#Homeless Joe

[gillmanchillman]

LMAO oh nooo the drama! Apparently Elijah was Shawna's side piece, AND Homeless Joe's side piece as well

It's hard to flirt in public when all my sims fuck each other 🤷‍♂️

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #29

July 26-August 2 2024

President Biden announced his plan to reform the Supreme Court and make sure no President is above the law. The conservative majority on the court ruled that Trump has "absolute immunity" from any prosecution for "official acts" while he was President. In response President Biden is calling for a constitutional amendment to make it clear that Presidents aren't above the law and don't have immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. In response to a wide ranging corruption scandal involving Justice Clarence Thomas, President Biden called on Congress to pass a legally binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court. The code would force Justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political actions, and force them to recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have conflicts of interest. President Biden also endorsed the idea of term limits for the Justices.

The Biden Administration sent out an email to everyone who has a federal student loan informing them of upcoming debt relief. The debt relief plan will bring the total number of a borrowers who've gotten relief from the Biden-Harris Administration to 30 million. The plan is due to be finalized this fall, and the Department of Education wanted to alert people early to allow them to be ready to quickly take advantage of it when it was in place and get relief as soon as possible.

President Biden announced that the federal government would step in and protect the pension of 600,000 Teamsters. Under the American Rescue Plan, passed by President Biden and the Democrats with no Republican votes, the government was empowered to bail out Union retirement funds which in recent years have faced devastating cut of up to 75% in some cases, leaving retired union workers in desperate situations. The Teamster union is just the latest in a number of such pension protections the President has done in office.

President Biden and Vice-President Harris oversaw the dramatic release of American hostages from Russia. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former Marine Paul Whelan held since 2018, Russian-American reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Alsu Kurmasheva convicted of criticizing the Russian Military, were all released from captivity and returned to the US at around midnight August 2nd. They were greeted on the tarmac by the President and Vice-President and their waiting families. The deal also secured the release of German medical worker Rico Krieger sentenced to death in Belarus, Russian-British opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, and 11 Russians convicted of opposing the war against Ukraine or being involved in Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption organization. Early drafts of the hostage deal were meant to include Navalny before his death in Russian custody early this year.

A new Biden Administration rule banning discrimination against LGBT students takes effect, but faces major Republican resistance. The new rule declares that Title IX protects Queer students from discrimination in public schools and any college that takes federal funds. The new rule also expands protections for victims of sexual misconduct and pregnant or parenting students. However Republican resistance means the rule can't take effect nation wide. Lawsuits from Republican controlled states, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, means the new protections won't come into effect those states till the case is ruled on likely in a Supreme Court ruling. The Biden administration crafted these Title IX rules to reflect the Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock case.

The Biden administration awarded $2 billion to black and minority farmers who were the victims of historic discrimination. Historically black farmers have been denied important loans from the USDA, or given smaller amounts than white farmers. This massive investment will grant 23,000 minority farmers between $10,000 and $500,000 each and a further 20,000 people who wanted to start farms by were improperly denied the loans they needed between $3,500-$6,000 to get started. Most payments went to farmers in Mississippi and Alabama.

The Biden Administration took an important step to stop the criminalization of poverty by changing child safety guidelines so that poverty alone isn't grounds for taking a child into foster care. Studies show that children able to stay with parents or other family have much better outcomes then those separated. Many states have already removed poverty from their guidelines when it comes to removing children from the home, and the HHS guidelines push the remaining states to do the same.

Vice-President Harris announced the Biden Administration's agreement to a plan by North Carolina to forgive the state's medical debt. The plan by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper would forgive the medical debt of 2 million people in the state. North Carolina has the 3rd highest rate of medical debt in the nation. Vice-President Harris applauded the plan, pointing out that the Biden Administration has forgiven $650 million dollars worth of medical debt so far with plans to forgive up to $7 billion by 2026. The Vice-President unveiled plans to exclude medical debt from credit scores and issued a call for states and local governments to forgive debt, like North Carolina is, last month.

