“Your job isn’t keeping up with your housing, which is the biggest issue,” said Kansas City Houseless Prevention Coordinator Josh Henges. “We’ve seen over the last five years that wages are not even coming close to matching the cost of housing.” In Kansas City, that math is stark. buff.ly/KlsZlRX

www.kmbc.com/article/kans... motel residents, not counted in homeless numbers.

The skyrocketing price comes as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state. interc.pt/43qaEH1

“By cutting aid for permanent housing by 2/3 next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support… beginning as soon as January. All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.”

Devoured this book in 3 days. Excellent narrative storytelling following several families, with data and stats interwoven. Extremely timely with current SNAP events and talk of affordability.

Asylum seekers don’t come from "insane asylums.”

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” It’s very sad that Gov. Stitt can say this obviously true thing but @GovBillLee wouldn’t in a million years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Looking forward to a great local event tonight!

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

“This meeting could have been an email” energy.

"The number of Americans missing work for National Guard deployments or other military or civic duty is at a 19-year high, adding disruption to a labor market that’s already under strain." Pretty remarkable when we're not at war—except against our own people. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Watch what they do, not what they say

A little fiction break, and now back to some non-fiction. I read and enjoyed Icebound by @andreapitzer.bsky.social … I’m not sure “enjoy” will be the right word for this book about such a dark topic, but I believe I’ll learn plenty.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Grieving for the America I love.

Quite the contrast. Feb 28, 2025. Aug 15, 2025. @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

Immigration thugs drew their guns on a disabled kid & dragged him from a car outside a school. Then they somehow left a bunch of bullets on school grounds. When agents were contacted to pick up the ammunition, they told the school to use it for target practice. www.huffpost.com/entry/la-boy...

That wouldn’t have deep reaching impacts at all, across multiple industries

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do! MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference. The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.

I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

I really do love my city. Never thought I’d end up staying here as long as I have, but it has a lot of beauty and greatness… if one knows where to look.

When I saw this book by @maklelan.bsky.social I knew I had to read it. So excited to dive in!

Finished @leahlitman.bsky.social book Lawless last night. Chapter 5 really illuminated and gave context to what we are seeing with the dismantling and debilitation of our government agencies. Great book. I’ve already ordered a copy for a gift!

"the Justice Department’s decision to spare Hernandez shows that officials are also willing to keep serious offenders in the United States to meet their particular goals. Abrego has no prior criminal arrests or convictions" Violent felon offers to lie about Abrego to save his own ass. DOJ accepts.

An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

As good of a time as any to start this read.

Republicans want to convince more moms to stay home. Here’s how. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/E25lVO

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Trump repost on Truth Social: “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference.” The US President is full blown crazy and Congress refuses to act. God help us.

Massive turnout #nokings in Kansas City, great energy and bubbles!

Kc, Mo #nokings 1 Hour before the protest

I listen to podcasts slightly sped up, so it’s always funny when I see a clip posted from one of my frequents and I’m like, “Are they drinking? Why are they talking so weird?” But it’s just their normal voice and speed.

No funds to rebuild after devastating storms and fires, but troops if you demand basic human rights. Got it.

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.

The only president I’ve ever seen that feels the need to use the military for his anti-immigration actions after manufacturing the crises to begin with. There were no protests, ICE raids started this whole debacle! There’s serious dark agendas at work here… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Authoritarians like to punish the power to protest, which is enshrined in our constitution.

Get ready for more masquerading like this. But don’t fight back against your attackers/kidnappers bc they COULD be federal agents…

When I’m broke like USA supposedly, I tell the kids no dinner (snap), no healthcare (Medicaid), no future investment (grants), we need to cut back (fire fed servants) and then I throw myself a big, expensive, wasteful party and destroy infrastructure in the process.

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

Trying to stretch the peace from the weekend into next week. Jedediah Smith State Park, California.

WATCH: “Working class Americans understand that vulnerability.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social points out the Republican Medicaid cuts/work requirements would mean hourly workers are at risk of losing their health care if their job doesn’t give them enough hours that week.

Got away from the news and life for a few days.