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thejuanmarcano.bsky.social
🇵🇷🌹 Activist, urbanist, dungeon master, and cat dad. Former Aurora, CO Ward IV council member. I occasionally stream local-level political commentary and general nerdery on twitch.tv/locallevelleft.
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today of all days? must be a coincidence

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Kyle Clark, welcome once again to The War on Cars. @kylec.bsky.social

This is what "vote blue no matter who" gets you. Anti-labor "Democrats." We need a labor party that knows where real power comes from in our society and understands how to wage a class war rather than pretend we can negotiate with the 1%.

BIG NEWS: I’m very honoured to announce that I’ve been collaborating with the City of Paris under Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership to create a unique exhibition opening this summer at Paris City Hall on BOLD URBAN TRANSFORMATION, profiling cities around the world. Stay tuned for details!

Swing voters are often characterized as “moderate,” even though every election shows us more and more that they’re really “change voters.” They’re not loyal to any ideology, they want something different, because the status quo isn’t working.

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

I had to sit thru a commencement speech about how civility (undefined) is our most important value. So let me say these folks want us to be polite to them as they destroy our society and even kill our babies. And we should never grant them that or any peace

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

I appreciate the honesty of these parasites. Why does anyone still support a system that celebrates and normalizes social murder? www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/u...

BREAKING: The Chicago City Council has voted to create a city-owned nonprofit housing developer. The city will now move ahead with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build affordable, mixed-income, sustainable housing.

All day, every day. Never forget.

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Mahmoud should be home in NYC with his wife and newborn son. Instead he’s in a prison cell a thousand miles away. Not because he has been accused of any crime—but only because he expressed political views that the Trump administration disfavors.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

we are living in fascism right now

This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻

Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably

No, thanks. 💕

I’m so tired of the so many excuses that people throw out for these two. They are not representing our state well and there’s a massive lane of opportunity for the politicians who might challenge them.

Colorado groups call for billions in new public transit investments to help meet climate goals coloradonewsline.com/briefs/color...

Hossam Shabat’s last article. What an extraordinary young man has been taken from the world. www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

I beg Americans to take a moment and reflect on the bipartisan consensus on aiding and abetting fascist, genocidal, and authoritarian states as they continue to escalate their barbarity. Then ask yourself if you're okay with it. Then ask yourself what you're going to do about it.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

DOGE trying to fire 200,000 employees for no reason: GOOD 👍 elon musks personal company being subject to markets and people choosing not to support him: BAD :(

Urbanism has always been political, connected to racist dog whistles, classism & power imbalances. The problem is that these things are uncomfortable to discuss & don’t make for pithy hashtags. But here we are. The political rhetoric & attack around public transit has very little to do w/ mobility.

I really want to encourage Rahm Emanuel to run for President. I think he could unite the party, and have everyone saying, in unison “that guy sucks.”

Colorado Journalists ran with ICE accusations that a bunch of Venezuelans around Denver are gang members and I’m raising up this thread because these enforcers lie lie lie lie lie

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

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If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

Bernie and AOC are coming to Denver for a Fighting Oligarchy rally, Civic Center Park, Friday March 21 — starts at 5pm.

Say it with your chest publicly and call for new leadership. Otherwise you’re still carrying water for the people with “no strategy and no plan.”

www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p... Coloradans, we know the horror and shame of this law. The Amache camp serves as a stark reminder of the cruelty and injustice of this practice. We've crossed the Rubicon. Protect yourselves and your neighbors.

Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.

Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

Nazis and what supremacists marching? Allowed. Anti-genocide and anti-apartheid protests on college campuses? Not allowed. ICE is the gestapo. Do not comply with fascism.