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Love his energy. He said 'there is nothing I want there.'
The US is becoming a stinky fart cloud.
US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka https://share.google/eInzXzNn7awKeHLl9
Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.
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#Journalism #Nonprofit #News #Media #NorthCarolina #Law #USPolitics
From @ProPublica
"North Carolina’s Supreme Court... had outlawed partisan #gerrymandering in the swing state. Over Newby’s vehement dissent...
In January — once two newly elected #Republican justices were sworn in, giving the party a 5-2 majority — #GOP lawmakers quickly filed a petition...
Newby then wrote a majority opinion declaring that #partisan gerrymandering was legal"
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Carving Pumpkins to save democracy
https://www.twitch.tv/katabughazaleh
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markets don't go down now!!
money works differently now, you know
it's a new paradigm
Some times I wonder if the Trump regime is funneling taxpayer funds into the market to keep things cool while they try to consolidate power. Like those SNAP funds. I just don't know how we could possibly trust them not to. #uspol
In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.
State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”
#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This is abhorrent and guts me. They’re trying to deport people to Afghanistan who risked their lives supporting the U.S. - there are up to 200,000 who fled Afghanistan for the U.S. If sent back, many would be killed for their efforts helping U.S.
Vile & cruel.
#uspol #afghanistan #immigration #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat
Earlier: In a state where one in ten depend on SNAP benefits, #food banks are a vital lifeline for hungry residents. And they've just lost 10s of millions in federal funding. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-texas-food-banks/
#hunger #SNAP #poverty #Trump #politics #USpol #news #economy #Texas
This is abhorrent and guts me. They’re trying to deport people to Afghanistan who risked their lives supporting the U.S. - there are up to 200,000 who fled Afghanistan for the U.S. If sent back, many would be killed for their efforts helping U.S.
Vile & cruel.
#uspol #afghanistan #immigration #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat
Where's Laffy?
As you have probably noticed @GottaLaff has pretty much stopped posting on Mastodon in favor of #Bluesky. You can still get her posts by following @gottalaff.bsky.social
If bridging to Bluesky is not your thing, there are a few other very good 'newsgatherers' here on Mastodon, including:
Each of these accounts has their own style, but all are fabulous ways on Mastodon to keep up with the #news.
Earlier: In a state where one in ten depend on SNAP benefits, #food banks are a vital lifeline for hungry residents. And they've just lost 10s of millions in federal funding. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-texas-food-banks/
#hunger #SNAP #poverty #Trump #politics #USpol #news #economy #Texas
Where's Laffy?
As you have probably noticed @GottaLaff has pretty much stopped posting on Mastodon in favor of #Bluesky. You can still get her posts by following @gottalaff.bsky.social
If bridging to Bluesky is not your thing, there are a few other very good 'newsgatherers' here on Mastodon, including:
Each of these accounts has their own style, but all are fabulous ways on Mastodon to keep up with the #news.
#Utah already has a severe shortage of #psychiatric beds, she noted. The #legislature is unlikely to fund hundreds of new beds, & even if it did, there is no work force to staff them.
Without enormous new spending, she said, the center could function less as a treatment facility than “a prison or a warehouse.”
The emerging portrait of the center, scheduled to open in 2027, brings to life a vow that #Trump made 2 years ago in an extraordinary campaign video.
[In the campaign video, #Trump accused] #homeless people of turning great cities into “unsanitary nightmares,” he pledged “to use every tool, lever & authority to get the homeless off our streets.” He said the admin would “open up large parcels of inexpensive land” where “dangerously deranged” people “can be relocated & their problems identified.”
#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTu6JRtJTI
Critics of the new plan say that confining people to a site on the city’s outskirts threatens #CivilLiberties & warn that the promised services may not materialize. The efforts coincide with deep cuts to #Medicaid, which could thwart the project’s financing.
“I’m super anxious about it,” said Jen Plumb, a physician & Democratic state senator who calls the promise of high-quality #medical care “pie in the sky.”
#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #plutocracy #USpol
“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]
#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
While the #Utah effort began before Trump’s return to office, it mirrors his pledge to move the #homeless from urban cores to “tent cities” with *services*. And it accelerated after #Trump issued an EO in July, calling for strict camping bans & expanded power to #involuntarily treat homeless people.
#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.
#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]
#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
They also vow *stern* measures to move #homeless people to the remote site & #force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some #conservatives for a new approach to #homelessness, one embraced & promoted by #Trump.
#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.
#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
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