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Kathy Tafel

@kathytafel.bsky.social

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iOS dev | conference speaker | Mac addict https://www.therecipeboxapp.com Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun SF—>Bkln—>Berlin Retweets ≠ 👍🏻 She/her 🇺🇦🍉🤎🌮 We all breathe the same air.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 21d

Excited that we managed to ship The Recipe Box for iPad and iPhone with Liquid Glass support and recipe timers ready for download on new iPhone day. Get it here for iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-r...

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 12h

Unbelievably, Antifa is demanding that "Congress shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech"! These people have gone too far.

David Noll @david.noll.org · 12h

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

David Noll @david.noll.org · 13h

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

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Man, I hate Illinois Nazis @someone-somewhere.bsky.social · 14h

kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

ALT: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

media.tenor.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13h

🤣🤣🤣

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 15h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

One way to deal with the threat of overwhelming force and violence is to... laugh in its face.

🐸🐸🐸🐸🦄🦝🐻‍❄️🦈🦚🐼🦖

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 1d

Up to 90% of all life on this planet died during the Permian Triassic extinction event when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years.

We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.

It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

If my 80 year old mother with bad knees can picket in Los Angeles, so can you.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

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.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

"is the antifa frog in the room right now"

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 3d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2d

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

As I told @josephcox.bsky.social for this piece, if DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Enjoy the whole thing.

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 2d

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 2d

I mean yes this is a great ideal but I guess we don’t consider native Americans civilians? Or the militias whose purpose was returning runaway slaves? I guess I’m just cautious that an originality argument here is a good idea?

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

This is a statutory question for the courts, but it is a political one more broadly that public should be encouraged to see as a betrayal of our Founding Principles and our constitutional heritage. We do not put military personnel to police civilians absent the most dire threats to liberty itself.

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 3d

If Republicans can casually ignore precedent, so can Democrats.

Speaker Johnson has no right to stop duly elected representatives from taking office.

Call a press conference on the capitol steps, and swear in Democratic Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva - NOW.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 3d

Guess the Pro Tools team got cut this. Wonder what that will mean for the industry. Fun fact: I mailed out copies of Avid AudioMedia sw as part of my first job out of college. That was before they bought digi…

Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, who‘s to say that isn’t black bloc, who might have more than one costume/anti-fascist tactic?

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 3d

There's a Portland boomer antifascist ukulele band and I AM HERE FOR IT

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 3d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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