The Department of Transportation put forward a new rule to bank junk fees for family air travel. The new rule forces airlines to seat parents next to their children, with no extra cost. Currently parents are forced to pay extra to assure they are seated next to their children, no matter what age, if they don't they run the risk of being separated on a long flight. Airlines would be required to seat children age 13 and under with their parent or accompanying adult at no extra charge.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it is giving $3.5 billion to combat homelessness. This represents the single largest one year investment in fighting homelessness in HUD's history. The money will be distributed by grants to local organizations and programs. HUD has a special focus on survivors of domestic violence, youth homeless, and people experiencing the unique challenges of homelessness in rural areas.

The Treasury Department announced that Pennsylvania and New Mexico would be joining the IRS' direct file program for 2025. The program was tested as a pilot in a number of states in 2024, saving 140,000 tax payers $5.6 million in filing charges and getting tax returns of $90 million. The program, paid for by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, will be available to all 50 states, but Republicans strong object. Pennsylvania and New Mexico join Oregon and New Jersey in being new states to join.

Bonus: President Biden with the families of the released hostages calling their loved ones on the plane out of Russia

[quinn-joseph]

JOE KEERY as BARON

— Marmalade (2024)

[politijohn]

Source

[thosemotivationalquotes]

How do I vote if I am homeless?

Regardless of your living situation, if you are over the age of 18 and a U.S. citizen, you have the right to vote. Here’s what you need to know.

Residency requirements vary state to state, but typically you will have to have been in the specific state for 30 or more days that you are looking to register in. When you are going to register, you will need to put an address. What address you can put varies state to state but can possibly include:

Shelter or other transitional housing

Local courthouse or post office

Street corner or park, or other public space

The registration will require you to put an address you frequent, so make sure the area is somewhere you go regularly.

Depending on the state, you may also need an ID and/or proof of citizenship.

Links:

General Voter Registration

Information for unhoused voters

Voter ID requirements by state

[jabberwockprince]

my blorbo now, he has melanin so i'm giving him more and some earrings <3

[decolonize-the-everything]

"We need to be honest with ourselves about the kind of country we live in. Let's be honest I mean the Democrats got away with- take away the safety net. And let's be real too when they passed the new deal they weren't thinking about me, they were thinking about entities.

Corporate entities that would benefit from the subsidies, let's be honest with ourselves too. It wasn't about the poor person from Mississippi. It was about the corporate farmers that were starting to develop at that era and figuring out 'how do we subsidize them' that's what the food stamp program is about.

There's something wrong in this country telling people it is okay to work three jobs, not see your kids, not to see your loved ones, not take a vacation, and God forbid you get sick, kay? And I still got a job at home cuz I'm a mother. Cuz let's not forget I don't get a day off.

And I gotta figure all that out.

How we gonna eat, how we gonna pay rent, how we gonna pay the utility bill that- every single thing went up after COVID. Not one thing stayed the same except salaries.

The only thing that stayed the same in this country is the what? Minimum wage, even tho everything else went up.

And we have a democratic president then a republican president then a democratic president, Republican president, and neither party ever talks about what is really going on in this world. I'm not even gonna say the country. What is really really going on in this world.

There is no scarcity.

It's 'how do we pit people against each other so they're too distracted to see everything that I'm too addicted to consuming and how much profit I'm making and more profit, how many houses one individual can have and how many yachts can one individual have.'

And you're gonna arrest me now that I make a tent city?!

So if I take the scraps from the trash and make some kind of shelter for me and my children, regardless of whether I have mental health issues, regardless whether I'm an addict, regardless of whether I am a female, male, whatever. I am a human being first.

With what conscience are you criminalizing poverty?

And it's not gonna stop just in the United States. The poor of the world, not just this country, the world are fed up. The people in Gaza are fed up, people in Kensington, people in San Juan which just went through a storm and does not have electricity because the government that they belong to said you're not our country so we're not gonna give you federal dollars to fix your grid!

And let's not leave out world communities. I live in Haines City, Polk County, Florida okay? But do you think that the poor of world communities have transportation? They don't. Theres not even a f-sidewalk to walk on.

