REPORT: The Cicero Institute, a right-wing think tank that has pushed anti-homeless laws across the country, has “deep financial connections to industries poised to profit from the very same anti-homeless policies peddled by the Cicero Institute’s lobbyists." buff.ly/vsQzjZV

Cicero Institute Linked to Firms Profiting from Criminalizing Homelessness - Davis Vanguard

The National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) issued a research brief asserting that the Cicero Institute, a conservative policy organization, maintains extensive financial ties to sectors poised to…

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Now live! The New Orleans gun violence dashboard, a visualization of fatal gun violence its structural determinants across New Orleans neighborhoods: www.vera.org/newsroom/new...

New Tool Tracks Gun Violence Trends Across New Orleans, Expanding…

CONTACT : media@vera.org New Orleans, Louisiana — Today, the Violence Prevention Institute at Tulane University, in partnership with the Vera Institute…

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2000ft of a school covers A LOT of people, and a lot of main roads/routes one can’t really avoid in their day to day. Especially wild considering that cannabis was decriminalized in the State ~5(?) years ago

Filter | harm reduction journalism@filtermag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“This is not justice. This is geography used as a trap,” said one advocate. Up to 1 year in jail for using marijuana or other drugs within 2,000 feet of a school "covers an enormous portion of most neighborhoods in our cities and towns." Tom Angell reports:

watching your government illegally fire-bomb a country with full view of the atrocities unfolding on your phone is a twilight zone experience in the sense that you literally see the worst shit imaginable in real time -- there is no plausible ignorance it is just there in full torment.

Baldwin says of sheriffs who were beating protesters: “No one can be dismissed as a total monster...But he doesn't know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun, to use the cattle prod.” Relevant to our present moment?

If we want to actually do something about the cartels, we can start by ending the War on Drugs. We already ran this experiment with the mob during Prohibition. Turns out banning things just made organized crime richer. A regulated drug market is safer for everyone.

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Candace Winstead@candacewinstead.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Giving Tuesday! 💞 Find your local harm reduction or syringe services program-these mostly run on a shoestring budget & every dollar goes to people who desperately need care in all its forms. We use donations to buy outreach supplies for all our sites to supplement basic harm reduction materials.

The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people

The fight to preserve public health and science is connected to every other issue we face. All our struggles, all our systems are intertwined, and we can't overtake fascism or ensure our survival without embracing this, writes Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/defe...

Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...

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Very interesting 👀 incredibly important considering the need for a “overamp” reversal and growing popularity of combination opioid / stimulant use

Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP@stephen-murray.com · 10mo ago

Something to keep an eye on — product moving through FDA fast track for “treatment of acute methamphamine intoxication.” Research is funded by NIH/NIDA. Press release is here: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books. Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday. Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.

Instead of criminalizing youth, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social invested in them. Don’t expect mainstream media to cover it—it disrupts their fear-driven narrative about crime, our need for increased policing, and how young people of color pose a threat to public safety.

WTTW - Chicago PBS@wttw.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The city’s One Summer Chicago program put 30,000 young people to work this year, providing jobs in transportation, health care, business and more. WTTW News took a look at some of the barriers young people may be experiencing when looking for work. to.wttw.com/3Hfhbwm

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.

Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

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A local bicycle safety advocacy group has felt a renewed sense of urgency in the wake of yet another cyclist death in the area

Bike Easy pushes for safer bike infrastructure on St. Claude Avenue - Verite News New Orleans

The local bicycle safety advocacy group has been calling for protected bike lanes to be installed on St. Claude Avenue, where a cyclist was struck and killed last week, since 2023.

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Crime is way down in Baltimore despite lower police headcount, but WITH more neighborhood based safety programs.

Jason Guthartz@restructures.bsky.social · last yr.

When cops quit, crime goes down. Pass it on. "The Baltimore Police Department continues to lose more officers than it hired" [Feb 2025] foxbaltimore.com/news/local/b... #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/char...

This is from a single sample, sold as fentanyl, from the drug supply in Lynn, MA. This is what it looks like for government to surrender its regulatory power to the market. This is what we are subjecting our friends and family too instead of oxy or heroin. This is a policy CHOICE.

Researchers found that local overdose deaths increased in the days following a seizure, and recommended SF offer safe supply instead. By @badlin.bsky.social:

SFPD Drug Seizures "Significantly" Linked to Fatal Overdose, Data Show

Researchers found that local overdose deaths increased in the days following a seizure, and recommended SF offer safe supply instead.

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Abolition Journal | A Project of The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction

Abolition Journal is a means for Abolition School to reinforce our devotion to the beauty and chaos of movement work, and win new audiences to join in our collective responsibility to transform the…

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HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.