My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

Venmo @powwowgrounds

www.powwowgrounds.com

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

This piece on fewer people moving around is a must-read (gift link), as it has implications for higher education and economic mobility more broadly. Housing policy and interest rates affect nearly everyone.

I talked to KCRW about how, since the 1980s, political leaders have framed homelessness as a problem of individual pathology—a tactic to conceal its economic roots, justify removing unhoused people from public space, and divert scrutiny from a system that both creates and profits off this precarity.

I wrote several books about Trump and organized crime. But more to the point, authors like David Cay Johnston and Wayne Barrett wrote about Trump as a mafioso *in the 1980s*. This was WIDELY known. The question was never "is Trump involved in organized crime?" but "why does the US govt allow it?"

Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis

www.vox.com/policy/40233...

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

I kept changing my mind which Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.