Because I am given the message of 'stay silent, stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently' kay?

If I get a job how do I get to that job? If I even get it when I'm in a world community, kay? Let's not leave those folks behind. There are hundreds and thousands of people living in trailers across the United States who are paying 1600 a month in rent for a trailer. A trailer. Have you ever been inside a trailer? [...] Do you know how that smells?

1600 dollars.

Can you afford 1600 dollars to be living in a trailer. How many jobs do you need to have? Because I personally need to have two. I shave seasonal jobs and I have other jobs; part time jobs that I do.

I have a girl friend who works 3 jobs to live in a trailer!!!!!"

There's no name on screen for me to credit that I can find thus far, but this is where it's from. Skip to 13:56.

Source:

[nando161mando]

The Supreme Court must love private prisons, making homelessness a crime will cost us more money than simply helping them. Senseless unnecessary and expensive cruelty

[michaelpaul7]

[ophilosoraptoro]

"THIS is where War in America will start... right here!"

[nappingpaperclip]

“People who tell you not to vote Biden are psyops trying to steal left votes” type posts are pro-government propoganda.

Last time y’all spread that bullshit around the blogs getting deleted for being “Russian spies” were black leftists.

NOT EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH YOU IS A PSYOP. Get real!!

Not everyone who criticizes Biden or says they won’t be voting for a genocider and that you shouldn’t either wants you to vote for Trump or not vote!! Third party candidates exist!!! Write ins exist!!! If we actually organized instead of y’all pulling the “lesser evil” bs about a GENOCIDAL RACIST RAPIST OLD MAN we might actually see some fuckin progress!!

Did y’all forget Biden is a rapist?????

Btw is the “left” in the room with us? Where is the left? Where is the progress y’all keep claiming Biden is making?

Last time I checked Biden has not let those kids out of cages, has personally approved more huge pipelines that run through Indigenous lands and speed up climate change, has ex-BlackRock leaders (yknow, the top 10 climate change villains company who also funds most American private prisons as well as funding arms manufacturing companies, who spend millions lobbying politicians on environmental regulations, immigration and drug policy) in his cabinet, increased police and military budget, didn’t codify Roe v Wade, in fact he held it hostage for votes, hasn’t codified gay marriage or trans rights, hasn’t legalized marijuana, hasn’t raised the federal minimum wage, oh and also is DOING GENOCIDE in case y’all forgot or wanna tiptoe around the “some bad policies” y’all always talk about

Did y’all forget about his “nothing will fundamentally change” policy?

Y’all heard that and thought “left”?? Babes he’s a right leaning centrist AT BEST.

There are actually left candidates btw! Ones who care about things like Landback and reparations and free healthcare and education and sustainability! The ones y’all are telling people are throwaway votes/votes for Trump!! (Which isn’t even how the electoral college works btw)

So us telling y’all not to vote for a genocider makes us Russian psyop spies but y’all telling us not to vote for leftist third party candidates doesn’t? K.

Vote for who you want, I don’t give a fuck anymore, BUT DONT TELL HIM HE STILL HAS YOUR UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT WHILE HES COMMITTING GENOCIDE IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT HIM TO STOP

The only way to get a politician to stop doing WAR CRIMES is to tell them you won’t vote for them or give them money or otherwise support them until they stop!

You can fucking lie if you want!!! All we’re asking is for y’all not to publicly announce Genocide Joe still has your unconditional support WHILE HES DOING GENOCIDE

His approval ratings are literally less than Trumps!

He has no one to blame but himself.

If he loses in November, I don’t want to hear y’all bitch and moan and blame black people or disillusioned voters or third party voters or “Russian spies” again like y’all did in 2016, I don’t want to see y’all blame anyone but him, BLAME BIDEN FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. HE IS A GROWN MAN AND HAS THE MONEY AND POWER TO STOP IT IF HE ACTUALLY WANTED TO.

