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deepbluestate1.bsky.social

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Found Home Depot card in drawer.
Cancelled it.
F**k ICE
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Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say

Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots

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December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM

deepbluestate1.bsky.social

@deepbluestate1.bsky.social

Who is Bubba?
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mountrushwhore on Instagram: "by @microplastic_cat"

mountrushwhore on November 15, 2025: "by @microplastic_cat".

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November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM

deepbluestate1.bsky.social

@deepbluestate1.bsky.social

Mamdani wins!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

N.Y.C. Mayor Live Updates: ‘The Future Is in Our Hands,’ Mamdani Says as He Celebrates Victory

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November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

This is an excellent idea!!!

November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷

@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social

Trying to stay grounded but damn they make it difficult.

"An accountability center is involuntary, OK — you're not coming in and out," Randy Shumway, chairman of the state Homeless Services Board, said in an interview.“

“In Utah, Trump's Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape”

In Utah, Trump's Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.
State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City's edge. Critics see "a prison, or a warehouse."
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By Ellen Barry and Jason DeParle Photographs by Kim Raff Ellen Barry, who covers mental health, reported from Salt Lake City. Jason DeParle, who writes about poverty, reported from Washington.
Oct. 29, 2025
To glimpse the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump, consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture on the outskirts of Salt Lake City where the state plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people in what supporters call a services campus and critics deem a detention camp.

They also vow stern measures to move homeless people to the remote site and force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some conservatives for a new approach to homelessness, one embraced and promoted by Mr. Trump.
With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some homeless Utahns can avoid jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under court-ordered civil commitment and the effort will include an "accountability center" for those with addictions.

"An accountability center is involuntary,
OK — you're not coming in and out," Randy Shumway, chairman of the state Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. Utah will end a harmful
"culture of permissiveness," he said, and guide homeless people "towards human thriving."

October 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM

deepbluestate1.bsky.social

@deepbluestate1.bsky.social

While SNAP benefits are cancelled

If you see someone stealing food

NO YOU DIDN'T

#NoSnitchNovember

October 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM

deepbluestate1.bsky.social

@deepbluestate1.bsky.social

I'm 71 with arthritis and exceed the minimum to join ICE in my regular workout at the gym. I was inspired by President Kennedy's Council on Youth Fitness to stay fit when I was a kid. I don't recall fat-shaming being part of the program.
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