People of Florida who are currently under an extreme heat watch: Your governor just rejected nearly $350 million in federal Inflation Reduction Act dollars that would have provided rebates for energy-efficient home upgrades
rtoinsider.com/50004-desantis…

If you live Portland, and you voted in favor of the city charter reform, I would encourage you to learn more about how Dan Ryan & Rene Gonzalez are trying to overturn the will of the voters. 👇🏾

“When the rich rob the poor it’s called business. When the poor fight back it’s called violence”. Seen in Kenya.

Head's up: a fire weather watch is posted for the Willamette Valley south of Portland for Friday afternoon and evening. That means the predicted low humidity and strong winds will make any fire starts spread quickly.
Be careful out there.

If you don't understand shit about homelessness and government responses to it, this is a good bit to read.

Another example of a police reform failing: Vallejo police canceled a contract with a video analytics company sifting through body cam footage because it kept surfacing videos of officers behaving inappropriately, so the footage will remain unreviewed

openvallejo.org/2023/07/09/und…

A new report shows why politicians across the country are opting to criminalize homelessness instead of funding evidence-based solutions to the underlying causes of homelessness: invisiblepeople.tv/why-do-cities-…

Every time I mention that >6000 people are being hospitalized and >500 dying weekly from COVID, people are completely shocked! I get blank stares, 'no way!' and 'how come they aren't they saying anything about it?' Great thread on why. 👇🏾

No, we can’t “you do you” the climate crisis.

I’m asking, once again for folks just now discovering the horror of climate change, to listen to Indigenous scientists and experts who have been talking about this forever as well as how to prepare and how to care for each other.

BREAKING: Tennessee Colleges no longer to teach anything.

I’m not against reform—the American government is. I expect abolition to sound crazy to people because we’re all educated to believe our system is meant to achieve Justice, even when it doesn’t, but the reality is that mass incarceration is slavery and a business.

Don't look up.
Don't look at the flooding in Vermont.
Don't look at the flooding in Spain, India, or Japan either.
Don't look at the coral forecast
Don't look at the balmy water off Florida.
Don't look at the heat dome in Texas.
Don't look at the Antarctic ice anomaly
Don't look

The mom of Damarius Butts, a young Black man killed by Seattle police, is outraged and demanding an apology after learning police kept a mock tombstone marking her son’s death in their break room. Also the room was decorated with a large 'Trump 2020' flag. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…

It's not lost on me that of the thousands of people assaulted during the protests for no reason, the only person that got a public apology from the Portland police was a white woman.

Let this sink in— in 2018, reported homeless people in the USA was 100,000.

In 2023 it’s 580,000 and housing activists report this is a LOW ESTIMATE and that the real number of homeless people in the US can be as high as 800,000.

There are 17 million empty homes in the US.

Dr. Benjamin Mauck, a Tennessee surgeon, was shot to death in an exam room by a patient who laid in wait at the clinic for “several hours” before carrying out the targeted attack.

Permitless carry went into effect in Tennessee in 2021. commercialappeal.com/story/news/loc…

Politics is the art of saying extremely distasteful things in a way that makes them seem logical.

So why are we letting politicians run the country?

Those in power want the victimized “to “hurry up & get over it.” They want us to move at the pace of their discomfort, which comes with a sense of urgency. They don’t want to feel bad or confront their inhumanity for too long. So, they silence, an age’s old tool of the powerful.