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Oppose criminalizing poverty!1. Email your CM now:https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/City-Council-Leadership/Council-Members2. Add an...

Oppose criminalizing poverty!

1. Email your CM now:
https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/City-Council-Leadership/Council-Members

2. Add an eComment: https://oakland.granicusideas.com/meetings/8661-star-special-public-safety-committee-on-2025-09-10-11-00-am/agenda_items/68ba271af2b67036ce002c0f-3-25-0922-subject-repeal-2020-encampment-mana

3. Register to speak remotely by Tue at 11am, or in person on Wed at 11am: https://oakland.granicusideas.com/meetings/8661-star-special-public-safety-committee-on-2025-09-10-11-00-am/agenda_items/68ba271af2b67036ce002c0f-3-25-0922-subject-repeal-2020-encampment-mana

4. Sign this petition by Housing & Dignity Project: http://chng.it/f2yW4R8KT7

Rowena Brown, Carroll Fife, Charlene Wang, and Ken Houston will be voting at the Public Safety Committee on Wednesday, September 10th at...

Rowena Brown, Carroll Fife, Charlene Wang, and Ken Houston will be voting at the Public Safety Committee on Wednesday, September 10th at 11am

Just two yes votes will advance these policies criminalizing poverty to the full council on September 15th at 9:30am

https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1330825&GUID=823562C3-8FF2-4C84-A6D6-D0A8B5BF78FE&Options=info|&Search=

Major changes are: 1. Strikes current rule that OPD shouldn’t arrest someone just for camping2. Strikes current obligation to offer...

Major changes are:

1. Strikes current rule that OPD shouldn’t arrest someone just for camping

2. Strikes current obligation to offer shelter before closing an encampment

3. Strikes currently permitted mobile showers as a health intervention

4. Adds definition of encampment as just 2+ tents for 48 hours

5. Strikes current flexibility for council to temporarily allow a small encampment operated by an approved managing agency

6. Adds ban on encampments in ALL parks (not just playgrounds)

Criminalizing poverty is cruel and inhumane 😡1. OPD should never ever cite or arrest someone just for being homeless 2. Before evicting...

Criminalizing poverty is cruel and inhumane 😡

1. OPD should never ever cite or arrest someone just for being homeless

2. Before evicting someone from their shelter of last resort, the city should provide an option of a safe place to go, and enough time to move there with their belongings

https://oaklandside.org/2025/09/05/encampment-policy-oakland-houston-homeless-shelter-arrests/

Take back our economy from the oligarchs by democratizing itPrivatization of public services has proven to be a massive failure for housing,...

Take back our economy from the oligarchs by democratizing it

Privatization of public services has proven to be a massive failure for housing, healthcare, transportation, energy, etc.

Publicly funded and operated services are how we will save our democracy!

https://youtu.be/sWHxKD27XKk

If you feel dependent on an LLM to accomplish daily tasks then I recommend taking a break for a month to rebuild your cognitive abilities,...

If you feel dependent on an LLM to accomplish daily tasks then I recommend taking a break for a month to rebuild your cognitive abilities, and then evaluate after that if you still find value in it

Similar to taking a break from smoking to see if you actually like smoking or are just addicted

"LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic,...

"LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."

Brain scans confirmed significantly fewer neural connections for LLM users

Stop using LLMs if you value your brain

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

If we had defunded the police and abolished ICE in 2020 after the cops rioted against us, then Trump would not have the troops for his...

If we had defunded the police and abolished ICE in 2020 after the cops rioted against us, then Trump would not have the troops for his Christian white nationalist project

We are a country of immigrants of course we fly flags from all around the world here!Multicultural democracy is fucking rad ✊

We are a country of immigrants of course we fly flags from all around the world here!

Multicultural democracy is fucking rad ✊

If you want to be even more depressed, the Dems are going to nominate a Dick Cheney to run against JD Vance in 2028, lose in a landslide,...

If you want to be even more depressed, the Dems are going to nominate a Dick Cheney to run against JD Vance in 2028, lose in a landslide, and blame AOC for it