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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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South Burlington, VT supplies assembled during defense of neighbor from ICE.

People lock arms in front of house in South Burlington, VT, as community members mobilize in defense of neighbor against ICE.

"...a growing crowd linked arms and formed a human chain around the building. Activists appeared prepared to stay around the building for the long haul. One person brought a charcoal grill and began to roast hot dogs..."

Vermont Anti-ICE BBQ Commune enters the chat in South Burlington.

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

“They’re using facial recognition, every advanced tool that they have to try and identify protesters and squash what we’re doing.”

The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on protestors.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

Highlighting Emeryville for some of the most creative anti-homeless architecture I've seen yet.

EHRP-Supported Documentary ‘WOOD STREET’ Will Premiere at Big Sky Film Festival! WOOD STREET follows residents of Oakland’s largest homeless encampment as they organize against eviction, centering unhoused people as experts on their own lives.

Many thanks to @economichardship.bsky.social for supporting my debut feature documentary Wood Street! economichardship.org/2026/01/wood...

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Oh thank you so much!

Facing Arizona’s Crackdown on Homelessness, Two Cities Offer Different Responses State intervention has led Tucson to ramp up sweeps and pass harsh new policies. Officials in the small town of South Tucson have emphasized support and services, even as they face blowback.

South Tucson Mayor Roxy Valenzuela rejects calls to increase policing as a response to rising homelessness.

“Sometimes the best people to offer those resources are not the cops — it can be a community member or a clinician,” she says.

This is the same eugenic belief system that many still hold re: the ongoing pandemic. They believe people’s deaths from covid are acceptable if they’re medically vulnerable. It’s a disgusting ableist belief system and this rhetoric surrounding children in Gaza is the natural consequence of that

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children.

Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade.

But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.

Just to be clear: these rising rates have nothing to do w RFK nixing boosters (though that's very bad), they're because both Democrats and Republicans have dismantled public health and no one is masking and taking airborne disease precautions.

Our current vaccines don't stop transmission, MASK UP!!

rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism

I hope people understand how this is directly tied to criminalizing homelessness, and increasing mass incarceration of black and brown people.

I need people to understand:

1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined

2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit

3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

Trump plans raids on DC's homeless tonight, sources say Advocates are scrambling to relocate people from tent encampments before imminent arrests.

“We are working to get our clients out of harm’s way as much as we can, and to monitor whether the actions follow the law.”

Trump's raids on DC's homeless encampments are starting tonight. Advocates are scrambling to relocate people from tent encampments before imminent arrests.

Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied over 19,000 adults and found that each additional COVID vaccine dose lowered long COVID risk, and antiviral treatments like Paxlovid cut risk by up to 95% beyond six months.

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Cool cool cool 😵‍💫

Oakland gets a shoutout from Trump for being “so far gone”
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‘We’ve lost everything’: Family says landlord’s lack of maintenance has left them homeless A family of five is now homeless and has been given just days to move out if their rental home.

Sarahmarie Grendler and her kids became homeless after their rental was left to rot with water damage and black mold. She ended up in the ICU. The home was condemned.

Her landlord still demanded rent.

"How are you going to ask me for money," she said, "when the house is condemned by the city?"

Guess what vulnerable demographic is most likely to have no immunity to COVID, due to having had no previous exposure to the virus or previous vaccination.

Working While Homeless: In America, It’s All Too Common

This book from @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is astonishing: about the millions of working homeless people who are excluded from the (already insufficient) social safety net. 'Evicted', for a decade in which this country is somehow even crueler to poor people than it's ever been. Highly recommended.

Wood Street - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark WOOD STREET centers on John and LaMonté—two unhoused men turned community leaders—who organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system. Their story is a powerful testament to resilience, solidarity, and the right to remain.

I am in the last week of my crowdfunding campaign to complete post-production for my documentary on the Wood Street community. Please share!

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New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton and former Wood Street resident John Janosko talk about the documentary, the struggle, and what’s to come.

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Thanks @bayareacurrent.bsky.social for covering the work I've been doing with the Wood Street community.

New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton and former Wood Street resident John Janosko talk about the documentary, the struggle, and what’s to come.

Wood Street Commons was once Northern California's largest homeless encampment, functioning as a self-organized community space before police broke it up. We spoke with @caroncreighton.bsky.social n and resident John Janosko on their new documentary about the camp.
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Next week Wednesday, July 30 I'm showing an excerpt from the feature documentary I've been working on following members of Oakland’s Wood Street encampment as they organize to save their long term community from eviction.

RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/wood-stree...