9. Mark Twain was born on the day when Halley’s Comet flew by Earth. He said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Halley’s Comet next appeared on April 21, 1910, which is the day Mark Twain died.

Andrea C. Love, PhD We have reached the point Carl Sagan feared. The slide back into a dark age of ignorance has begun.

So happy for Art. Housing ends homelessness.

LAPD Lieutenant Barrientos got suspended for saying to other cops, “I want to see the female officers wearing nothing but a Sam Browne and wrestling around in oil." No wonder only 20 something percent of recruits are women. Sexism and sexual harassment are an LAPD thing.

From THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY:

Beginning to understand why so many Americans are obsessed with trans issues and panicking about being replaced. They think there are 21x more trans people, 27x more muslims, 15x more jews, 5x more asians, 3x more black people, and 2x more immigrants than there actually are.

The public doesn’t care. They want homeless people stuff gone. They want homeless people gone. We need to find a different way to reach people because empathy doesn’t work.

Still blows my mind that basically zero swing voters found this disqualifying.

Ash Street cost city = $200M. Coincidence? sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/10/25/sta…

Cops call out "sick" and then go work as private security for more pay, then another cop gets paid overtime to cover the first cop's shift. $108 million was spent last year on this racket!

Hey #SanFrancisco moderates; Why so silent about the big report documenting widespread waste and abuse in SFPD? Thought you said you were all about efficiency and accountability??

Very few examples tell you how the punishment bureaucracy works better than this. “Law enforcement” enforces only *some* laws against *some* people.

I’ve been meaning to report this for some time — new law requiring reviews of jails deaths does not include deaths *outside* of jails. Why’s this significant? Many people die on the way to the ER or shortly after being admitted to the hospital. sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/12/16/cal…

This.

Reviewing a San Diego NOFA and the amount of hoops the local government wants you to jump through to help homeless people is staggering. Housing people in need should be met with urgency and efficiency at all levels. It's honestly disheartening.

Tennessee brute arrested for randomly murdering sleeping homeless man in NYC: sources trib.al/nZe5rqF

I saw more people fall victim to shit than I saw people rise above it. You're living in an entirely parallel world with its own politics, economy and traps.

You've been subjected to constant trauma from the day you got here. You're treated like livestock by everyone with any form of authority. You've been intentionally beaten down in the hopes that you turn into a monster because recidivism is how they pay the bills.

🚀 NEW POD DROP🎙️We’re Not Solving Homelessness: Here’s the Real Truth youtu.be/k7amm-92o14?si… We’re not solving homelessness—at least not with the systems we have now. Retired businessman Michael McConnell exposes the uncomfortable truths about why our current strategies are

San Diego spends $200 million yearly on homelessness services. But we can't answer a basic question: what drives 750 people into eviction court each month? A promised tracking system to gather this data remains stalled after 18 months...inewsource investigated🧵