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Becks
@boonrs.bsky.social
co-founder of software cooperatively owned by its users, luddite, not from anywhere
A friend moved into a place built in the 60s and it has amazing original stove, a Frigidaire flair. It's gorgeous, the burners are on a pull out drawer you can stow away. My photo doesn't do it justice.

Can fun electric stove r&d get some of that AI money?
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
People used to say I was being hyperbolic when I would list the similarities between Saudi and the US. I grew up in Saudi and my ived to the US as a young adult.

Relieved it's more obvious to people now, it's always been there
From a few days ago, but this moving piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social for The Guardian is cogent, illuminating, and infuriating.

Fuck Trump, and fuck all the fascist collaborators, including Bezos and his monsters corrupting the Washington Post. MBS murdered their reporter.
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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ICE conduct in Colorado “unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state coloradosun.com/2025/11/25/f... via @taydolven.bsky.social #copolitics
ICE conduct in Colorado "unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state
The ruling is a win in federal court for ACLU, Colorado law firms who sued ICE to stop “indiscriminate” arrests and detentions
coloradosun.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Yeah, this is a real reminder that your opsec is only as good as your humans.
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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A company that made $4 billion in profits last year is scared of organized people. Proud to be out there with striking Starbucks workers last week.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Imagine being a blog about power and deciding to migrate to Substack in November 2025. Kind of hard to trust your analysis.
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection”

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Boulder County is dealing with a ~$6 million impact in November from the government defunding SNAP.
I love how the food access organizations is Boulder, CO are collaborating right now.

Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I love how the food access organizations is Boulder, CO are collaborating right now.

Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"It’s one of the first tests of a George Floyd-era state police reform law that attempted to hold cities and law enforcement officers financially accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
A Denver jury awarded six people collectively $20 million after an officer accidentally shot them in 2022.

It is among the biggest jury awards in the state’s history for police misconduct — and the victims may never see a penny of it from the city of Denver.
Where does $20 million come from? Massive jury award will test George Floyd-era police reform law in higher courts
The law attempts to hold cities and officers accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
denverite.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Why Denver's use of Flock Safety, a company that produces license-plate reading cameras and software, is causing so much controversy.
Denver is at the center of a viral national fight over surveillance
An influential YouTuber, “normie Democrats” and hundreds of other people packed a weeknight meeting.
denverite.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Faculty at University of Colorado Boulder have voted to support the AAUP Mutual Protection Compact! Take a moment to thank our neighbors for taking this important step toward uniting to protect our state's outstanding institutions for higher education.

See: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/23/c...
CU faculty push statewide 'defense compact' opposing Trump policies
The Boulder Faculty Assembly is asking CU to join a Mutual Academic Defense Compact with other Colorado universities and reject federal requests to align university policies with Trump’s agenda.
boulderreportinglab.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Today, on National Food Day, let's think about the rhetorics and politics of the industrial food system. In contrast, how can we build resilient local food systems that are also based in equity, and why is this more important than ever? #teamrhetoric #sustainability #foodsecurity
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Another Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter leader has been outed as a neo-nazi and member of violent white supremacist organizations Patriot Front and Active Club.
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I haven’t seen it on here, only on fb, but it’s worth reading what was said at Denver’s no kings rally by the person who was asked to do a land acknowledgement. “You want to fight tyranny? Learn from the people who have endured it for centuries.” www.facebook.com/share/16qnwh...
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www.facebook.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Help out a Colorado neighbor, contribute to the Ponce family legal fund to keep their family together: www.gofundme.com/f/dianas-fam...
Donate to Diana’s family through Brother’s political crisis, organized by Diana Plascencia
Hi, my name is Diana Ponce. I am the youngest of 8 siblings. This m… Diana Plascencia needs your support for Diana’s family through Brother’s political crisis
www.gofundme.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"When I was younger, I thought I was missing some basic psychological component—a psychic gasket that allowed other people to move through the world, seeing what I saw, without reacting. Unbothered. Uncurious. I thought that the absence of that missing part was eventually going to kill me."
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We deserve to know if ICE is using a spyware program to access private information without an owner's consent. Once again, DHS is violating constitutional rights to target immigrants & people of color. I join @repsummerlee.bsky.social in calling Secretary Noem for answers ASAP.
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"The organization has tried to fill the gap with produce donations, but transporting and distributing fruits and vegetables is challenging, and multiple patrons told ProPublica the produce had gone bad by the time they received it."

You know who is set up to do this? Small food rescues.
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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like you can do Hegseth's performative MANLY MAN deus vult assed tattooes too and it works, it's all drag, top to bottom, Trump's bad toupee and bronzer all the way down to the social media tradwives, it's all a terminal case of stage IV metastatic gender, always has been
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Love me now
Hold me down
And the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down
No they never gonna keep us all down"
Mon Rovîa's "Heal with Others" tour is in Englewood, CO Oct 7
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...
Mon Rovîa - Heavy Foot (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Mon Rovîa
m.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Look who just joined the war on cars 😻
September 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"You want us to remember Charlie Kirk? We’ll show you how the trans community and our allies remember that rat bastard." ✨🌈💌
ART CONTEST!!!

It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!!

That's right, you heard us.
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM