CPO, National Alliance to End Homelessness - though opinions here are my own. Dad, music/lit fiend, mountain person. Seattle native, m/t historian Clare Lyons

Washington, DC
Joined November 2011
“Let it Be” was urging people to let go of the Beatles, since they had more or less let go. Maybe time for me to take that approach to the Brewers…
The Beatles’ “Let It Be” has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. Written by Paul McCartney and released in 1970, the song features Billy Preston on organ and remains one of the band's most enduring recordings.
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Any criminal defense attorneys wanna give some context? Cuz “DOJ Rapid Response” isn’t totally objective 😎
The Department filed a waiverless criminal information to toll the statute of limitations as it relates to allegations concerning former FBI Director Comey. Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals. This is an ongoing criminal investigation, and we will not comment further. courtlistener.com/docket/750…
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Eight days from tomorrow.
Remember, people experiencing homelessness have a right to vote! Seven weeks from tomorrow. Please make it happen
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Steve Berg retweeted
I’ve so few friends. The remaining visited the grave of one of our friends who died ten years ago last week overseas. That guy was a superhero. And his death gutted so many. You can waste your life or you can do as much good as you can for as long as you can. That’s the choice
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With that, we don’t need hierarchy
Love yourself, love your neighbor, love people who are in your way. That’s where power comes from
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Love yourself, love your neighbor, love people who are in your way. That’s where power comes from
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And will get worse. Another reason to end homelessness and stop burning oil
Extreme heat has been estimated to kill almost half a million people a year
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Local DC street newspaper with great coverage
NEWS: Nonprofits and local governments are asking a district court to rule on the Trump administration’s approach to homelessness funding before December in a last attempt to stop the federal government from changing long-standing guidelines. bit.ly/4siQ8TV
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Steve Berg retweeted
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
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This debacle has been triggering for any person who has been abused, as well as any person who has fought to protect children from abuse in their own homes.
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If people want to solve the problem, rather than ruin people’s lives to punish them, then insist on the sound public health decision
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- Leo Tolstoy
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Not the right way for the federal government to act!
Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation. “The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.” propublica.org/article/tohon…
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We’ve gone 81 years without doing this again. Let’s keep that up
August 6, 1945. A 29 year old engineer is walking to work in Hiroshima on the last day of a three month business trip. He's packed. He's going home to his wife and baby son tomorrow. He looks up and sees a bomber high overhead. Something small falls from it. Then the sky turns white. His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He designed oil tankers for Mitsubishi, and he'd been sent to Hiroshima to work at the company's shipyard. He was about two miles from where the bomb exploded. The blast threw him off his feet. It burst his eardrums. It burned the left side of his upper body, his face and arms. For a while he couldn't see. He spent the night in an air raid shelter in a city that no longer existed. The next morning, badly burned, he found two of his coworkers who had also survived. Together they made their way through the ruins to a train station and got on one of the few trains still running. They were going home. Home was Nagasaki. He got back on August 8, covered in bandages. His family barely recognized him. Doctors treated his burns. Most people would have stayed in bed. On August 9, Yamaguchi reported to work. He was sitting in the Mitsubishi office in Nagasaki, telling his boss what had happened in Hiroshima. How one bomb had wiped out an entire city. According to Yamaguchi, his boss told him that was impossible. That he must be out of his mind. And at that moment, through the window, the room filled with the same white light. The second atomic bomb had just exploded over Nagasaki. Once again, Yamaguchi was about two miles away. The blast tore the bandages off his burns. The office was wrecked. And somehow, again, he lived. He rushed home terrified of what he'd find. His house was destroyed. But his wife and son had survived too. They had gone out looking for burn ointment for him and were sheltering in a tunnel when the bomb hit. Treating his injuries from the first bomb may have saved them from the second. He was sick for a long time. His hair fell out. He had fevers and infections. But he recovered. He went back to work, raised a family, and lived a normal life for decades. He rarely talked about it publicly. Hundreds of people are believed to have lived through both bombings. But in 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Yamaguchi as a survivor of both, the only person ever formally given that status. Late in life he finally started speaking out against nuclear weapons. He even addressed the United Nations. He died in 2010 at the age of 93. He was hit by the only two atomic bombs ever used in war. And he outlived the century they were dropped in.
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On this day in 1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience released ‘Electric Ladyland’ in the U.S. From “Voodoo Child” to “All Along the Watchtower,” Hendrix stretched blues, rock and psychedelia into another dimension.
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