@servelan@newsie.socialTrump issued an order targeting homeless people. In D.C., he’s giving it a test run. • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/21/repub/trump-issued-an-order-targeting-homeless-people-in-d-c-hes-giving-it-a-test-run/
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump observed a few tents on public land and some garbage under an overpass.
Perturbed by the imagery, he issued a sweeping demand via his social media site, Truth Social:
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY.”
“We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” Trump continued in his Sunday post. “Be prepared!”
The command came as he made plans to deploy 800 National Guard members to DC and temporarily federalize the city’s police department, …
@servelan@newsie.socialWhile disappearing the homeless:
Donald Trump says he’ll ask Congress for $2B for DC improvements
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5466057-trump-plans-dc-beautification/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox and Friends' Brian Kilmeade apologizes after saying homeless people with mental health issues who refuse help should get an "involuntary lethal injection" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-ho…
@kctipton@mas.toFederal banking rules create conundrum for homeless who can't get accounts | santafenewmexican.com https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news…
@steve@s.yelvington.com
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldIf we're firing people for talking trash about Charlie Kirk's murder, can we also fire Brian Kilmeade for calling for the deaths of #homeless people? And his cohosts need to be spanked for just ignoring his comment.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineTo the extent that he is leading the country at all, potus is leading the country from an alternate reality.
“Despite Trump’s claims, there is no epidemic of homelessness or violent crime in the capital.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a
@scott@carfree.cityI've heard unhoused folks say they don't want tents because it makes them a target. A lot more people sleeping rough with just a sleeping bag, blanket, or merely a piece of cardboard. And of course the much-sensationalized open-air drug use at 16th & Mission is partly a result of taking tents away. This is a sign of degradation and further cruelty, not success.
@ErikUden@mastodon.dehaha, the united states once worked on a nuclear bomb that could wipe out the entirety of france (sundial, a 10,000 megaton bomb) very glad we came up with this instead of building houses for homeless
@teledyn@mstdn.caMeanwhile, not in #Toronto (and four years ago) …
Futuristic sleeping pods for homeless people installed in German city | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/homeless-sleeping-pods-germany-ulm-b1791217.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox and Friends' Brian Kilmeade said homeless people with mental health issues who refuse help should get an "involuntary lethal injection" and "just kill 'em" (Hilary Hanson/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kilme
@anneroth@systemli.social"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/
@bryanculbertson@mastodon.socialCriminalizing poverty is cruel and inhumane 😡
1. OPD should never ever cite or arrest someone just for being homeless
2. Before evicting someone from their shelter of last resort, the city should provide an option of a safe place to go, and enough time to move there with their belongings
http…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageToward AI Matching Policies in Homeless Services: A Qualitative Study with Policymakers
Caroline M. Johnston, Olga Koumoundouros, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Laura Onasch-Vera, Eric Rice, Phebe Vayanos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07129
@cdarwin@c.im“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,”
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning,
shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia.
“We will give you places to stay,
but FAR from the Capital.”
Trump’s post promoted a previously announced news conference on Monday,
which he has promised,
“will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district,
without explaining how.
In a subsequen…
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social27% of families in New York City with children and income below $100,000 live in apartments with more than two people per bedroom. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/nyregion/nyc-overcrowding-h…
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialOver the last couple of weeks I introduced you to our homeless stray cat Cinderella and her descendants Nele, Nepomuk and Nera. Today I'll show you the last one of our cats: say hello to Kasimir. He was also homeless, found by my brother 12 years ago. He moved together with us, when we relocated from Bavaria to the north-eastern corner of Germany in December 2023. Living alone with us for 10 years, it took a while until he became friend with the stray cats family.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI was slightly shocked to hear the foundling wheel has returned, but this is an incredibly moving article about the alternatives. As with many areas of women's health and the plight of the poor, it's extremely under-researched
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/aug/21/pregnant-homeless-what-now-the-search-for-a-safe-place-to-abandon-a-baby
@servelan@newsie.socialFox host sets off uproar with 'just kill them' comment about mentally ill homeless people - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-host-homeless/
@lilmikesf@c.im
@joe@toot.works"Reverse judicial precedents"? The Orange Dipshit is trying to use executive orders to eliminate legal protections for the unhoused?
"The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to “reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees” that limit jurisdictions’ abilities to relocate homeless people."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI guess the delay in the C. Kirk case is that the maga-klan is having trouble finding the right person to accuse. They want to find someone who is a trans immigrant homeless Muslim who mail-in voted for Biden.
@cdarwin@c.imBrian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people:
"Involuntary lethal injection,
or something. Just kill them."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lypzw476j723
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialPresident claims US capital "overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals..."
Well, not until yesterday... But let's keep demanding the Epstein files instead. Don't lose focus.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-wash…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@fgraver@hcommons.socialNow can we call him an authoritarian, dictatorial leader? No one can still deny that, right? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-crime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@roland@devdilettante.comLiars gotta lie sad face :-)
https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115007845131124321
@gwire@mastodon.socialIs there any way to check if that clip of a Fox News presenter, advocating for the murder of homeless people, was an AI deepfake?
