Chris B.
@bonhammer.bsky.social
Born and raised in Michigan but I live in Colorado and my heart is also in Colorado. I thrive on harm reduction, a ridiculous amount of caffeine and Marxism.
About time. This was retaliation, same as the attempts to deport her are.
UPDATE: Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters said.
ICE releases immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra from detention
Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters s…
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December 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
About time. This was retaliation, same as the attempts to deport her are.
Earlier, when explaining why Indigenous Peoples Day matters to someone who said “but what happened is in the past”, I was told “you worry incessantly about that shit”. This shows a complete disregard for the discrimination Indigenous people face, and how it affects us all in some way.
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Earlier, when explaining why Indigenous Peoples Day matters to someone who said “but what happened is in the past”, I was told “you worry incessantly about that shit”. This shows a complete disregard for the discrimination Indigenous people face, and how it affects us all in some way.
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Our first priority bill of the session passed UNANIMOUSLY out of House Judiciary Committee yesterday! Now, the bill is on its way to the House Floor. Onward! 💪🏽
Learn more: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1015
Learn more: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1015
January 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Our first priority bill of the session passed UNANIMOUSLY out of House Judiciary Committee yesterday! Now, the bill is on its way to the House Floor. Onward! 💪🏽
Learn more: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1015
Learn more: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb25-1015
Colorado Springs City Council refuses to respect the vote for Prop 300 (which passed with over 130,000 voting yes on recreational marijuana sales in November) and wants a redo in April. At what point will it be hammered home for them to stop blocking it?
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Colorado Springs might have to vote on recreational weed sales again
UPDATE 1/14/2025: Colorado Springs City Council voted to reduce the mandatory distance from a retail dispensary to any school, child care facility, or
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January 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Colorado Springs City Council refuses to respect the vote for Prop 300 (which passed with over 130,000 voting yes on recreational marijuana sales in November) and wants a redo in April. At what point will it be hammered home for them to stop blocking it?
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In bad news, Amy Coney Barrett appears to have already decided that the 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) is “possibly illegitimate” several years ago.
January 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In bad news, Amy Coney Barrett appears to have already decided that the 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) is “possibly illegitimate” several years ago.
I used this to look up the data on all of the school districts just in my city alone. Segregation in our educational system is very much alive and well here. Why is this even being tolerated by the law?
The story behind ProPublica’s new Private School Demographics database began with our need to understand how many “segregation academies” still operate — and where.
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I used this to look up the data on all of the school districts just in my city alone. Segregation in our educational system is very much alive and well here. Why is this even being tolerated by the law?
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Up to 5 straight hours with a sub-zero wind chill @DENAirport.
Likely another ~60 hours to go. Wind chills could drop as low as -30° in Denver.
#COwx
Likely another ~60 hours to go. Wind chills could drop as low as -30° in Denver.
#COwx
January 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Up to 5 straight hours with a sub-zero wind chill @DENAirport.
Likely another ~60 hours to go. Wind chills could drop as low as -30° in Denver.
#COwx
Likely another ~60 hours to go. Wind chills could drop as low as -30° in Denver.
#COwx
What is the point in even trying to engage with my city council when again and again they just ignore those of us with any lived experience or even expertise when passing the things that they do? We desperately need a reset for our local government - not the same as always.
January 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What is the point in even trying to engage with my city council when again and again they just ignore those of us with any lived experience or even expertise when passing the things that they do? We desperately need a reset for our local government - not the same as always.
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(I try not to thirst-post, but I'm going to do it)
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The main thing preventing me from cutting all ties with Twitter is that I still have a much larger audience over there, and my work focusing on right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, and...
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The main thing preventing me from cutting all ties with Twitter is that I still have a much larger audience over there, and my work focusing on right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, and...
December 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
(I try not to thirst-post, but I'm going to do it)
TLDR: Add me to your lists and starter packs?
The main thing preventing me from cutting all ties with Twitter is that I still have a much larger audience over there, and my work focusing on right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, and...
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The main thing preventing me from cutting all ties with Twitter is that I still have a much larger audience over there, and my work focusing on right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, and...
Because at this point, they’re all just as much a part of the problem as the rich tyrants who hold us all hostage from their hoarding of everything are.
December 20, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Because at this point, they’re all just as much a part of the problem as the rich tyrants who hold us all hostage from their hoarding of everything are.
Not one single soul should ever have to set foot even a centimeter into a jail because they couldn’t afford a sandwich, likely their one meal for the day on the streets. Shut down these damn courts, cops, jails and prisons, and put the money into rolling a goddamned army out to help these people.
December 20, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Not one single soul should ever have to set foot even a centimeter into a jail because they couldn’t afford a sandwich, likely their one meal for the day on the streets. Shut down these damn courts, cops, jails and prisons, and put the money into rolling a goddamned army out to help these people.
Let the police go weep to someone else, and let the wealthy mega donors who directly or indirectly enable their existence go cry elsewhere - their very existence, their collective actions are exactly why poverty even exists in the first damn place.
December 20, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Let the police go weep to someone else, and let the wealthy mega donors who directly or indirectly enable their existence go cry elsewhere - their very existence, their collective actions are exactly why poverty even exists in the first damn place.
If we wanted to really address any of it, the answers are simple: rip every last penny of funding from anything remotely resembling a cop, starve the jails and prisons of their generous funding and put the proceeds into every program imaginable to get people off the streets for good - zero barriers.
December 20, 2024 at 12:17 AM
If we wanted to really address any of it, the answers are simple: rip every last penny of funding from anything remotely resembling a cop, starve the jails and prisons of their generous funding and put the proceeds into every program imaginable to get people off the streets for good - zero barriers.
