“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

My latest comic for @realchangenews.bsky.social - new issue out today! Given the recent police violence towards LGBTQ+ rights protestors in the park named after him, telling Cal Anderson’s story felt imperative. #calanderson #calandersonpark #gayrightsmovement #pride🌈 #seattlehistory

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Demonizing homeless people isn't some sort of heroic truth-telling. It's a political tactic meant to divert attention from the poverty wages, unaffordable housing, and engineered neglect that created America's homelessness crisis.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

“Education” Secretary Linda McMahon writes with the skill of a rabid toddler

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

Caring for each other, and finding space and support for self care, really is healing.

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

THIS. The law always has been and always will be what we mightily flawed human beings make it. The law is always about power and often NOT about justice.

Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

New Trump rules for homeless service providers: no help for undocumented people, no funds for orgs that practice “gender ideology.” It’s not about shelter or services, it’s about punishing already marginalized people. Depravity as policy.

So interesting

So many horrors

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

“His platform says only that he will introduce "a 'housing first' approach to eliminating homelessness." ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR LACKING HOUSING IS NOT HOUSING FIRST

The U.S. capacity for health and humanitarian impact has been largely dismantled, leading to severe consequences for people abroad. Now, with the defunding of universities, the destruction will have severe consequences for people here as well.

Abominable

Abominable

This is a direct attack on the civil rights act — something that comes as a surprise to none of the scholars that have been paying attention: www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials. nyer.cm/hMT7u9R

Abominable

It is possible to end chronic homelessness. Permanent Supportive Housing is a major tool that communities, including here in Cincinnati, use to end chronic homelessness. #EndHomelessness #Homelessness #ChronicHomelessness

Abominable.

25 mins after I posted this exact prediction, the onslaught begins:

As we face the horrors of a government that disappears those it deems threats, keep in mind Trump's specific and repeated threats to disappear unhoused Americans into detention camps on federal land, far from public view. It's not a question of whether, but when: ssrn.com/abstract=515...

So many myths about homelessness hide the very human stories of the incredible people enduring it. I hope folks will read the new book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, which gives voice to many of these souls and exposes our own complicity. Review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss. I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/ www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...

been wondering when we would see a case like this. I saw many reactions to Mahmoud Khalil like 'if this can happen to a permanent resident, it can happen to a citizen too.' which is true! and also, in my head I was like...this is def already happening to citizens and just hasn't blown up yet 😬

It was surreal to learn Justice Sotomayor quoted me in her blistering Grants Pass v. Johnson dissent. My latest, Unavoidable Consequences, critiques the Johnson majority for stripping Eighth Amendment protections away from unhoused people. Forthcoming in Utah L. Rev.: ssrn.com/abstract=515...

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Another example of a city substantially reducing homelessness through a Housing First strategy. www.governing.com/urban/year-a...

1000 probationary Department of Veterans Affairs employees fired. OIT, Procurement, and Veterans Benefits Administration. They are lying and saying it won’t affect support for veterans. news.va.gov/press-room/v...

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to discharge 50% of its workforce, the agency’s union president told Bloomberg Law. HUD provides housing and community development assistance. It also enforces civil rights laws and pays to rebuild communities after disasters.

“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way.“ www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

NIH IN YOUR STATE “Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America” www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

USDOT is proposing to prioritize areas with high marriage & birth rates for funding. Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas. www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

All, the Pasadena Humane society is listing pets that have been brought to the shelter, for anyone who is looking for their pets: 24petconnect.com/psdn?sb=days...

Fewer veterans are homeless because of Housing First, which prioritizes housing without conditions like sobriety, says BHHI Director Dr. Margot Kushel (@mkushel.bsky.social). “If we did that for every population, we’d be in a better place.” Read more:

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

The latest national estimates of the # of Americans experiencing homelessness show a devastating (but not surprising) surge across virtually every category, including families with children & ppl entering homelessness for the 1st time. www.huduser.gov/portal/sites...

Exhibit #938384+ as to why law enforcement led responses to homelessness are not only expensive, but ineffective and even counterproductive. Being without a home should not be a crime. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...