PSA: Let us move in the spirit of kindness and leaving the world a better place than we found it.

Community Pride #FreeThemAll614 is having a Queer Skate Night tonight yall!! Even if you don’t skate come through and dance, kick it with your fellow local queer and trans folk and enter the free raffle!! #QueerSkate #CCP #ColumbuscommunityPride

We oppose all forms of capitalism, corporate globalization, and governing institutions, which are harmful to society.

People who are housing insecure are members of your community. People living with mental illness are members of your community. People who use drugs are members of your community. People engaging in sex work are members of your community.

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” - Hélder Câmara

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The WHO has urged even fully vaccinated people to continue wearing masks and taking other precautions because of concerns about the Delta variant. The guidance is a break with the CDC, which relaxed advice on mask-wearing for vaccinated Americans. nyti.ms/3AjJRfp

This month in “the war on drugs”

No one is free until all are free.

For The Baffler I wrote about the prevailing myths around the so-called opioid epidemic. While Big Pharma may present a convenient villain, the truth is that users were criminalized, kickstarting a jail construction spree in places like rural Appalachia thebaffler.com/salvos/united-…

Columbus has no publicly accessible sharps disposal. Most people don't even know it's legal to throw away sharps containers (securely taped closed) in regular garbage.

Behold the efficiency of capitalism

I've accidentally touched fentanyl and people have smoked fent next to me during outreach (before I noticed). I have never overdosed. If this accidentally exposure myth was true, the whole of the commuters going through Civic Center BART station pre pandemic would've fallen out.