Molly

Molly

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A sweaty 🥵 update: 💖🏩💖 Thanks to a kind and generous community, we have raised $11,442.17 (CA 3107.99 & Venmo 8334.18) With those funds we were able to get 41 humans (including BIPOC, disabled, elderly, pregnant, children), 14 dogs, and 1 cat set-up in hotels for 2-7 nights depending needs. 1/2

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A sweaty 🥵 update: 💖🏩💖 Thanks to a kind and generous community, we have raised $11,442.17 (CA 3107.99 & Venmo 8334.18) With those funds we were able to get 41 humans (including BIPOC, disabled, elderly, pregnant, children), 14 dogs, and 1 cat set-up in hotels for 2-7 nights depending needs. 1/2

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They helped me in the cold snap, 100% vouch!!

It’s going to get 🥵 PDX!!! Please help and share if you are able to!

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It’s going to get 🥵 PDX!!! Please help and share if you are able to!

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This is a hard watch, but important. We were alone. Thank you @robertmackey.bsky.social and Forensic Architecture for allowing us to feel safe telling our stories. Content warning for footage of the shooting.

A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?t.co Survivors of a mass shooting have publicly shared video contradicting police claims that victims were armed and part of a ‘confrontation’

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A long-awaited piece by @robertmackey.bsky.social in collaboration with Forensic Architecture is finally out, covering the Normandale shooting in Portland. A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims Content warning: distressing footage of a shooting.

A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?www.theguardian.com Survivors of a mass shooting have publicly shared video contradicting police claims that victims were armed and part of a ‘confrontation’

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I think about all the schools across the country that thought it was cool and modern to build curriculums around Chromebooks kids have to haul around, then scold them for spending too much time looking at screens.

"What’s happening with the current generation is not that they are simply choosing TikTok over Jane Austen. They are being deprived of the ability to choose—for no real reason or benefit." unfortunately I think there are plenty who benefit from this! but good article here slate.com/human-intere...

College Students Don’t Know How to Read Anymore. We’re in Denial Over How Bad It’s Gotten.slate.com These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.

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Please help our friend who was just released from the hospital with no supports and told she should not be living outside given her medical needs.

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Please help our friend who was just released from the hospital with no supports and told she should not be living outside given her medical needs.

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No, but you see, the economy is good actually! Just look at these statistics that have nothing to do with your life! I’m Will Stancil!

roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015 www.cbsnews.com/news/rent-ho...

Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report findswww.cbsnews.com Rents over the last two decades have risen much faster than employee pay, contributing to an escalating homelessness crisis in the U.S.

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ICJ ruling drops tomorrow.

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Order in the case South Africa v...webtv.un.org The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Order in the case South Africa v. Israel

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Huge thanks to everyone!!!! We are all we've got. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Another year, another dangerously cold time to be living outside while city "leaders" only make conditions worse. Hoping to provide respite from the cold and accompanying supports for our neighbors during the dangerously cold temp stretch. Please help if you're able. ❤️‍🔥❄️🥶❤️‍🔥

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This horrific COVID wave years into the pandemic at this point at which most semblance of public health & compliance with mitigations has eroded is giving dystopia.

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when you don't use alt text a bun cries

Another year, another dangerously cold time to be living outside while city "leaders" only make conditions worse. Hoping to provide respite from the cold and accompanying supports for our neighbors during the dangerously cold temp stretch. Please help if you're able. ❤️‍🔥❄️🥶❤️‍🔥

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Once incarcerated and now city councilor-elect, Lamont Jones's path to the ballot wasn't easy. “We’re in the era of criminal justice reform, right?” he said. “But none of those people who talk about criminal justice reform was willing to stand beside me.”

His Shock Win Flipped a Pennsylvania County. Now He Vows to Raise Hell over Its Lethal Jail. - Boltsboltsmag.org Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the state’s capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg's deadly facility?

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Jesus fucking Christ.

Portland police kill man suspected of robbing store in Mall 205www.opb.org According to the Portland Police Bureau, officers saw the man leaving the store and attempted to arrest him in the parking lot. They say the man started to run away before a confrontation began.

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As Portland opened two Urban Alchemy-run temporary shelter sites in July, the nonprofit quietly settled a $1M lawsuit brought by employees in California. Court documents inflame critics' concerns about the org's model. Pt. 2 of a series in @streetroots.bsky.social

Turning Green Into Gold: Urban Alchemy’s million-dollar lawsuitwww.streetroots.org Part 2: Urban Alchemy settled a $1 million lawsuit days after Portland opened a UA-operated shelter site in July. The class action suit, brought by an employee in California, speaks to concerns about ...

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We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.

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All studies: money solves poverty All poverty policies: well, we can’t just go around solving problems

Another basic income pilot focused on homelessness has released preliminary results after only 6 months because halfway through the experiment, it is already showing incredible effectiveness. $750/mo for 6 months led to homelessness dropping to 12% versus 23% in the control group on a wait list.

$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless peoplewww.latimes.com A study by USC and a San Francisco-based nonprofit has found that a $750 monthly stipend improves the lives of homeless people.

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Another basic income pilot focused on homelessness has released preliminary results after only 6 months because halfway through the experiment, it is already showing incredible effectiveness. $750/mo for 6 months led to homelessness dropping to 12% versus 23% in the control group on a wait list.

$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless peoplewww.latimes.com A study by USC and a San Francisco-based nonprofit has found that a $750 monthly stipend improves the lives of homeless people.

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On that note, something I can and will vouch for

Their landlord has given them 5 more days to pay. Please help if you are able.

Please , if you are able... help this dad get rent paid today. 🙏🏼

Please , if you are able... help this dad get rent paid today. 🙏🏼

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One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.

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Self-esteem matters for fighting for one's health. The Overdose Prevention Society works with the regional health authority, paying drug users to save lives by running canopies near high-overdose areas, equipped with naloxone and oxygen tanks.

Kaia Sand | People who use drugs can also save liveswww.streetroots.org Drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia reverse overdoses through jobs paid by the regional health authority

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Without supervised use, including communities ready to reverse overdoses, people die. There are more overdose prevention sites now that British Columbia has legalized them, and I wrote about Overdose Prevention Society. www.streetroots.org/news/2023/11...

Kaia Sand | Canadian overdose prevention sites ‘keep people alive’www.streetroots.org Kaia Sand launches ‘Better not Backward’ column series exploring next steps two years into Measure 110 with a visit to the Overdose Prevention Society