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@sbworkersunited.org

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders.

Our call to action is simple:

📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp

bit.ly/deletetheapp

IMAGE: a stylized cell phone with flames coming out of it. TEXT: Delete the Starbucks app off your phone.
Seriously.
Starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history.
We have the power to tell them union-busting is bad for business.
Don't shop at Starbucks until they do better by their baristas!

February 3, 2026 at 2:10 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

Goalie fight, as called in American Sign Language:

February 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM

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Pop Base

@popbase.tv

Chappell Roan arrives at the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

February 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM

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Bill McKay

@mckay4senate.bsky.social

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

January 31, 2026 at 3:38 AM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota

Via DonHarris4/X

January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM

realpresidentxi.bsky.social

@realpresidentxi.bsky.social

Did Trump call her up a few months ago and try to buy the prize from her, and she decided to sell for the price of removing Maduro from power?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20d

Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.

January 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM

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acabylon bee

@acabylonbee.bsky.social

it's actually like this fr fr

two person horse costume, with the back half with his head up a donkey's butt, and the top half saying to the back half "dude, im over here"

the donkey is labelled "dang cheetoh [sic] in the white house", bottom half labelled "the media", top half labelled "we the people"

January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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Ravin Boodram

@rvbdrm.com

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM

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Ryan

@ryansimmons.bsky.social

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

What I believe is actually happening here:

The robots are set up to identify what content gets engagement, read FB auto-gen text description, & feed that into the generative AI. Post, comments, iterate.

hundreds of seemingly real comments on these, most of them incorporating some form of "amen"

A man and a child sleeping in a closet full of military uniforms. the man is saying "CREATE IT IS AS FAR SIDE COMICS"

A child in uniform, who appears to be, well, the insignia is a little messed up but i think he's a technical sgt, saying to presumably his mother I WILL WILL BE GOE BACK! the mother and a younger child next to her on a bed are horrified

this is a similar image to the one before except the child who is headed to war is even younger and he is saying I WILL HAM BE BE BACK!

this is a woman curled up in bned with a soldier of the USIPA and there is a lion in the window and their pillow says MIDS and ODD WED! and there is a soldier with a rifle outside the window (but not pointed at them, or the lion, which really he should shoot the lion because there's a fucking lion just outside these people's window and they don't even know, they're asleep)

September 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM

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tyler walk with me

@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Jeff Youngblood

@jeffyoungblood.bsky.social

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving fam

November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

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November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

So, skeptical of a screen shot from Twitter, I went through and translated his actual speech myself and it goes WAY HARDER THAN THE SCREEN SHOT SUGGESTS

he mixes in the history of Colombia into the drug cartels and Bernie Moreno into Jeffrey Epstein, it's wild, wild stuff

One hundred years of solitude.

The sad story of a lonely country that seems to be killing itself when he is in the midst of life's exuberance,
when it erupts like a volcano, both in the Glimpses of vitality, both in nature and in human beings. And that's why
we dance the way we do and why we can admire this greenery that surrounds us like perhaps no one else in humanity.
So much exuberance that in the midst of solitude we kill each other.

In our loneliness, we kill each other. And it has been this way since the beginning.

I was 25 on November 7, 1985 and I had been tortured and was being tortured in prison and they ask me to apologize.
Why?

Because I wanted a different country and thought differently from those who governed Colombia.

That is why I am president of the Republic.

But why was the Patriotic Union killed? Why were the magistrates killed?

Ah, because Pablo Escobar put up the money to take over the palace. Carlos Leder, third or fourth in Pablo
Escobar's cartel, confessed that they had nothing to do with it. He's not the doorman or driver of the drug trade,
he's one of the kingpins. I shouldn't talk about this, they say. But if it wasn't drug trafficking, why were the
judges killed?

Because they destroyed everything.

Couldn't they speak? Was anyone even trying to speak? What was the reason?

And the reason, in my opinion-I could be wrong, of course, in interpreting Colombian history-was simply that the
Colombian oligarchy didn't want to distribute wealth to the population.

