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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 12h

No Kings protest was so large in Oakland, CA, I had time to stop at my favorite lunch spot that was along the route and continue on with other protesters.

Alex holds a bowl of lunch in the middle of a No Kings protest

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, and I just might!

Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

Slowly but surely 🥹

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

Starting small with a triangle scarf and I've had to take it apart three times 😭. This is literally one of the easiest things to do.

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

I am picking up crocheting again, and wow do I hate it. But my Abuela and Mom have both crocheted family pieces and I would also like to add to the collection.

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cassie @wilsonxcassie.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most valuable takeaways from the training is that social media and spreading rumors about ICE only stokes more fear and chaos for those most impacted. The best thing you can do is if you are an eyewitness you call the hotline and you film video to be shared w PIRC directly.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

You don't need a legislative body when you have a dictator.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

I love this little idiot though.

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cailin @cailin.gay · 1d

Obviously this is pure evil stuff but it’s also really funny the Supreme Court was like yeah ICE you’re allowed to racially profile and detain people based on vibes now. Lmfao? It’s so awesome I have to carry ID on me now in case I encounter Illiterate Goons

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 1d

You ever stop your cat from throwing up on the rug? Me neither.

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cailin @cailin.gay · 3d

I think my least favorite leftist talking point is when people say speed cameras etc are bad because they’re “part of the surveillance state.” Okay genius since the cops refuse to enforce traffic laws at all anymore I guess we should continue to let drivers plow into like, children walking to school

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 7d

The joy in walkable neighborhoods is unparalleled when you're sharing a cig, the weather is warm, and you spent the entire night with friends.

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 8d

To all my haters who are currently the waiters at the table of my success... 😎

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 8d

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 8d

Is it too early for a bevie? Asking for someone who has spent the past 6 yrs advocating for more housing?

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 8d

I regret to inform everyone that I am a Newsom apologist now.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 10d

This is what Democratic mayors should be doing to the streets in front of ICE facilities. Can't have a facility if no one can bring a car into it!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 11d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 10d

Every day, some new horror. Building management at the Chicago apartments either coordinated with the feds on clearing out the building, or just took advantage of it and turned it into a militarized eviction raid.

Housing justice has gotta be a key pillar in our response to accelerating fascism.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Muhammad Alameldin @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social · 18d

SB 79 is still on the Governor's desk and I am losing sleep over it.

Please send in a call.

cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

Call the Governor to sign SB 79!

Please call the Governor and urge him to sign SB 79!

cayimby.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18d

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18d

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”

This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 19d

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Amanda @amandasaltzer.bsky.social · 21d

The last time Trump sent Feds to Portland; I was an emergency dispatcher for the city/county.

It radicalized me; what I was seeing/hearing/dispatching didn’t match the narrative.

Proud Boys/Patriot Prayer were the REAL issue.

Abolish ICE.

Oh, and there’s this: gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

gizmodo.com

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