Becks
@boonrs.bsky.social
co-founder of software cooperatively owned by its users, luddite, not from anywhere
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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A company that made $4 billion in profits last year is scared of organized people. Proud to be out there with striking Starbucks workers last week.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A company that made $4 billion in profits last year is scared of organized people. Proud to be out there with striking Starbucks workers last week.
Imagine being a blog about power and deciding to migrate to Substack in November 2025. Kind of hard to trust your analysis.
At Food and Power, @clairek.bsky.social discusses what Mamdani can learn from past and present public grocery projects.
What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
foodandpower.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imagine being a blog about power and deciding to migrate to Substack in November 2025. Kind of hard to trust your analysis.
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“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection”
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www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection”
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
Boulder County is dealing with a ~$6 million impact in November from the government defunding SNAP.
I love how the food access organizations is Boulder, CO are collaborating right now.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Boulder County is dealing with a ~$6 million impact in November from the government defunding SNAP.
I love how the food access organizations is Boulder, CO are collaborating right now.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I love how the food access organizations is Boulder, CO are collaborating right now.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
Most if the time they compete for resources. But right now they are putting out a shared message and showing real solidarity with the folks impacted by this regime.
"It’s one of the first tests of a George Floyd-era state police reform law that attempted to hold cities and law enforcement officers financially accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
A Denver jury awarded six people collectively $20 million after an officer accidentally shot them in 2022.
It is among the biggest jury awards in the state’s history for police misconduct — and the victims may never see a penny of it from the city of Denver.
It is among the biggest jury awards in the state’s history for police misconduct — and the victims may never see a penny of it from the city of Denver.
Where does $20 million come from? Massive jury award will test George Floyd-era police reform law in higher courts
The law attempts to hold cities and officers accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
denverite.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"It’s one of the first tests of a George Floyd-era state police reform law that attempted to hold cities and law enforcement officers financially accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
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Why Denver's use of Flock Safety, a company that produces license-plate reading cameras and software, is causing so much controversy.
Denver is at the center of a viral national fight over surveillance
An influential YouTuber, “normie Democrats” and hundreds of other people packed a weeknight meeting.
denverite.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Why Denver's use of Flock Safety, a company that produces license-plate reading cameras and software, is causing so much controversy.
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Faculty at University of Colorado Boulder have voted to support the AAUP Mutual Protection Compact! Take a moment to thank our neighbors for taking this important step toward uniting to protect our state's outstanding institutions for higher education.
See: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/23/c...
See: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/23/c...
CU faculty push statewide 'defense compact' opposing Trump policies
The Boulder Faculty Assembly is asking CU to join a Mutual Academic Defense Compact with other Colorado universities and reject federal requests to align university policies with Trump’s agenda.
boulderreportinglab.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Faculty at University of Colorado Boulder have voted to support the AAUP Mutual Protection Compact! Take a moment to thank our neighbors for taking this important step toward uniting to protect our state's outstanding institutions for higher education.
See: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/23/c...
See: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/23/c...
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Today, on National Food Day, let's think about the rhetorics and politics of the industrial food system. In contrast, how can we build resilient local food systems that are also based in equity, and why is this more important than ever? #teamrhetoric #sustainability #foodsecurity
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today, on National Food Day, let's think about the rhetorics and politics of the industrial food system. In contrast, how can we build resilient local food systems that are also based in equity, and why is this more important than ever? #teamrhetoric #sustainability #foodsecurity
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Another Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter leader has been outed as a neo-nazi and member of violent white supremacist organizations Patriot Front and Active Club.
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.
Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.
Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.
Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Another Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter leader has been outed as a neo-nazi and member of violent white supremacist organizations Patriot Front and Active Club.
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I haven’t seen it on here, only on fb, but it’s worth reading what was said at Denver’s no kings rally by the person who was asked to do a land acknowledgement. “You want to fight tyranny? Learn from the people who have endured it for centuries.” www.facebook.com/share/16qnwh...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I haven’t seen it on here, only on fb, but it’s worth reading what was said at Denver’s no kings rally by the person who was asked to do a land acknowledgement. “You want to fight tyranny? Learn from the people who have endured it for centuries.” www.facebook.com/share/16qnwh...
Help out a Colorado neighbor, contribute to the Ponce family legal fund to keep their family together: www.gofundme.com/f/dianas-fam...
Donate to Diana’s family through Brother’s political crisis, organized by Diana Plascencia
Hi, my name is Diana Ponce. I am the youngest of 8 siblings. This m… Diana Plascencia needs your support for Diana’s family through Brother’s political crisis
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October 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Help out a Colorado neighbor, contribute to the Ponce family legal fund to keep their family together: www.gofundme.com/f/dianas-fam...
"When I was younger, I thought I was missing some basic psychological component—a psychic gasket that allowed other people to move through the world, seeing what I saw, without reacting. Unbothered. Uncurious. I thought that the absence of that missing part was eventually going to kill me."
