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Six months ago at a neighborhood event where Mike Johnston, mayor of , was promoting millions in spending to reduce homelessness I asked him about the cities and states with the most spending on this and how their homeless numbers INCREASED. He assured the crowd that wouldn't happen with his plan. His plan was different.

Six months and $155,000,000 later, homelessness has increased in Denver by 12%.

The mayor's response? A victory dance over the 150 net decrease in "unsheltered homeless" (yep, that math is one million dollars per person in net decrease) and a tax hike to take another $100,000,000 from tax payers to do the same thing that saw a 12% increase in homeless over six months... But do it harder.

Which policies are you most supportive of? ( Links to policy details of possible, please.)

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Hey buddy, can I interest you in another #salesforce Apex Trigger framework?

It's MIT licensed and ready to go on GitHub here: github.com/processity/apex-dis

I wrote a bit about it on LinkedIn (sorry - the README in GitHub is fine, too, but we don't have a blog yet)

linkedin.com/pulse/apex-discov

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They’re manufacturing a political sensation out of absolutely nothing. We’ve never seen anything quite like this.

bird.makeup/@meidastouch/18183

With the presumptive nominee being appointed never having received a single primary vote, let's be sure we call it the Democrat convention, not democratic convention. There's been nothing particularly democratic about the Democrat primary.

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“This guy went into a Kamala Harris event with a Trump shirt on and then to a Trump event with a Kamala shirt on

The difference in the way he was treated is just jaw-dropping”

x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1818

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It's disappointing to see people straw man all non Democrats as hateful toward immigrants in order to claim that Christians must vote for the party with unrestricted abortion as their unashamed central sacrament.

I've learned there's nothing to make me so handy as getting a professional quote for work needed on our bathrooms.

I got a lot of steps on Saturday without even going for a morning run... A good number of those steps were my five trips to the local hardware/home improvement store... Renovating a bathroom and broke a pipe. 🤣

Democracy is winning without ever earning a single vote.

I'm old enough to remember the white house press secretary condemning any media that implied Biden want up for the job as "cheap fake" manipulated media.

What shocking and sudden thing happened to Biden that without any indication (other than cheap fake republican lies) he is suddenly, out of the blue, resigning? We have been assured until now that he's at the top of his game and anyone who says otherwise is engaged in election interference.

We can't just assume that and the rest of the administration have been lying to us the whole time about their nominee's fitness for office... that would make them unsupportable for lying to the public for so long about the fitness of the presidential nominee. If they lied about one nominee, they'll lie about the next.

Have we even confirmed that tweet isn't another cheap fake published on the Trump supporting X platform? Where's ?

If I wrote a book about my decades in software development and platform architecture, it would likely be called: You're Not That Special.

In a democracy... It doesn't matter who we voted for in the primary, it matters who polls the best so they can be swapped out regardless of who won the votes?

Headline suggestion: Other Former Presidents Issue Statements Condemning Shooting Former Presidents.

Would you say that killing some of Hitler's followers in the attempt to kill Hitler would be wrong or unacceptable?

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"Kill Hitler" is an unsurprising response to what one would do with a time machine. When the constant drumbeat for years has been that Trump is worse than Hitler, is anyone surprised at today's event?

I don't see surprise on the timelines from people who aren't Trump fans. I only see disappointment from many that the assassination attempt was not successful.

Will anyone be surprised at more assassination attempts at and other non-?

Observation: Timelines on the fediverse are full of people rejoicing that people were shot at the Trump rally and bemoaning that today's assassination attempt was not successful.

One of my kids' birthday asks was to go on a hike with just me. Had a lovely time hiking a few miles on a nearby trail this morning.

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