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Salt Lake City to open homeless concentration camp

You might be surprised to learn that Utah was one of the first places in America to adopt a successful "housing first" model to fight homelessness. This program reduced homelessness in Utah by an astounding 91%. But when the state abandoned this effort in 2017 - under pressure from the far-right Cicero Institute - homelessness shot back up again.

Recently, it was announced that Salt Lake City was building a new complex in an undeveloped part of the city to house 1,300 homeless people. Many media outlets portrayed this as a great, forward-thinking move. But now the sad truth is starting to emerge.

It's actually a concentration camp. The city plans to round up homeless people, transport them to this camp involuntarily, and force them to do hard labor. Randy Shumway of the state's Homeless Services Board said of those housed there, "You're not coming in and out," and boasted that this detention camp was part of a fight against Utah's "culture of permissiveness." Yep, when I think of "permissiveness", I think of Utah. Shumway also writes for Forbes, which is owned by a Chinese Communist Party-linked company.

The Cicero Institute figures prominently in this boondoggle as well, as one of its officials praised this camp and demanded other states and cities follow.

Shumway - like a true Nazi - also urged expansion of involuntary "civil commitment" to have people locked up without due process.

The camp will lose money too. It will cost $75 million to build and $34 million per year to operate.

What we really need to do is go back to the "housing first" model that was successful in places that tried it. In addition to the 91% drop in Utah, this model virtually eliminated homelessness in Norway, and it reduced homelessness in Milwaukee by 50%. Some officials in Louisville have even become interested in "housing first" after a visit by Milwaukee officials.

Student handcuffed because of AI fascism

If you support this Nazism, you always have the option to go fuck yourself, you know.

Fascism is on the march at Kenwood High School outside Baltimore. The school's artificial intelligence system thought a student was carrying a gun, but it was actually a Doritos bag. About 8 police cars showed up at the school, and the student was ambushed by gun-toting cops. He was then handcuffed and searched. No weapon was found.

Our electric bills are soaring and land is being seized to build AI data centers - while AI is being used to make life worse. We're all spending more and losing land just to be harmed.

The media calls that cool. Normal people call it fascism.

And one who supports fascism is a fascist. Ergo, the school in this story is run by fascists.

CFPB thinks Contract with America still applies

Remember when Newtzi's Nazis enacted the Contract with America?

The media cheered it, but real Americans spit in its face.

Well, the Trump regime's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is 30 years behind normal people, and thinks the Contract with America is still valid.

Several states have laws that rightly make it illegal for medical debt to appear on consumers' credit reports. Now the CFPB is planning on barking down an order to invalidate these state laws. The CFPB argues that a federal law passed in 1996 - perhaps the height of Contract with America fascism - preempts the states' powers to protect consumers from medical debt. The agency notes that this federal provision was set to expire, but that in 2003, it was made permanent. However, that was again by a rogue Congress.

A few months ago, Trump's CFPB already gutted a federal regulation that said states could indeed protect the public from medical debt, and now the CFPB is trying to go further with its new order by explicitly saying the states can't do so.

For starters, it is questionable whether laws passed by Congress during the Contract with America or the several years that followed it are even real law. Those "elections" were stolen - with the help of the right-wing media. This is also a Tenth Amendment issue.

The states have an easy remedy - if they have the guts to carry it out. The states should continue to enforce laws that bar medical debt from appearing on credit reports. By contrast, the CFPB has no army. It has no navy, no air force, and no marines. Not even a space force. It has a few political hacks in D.C. who talk big with their shit-caked mouths, but that's it.

Remember, Congress under the Contract with America also tried to repeal IDEA - one of the most enduring and important education laws in the land. If they had repealed IDEA and said that states couldn't pass their own laws like IDEA, would we be calling that legitimate?

Bay Area bridge closes path just because

Fascism is on the march in the Bay Area, because of course it is.

For years, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge north of San Francisco has had a path for pedestrians and bicyclists. But now California highway officials are turning the path into a shoulder open only for automobile traffic - leaving it as a walking and cycling path on weekends only.

There is no other cycling or walking path across the bay for miles around.

This is actually far costlier than leaving it alone. Moving the barrier each weekend will cost $1 million per year.

It's the type of fiscal wastage bastage only the Tea Party could love. Naturally, this change was put in place at the urging of wealthy Marin County residents who opposed working-class people traveling into the county on bikes.

Reddit hermits are cheering.

Hawaii bans Banned Books Week

Move over, California and Fort Lauderdale. America has a new book-banning capital: Hawaii.

Right now, libraries all over America are observing Banned Books Week, in which they showcase books that have been banned or censored. But the Hawaii State Public Library System, which oversees all public libraries throughout the Aloha State, has nixed the event.

One local branch had featured the most widely censored books, along with informational materials from the American Library Association. But this libe was forced to censor this very display.

The statewide library system now prohibits use of the words censorship and banned to refer to books that have been censored or banned. ALA materials and props like caution tape are also forbidden. Stickers with the motto "Censorship is so 1984" were confiscated.

Why? State library officials say Banned Books Week is not "inclusive." Seriously, they said that.

Books are about ideas. Inclusiveness involves a collection of these ideas. Banned Books Week highlights this inclusiveness.

Hawaii's act of censorship sounds like yet another example of right-wing policy using more expansive branding. In other words, by attacking Banned Books Week as not being "inclusive", the state library system is practicing that 2020s phenomenon called wokewashing. This means they market themselves as champions of social justice even though their policies stand for the exact opposite.

Did the People's CDC take over the Hawaii library system when nobody was looking?

Beshear slashes KTAP

World Economic Forum canker sore Andy Beshear is at it again.

After Ant Farm Andy cut senior meals last month, he's now taking an axe to the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program. KTAP is a program that provides financial assistance to low-income families with children. Starting next month, these payments will be significantly reduced.

Beshear's complaint is that KTAP loses more money that it takes in. Uh, it doesn't lose money. It costs money, but it doesn't lose money. Nobody ever says the Department of Defense loses money. The Department of Defense is always spending money that the government doesn't have, as the government has been in debt for as long as anyone can remember. Besides that, Kentucky has enough discretionary funds to last for months.

This is like how Social Security is expected to run out and stop paying recipients, but somehow the Pentagon is never expected to run out.

Apple yanks ICE-tracking apps under pressure from Trump regime

Don't let the fact that America lets shell corporations that are fronts for foreign dictatorships own American land fool you. The Trump regime is often very hostile to immigrants and their families. While corporations and oppressive foreign governments are tolerated, people aren't.

The Biden regime pressured major websites into censoring factual information about COVID-19. Now the Trump thugocracy is coercing companies into yanking apps that let you track ICE agents.

Under pressure from embattled Attorney General Pam Bondi, Apple has pulled apps that enabled users to flag sightings of officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Joshua Aaron, who created ICEBlock - one of the banned apps - said Apple is "capitulating to an authoritarian regime."

The apps are being banned even though they are constitutionally protected and do not violate any laws. All ICEBlock does is show the whereabouts of ICE officers. It has been downloaded over a million times all over the country. However, ICEBlock is not available for the much more common Android system, as Aaron says Android tracks user data.

Back in July, Bondi made an outright threat against Aaron by saying, "We are looking at him, and he better watch out."

Banning ICEBlock is like banning OpenStreetMap because it gives the locations of Flock cameras - like the one the city of Bellevue placed outside my window in retaliation.

With Trump, Bondi, and a complicit Congress covering up the Jeffrey Epstein scandal - along with the regime's illegal censorship of ICE-tracking apps - I think Trump has again outranked Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the countdown of all-time worst Presidents. He might not be worse than George W. Bush, but probably the others.