Didn't want to escape that immense social inequality. Losing even a single penny of their wealth seemed terrible to
them.

And I said, why hadn't the Conservative Party apologized? Because today we are facing the same events.

You only have to look at today's newspaper pages to see what's on display. A magazine published a cover featuring
me in an orange jumpsuit, which they claim is the same one worn by prisoners in the United States. In other words,
we emerged from a peace process that created a constituent assembly. They wiped out an entire Left-wing party, the
Patriotic Union, along the way, and those of us who survived won the elections, and now they're telling us again
that they're going to kill us. I'm not saying they're going to kill us, but it's the same thing. They want to
eliminate this popular alternative and prevent it from winning the 2026 elections again, and they want to do it
with violence once more.

And so I ask the Conservative Party, is that why it hasn't apologized?

Because it wants to repeat and repeat and repeat the sad history of the physical and violent elimination of
difference in Colombia, which is not a minority, but a popular majority. And it has always been a popular majority
because Gaitdn was a majority, because Rafael Uribe Uribe was a majority, because La Napo was Because we are the
majority, they always kill the majority to continue governing as a minority. It's called oligarchy.

Is it possible to try to imprison the democratically elected president in the United States, a foreign country? It's not the worst kind of violence, because it's preferable to die fighting on a street corner than to be taken prisoner to a foreign country that has nothing to do with what one believes, but it does have a lot to do with Colombia's history since the beginning of violence. And why am I talking about the Conservative Party? Conservative? Because those who are doing this—and excuse me for not yet properly entering the event, but I have to say it because they are conservative militants who are influencing a gentleman named Bernie Moreno. Moreno. He's the one who says in the magazine that he's giving Trump the way to imprison Petro. Petro is in jail. Do you know why he's doing it? For personal revenge. A vendetta like the mafia. As García Márquez said, "We are killing each other in circles of revenge. We kill each other out of pride, he says in his book.

My first debates in Congress were against Mr. Bernardo Alberto Moreno, who robbed the Banco del Pacífico and later he was president of it.

And my first debates in Congress were against money laundering. They went against the money laundering that was established by turning the property, the use of the land in the Bogotá savanna, from rural use that belonged to the peasants to
to urban use, where they speculated with such harsh real estate interests that they even turned a $300,000 property into the San Simón Hacienda.

A 3 billion settlement with a single signature from the minister of Environment, Mr. Andrés Pastrana

Juan Me, a paramilitary member, said he collaborated with the paramilitaries. The business belonged to a man named Ángel Gaitán Maecha de Chí, founder of paramilitarism in Colombia and emerald mining.

And who was the political leader?

Andrés Pastrana, president who also enriched himself with some lots in San Simón.

And on what list does Mr. Andrés appear? On the list. No, no, I'm not saying he appears on the list, he appears as a friend of Epstein on the list and now he's sealing the deal.

A clan of pedophiles wants to end democracy in Colombia. It's tough, yes, but that's the reality. And to prevent the list from being published, they send battleships to kill fishermen in this city. And they threaten our neighbor, asking
whether he's a dictator or not, how can the people of Colombia applaud the invasion of their brother, who isn't the president, but the people of Venezuela?

When would we ever be so treacherous and sellouts that we betray our own blood? Are the people of Ecuador, Panama, or Venezuela not our own people?

And then they want the president to do what Duque, the coward, wanted to do: lend Colombian lands so that a brother country with the same history as us could be invaded from there, because Bolívar was born there and came to die here in
this city. No, President of Colombia, you cannot do that, President cursed by future generations, because you will never be forgotten as...