Y’all keep saying he’s doing his best to stop it, that he’s working behind the scenes, that he’s trying, IF HES TRYING WHY ARE WE STILL SENDING ISRAEL MONEY?

IF HE IS TRYING, WHY DID HE SEND ISRAEL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SMALL PAYMENTS TO AVOID NOTIFYING CONGRESS?

IF HES TRYING WHY HAVE WE NOT SANCTIONED ISRAEL?

IF HES TRYING, WHY HAVE US SOLDIERS BEEN SEEN FIGHTING ALONGSIDE THE IDF?

IF HES TRYING WHY ARE WE SENDING EXPIRED MREs AS AID? EXPIRED FOOD DROPS THAT ARE NOT ENOUGH TO FEED MILLIONS OF STARVING PEOPLE, WITH FAULTY PARACHUTES THAT KILL CHILDREN?

IF HES TRYING, WHY DID WE BUILD A PORT CUTTING THE GAZA STRIP IN HALF, A PORT THAT NETANYAHU SAID WOULD BE USED TO DEPORT PALESTINIANS?

IF HES TRYING WHY DID HE SIGN OFF $14 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS ON TOP OF THE ANNUAL CONTRACT AND SMALL SECRET PAYMENTS TO GO TOWARDS ISRAELS BOMBS AND GUNS AND FREE HEALTHCARE WHILE IGNORING THE PEOPLE HERE WHO NEED FOOD, HOUSES, AND HEALTHCARE???

DONT MAKE UP RUSSIAN SPIES TO POINT FINGERS AT! IF HE DOESNT WANT TO LOSE HE SHOULDNT DO GENOCIDE

IF GENOCIDE JOE LOSES THE ELECTION FUCKING BLAME HIM FOR DOING A GENOCIDE!!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Applicants crowd around a stage in a Bowery theater in hopes of being chosen by the Bowery Comeback Association for a chance to start life anew, January 26, 1948. The association announced a plan whereby it would give one man each month a chance to climb back to respectability by providing new clothing, a shave, a haircut, a decent hotel room, and spending money to help him find work.

Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP

[small-titty-alchemy]

Americans it's very important to vote in the upcoming election even if you vote 3rd party (im not telling you to vote biden THIS IS NOT ENDORSING JOE BIDEN)

YOU ARE NOT A PERSON TO POLITICANS IF YOU DONT VOTE. WITHHOLDING YOUR VOTE IS NOT PROTEST.

Politicans only see issues in terms of voter support. Not voting because you can't support the Biden administration's policies isn't "subtracting a vote," it's shrinking the voter pool to people who already support this administration.

Voting 3rd party is not about expecting a candidate to win, it's about shifting political frameworks. Don't believe people who tell you voting 3rd party is worthless.

Vote Biden, 3rd party, however you think is best, but DONT SKIP VOTING, especially for local offices.

Are you registered to vote? Check Vote.gov to find out. YOU CAN REGISTER ONLINE THROUGH THIS SITE.

Experiencing homelessness? You can register at shelters, transitional housing, and the post office or county courthouse.

Felony Conviction? Check this website to see if your voting rights can be restored:

[spaceoracle]

8-23-24

Hey there folks, I was just able to extend until Tuesday! We are broke once again and need all of the help we can get to hopefully pay a weeks worth of rent on Tuesday, try to pay our past due storage that has gone up again by the 1st, and have enough supplies, gas, etc to get by until the third!! Please, please, please consider spreading our story and fundraising needs in any way, shape, or form you can imagine and donate anything you can spare. It's that end of the month desperation setting in now and I'm starting to panic a bit, but it is what it is and I'm counting my blessings that we've managed to make it as far as we have with all of your amazing support. Mom had her first two days back at work this week. They went well, but she is tired of course and in a lot of pain. Dad is doing okay and looking forward to his epidural procedure next month and really hoping it provides him some kind of relief from the constant pain his back is in. We sincerely thank you all again for all of the support and generosity, and once more we are humbly begging for your help. Have a beautiful weekend. Much love and many thanks, -Austin

[male-duckk]

thinking abt joe/carlos

[jasvvy]