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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 11 days ago • 597 comments

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

submitted 29 days ago • 631 comments

Demonizing homeless people isn't some sort of heroic truth-telling. It's a political tactic meant to divert attention from the poverty wages, unaffordable housing, and engineered neglect that created America's homelessness crisis.

submitted 42 days ago • 38 comments

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

submitted 47 days ago • 652 comments

“Education” Secretary Linda McMahon writes with the skill of a rabid toddler

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

submitted 53 days ago • 600 comments

Caring for each other, and finding space and support for self care, really is healing.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

submitted 56 days ago • 265 comments

THIS. The law always has been and always will be what we mightily flawed human beings make it. The law is always about power and often NOT about justice.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench

submitted 58 days ago • 277 comments

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

submitted 58 days ago • 169 comments

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

submitted 58 days ago • 1627 comments

New Trump rules for homeless service providers: no help for undocumented people, no funds for orgs that practice “gender ideology.” It’s not about shelter or services, it’s about punishing already marginalized people. Depravity as policy.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

So interesting

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

So many horrors

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

“His platform says only that he will introduce "a 'housing first' approach to eliminating homelessness." ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR LACKING HOUSING IS NOT HOUSING FIRST

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. capacity for health and humanitarian impact has been largely dismantled, leading to severe consequences for people abroad. Now, with the defunding of universities, the destruction will have severe consequences for people here as well.

submitted 60 days ago • 15 comments

Abominable

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Abominable

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This is a direct attack on the civil rights act — something that comes as a surprise to none of the scholars that have been paying attention: www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 60 days ago • 588 comments

In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials. nyer.cm/hMT7u9R

submitted 69 days ago • 129 comments