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maxsolomon's JournalNYT: Under an L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission
Every weekday morning, 18 teams fan out across the county, making rounds with about 1,700 patients in tents and vehicles and alleyways. The teams try to persuade them to accept medication, sometimes in an injectable form that remains in the bloodstream for weeks. If clients say no, the teams return, sometimes for months, until they say yes; if they still refuse, the team can petition a court to order involuntary treatment.
This is a major departure for the field of psychiatry, which long discouraged clinicians from tracking down patients in the chaotic conditions where they live. It alarms patients’ rights activists, who say people living on the street may not be in a position to give consent. And critics question whether state resources should go to expensive curbside medical treatment when what people really need is housing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/health/los-angeles-homeless-psychiatry.html
I know you all hate the NYT, but it isn't all "traitorous fascist scum" lies about MFer. This article (and it's not their 1st) is about an issue that no Presidential Candidate has touched in the last 3 cycles - chronic homelessness, and in particular the desperately mentally ill homeless that residents of big cities (and some not-so big) live with every day. It's so much more complex than a "housing first" solution. Look how large LA's effort is, how much money and expertise they dedicate to it. There is NO discussion of this crisis at the federal level. Trump & Repukes DGAF, obviously. Dems don't bring it up. It's intractable, and no one wants to hear about it. But this is what it takes. It's a grind.
Can someone explain why MFer's shoes came off?
I don't understand why his shoes were off when he got nicked. I assume he was wearing loafers with lifts, because of his monstrous vanity.
Were they uncomfortable and he takes them off while he's bloviating?
Were they already off, or did they fall off when he ducked?
Why would they fall off? The lifts bring his stupid fat fascist heels near the top of the shoe? The SS agents dogpiling him?
Why did he care so much about retrieving them? The lifts?
I know the Republic is collapsing and all, but I keep wondering about it.
Arrest made in fatal stabbing at Capitol Hill light rail station
According to the Seattle Police Department, a 26-year-old man was arrested in Eatonville. He was booked into King County Jail.
The neighborhood is grieving the loss of the victim, a chef at the well-known Capitol Hill restaurant, Harry's Fine Foods.
Police said shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, the 37-year-old was stabbed multiple times in the Capitol Hill light rail station. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/community-grieves-loss-capitol-hill-chef-stabbed-to-death-light-rail-station/281-e6fa9d83-ff26-47fe-8207-c97da3291592
This one is scary - my daughter's light rail stop, my old neighborhood. Apparently there was an "altercation" in the packed station, and the chef was stabbed in the neck and pushed off the platform, then prevented from climbing out. He bled out there, the station was closed, the line was closed. Straight up murders like that rarely happen in Seattle.
The stabber, one Shawn Patrick Moore, ran off to Eatonville, which is in the far SE of the region near Mt. Rainier. He's going to turn out to be a tweaker.
US says Gaza aid 'increased dramatically,' as convoys proceed via new crossing
Source: Times of Israel
Humanitarian aid getting into the Gaza Strip has increased by a large amount in the last few days, White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said on Monday, adding the United States needs to see that aid continue.
“The aid has increased and quite dramatically in just the last few days,” Kirby said in an interview with MSNBC. “That’s important but it has to be sustained.”
More than 2,000 trucks have been able to get in, about 100 in the last 24 hours alone, Kirby said.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Defense Ministry unit responsible for liaising with the Palestinians, announced on Sunday that three bakeries that reopened in northern Gaza in the past week are now producing some three million pita breads daily, and that food aid convoys are continuing via the new Northern Crossing.
Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-says-gaza-aid-increased-dramatically-as-convoys-proceed-via-new-crossing/
Lengthy roundup of recent developments inside Gaza; 2000 trucks and three bakeries re-opening is welcome news.
Italy stabbing: One dead and Arsenal player among several injured
Source: BBC
One person has died and at least four others have been injured - some seriously - in a stabbing in a supermarket near Milan, northern Italy, reports say.
They say an employee of the Carrefour supermarket died after a man started attacking people in the town of Assago.
Among the injured was Pablo Mari, a football player on loan from Arsenal.
A 46-year-old suspect has been detained. The motive for the attack is not yet clear. The attacker has had mental health problems, the reports in Italian media said.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63421228
I shouldn't say that knife rampages are preferable to gun rampages, but the rate of death is lower.
"Mental health" is a global issue.
