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Dear Tyrant: Vulnerability Isn't a Crime

In response to Trump’s push to “restore public order” through mass institutionalization…

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Jul 25, 2025
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Homeless man sitting against a building with a cardboard sign that reads “Seeking Human Kindness”, while a passerby walks past
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Hi, I’m Liora.

In light of the tyrant’s latest executive order, I feel it necessary to share some things with you.

I was once homeless. Thankfully, not living-in-the-streets homeless, but couch-surfing, living-out-of-the-cheapest-hotel-one-room-for-three-adults-and-four-cats homeless.

Skin of my teeth. Every day was a prayer to survive and get enough to eat to make it to the next. Each day prioritizing my cats over us, prioritizing my sons over myself.

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