“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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Air strikes by either #Israel or the #USA have destroyed #Iran 's #WHO -affiliated Pasteur Institute for vaccination and infectious disease research, just days after another health research centre was hit. This is deliberate, criminal and evil.
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Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
The Trump administration's Operation PARRIS started in Minnesota before courts put it on hold. Resettlement agency leaders in Pittsburgh are preparing refugees here, including use of the Ready Now! app in case of sudden detention, @venuri.bsky.social reports www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-r...
Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges. n.pr/4buWMzI
Axios/Pittsburgh: New book explains how Pittsburgh moved "Beyond Steel"
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Please pass on this fundraising event flyer for Casa San José, working hard to provide immigrant families with support including: El Fondo Solidario de Pittsburgh (Bond Fund), groceries, medical care, English lessons, kid's mentors,
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Refugees face a “turbo-charged” misinformation environment. Pittsburgh's Bhutanese community is telling its story and trying to protect 15 years of hard-won progress www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-b...
We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too." -- A top Bush II aide (said to be Karl Rove) to a reporter, 2004.
I'd put my money on US/Israel continuing total domination of Iran, and it's prettttyyyy hard to mourn the loss of that country's leadership. But wasn't there ALREADY a food/water crisis in Iran? Is there a relief plan to address that if demolition of regime makes it worse? Did anyone think about it?
In a 4-3 vote, Allegheny County Council committee members advance a bill to restrict county employees from cooperating with ICE. A final vote may come as soon as March 10. buff.ly/dXL1DL8
“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
The Allegheny Valley rift over the detention of immigrants deepened last night, as Oakmont council voted against collaboration, Springdale Borough officials declined to discuss their ICE pact and another school moved to keep federal agents out www.publicsource.org/springdale-o...
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The pundit case for Fetterman is he's independent and willing to buck his own party. But the party isn't just Chuck Schumer. There are actual voters with actual concerns who supported him. And every day he shows himself to be uninterested in or hostile to their interests. Should they be grateful?
SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI!
Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
DHS will almost certainly shutdown tomorrow morning.
We need lawmakers to reign in ICE and enact safeguards that will protect our communities.
We demand accountability for ICE's lawlessness.
Dems are standing firm: no ICE reforms, no DHS funding.
Leading the Clairton dive is @quinnglabicki.bsky.social, who has been capturing the city's spirit and its skepticism through pen and lens for five years.
