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h3ll0univ3rs3 · 9 months
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hospital in ⛺...
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intestines r v unhappy... 🩸😔
ready for less disco... 🧳
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mikeo56 · 2 days
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Let's Get One Thing Straight
Concerning the above, I must mention that you set this fire with children present not because you didn't know any better, but because you just didn't care, no concern at all that the smoke might be bad for young lungs, no skin off your ass. You did it blinded at the encouragement of Brent Vitale to harass, to hurt, to threaten others. Your intent was bad and your complete lack of any concern for your own children's safety made it easy to do.
I do imagine, yes I do, that in your, Brent's and your friends perverted mindset, that somehow your actions weren't your responsibility. They were. You and no one but you set the fires with you children in them and you did so to harass, hurt and threaten, with again no regard for a child's health. You own that like a child abuser that's proud to be one.
The County was aware of all this and the situation with myself and Marshall Reddick. Was it a plan, intent, the aim of the County to help a child abuser like you or did they 99% just want to help get rid of me and Linda (Linda and I are were a package deal). Likely, I'd bet they just wanted to get rid of us rather than be solely motivated to assist shit like you.
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realnarratives · 2 years
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Illegal Methods Landlords are Using to Evict Tenants Despite Covid-19 and Evictions Moratoriums
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Illegal and Threatening Self-Help Methods Unscrupulous Landlords are Using Nationwide to Evict Tenants Despite Covid-19 and Evictions Moratoriums
Despite the evictions moratoriums that have been implemented across America to stem the occurrence of homelessness during a pandemic that involves a contagious virus, many landlords are predominantly concerned about the bottom line. These landlords may be dealing with the pressure of paying for mortgages and are resentful of their non paying tenants even though the circumstances surrounding Covid-19 are beyond their tenants' control. Other landlords have agendas beyond collecting money such as coercing their tenants into offering sexual favors. Whatever the agenda, many landlords are disregarding the evictions moratoriums, in favor of what is called self-help evictions. 
Self-help evictions are defined as “when a landlord retakes possession of a property without using the eviction process. The use of self-help may amount to landlord harassment. Nearly every state prohibits a landlord from using self-help to evict a tenant.” Essentially a self-help eviction is when the landlord attempts to circumvent the court and legal processes to force a non paying tenant from the unit. By using this method, the landlord assumes that the eviction process can be faster and with less accountability. Amanda Golob, managing attorney of the housing law unit at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services in New Orleans, provides more insight,  “They are creating an environment that forces the tenant to leave on their own.” Here are few methods that landlords having been utilizing during Covid-19 to force tenants from their units:
1. Pretending to be Supported by Law Enforcement
Location: Cobb County, Georgia 
Even though Covid-19 is running rampant throughout the nation, this has not softened the stance of many landlords concerning rent. Generally legal evictions are supported by local law enforcement, but what if the eviction is illegal and the landlord simply wanted the eviction to appear legal? Economy Hotel Marietta, an extended-stay-hotel, found their solution by hiring someone to pose as a sheriff. Jeremy Rooks and his wife were abruptly kicked out by a man wearing a uniform with the likeness of a sheriff and a gun. The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office verified to Rooks “the gentleman in the video clip that you sent me is not Cobb County Sheriff’s Deputy.” The implication of violence added an element of danger to the situation, but that was the landlord’s intended effect. "When I found out they weren’t actually sheriff deputies, you know right then and there, I felt like me and my wife were in danger," explained Rooks.
Prior to the pretend sheriff deceptively forcing them from the unit Brooks noted, “Every day they tried to basically get us out of there. It was basically like a game to them.” The landlord used relentless harassment to convince the tenants to leave in lieu of using the legal process. Atlanta Legal Aid summarized the legal implications of their landlords behavior: this was an illegal eviction and could be considered criminal. 
Sources:
CBS46: Mystery 'sheriff' evicts couple from extended stay during COVID-19 crisis
KSTP: Tenants behind on rent in pandemic face harassment, eviction
KTLA 5: U.S. tenants behind on rent face evictions, harassment despite SCOTUS ruling
2. Illegal Lockouts
Location: Santa Clara County, California
Peleton Technology filed a lawsuit against landlord, Kelly Ventures, in the Santa Clara County Superior Court for allegedly locking them out the premises. According to the lawsuit, this lockout violates the countywide coronavirus eviction moratorium. Peloton Technology is at an economic disadvantage because their business was not deemed essential; despite their disadvantage if Kelly Ventures did lock out their commercial tenant they have violated the current eviction moratorium. Due to the lockout, now Peleton Technology is at risk of getting further behind. In addition to locking out the employees, Kelly Ventures allegedly shut off the power, “disabling servers and related systems to the extent that most Peleton employees can’t do key tasks,” the suit claimed. If too many businesses are illegally evicted from their spaces it could cause a sudden collapse of the economy. Aggressive eviction moratoriums have been put in place nationwide to prevent an economic cataclysm. In addition, like many businesses, Peleton Technology has had most of their employees working at home. Many businesses are balking at the idea of paying full rent for a space the stay-at-home orders prevented them from using. 
