Here are the facts:
•45% of homeless people have mental illness
•66% of homeless people suffer from addiction
•44% of people in locally run jails & 43% of people in state prisons have a mental disorder
•68% of inmates suffer from addiction

If we truly believed that mental illness and addictions were illnesses—not crimes—then we'd allocate resources accordingly. But we don't, because that's just not profitable.

Jordan Neely's murder was preventable. But our policies made his end inevitable.

Truly astounding to me how many people there are out there worried about being punched just because folks are talking about punching nazis.

Let me clue you in on a little history? Pretty much every waking moment between about 1941 and up until roughly the late 80's, everyone thought it was okay to punch nazis. It was so okay, running them over was a joke in the Blues Brothers movies. Guess what didn't happen? A chaotic mess of people punching folks who aren't nazis.

You're telling on yourself.

I'd find conservatives attacks on “woke” funny if they weren't so dangerous.

Woke people fought and won the battle against slavery.

Woke people went to war and defeated fascism in WWII.

Woke people fought for and won equal rights for women and people of color.

Woke people battled for rights for workers like 40-hour workweeks and safety protections.