And I do not belong to those who wanted to kill Bolívar. The Venezuelan government has made many criticisms, I'm critical, but I'm not making fun of the people of
Venezuela, nor did I build a trap for the people of Venezuela to fall into.

an invasion that is only after their oil, what they want is more greed and violence to make this beautiful corner of the South American continent a Syria, an Iraq, a Libya full of slaves, selling black slaves again, right?

list of Epstein's friends that he doesn't want to appear in the United States. They want to use us here with the violence so that the people of the United States do not think about their own government, but rather xenophobia, racism, and the ideas of the superior race and other false ideas, and they use us to avoid discussing their own problems

The president of Colombia has denounced drug traffickers for decades. And the drug traffickers he has denounced were always in political power.

They were always in political power in Colombia, in the state. And now they accuse us of being drug traffickers.

Hypocrites.

any of the Colombian senators and Colombian politicians who went to Miami to try to build the road by which they could forcibly remove the elected president of Colombia It is popularly known as being full of relatives and businesses of drug traffickers. Drug traffickers' business. And Marco Rubio doesn't want to believe it, well, believe it. even though he also has a relative who is a drug trafficker. They're all coated in it at their core.

I believe, and I hope I'm not wrong, to that insult that conservatives of Andrés Pastrana, a friend of Epstein, its business partners, through the brother, Senator Bernie Moreno, in the United States

And how do we Colombians respond to such a massive anti-democratic insult? Such treason against the homeland by those who already sold Panama for 13 million dollars and they stole the money.

How do you respond to that? And I can't say more while remaining coherent.

And I ask the people who are here, who are listening to me and beyond, because we have to go from village to village, from municipality to municipality, that not only are there elections coming in which I cannot participate, but there is a defense of dignity, of national sovereignty, that when they come here to threaten us, I do not accept threats, we are going to rise up by the millions because the prophecy is true.

And we are jaguars, males and females, we are jaguars.

We will be jaguars dancing for the dignity of Colombia. We will be jaguars dancing to revive Bolívar, who is still anchored there, in that fascist monument they erected in his honor at the Quinta de Bolívar. We will be jaguars to end the 100 years of solitude. Millions will rise up here, unarmed. against the threat of those linked to the list of pedophiles we will not allow to operate. We will build democracy, we will build dignity. And I'm not talking about Trump, who shouldn't be mistaken, I'm talking about Andrés Pastrana, who orchestrated this slander against the President of Colombia through his friend Bernie Moreno and his brothers, who are the thieves who were in his government, involved in the Banco del Pacífico scandal and the land grabs in the Bogotá Savannah, denounced by the current President of the Republic.

I ask for forgiveness on behalf of the State so that they may revive their dead through it. It is a way of reviving. All of it. It's a way to revive. We all know it. We don't die; the energy continues. The second law of thermodynamics in physics states: Nothing is created or destroyed, it is transformed. And the energy of these thousands of people who, as members of the Patriotic Union and having dreams from 1982 to 2000, that energy is here again, multiplied thousands of times over. Now we are millions.

Now they can't kill us. Now we are the heart, the hope of We are the heart, the hope of the people of Colombia.

Now we are a flag raised high and we will not let them insult it. We will not allow them to spit on her in blood. We will rise up in dignity with the the hands of millions and millions will stop the pedophiles. Thank you very much for listening to me.

November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM

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rich traditions

@helldude.bsky.social

to the extent there is any overarching coherence in the modern GOP beyond "whatever trump wants" it's "florida" - it really is just a bunch of freaky floridians now

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · Nov 1

Mar-a-Lago bathroom selfie

November 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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MaxFunHQ

@maximumfun.org

You do one thing, then another, then another, and eventually, it's all done

October 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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don't hug me I'm porksweats

@porksweats.bsky.social

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

Our DSA National Co-Chair Megan Romer stopped by Miami on her way back from Cuba and participated in our Eyewitness Reports panel last night along with US Hands Off Cuba Committee representatives from Jacksonville and Los Angeles.

October 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Jon Bois

@jonbois.bsky.social

when i was younger we had different things than the things people have now

October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

Our Labor Book Club is back!! Over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be discussing Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 by Philip S. Foner. We are going to discuss chapters 1-4 this upcoming Saturday at 3pm. Please purchase the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/orga...