Location: Chicago, Illinois
According to the Metropolitan Tenants Organization, in Chicago, calls about illegal lockouts has doubled from Mid-March to Mid-June. John Barlett, the executive director of the tenants group, explained that he has fielded 125 calls about illegal lockouts from March 18 and June 18. However it is not just the illegal evictions that this advocacy group is most concerned about. They are concerned about the amount of landlords that will be conducting legal evictions in the midst of a pandemic. Advocates believe that housing was already in crisis, but now the pandemic will worsen this crisis creating a cascade of homelessness. 
Sources:
Chicago Sun Times: Despite coronavirus eviction ban, some Chicago landlords are locking out tenants
Marin Independent Journal: Silicon Valley trucking-tech firm claims landlord broke coronavirus eviction ban: lawsuit
The Mercury News: Silicon Valley trucking-tech firm claims landlord broke coronavirus eviction ban: lawsuit
3. Shutting Off Utilities 
Location: Chicago, Illinois 
Dean Thompson of Chicago Illinois, is a prime example of those who were already feeling the impacts of the housing crisis before the pandemic. Dean Thompson and her daughter were already two months behind on rent and owed $1350. In addition, her daughter’s small business declined even worse during the stay-at-home order which almost ensured that their financial woes will only deepen. Despite these issues, Thompson’s landlord violated the eviction moratorium by shutting off electricity to their apartment on her 67th birthday. The daughter called 311 and a city worker advised that the shut off was illegal. In addition to the utilities illegally being shut off, the rental company sent a male employee to intimidate them. Thompson remembers the unsettling encounter, “It made me real scared. I didn’t know what he was going to do. I was scared to leave the building.”
Source:
Chicago Sun Times: Despite coronavirus eviction ban, some Chicago landlords are locking out tenants
Location: New Orleans Area, Louisiana
Sada Jones, a 23 year old hotel cook, was furloughed on March 19th. Jones' landlord, Joshua Bruno, has been taking aggressive measures against her such as cutting off her utilities. Jones described the dilemma, “I’m scared because I don’t want to move with the situation that’s going on with COVID, but I also don’t want to live in these conditions. I’m constantly anxious and paranoid about what they’ll do next. I don’t feel safe.” A few days later after Jones missed her April payment and after he sent maintenance workers to harass her, her landlord began to cut off an variety of utilities. He disconnected her air conditioning cables despite the hot weather and turned off power in parts of her apartment, including her kitchen. Jones reports that she no longer has a working stove. She concluded, that “I want to pay and I’ll pay as soon as I can, but I can’t give you something I don't have.” Bruno's harassment does not change that for now Jones should be protected until July 25, 2020 by a federal moratorium through the CARES ACT due to Bruno’s mortgage for the property being a Fannie Mae Loan. 
Source:
NBC News: Some landlords are using harassment, threats to force out tenants during COVID-19 crisis
4. Manipulation and Illegal Use of Law Enforcement
Location: Orange County, North Carolina 
Instead of hiring an individual to pose as law enforcement, more strategic landlords will misrepresent the tenants as trespassers. Many tenants may not realize that despite not paying rent, under the law they are still recognized as tenants until the court formally terminates this status. Jamie Paulen, founder of Paulen Solidarity and President of Tenant Rights, Inc., explained that landlords target low income tenants who do not know their rights. Joshua Bruno claimed that Sada Jones was trespassing and that there was an "open police investigation into her breaking back into her apartment." Jones and attorneys with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services say that there was no evidence that Bruno has filed a police report or that there was an ongoing police investigation. However in some cases, landlords can successfully utilize the police to assist in an illegal self-help eviction. 
"On April 15, a deputy knocked on my door and told us we were trespassing," Barbara of Orange County, NC told ABC11. Barbara and her husband were unable to pay rent since her husband’s business, painting houses, dwindled. Prior verbal agreements that her husband would work in lieu of paying rent seemed to have been forgotten, negotiations broke down and the landlord’s daughter began harassing them and screaming at them. Despite the invalid orders from the deputy, Paulen said, "I actually did tell (Barbara) that she did not have to leave. I understand I'm the attorney and not the one living in those circumstances. I can only tell a client what the law is. And the law says your landlord can not do that. It's unlawful.”
