The Homeless Crisis Reporting Project is almost half over, and we've got two more great articles for you - read them at bit.ly/DCHCRP and stay tuned for more articles throughout the day!

This is what Americans outside DC don’t realize-we now live under constant surveillance and threat and tension. Soldiers with guns everywhere you walk. Fear every time you see tow trucks bec it means ICE is about to kidnap someone. Starting to film every time you see >1 cop car gathered. #FreeDC

It seems to me a great many of DC’s elected officials and government employees are so concerned about not losing Home Rule that they’d happily give up our autonomy to keep it. #FreeDC

Dan's latest song, for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and all the comedians out there--

Trump's militarization of DC is not about safety. It's about suppressing Black leadership, stopping Black progress & criminalizing Black & brown youth. If Republicans actually cared about safety, they'd invest in prevention, mental health, & community-based supports that keep people safe. #FreeDC

Tools for resisting fascism— Responding to Federal Occupation: bit.ly/resistancetoolkit Protesting in 2025: bit.ly/protesting2025 Social Change Library: commonslibrary.org/ InfoSec for Activists: infosecforactivists.org Add more in the comments. Let’s make this a resource thread.

One famous TV person went on air and said we should kill homeless people. Another reported the news. Can you guess which one got fired?

Admiration for Andy Wassenich, Director of Policy at Miriam's Kitchen:

While Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggests killing people who are homeless by lethal injection, Andrew Wassenich and the team at Miriam's Kitchen in Washington, DC have been feeding them.

Please consider taking this action. The new funding guidelines threaten existing programs and practices and require compliance to other directives unrelated to homelessness/housing (immigration, LGBTQ+, etc.) as a means to obtaining funding, also known as blackmail.

Words escape me.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

I spoke to CNN for this piece. A TV segment should air tonight between 5-6pm as well.

Next: Trump to rename Dept of Housing and Urban Development to "Department of we are going to stop your rental assistance, force you into homelessness, and then arrest you for sleeping outside" as it more accurately describes the agency's new mission.

We should not be arresting our unhoused neighbors. What we're witnessing on our streets is cruel, counterproductive, and unacceptable. Federal agents should not be patrolling our streets, terrifying our residents, and taking people away. The federal surge needs to end.

Happy Labor Day! If you’re unhoused and you have a hoarding disorder, the government confiscates your property under the guise of public health and safety. Can we not use the same reasoning to confiscate the property of the extreme hoarders of wealth?

“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”

Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

I’d like to point out that for the amount of $ Americans spent on legalized gambling in 2024, we could house every last homeless person in the country at market rate for multiple years. Homelessness is not just a political failure, but a societal failure. #priorities.

You only withdraw from this if you don’t care about human rights and don’t want to be held to account. End of story.

They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.

If all of the millions and millions of dollars being spent on federal police and the National Guard in DC were spent on food, housing and community-based violence interruption, I bet you actual donuts to dollars you’d get more bang for your buck.

“”It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said… The judge said Torez Riley appeared to have been singled out because he is a Black man who carried a backpack that looked heavy.”

I did an interview today with Sky News on homelessness and encampment clearings. At one point the reporter says, ‘Well, this is a dangerous city —“ And I cut him off and I say, “It’s NOT A DANGEROUS CITY!!” And then go off on a bit of a rant.

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If you live in a state that has sent or is sending National Guard to DC, please call AND email all of you elected officials, local, state and federal and tell them you oppose the occupation of DC. And then get all your friends to do the same. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #FreeDC.

🚨 DC CALLS ON OUR ALLIES IN OHIO: We do not want OH National Guard members in our communities - and neither should you. Allies, we call on you to get Governor DeWine to recall OH National Guard members immediately. Send a letter: FreeDCproject.org/ohio

🚨 DC CALLS ON OUR ALLIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA: We do not want SC National Guard members in our communities - and neither should you. Allies, we call on you to get Governor Henry McMaster to recall SC National Guard members immediately. Send a letter: FreeDCproject.org/south-carolina

🚨 DC CALLS ON OUR ALLIES IN WEST VIRGINIA: We do not want WV National Guard members in our communities — and neither should you. We call on you to get Governor Patrick Morrissey to recall WV National Guard members immediately. Send a letter: FreeDCproject.org/west-virginia

I chatted w/ ‪@geedee215.bsky.social‬ on @npr.org's Code Switch abt the impact of Trump's hostile takeover of DC, how it is impacting people who live outside, & more I also dropped some Torah, which I thought they would edit out. But I'm glad they didn't Give it a listen npr.org/2025/08/20/n...

For what he’s spending on the new ballroom at the White House (which scant few Americans will ever set foot in) we could house 4,255 people in DC for the entirety of his term WITH wraparound services.

Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Why can they find places to sleep for national guard troops coming from other states to occupy DC, but not for homeless ppl. In Jan 2020, they used hotels for the guard. Will they do the same this time? If so, why is there $ for the army to stay in hotels but not homeless ppl?

For the daily cost of deploying the DC Guard, $420,000, 9 folks could move from homelessness to housing. This doesn't include the costs of the 4 states sending guard units to occupy DC. We have the money to solve homelessness, but we don't have the political will.

If you saw the news circus Thurs. night you saw these folks in Washington circle being told they had til Monday before they had to move. Friday morning, the Feds had them removed while most residents were getting breakfast. Fast, in 10 mins. They then cleared a few other small camps in an hour.

Trump's raids on DC's homeless encampments are starting tonight, although most of these people have nowhere else to go. “In DC, there are, right now, 30 open shelter beds for men and 30 open shelter beds for women… So for all intents and purposes, there’s nowhere else for people to go.”

In a small park in northwest DC, a group of what appeared to be federal agents tore down an anti-ICE banner. In its place, they seemed to have left a dildo. With this heinous act, they crisply conveyed what Donald Trump’s occupation of DC is really about.

Homelessness in DC has actually been steadily declining in DC over the last 10 years. We had a spike during the pandemic that we’re still trying to lower, but numbers are generally lower than they were during Trump’s first administration. Because we’ve invested in proven strategies that work.

Friends. If you live or work in DC, and you encounter an unhoused person give them some kindness. A few bucks, a metro card, and ask them if you can call the shelter hotline for them. 202-399-7093.