the assault he no longer feels safe in the Buduburam Refugee Camp where he had been living. He...
by McCrowlerr
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 07:56 AM PDT
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Unbelievable! ‘Ban urban camping wherever possible. Violators of these bans will be arrested. But they will be given the option to accept treatment, and services, if they are willing to be rehabilitated. Many of them don’t want that. We’ll give them...
by Lefty Coaster
271 comments
on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 02:21 PM PDT
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