Sources: 
ABC11: North Carolina’s Covid-19 eviction moratorium not stopping some landlords from forcing renters out
NBC News: Some landlords are using harassment, threats to force out tenants during COVID-19 crisis
5. Damaging Quality of Life
Location: Conway, Arkansas 
Landlords may seek to damage your quality of life inside the unit by refusing to do maintenance work. Lease violations does not mean that the landlord is exempt from providing a livable environment, noted Hannah Adams, a legal aid attorney with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, who is representing Jones. In addition, instead of simply refusing to do maintenance work, landlords may use maintenance workers to break appliances. Bartlett described that at times landlords may even remove the toilets out of the unit. Maintenance workers may also be used as a tool for harassment which Sada Jones experienced. 
Milton Light received a barrage of illegal attempts by his landlord to remove him from the property. Once Light lost his full time job as a coiled tube operator, he approached his landlord with honesty. However as an intimidation tactic, his landlord used this admission as a cue to begin showing the property to future tenants. Light said. “There were families coming through here to look at the house. Some of them didn’t know I was living in the house and I was under a lease and everything. She even got a new tenant to sign a lease,  she texted him to say that the planned move-in date was April 7. 
Frank Jenner, a Center for Arkansas Legal Services attorney who is representing Light states,“His landlord began a campaign to terrorize him.” Milton Light also claims that his landlord used every trick in the book to bully him into moving away from the property. His landlord tried to have his vehicle towed from his home by placing no trespassing signs around the home then calling the police. She filed a complaint with the Arkansas Department of Human Services alleging that his home was unsafe for his four young children. She aimed to ruin his reputation, “It’s in his best interest to figure this out quickly because if something gets on his record, it’s hard to remove,” Walker-Macklin wrote Sharika on April 12 in regards to falsely reporting Light for improper living conditions. Then while Light was away from his home  Walker-Macklin had movers remove his items from the home and load them into a truck. Police had to intervene and place his belongings back into his home. “I was gone for an hour and I come back, and my stuff is moved,” Light said. “My living room set was loaded up on a trailer getting ready to move, I pulled my truck in front of that truck, as soon as I pulled up the landlord [started] fake crying.” According to Jenner, without a court order or Writ of Possession, Walker-Macklin is not legally authorized to remove Light or his belongings. Even though Arkansas has no statewide eviction moratoriums, there is suspicion that Walker-Macklin’s mortgage is an FHA loan thus placing Light under federal eviction protection until July 25, 2020. For now the property continues to be listed for rent while Light spends much of his time guarding his property from the next onslaught of attacks. 
Sources: 
Arkansas Times:  No shelter in place: Conway renter says landlord tried to illegally force him out of his home
Chicago Sun Times: Despite coronavirus eviction ban, some Chicago landlords are locking out tenants
KATV: Conway landlord accused of 'self-help eviction' caught removing tenant's belongings
Legal Services Corporation: Conway Renter Says Landlord Tried to Illegally Force Him Out
NBC News: Some landlords are using harassment, threats to force out tenants during COVID-19 crisis
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Imagine sitting at home with you family on a Sunday morning. Next thing you know you see two rcmp cars and the people you've been renting to own the house from come around the corner. You are paid two months ahead and have paid off $60,000 out of $190,000. When you open the door you are told you have 30 minutes to get out. There are no legal documents and the RCMP officer threatens to arrest you if you refuse to leave. You try to explain to the officer in a calm manner but she will just repeat it's civil, when it's not, and rcmp aren't suppose to interfere with civil manners regardless. As of 1 pm on Sunday your family with a 3 and 6 year old are now homeless.
This was our reality.
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peacockbutch · 10 months
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Help My Mum Fight Illegal Renoviction!
$800 needed urgently for July Rent
Two months ago, my mother's landlord said that he was kicking her and her roommates out of their house. My mother did not understand this required a legal document, and agreed to try to be out by July 1st. One of her roommates managed to secure new housing by the deadline, but her and the others did not. She finally reached out for help, and we contacted the Residential Tenancy Board who informed us that since they have never received a legal notice of eviction, they aren't required to leave yet. The problem is, since one roommate already left, they are short her share of July's rent.
We must get the landlord to issue a proper, legal eviction notice. If they cannot pay this rent in full as soon as possible, he can file for a 10-day eviction for non-payment of rent, rather than the four month notice for renoviction which they are owed.
You can send funds to paypal.me/sphinxRegalia or if you're in Canada, e-transfer to icarusAbstracted@ protonmail.com
Thank you so much for sharing & donating, and any advice u can offer, especially for finding an advocate or legal representation is most appreciated. i am helping my mum with this but both of us are sort of hopeless with paperwork and will need all the help we can get to fight this!
$0 / 800 as of 4th of July 2023
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okthatsgreat · 4 months
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moms will find the most random hills and go “is anybody gonna die on this?” and then not wait for an answer
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cinnamon-notes · 20 days
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i got evicted :')
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agentfascinateur · 1 year
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The Nakba, 75 years ongoing...
