Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

“I have been on my knees in prayer.”
-Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness

Melissa is a Cat 5 hurricane packing 175 mph winds and is bearing down on Jamaica with a 13-ft. storm surge.
They have never faced a storm with this kind of catastrophic intensity.

Please keep them in your thoughts.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I suspect the next few weeks of living in a Dorothea Lange photo are going to shatter a lot of Americans' preconceptions about who's using SNAP and WIC.

The US Navy has crashed an F-18 and a Seahawk helicopter into the South China Sea while operating off the USS Nimitz, Reuters reports. All crew members have been recovered.

Brace for another wave of x refuges