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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10h

It’s funny that this post implies that if you are annoyed that coffee is more expensive you are just not being rational about it.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 9h

If it wasn’t for Black Bloc, my friend would have been killed, like two other people, at a rally shot up by a Republican.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 5d

No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

crimethinc.com

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 14h

As the day of “No Kings” marches approaches, I’m still just really sitting with how much of the rallying cries and demands against centralized authoritarianism were unironically taken and watered down from anarchism by people who thoroughly hate anarchists and remind us at every chance they get.

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borgpup ✈️ SF 10/22-11/19 @borgpup.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 9h

Young Republicans can say they love Hitler and want to open up new gas chambers but PSU has to investigate itself for antisemitism because it didn’t machine gun student protesters

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah maybe that’s the problem with democracy. Sometimes people vote for minorities to all get killed.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 9h

The brochure for their app boasts of the feature “Scheduling of Interrogations”

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 10h

Huge scoop of a secret company that can track anyone’s phone’s location and is likely involved in multiple assassinations

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah it should be illegal to criticize the Democratic Party as long as the Republicans exist!

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I guess Democrats should never plan for what if they lose any election ever

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 21h

I made a dozen vegan Cubano sandwiches. I worked really hard to make the pork out of soya chunks and it worked great everybody loves me.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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South 🏳️‍🌈 Sound 🌻 Green 🏳️‍⚧️ Party @south-sound-greens.bsky.social · 1d

Portland and Olympia share this.
Both act as refugia for queer and trans folks fleeing oppression regionally and nationally.
Both are regular stops for violent Hate Tourism.
They attack us out of panic about losing control over a family that patriarchs think is their property.
We aren't going back.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Intergenerational tension is a thing in any modern society, but in Oregon those tensions often map onto one's feelings about Portland. Young kids who don't fit in somewhere in Oregon will dream about escaping their families/towns and moving to Portland. Conservative parents fear this will happen.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

you know what WOULD have Portland on fire?

Zenith Energy's so-called 'renewable' fuels.

(like literally the rivers themselves on fire)

emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history.

submit your comments by Friday.

actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe you would disrespect the Landsknecht codpiece like this

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

My god it’s here

RAWDAWG COMICS @rawdawgcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus Day (page 1/40) 🧵

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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DegenerateHomeschooler @tonydelvecchio.bsky.social · 5d

We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

Law Banning Child Sex Offenders From Homeschooling Stalled After Nine Child Sex Offenders Testify Against It

Illinois lawmakers proposed the state's first protections for homeschooled children; at least nine registered child sex offenders appeared as witnesses against the now-stalled bill.

www.spoonbeltandrod.com

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Former police dispatcher (and volunteer with the Police Athletic League) cost Santa Monica $229 million for abuse over 200 victims. Just fucking insane.