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2023-08-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

US sees biggest EVER spike in homelessness as country sees a record 11% increase in a year to nearly 600,000 rough sleepers: San Francisco and Oakland are 'hotbeds' with 'drug tourists' flocking to the cities

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 04:01|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 San Diego, California bakery Phatties Bake Shop forced to lock its doors during business hours as desperate homeless residents STEAL their vegan treats - one was armed with a CROWBAR

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 04:11|| 2023-08-15 04:11|| Front Page Top

#2 BISHOP BOB JACKSON: Black people in Oakland are living in a lawless nightmare of streets turned into shooting galleries - thanks to radical 'Defund the Police' anarchists. We can’t let them condemn us to this hell

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 04:15|| 2023-08-15 04:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Build it and they will come.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-08-15 07:40|| 2023-08-15 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Drug tourism:

Back at the office water cooler, Bob asks Frank, “So what did you do in Oakland on your vacation?”

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-15 08:44|| 2023-08-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 https://www.creators.com/read/salena-zito

The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh

Posted by airandee 2023-08-15 10:15|| 2023-08-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 10:16|| 2023-08-15 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh

Worthy of a read.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-15 10:24|| 2023-08-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ The city of my birth, but not ever my hometown. I was saying back in the 70s that Pittsburgh would be the last part of the rust belt to accept that the "glory days" were not coming back. The efforts to re-make it as the San Francisco of the east are proceeding apace, just not the way the city boosters intended.

And the voters keep voting for it, getting it good and hard and voting for some more.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-15 11:25|| 2023-08-15 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Considering US Steel after 100+ years is entertaining offers to be bought; the Glory Days will definitely not be back.

Posted by airandee 2023-08-15 12:21|| 2023-08-15 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 According to a recent poll San Francisco is the most laid back city in the U.S. Chicago is the worst.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-08-15 18:09|| 2023-08-15 18:09|| Front Page Top

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