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"When I was younger, I thought I was missing some basic psychological component—a psychic gasket that allowed other people to move through the world, seeing what I saw, without reacting. Unbothered. Uncurious. I thought that the absence of that missing part was eventually going to kill me."
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We deserve to know if ICE is using a spyware program to access private information without an owner's consent. Once again, DHS is violating constitutional rights to target immigrants & people of color. I join @repsummerlee.bsky.social in calling Secretary Noem for answers ASAP.
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We deserve to know if ICE is using a spyware program to access private information without an owner's consent. Once again, DHS is violating constitutional rights to target immigrants & people of color. I join @repsummerlee.bsky.social in calling Secretary Noem for answers ASAP.
"The organization has tried to fill the gap with produce donations, but transporting and distributing fruits and vegetables is challenging, and multiple patrons told ProPublica the produce had gone bad by the time they received it."
You know who is set up to do this? Small food rescues.
You know who is set up to do this? Small food rescues.
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"The organization has tried to fill the gap with produce donations, but transporting and distributing fruits and vegetables is challenging, and multiple patrons told ProPublica the produce had gone bad by the time they received it."
You know who is set up to do this? Small food rescues.
You know who is set up to do this? Small food rescues.
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like you can do Hegseth's performative MANLY MAN deus vult assed tattooes too and it works, it's all drag, top to bottom, Trump's bad toupee and bronzer all the way down to the social media tradwives, it's all a terminal case of stage IV metastatic gender, always has been
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
like you can do Hegseth's performative MANLY MAN deus vult assed tattooes too and it works, it's all drag, top to bottom, Trump's bad toupee and bronzer all the way down to the social media tradwives, it's all a terminal case of stage IV metastatic gender, always has been
"Love me now
Hold me down
And the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down
No they never gonna keep us all down"
Mon Rovîa's "Heal with Others" tour is in Englewood, CO Oct 7
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...
Hold me down
And the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down
No they never gonna keep us all down"
Mon Rovîa's "Heal with Others" tour is in Englewood, CO Oct 7
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...
Mon Rovîa - Heavy Foot (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Mon Rovîa
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October 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Love me now
Hold me down
And the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down
No they never gonna keep us all down"
Mon Rovîa's "Heal with Others" tour is in Englewood, CO Oct 7
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...
Hold me down
And the government
Staying on heavy foot
And they tried to keep us all down
No they never gonna keep us all down"
Mon Rovîa's "Heal with Others" tour is in Englewood, CO Oct 7
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXc...
Look who just joined the war on cars 😻
September 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Look who just joined the war on cars 😻
"You want us to remember Charlie Kirk? We’ll show you how the trans community and our allies remember that rat bastard." ✨🌈💌
ART CONTEST!!!
It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!!
That's right, you heard us.
It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!!
That's right, you heard us.
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"You want us to remember Charlie Kirk? We’ll show you how the trans community and our allies remember that rat bastard." ✨🌈💌
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Xcel Energy settling Marshall fire lawsuit for $640 million while admitting no fault coloradosun.com/2025/09/24/x...
Xcel Energy settling Marshall fire lawsuit for $640 million while admitting no fault
Xcel Energy and other defendants said Wednesday they are settling a massive lawsuit from victims of the 2021 Marshall fire just ahead of a major trial, with Xcel saying it will pay $640 million withou...
coloradosun.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Xcel Energy settling Marshall fire lawsuit for $640 million while admitting no fault coloradosun.com/2025/09/24/x...
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We will keep pressing ICE for transparency and accountability.
Learn more: www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
Learn more: www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
ACLU of Colorado Sues ICE for Detention Expansion Plans - ACLU of Colorado
The public records lawsuit comes after ICE failed to comply with a public records request filed in August 2025
www.aclu-co.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We will keep pressing ICE for transparency and accountability.
Learn more: www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
Learn more: www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...
Tech has always felt like a political space to me, but I suppose all of life has.
Truly, I still can't believe they are letting us do this-mostly, we wanted to get the image out because it's fun.But it also reflects what WIRED has become under @katie-drummond.bsky.social: a place that sees that tech and politics have fused, and that that combined power needs to be held to account
September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Tech has always felt like a political space to me, but I suppose all of life has.
I appreciate this storytelling approach to campaigning. Some good stories about a candidate for Colorado district attorney.
7/ I was a commissioner at the FTC for three years. I saw, every day, what billionaires and oligarchs are doing to our country. And so I’m going to spend every day this week telling you about the one guy I think has proven himself to be the most promising champion in this fight.
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I appreciate this storytelling approach to campaigning. Some good stories about a candidate for Colorado district attorney.
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Trans people in immigration detention are uniquely vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse. This policy change will only heighten their risk of harm.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/16/c...
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/16/c...
ICE ends Aurora detention center’s transgender care, protection policies
An immigrant rights advocate said attorneys and immigration advocates were trying to figure out if transgender immigrants’ affirming health care was continuing or would end entirely.
www.denverpost.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trans people in immigration detention are uniquely vulnerable to mistreatment and abuse. This policy change will only heighten their risk of harm.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/16/c...
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/16/c...