Portside

With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.

Before Elon Musk and Donald Trump can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball. Federal workers see they are the targets of an authoritarian attempt to abolish democracy.