Flooding washes away homes in southern Indiana; woman's body found downstream
Source: WLKY.
Torrential rains caused flooding in parts of Kentucky and Indiana on Saturday, and an area in southern Indiana got hit particularly hard.
According to the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency in Indiana, Brushy Fork Creek Road northeast of Madison was impacted by a devastating flash flood.
Officials report a woman's body was found 5 miles downstream that may be that of a woman whose home washed away.
It happened around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday when 9 inches of rainfall in Switzerland and Jefferson Counties in just three hours caused the flood.
Read more: https://www.wlky.com/article/ema-flooding-washes-away-homes-indiana-jefferson-county-woman-dead/41074703#
NINE INCHES of rain. In SE Indiana - Mike & Greg Pence's district. Unprecedented. East Brushy Fork Creek is 2 miles from my sister's ridgetop home.
Sacramento police make second arrest after mass shooting that left 6 dead
Source: CBS News
Police in Sacramento say a second suspect has been arrested in connection with the weekend mass shooting that killed six people and wounded 12. A police statement Tuesday says 27-year-old Smiley Martin was seriously injured in the gunfire early Sunday and remains hospitalized, but will be booked into jail once he is fit for incarceration.
He faces charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.
Police say Martin is the brother of the first suspect, 26-year-old Dandrae Martin. Neither has been accused of homicide.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sacramento-mass-shooting-2nd-arrest-smiley-martin/
Yes, you read that right: Smiley Martin had a MACHINE GUN in downtown Sacramento and he used it on a crowd of people. Full-automatic weapon. Tell me again how guns make us safer.
Suspected Shooter in Normandale Park Mass Shooting Identified
Source: Portland Mercury
Smith, 43, has lived in an apartment across from Normandale Park for more than a decade, and has harbored growing animosity against Black Lives Matter protesters, COVID-19 mask mandates, unhoused Portlanders, and liberals, according to his roommate, Kristine Christenson.
Smith's brother told the Oregonian that Smith would often complain about the Justice for Patrick Kimmons demonstrations that regularly took place in Normandale Park. Kimmons was a Black man killed by Portland police in 2018. Kimmons supporters had gathered Saturday evening at Normandale to hold a demonstration in support of Amir Locke, a Black man killed by Minneapolis police earlier this month.
Christenson told the Oregonian that Smith collect guns, and kept at least four in his bedroom. "He talked about wanting to go shoot commies and antifa all the friggin' time," Christenson told OPB. "He was just a sad angry dude. ... He talked about wanting to do this for a while. He was angry at the mask mandates, he was angry at the damned liberals."
According to witnesses, Smith approached four unarmed woman gathered near Normandale Park Saturday night and yelled at them to leave. The women were all volunteers, assisting march organizers in slowing traffic to allow demonstrators to march down the street. Within minutes, Smith had allegedly opened fire on the four women, striking all four with bullets. One of the women, June Knightly, died at the scene.
Read more: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2022/02/22/38645257/suspected-shooter-in-normandale-park-mass-shooting-identified
Couple of observations:
1. This was ANOTHER unsable man with a gun, and of course, he shot women (and others). He doesn't appear to have been in any of Portland's RW Militias, but he sounds pretty RW.
2. A good guy with a gun shot a Rampage Shooter - an actual Defensive Gun Use - finally - and they were probably Antifa and/or BLM. Put that in your Anit-Antifa pipe and smoke it.
Antifa: 99.9% correct, or 100% correct?
Seems like their concerns and arguments have been vindicated. They warned us. They said the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, and the 3%ers were all Fascists and should be opposed, with force if necessary, every time they show their faces.
And Fascists they are.
Instead, they became Trumpism's useful villains, accused by paranoid, violent yahoos across America of planning schoolbus invasions of small towns most Antifa escaped as soon as they could. 41 towns full of gullible marks to con.
Not to mention "burning down everything last summer", as my Dad put it.
They stayed away from DC on 1/6. Why act when your enemy is busy hurting himself?
Asked my Trump-voting Dad if he was watching events in DC today.
I was factual, and did not provoke with my opinion: "National Guard coming to clear the Capitol of Trump Supporters."
His Response: "Not as bad as all of your friends last summer burning down everything."
Now I feel like I've failed as a son. How could I let him get so brainwashed? It is a sad day in America, and it should have been a happy one. Everything Trump touches dies, and he touched our Democracy.
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