Housing (or lack of) can absolutely be a cause of drug use too. Sleeping on concrete every night and not getting any sleep because you are worried about being assaulted can leave many looking for anything to ease their pain or stress.

Housing should be the start of getting people back on track. That, at the very least, makes it easier to provide services to them because you know where you can contact them.

My county has bought up hotels to house homeless. They own seven or so which can host over 700 people. While great, it is still only a fairly small chunk of our roughly 40k homeless.

People are fairly sick of seeing so much homelessness and think a shelter bed fixes the problem and if a homeless person rejects that bed, they simply want to be homeless. A shelter bed is a very temporary solution. Shelters are often run by religious organizations that can have pretty strict requirements (be in line at a specific time to get a bed and be out at a certain time) and can be hostile to some group's lifestyles (can't be with your partner, hostility to the LGBTQ community, etc). They also are not super secure for your stuff and can be violent. It is not too surprising that only a little over half get a shelter bed after a sweep (although it is never stated whether the beds are rejected or there just is not capacity).

It sucks. Often one city will offer some small amount of services and then homeless sweeps by nearby cities drive the homeless to the city offering services. We also get people sent here from other states via one way bus tickets.

Not quickly enough. Francisco Franco ruled Spain for way too fucking long.

They are already drones.

This is just for Washington state. Other states need to take our lead and make similar laws about campaign financing transparency.

Bob Ferguson is usually pretty good about pulling through on stuff like this.

Get your flu and COVID vaccines. We need to make sure the hospitals are not clogged up. They are still short staffed.

AQI is in the high 200s where I am at in Seattle. That reminds me that I have to move my air purifier to the room I am in. If you are doing anything outside, you should be wearing an N95 mask.

Well I am sure that $17,800 fine will totally stop them from doing this in the future.

If you have not scheduled yours already, do it now. The holidays are coming up and it takes a couple weeks to be most effective.

Good job. Always put them on the defensive. If they think antifa was responsible, why didn't Trump do anything to stop the breach? If it wasn't an insurrection, why the fuck were there pipe bombs and why did groups like the Oath Keepers feel the need to have a stash of guns nearby? If Ashli Babbit is such a patriot and martyr, why did she not listen to very clear instructions from law enforcement?

Always be the interrogator to these shit heads. Get them to question their delusional reality.

I do love that shit bag Steve Scalise asked why Nancy Pelosi did not ask for the National Guard during the insurrection. The mother fucker was literally standing next to her when she did.

But yeah, throw all the insurrectionists in jail. Those antifa bastards.

That would basically give the UN even less legitimacy than it has already if it reneged on its founding structure.

How can they make it illegal to mail them? That is a federal service.