@servelan@newsie.socialWhite House suggests homeless in DC could be fined, jailed
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5449262-white-house-dc-homeless/
@detondev@social.linux.pizzagoing through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUrge FIFA to Help Stop the Slaughter of Cats and Dogs in Morocco! #AnimalRights
@arXiv_csDL_bot@mastoxiv.pageRed alert: Millions of "homeless" publications in Scopus should be resettled
Weishu Liu, Haifeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18146 https://ar…
@servelan@newsie.socialWatch what happens in DC; it could be a trial balloon for elsewhere
Trump orders D.C. homeless to move out "IMMEDIATELY"
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/10/trump-dc-homeless-people-move-immediately
@scott@carfree.cityMayor Danny Bluejeans' cruel crackdown on people experiencing homelessness in SF is... sending them instead to SFO. Displacement is not a solution. (But he's about to double down on displacement by banning RVs too) #sfpol
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialSoon to be the Gated Community of Trumpistan where the streets will be paved by homeless immigrants who will then be deported with gold grifted from MAGA sycophants buying whatever crap is being sold...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/trump-washington-dc-crime…
@cdarwin@c.imLaw enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades
after Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of "homeless encampments" in the nation’s capital.
Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning.
He said officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial a…
@scott@carfree.city
@trogluur@social.linux.pizzaSeems like the situation that lead to the Bell Riots in #ds9 episode "Past Tense" is finally coming true...
https://werd.social/@ben/114910169932717016
@servelan@newsie.socialRepublican voter fraud:
"NY state Senate candidate allegedly paid homeless people to lie about donations to net matching funds: report" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151612
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageShifting Narratives: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Trends and Public Attitudes on Homelessness
Akshay Irudayaraj (Brown University), Nathan Ye (University of California--Berkeley), Yash Chainani (University of California--Berkeley)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21794
@servelan@newsie.social**This is unconstitutional; the law itself has no such cap.** HUD did this same b.s. 'enforcing' the Brooke Amendment, which prevented increases in rent due to increases in taxes and utilities; HUD put an arbitrary cap on how many increases, and the court said (*Howard v. Pierce*) 're-write the regulation to conform to enabling legislation'
'So disrespectful': This Trump proposal could throw 1.4 million people out of their homes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/hiousing-trump-homeless/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.17.2025_8.32pm
@cdarwin@c.imCalls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzai just hope that, long after he deploys the illegal it/its schizoaffective palestinian o9a-affiliated jihadist former gifted kid he's grooming on trump, even after he turns all homeless people and his wife into biofuel and dies of reticulan aids from unprotected peter thiel, everybody keeps using this one image of him
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialNew York City ought to immediately initiate eminent domain proceedings and seize every trump or trump org family owned building in the city.
On what grounds:
Because of false statements and failure to abide by agreements with the city.
For instance, tromp-tower was built in violation of an agreement to preserve aspects of the Bonwitt-Teller building.
And the city does have need of space for homeless and low income housing.
If the maga's can fire people based…
@servelan@newsie.socialNew Trump Order To "Force Homeless Off The Streets" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/new-trump-order-to-force-homeless-off-the-streets/
@scott@carfree.cityI looked up this bill, and my Assembly member Matt Haney (SF east side) is a co-author! So rather than fill out the petition as-is, I emailed him a thank-you.
https://mstdn.social/@Bongolian/114934770150709883
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump warns homeless to leave Washington, D.C., ‘immediately’
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/trump-crime-washington-dc-border-.html
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 200,000 AmeriCorps volunteers lost their jobs during April’s defunding of federal agencies by the Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Among those forcibly laid off were 25 volunteers working in agencies across Santa Barbara County.
On Friday, August 29, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) re-funded $184 million to AmeriCorps nationwide, of which $11.5 million comes to California.
@servelan@newsie.socialHomelessness Prevention Unit participants 71% less likely to enter a shelter, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-homelessness.html
@scott@carfree.city @cdarwin@c.imThe city of New Orleans has announced a municipal identification program
to provide ID cards to residents who may not be able to access such cards otherwise
in a move seen as a positive step for the city’s migrant communities
as the Trump administration continues targeting undocumented people.
The municipal government of New Orleans launched the Crescent City ID program on Monday,
which is “designed to promote inclusion” in the city
@cdarwin@c.imAdvocates for mental health and unhoused people
blasted U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday
over his executive order titled
“Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.”
Trump’s order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
to end policies that restrict the government from institutionalizing
“individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others.”
She must also work with other Cabinet members
“to prioritize grants for state…
@cdarwin@c.imAt least 20 people experiencing homelessness die every single day in America.
They die in cars, tents, shelters, and in the streets.
Almost all of these deaths are preventable.
https://homelessdeathscount.org/
@cdarwin@c.imIn this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…
@lilmikesf@c.im#SanFrancisco #nightclub owner quietly acquires 99 yr old abandoned downtown #Oakland bldg that most recently hosted homeless & illegal #raves
