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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen)

@coldbean.bsky.social

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Zine maker, booty shaker, nap whisperer, camp director, dog freak, gen X geek, patriarchy hexer, shrimper’s daughter, mother of metal, organizer of organizers. New Orleans. UU. Unschooler. She/her.

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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is where you donate to print community resource guides
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Donate to the New Orleans Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal! | Imagine Water Works (Powered by Donorbox)

The New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal (NOCRG) is a nearly 100 page guide to free and low-cost resources across the Greater New Orleans area. The NOCRG is compiled annuall...

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2h

Edward Said wanted to talk with "as many different audiences as possible." Yet "I do not ever want to be accused of saying one thing to my people, and a totally different thing to others. I am trying to say the same thing everywhere." This is why we train in the gym! To have mobility and strength.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

Hey newskies! You'll like it here if you make friends. Especially with marginalized people. And this place is run by some villains like twitter but you can achieve a lower bullshit factor.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

www.thenation.com

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💛🎶🫠 @pigeonhistorian.bsky.social · 2h

🎶👂🧠
youtu.be/Jywsp6kXR2w

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

this is a big and important point imho. check for your local #NoKings rally and GO if you can. nokings.org

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

For anyone who dismissively says the #NoKings marches are just rallies, not protests: that's cool, 'cause RALLIES ARE GREAT! :-)

Mass rallies like this are KEY if you want to eventually build to a general strike, for example.

This is organizing, step by step. See you on 10/18!

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Big Chungus Bus Factory, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 2h

I am once again asking every wine mom out for blood to please join DSA (just don't fedpost on the forums): dsausa.org/join

Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

the Booker interview with the older white ladies from the other day where they tore him to shreds for collaborating is the tip of the iceberg

wine moms are out for blood

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Daniel Bautista.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

"[Antifa] masks are designed to inflict terror on you." — Glenn Beck

A person in a large inflatable blue bunny costume stands playfully in a street, surrounded by several people dressed in dark clothing and masks. Behind them, police officers are visible through a metal gate.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 14h

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

I hear there's a new influx of folks to Bluesky! So here's a thread of starter packs of awesome accounts for your consideration! Welcome, and enjoy!

First, a bunch of People Who Get it - accounts that regularly post good info, good action items, or good vibes in 2025. go.blacksky.community/5KTiNKd

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PersonPerson @per9736.bsky.social · 2h

This is an excellent article. Read the whole thing, rather than taking bytes out of it. #NOLAsky

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

“The number one measure of success for me personally, is fewer people dying in that jail.”

What it means to follow sheriffs...

boltsmag.org/new-orleans-...

In New Orleans, a New Sheriff Will Take the Helm of a Jail Marred by Abuses

Police veteran Michelle Woodfork won the sheriff’s race, at a time when federal consent decrees barring ICE collaboration and lifting detention conditions may be ending.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 22h

Systemic racism was/is the warm-up act for authoritarianism across the board. In case anyone is still unclear on that point

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

Here's @laminda.bsky.social's ESSENTIAL starter pack of independent journalists and news outlets. So many mainstream outlets have failed us miserably or been taken over by right wing billionaires. Follow these indie joints for better info in 2025. go.blacksky.community/6Wdyb4E

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

They better buckle up because white families in red states where you can buy a cannon and a tank are going to have some things to say.

Big Lord Bunny @ceepain.bsky.social · 3h

They don't send out them SNAP payments and white folks gone be at 1600 Pennsylvania with some pitchforks.

These folks are going to get reminded that while "we" are the "face" of those programs but we are not the primary recipients.

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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s meet up @nolashan.bsky.social

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mags. @artbymags.bsky.social · 4h

ok real talk #nolasky #nolatwitter - are folks coming to the #nokings protest on the greenway? i was handing out flyers last night at an event & was astounded to find people who hadn't heard anything about it. thankfully they were psyched and plan to come. i know there's a lot going on this weekend.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

😡😡😡😡

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h

And just like the Taliban isn't all of Islam, and just like Christian Nationalism isn't all of Christianity, the Kahanists etc. aren't all of Judaism.

Religion is power, & every tradition has its Rev. Dr. Kings as well as its Torquemadas. Power is used for greatness and evil, here as everywhere.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h

Your regular reminder that Bibi Netanyahu is about as religious and theologically serious as Trump is.

That is to say--

yeah.

Exactly that much.

In both cases, *fundamentalist zealotry* animates *one or more factions* of those they're trying to appease, but not all of them. That's it.

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 2h

Over 300 Native people have been evacuated to Anchorage (after many more evac'd to Bethel) from Alaskan villages destroyed by #tyhphoonHalong & bc the impacted area is already getting little daylight & soon freezing, they won't be able to even go back for construction at all until at least March.

Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 2d

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF
WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
ONLINE FUNDRAISER - DONATE TO SUPPORT
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate online. All funds raised will go directly to assisting communities.
PURCHASE ITEMS - AMAZON WISHLIST
Purchase items of immediate need to go directly to the Bethel Community Services Foundation to be distributed to villages most affected.
DONATION DRIVE AT AFN CONVENTION
Accepting items of immediate need including:
Cases of water, nonperishable foods, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, phone chargers, blankets, sleeping bags, cots, flashlights, and hand wipes.
DENA'INA CENTER, ROOM 6 (2ND FLOOR)
Friday, October 17 | 1-5PM
Saturday, October 18 | 8AM-2PM

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

What are you good at? Got some skills? Are you a good talker? A gardener? A cook? A laborer? Got a closet full of coats that don’t fit your kids but might fit the kids whose mom just got deported? C’mon friends, there’s space for you in the movement. Join it. Pick up the tools for the time you got

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

Being in amongst community doing something in the spirit of shared purpose, stewardship, solidarity, mutual aid—it feels good, it builds something GOOD, it builds resilience and strength and takes some of the edge off the fear we all feel

And it scares the hell outta the other guy 🫡

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 14h

just imagined Aubrey Plaza as Amelia Bedilia interacting with Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc and nearly passed out

it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 14h

if we had a billion dollars we would hire Rian Johnson to make an Amelia Bedilia film with Aubrey Plaza in the titular role but also it's a murder mystery in which she is the obvious suspect

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

My point is—make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing.

Protests aren’t effective warnings for the powerful if you aren’t backing it up with more organizing outside of it. Find the local coalition partner you like, introduce yourself, and stand under their banner

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