The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #895

San Francisco worker posts terrifying walk past drug-addled homeless people passed out on the sidewalk in the city's Tenderloin district - Daily Mail

Homeless PIRATES are marauding through the crime-ridden San Francisco Bay - Daily Mail

Heartbreaking toll of San Francisco's homelessness nightmare: Woman filmed saying she didn't want medical treatment for flesh-eating disease on her feet has now had them AMPUTATED - Daily Mail

San Francisco backs reparations plans, including $5m to eligible Black adults - The Guardian

San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies - AP News

Liberal San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston blames capitalism for city's sprawling homeless problem and says it's 'counterproductive' to arrest people openly doing illegal drugs in public - Daily Mail

Man accused of stealing Amtrak train victim's severed leg and EATING it in sick twist - The Mirror

San Francisco cops arrest 14-YEAR-OLD girl for stealing more than $30,000 worth of clothes in over a dozen retail thefts - Daily Mail

Why Starbucks, Whole Foods, and others are closing stores in downtown San Francisco - Yahoo Finance

Crime-Ridden San Francisco Seeks To Allow Lawsuits Against Grocery Stores Fleeing The City As Mass Corporate Exodus Continues - Yahoo Finance

How bad is shoplifting in San Francisco compared to LA, NYC? New study provides insights. - SF Gate

Mi Rancho plans 1st San Francisco store in food desert - Supermarket News

San Francisco business owner goes on hunger strike over new bike lane - NBC Bay Area

San Francisco wants to offer free drug recovery books at its public libraries - AP News

How a new type of S.F. homeless shelter would solve the cycle of people returning to streets - San Francisco Chronicle

Gavin Newsom’s solution for San Francisco homelessness doesn’t sit well with Butte County - Fortune

A Failed Solution for Our Soaring Homelessness Problem - Governing

Alameda County DA Pamela Price will face a recall vote - Archive

SFPD arrest 42 people in Tenderloin, nearby areas in joint operation - KTVU

Police sink suspected San Francisco Bay bandits after seafaring pirates terrorize houseboats, yachts - Fox News

How do homeless people think San Francisco should solve homelessness? - San Francisco Standard

The organisers just came to ask if I wanted to leave @NatConTalk earlier as the riot police have arrived, and they worry violence might ensue. But I am from Poland. I don't run from the Bolsheviks. I face them. Cardinal Müller closes the day. - Bartoszewicz_mg - Twitter

The hateful bunch: The conservatives descended upon Brussels like the locusts Imagine deploying police to barricade entrance to a conference and thinking you’re on the side of “democracy”. - Paul_B_Coleman - Twitter

Belgian police enter the National Conservatism Conference - Visegrad24 - Twitter

Meanwhile in the streets of Brussels: - Shunyaa00 - Twitter

Belgian PM denounces 'unacceptable' bid by Brussels mayor to ban right-wing political conference attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman as police barricade entrance and hold attendees 'hostage' - Daily Mail

Natcons legally challenge the cancellation - NatConTalk - Twitter

Antifa campaigned for the cancellation: - MrAndyNgo - Twitter

The Brussels mayor in question who shut down the NatCon conference also denies the Armenian genocide and was expelled from the Socialist Party for inviting far right politicians from Turkey to Brussels. Is this all a coincidence? - Ayaan - Twitter

Ayaan Hirsh Ali on the mayor - Restoration Bulletin

How are things in the bunker: - GoodwinMJ - Twitter

(Thread) - Shellenberger - Twitter

Suella Braverman: - NatConTalk - Twitter

I am a Belgian, and I feel deeply ashamed of my country today. Freedom has started to mean slavery; peace: war; and ignorance: strength. @DavidEngels12 #NatConBrussels2 - NatConTalk - Twitter

He will probably say something: - ThierryBreton - Twitter

The person who is behind the advancement of censorship in Europe has nothing to say about it. He is the one who told Elon Musk: the bird will fly by our rules. - Timolarch - Twitter

Labour MP laughing: - M0L0VATT - Twitter

@NatConTalk @DavidEngels12 Move then - A_Soft_Soul - Twitter

Some of what one reads about 'National Conservatism' smacks a little too much of 'National Socialism'. - acgrayling - Twitter

Never thought I would agree with Varoufakis but ‘never say never’. - freddiesayers - Twitter

Tories chatting shit about inflation -Rishi Sunak - Twitter

Really means currency is 27.2% worthless -Akkad Secretary- Twitter

Pay increases are there, but not up to scratch. - Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Minimum wage is now £11.44 an hour. - GOV.UK

Step 1, eat shit. - Image

Deals, become a whore. - Image

Dave Ramsey your finances. - Dave Ramsey - Twitter

For those that know, ofc Ramsy has some pretty large problems. - Facebook

But the simple dad advice of checking online for cheaper shit is just good practice. - MoneySavingExpert

LISA - why is this not rammed down every parent's throat? - GOV.UK

And when you do buy a house be sure to use ONS to help inform your purchase. - Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Making sure you are getting interest on any wealth you have. - MoneySavingExpert

78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, a 6% increase from the previous year. - Forbes

Here’s why even Americans making more than $100,000 live paycheck to paycheck. - CNBC

Honestly I think Anglos just have an awful culture around money. - YouTube