@Lydie
/1 Need to mention:

1. Homelessness (despite SCOTUS' City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson) is NOT a crime; homeless people have right to exist, live somewhere, freely.

2. Addiction (despite populist whining of shills like Pierre Poilievre - Canadian leader of official opposition / presumptive next Prime Minister) is a medical/public health issue, not a criminal issue.

Cicero Institute churns out anti-homeless model legislation
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112968642162289475

Musk’s Insidious Strategy to Help Trump Win
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112895080133239616
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112968611090931209

* collect personal data f. people in swing states under guise of helping register to vote
* backers: Musk, Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Winklevoss twins
* Joe Lonsdale: Cicero Institute/anti-homeless model acts

#JoeLonsdale #ElonMusk #GOP #fascism
#Palantir #CiceroInstitute #antiHomelessness #ModelActs

Numerous Joe Lonsdale mentions here:

[thread] Poverty industrial complex | demonization, criminalization of homelessness
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111025108282701968

#billionaires #JoeLonsdale #ChipWilson #GOP #fascism
#Palantir #MassSurveillance #privacy
#CiceroInstitute #ModelActs #antiHomelessness

These men became the nucleus of the #tech industry’s #MAGA mafia, & in recent months, quite a few more have joined them. They don’t represent a majority in #SiliconValley, but they are a high-profile minority. Some, like #JoeLonsdale, are members of #Thiel’s extended network & long committed to the cause. Lonsdale, who was editor of The StanfordReview & interned at #PayPal, has used some of the fortune he built as a founder of #Palantir to create a conservative think tank…

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Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute churned out anti-homeless model act (bill/legislation)

[thread] Poverty industrial complex | demonization, criminalization of homelessness
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111025108282701968

Chip Wilson (Lululemon): Pacific Prosperity Network
Joe Lonsdale: Cicero Institute

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112855119889004716
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111076191794600748

Elon Musk’s America PAC Shifts Into High Gear to elect Trump in Nov 2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/184932/elon-musk-america-pac-spending-save-trump-election-doom

* Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC ramped operations, spending initial $5.8 million
* $3.6 million of that toward canvassing/field operations
* PAC raised $8.8 million: donations f. Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale; Winklevoss twins

“#ElonMusk is not the only #tech executive backing this effort.

“The America PAC raised >$8M between April 1 & June 30, acc/to FEC records. It has received donations from veteran investor #DougLeone, cryptocurrency investors Cameron & Tyler #Winklevoss, & a company run by longtime venture capitalist #JoeLonsdale, acc/to FEC records.

“Lonsdale, a co-founder of the software company #Palantir, is also a leader of the PAC, & 'serves as a political confidant to' #Musk….”

@randahl

Addendum 4
Chris Rufo/Manhattan Institute
Joe Lonsdale /Cicero Institute
Heritage Foundation
Demonization, criminalization, monetization of homelessness

Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People
Attitude toward homeless angrier, crueler, more overtly violent
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/unhoused-right-rhetoric-homelessness

Addendum 1 cont'd 2/2

* unhoused people criminalized for existing in public: camping bans ...
* compelled court-ordered treatment
* “Reducing Street Homelessness Act” Cicero Institute model legislation
* founded by Joe Lonsdale
* Lonsdale mentored by Trump supporter Peter Thiel
* Thiel, Lonsdale is co-founders of Palantir, secretive CIA-funded software company: migrant surveillance, predictive policing