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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1h

No line at the bar either

mmcnulty0.bsky.social @mmcnulty0.bsky.social · 2h

Men’s bathroom at the lorde show: largely a ghost town

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 6h

Talk about crazy, you should take a peak at Arthur Jackson's yard!

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 6h

Well, that might be how you felt, but everyone else thought you were very cool.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 7h

Well... you DID have a conversation with Alec Karakatsanis on stage at Moon Palace earlier this week. That was pretty cool.

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Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social · 9h

We just got ours in. If you pre-ordered, your copy is here and we've got plenty of copies available if you didn't pre-order!

Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 12h

How much do we need this book?
Just reading the chapter titles in the table of contents brought tears to my eyes.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 12h

How much do we need this book?
Just reading the chapter titles in the table of contents brought tears to my eyes.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 14h

Things are certainly headed in that direction, and it’s good to be clear about where we are and what’s happening. Still, the future is unwritten. Hope is a discipline. We won’t win every battle, but we will win some if we fight. A lot can happen in a year.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the same picture, right?

Jewish boy in the Warsaw ghetto, forced out of hiding, with a nazi pointing a machine gun at him. After this photo was taken, he was sent to an extermination camp. But Josef Blösche was just doing his job, right? The law is the law!

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the greatest struggles of adult life.

Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

This is how divorced from reality every president has sounded to me my whole life, and it’s a cold comfort that there’s finally a significant proportion of the population who agrees.
Okay, tbh he sounds at least 50 % more divorced from reality than Reagan - Biden, but it’s a crucial 50%

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

But c6 is for professional/trade associations, right? Isn't antifa the official union of professional protestors?

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

501(c)6

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

their ability to do anything... or their desire desire to do anything...

Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your service!

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Dan Engelhart He/Him @engy5150.bsky.social · 1d

We drove ICE OUT- this morning - drone and all- join us? Let me know if on the east side of the river - otherwise start your group or I’ll help ya find one

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

Trainspotting, but instead of heroin, it’s AI videos of ourselves as skibbidy toilet.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

good morning!

here’s a gift article about how AI isn’t just fun technology that burns through our precious energy and water, rots our brains, and threatens our workforce—there are plenty of ways it concretely threatens our existence and uhhhhh we seem to be past the tipping point.

www.nytimes.com

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco before the internet is basically Atlantis now.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

if you had to time travel to one ancient city in its prime for one year, which city would you choose?

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 1d

The arcade game was quite good! If I remember correctly, there were two versions— one that was a standard video game, and one that was in a booth. I’m pretty sure I saw the original movie, but I only remember the cool bike-car things.

Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 2d

Landstriders, but make it sports.

the landstriders, in the Dark Crystal movie — weird, hairy beasts with long, long legs and bird faces that the dark crystal protagonists ride like horses.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe how jaded / bored / depressed the older penguins are. I wish they could also be jumping for joy at the marvelous bubbles.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 2d

That color is called Abu Grape.

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to try this!
And wait, it's local too?? 😍

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

i am accidentally showing my support for aurin chowdhury tonight with my THC drink by desi high, a 10mg masala chai

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