With about 1.4 million Palestinians living across 1300 villages, the Nakba resulted in the displacement of over 900,000 people. The vast majority of them ended up in neighboring countries; Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
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vextik · 6 months
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Idk what caused it but thank you for the sudden influx of shop orders, despite me barely posting at all this month. Really appreciated!!! I'm having a really crazy month and that was a nice surprise.
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My dear Tumblr folks!
I usually don’t post asking for help, but my family and I are in need of it..
Last year had been a tough year, I took a huge pay cut from my promotion (which I wasn’t expecting) I ended up institutionalized for some time from an anxiety attack and had no options from the authorities to go or not and now we’re facing an illegal eviction from our slumlord landlord who won’t cooperate and set arrangements to sit to discuss back pay we owe. (which was $400 at the time and November’s rent.) We’ve been good for the past 3 years paying our rent on time and the moment we’re slightly behind their true colors shown. We’ve discovered there is lead in this building while having our 3 kids live here.. I’m sure you’re probably reading this like “well why didn’t you think of it sooner?” well tbh, our landlord seemed like they had their best interest in us at the time and we thought nothing of it… We’ve destroyed our credit, stressing to keep a roof over our heads and can’t get a loan to cover costs…
Any help would be greatly appreciated, seriously.
Also, the picture is a legit 3M lead test. Red = Lead and the pic doesn’t do it justice.
paypal.me/Sunny89
$celonersf
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Taken from the Facebook page for the group Mutual Aid Katarokwi-Kingston, July 29, 2022:
𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲:
Last week there were 𝟐𝟖 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 at the Consumption Treatment Site (CTS) at the Integrated Care Hub (ICH) on Montreal Street. There were 𝟏𝟒 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞, with 12 inside, and 2 on the grounds outside.
This speaks to the desperate need for decriminalization and a safe supply program, but more immediately to 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐂𝐇. In the midst of a drug poisoning crisis, driving people away from the life-saving care at the ICH will 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬. Foreseeable and preventable deaths can and must be prevented.
We believe that all encampment evictions cause harm and there are no viable housing alternatives for people, but that the 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥. What do we say about a City that proceeds with a policy they know has a high chance of killing people? Beyond heartless, inhumane, and unjust... they will be responsible, personally and collectively.
Our efforts as a community must be to treat people with care and dignity and to attempt to meet all of our needs, rather than force those with high needs out of sight and into danger.
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 to the mayor and council, who made this decision, and the CAO, bylaw, and chief of police who will be enforcing it.
Feel free to use what we’ve said here about this crisis (in emails and as a script for phone calls).
Note, though, that letters to officials have greater impact if they are not all the same. If you have time, please alter the text with information about yourself, where you live, how often you are in Belle Park, your connection to or familiarity with the issues of housing, mental and emotional health, or people who use drugs. The following emails belonging to the CAO, Mayor and councilors, City Clerk and Bylaw:
Please BCC: [email protected]
If possible, please also make phone calls to:
Office of the Chief of Police
613-549-3111
Kingston Police Services Board
613-549-4660 x2291
Lanie Hurdle, CAO: 613-546-4291, ext. 1231
Thank you in advance.
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i think rather than having given up on my trans self, i freed myself of the concept of having a trans self (i am just continuously me) but have been traumatized and retraumatized through my transition that i don't rly have a new sense of self to replace it so im just kinda empty and hiding. sucks!
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blossom765 · 2 years
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Watch "CNN’s Jake Tapper Smears Rashida Tlaib With Blatantly Dishonest Reporting" on YouTube
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"Israel's apartheid against Palestinians sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under international law. This system is maintained by violations which Amnesty International found to constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity"
The UN, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, AND Israel-based Human Rights group Bet Salem have all confirmed what Palestinian have known and lived through for decades. That Israel is an apartheid state. That it does not value Palestinian lives!
Strange how so many that defend Israel literally need to lie and put words in people's mouths to look like they're the good guys. It's because they know what they are fighting against.
With facts. With reality.
These defenders of Israel are willing to look like fools to coddle Israel as it spills Palestinian blood. These people have blood on their hands.
Watch the video for more info. You'll also see a clip of how miserable and pathetic those who defend Israel will look when history records them. Because the tide is finally turning to justice.
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agayconcept · 1 year
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mothmanchronicler · 2 years
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it's such a background thing, but i'm surprised people don't use the "teen serpent hype house" in fics more often. you know the one they stole from the ghoulies and then renovated into a tiny whyte wyrm ???
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heathermason · 2 years
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my mom has sent what we had to the landlord <3 we want to try and get it all paid by the 5th... because that is when july rent is due and itll like. Make The Landlord not kick us out.
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