Don’t even come at me with how “easy” it should be for a homeless person to get a job just like that, either - the sheer discrimination that employers show to people they find out are in a shelter is bad enough, and much worse if you’re living on the streets. Ditto for housing, too.
December 20, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Don’t even come at me with how “easy” it should be for a homeless person to get a job just like that, either - the sheer discrimination that employers show to people they find out are in a shelter is bad enough, and much worse if you’re living on the streets. Ditto for housing, too.
I know from personal experience that if you’re homeless, court is the last thing on your mind. You’re having to focus on how to get your next meal, dodging random homeless sweeps, figuring out where to sleep, where to shower - and all while facing monumental judgment for being there from society.
December 20, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I know from personal experience that if you’re homeless, court is the last thing on your mind. You’re having to focus on how to get your next meal, dodging random homeless sweeps, figuring out where to sleep, where to shower - and all while facing monumental judgment for being there from society.
Even the idea that they were willing to throw someone away into county jail for 47 years because they missed a court date and they were homeless…while the outcome of that still meant most of a year in jail, what the hell do they expect a person on the streets to even do? Magically get it together?
December 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Even the idea that they were willing to throw someone away into county jail for 47 years because they missed a court date and they were homeless…while the outcome of that still meant most of a year in jail, what the hell do they expect a person on the streets to even do? Magically get it together?
It’s one of 10,000 reasons why I even left the work behind - between the health problems it caused, the mental health issues, the horror from realizing everyone locked up was there in some part because of the very nature of our capitalist system. And yet still…9 months for enough food to last a day?
December 20, 2024 at 12:05 AM
It’s one of 10,000 reasons why I even left the work behind - between the health problems it caused, the mental health issues, the horror from realizing everyone locked up was there in some part because of the very nature of our capitalist system. And yet still…9 months for enough food to last a day?
I know I shouldn’t be shocked by anything at this point, but after what I heard on a Zoom event by @cofreedomfund.bsky.social a short time ago it has to be said: 9 months in a jail for stealing $10 of food? Really?! I know I had seen enough injustice as a CO 5 years ago to drive me to quit but this?
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I know I shouldn’t be shocked by anything at this point, but after what I heard on a Zoom event by @cofreedomfund.bsky.social a short time ago it has to be said: 9 months in a jail for stealing $10 of food? Really?! I know I had seen enough injustice as a CO 5 years ago to drive me to quit but this?
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We need municipal court reform now to protect our most vulnerable neighbors.
Join our 2025 Legislative Preview on Zoom tomorrow 12/19 at 4pm to discuss a bold new bill aimed at making municipal courts fairer and more transparent.
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Join our 2025 Legislative Preview on Zoom tomorrow 12/19 at 4pm to discuss a bold new bill aimed at making municipal courts fairer and more transparent.
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December 18, 2024 at 9:36 PM
We need municipal court reform now to protect our most vulnerable neighbors.
Join our 2025 Legislative Preview on Zoom tomorrow 12/19 at 4pm to discuss a bold new bill aimed at making municipal courts fairer and more transparent.
Pre-registration required: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our 2025 Legislative Preview on Zoom tomorrow 12/19 at 4pm to discuss a bold new bill aimed at making municipal courts fairer and more transparent.
Pre-registration required: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Last night saw the most packed event we have ever had in our gathering space in months. The purpose was a community conversation about where we need to go next as we all are on course for an indefinite amount of time spent under GOP rule again at the national level. 🧵
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Last night saw the most packed event we have ever had in our gathering space in months. The purpose was a community conversation about where we need to go next as we all are on course for an indefinite amount of time spent under GOP rule again at the national level. 🧵
Another side note, too, it is still refreshing to not have to engage with immovable bigots and lovers of fascism on here. I’m noticing that trend across the feed. There is, I think, no way to move anyone who is committed to that path.
November 16, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Another side note, too, it is still refreshing to not have to engage with immovable bigots and lovers of fascism on here. I’m noticing that trend across the feed. There is, I think, no way to move anyone who is committed to that path.
I don’t know if I’m reading any of this right, but over and over again I keep seeing liberals blaming Trump for the rise of hatred & I keep seeing them act as if Project 2025 hasn’t been rolled out yet. News flash on the hate part: it was there the entire time, you guys just didn’t pay attention. 🧵
November 16, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I don’t know if I’m reading any of this right, but over and over again I keep seeing liberals blaming Trump for the rise of hatred & I keep seeing them act as if Project 2025 hasn’t been rolled out yet. News flash on the hate part: it was there the entire time, you guys just didn’t pay attention. 🧵
I can’t stomach much longer the other app. The amount of open worship of fascism and the epic scale of bigots is too much. The breaking point came when I saw a number of Trump fanatics cheering on the thought of rounding up LGBTQ+ into asylums as though it’s a good thing. This is what Musk has done.
November 15, 2024 at 12:15 AM
I can’t stomach much longer the other app. The amount of open worship of fascism and the epic scale of bigots is too much. The breaking point came when I saw a number of Trump fanatics cheering on the thought of rounding up LGBTQ+ into asylums as though it’s a good thing. This is what Musk has done.
Guess who is here? Yup, you guessed it: your favorite annoying leftist. Given that The Site Formerly Known As Twitter is now becoming a vicious hellscape populated by bots and fascists, and that Elon is apparently going to charge a fee for it, it’s beyond time to jump ship.
October 3, 2023 at 5:38 AM
Guess who is here? Yup, you guessed it: your favorite annoying leftist. Given that The Site Formerly Known As Twitter is now becoming a vicious hellscape populated by bots and fascists, and that Elon is apparently going to charge a fee for it, it’s beyond time to jump ship.