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Jessie Duke

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Executive Director, ECM Community Center Owner of Bread & Roses Press @breadrosespress.bsky.social Literature & Resistance

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Bread & Roses Press @breadrosespress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Don't miss this one! @rent__strike and friends at the @ecmku tomorrow night! (Thursday, July 16th.) We'll have the Bread & Roses shop open. Come say howdy. 🏴🏴🏴
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 23/06/2026
We've updated this story to reflect today's shocking sentencing hearing, with many defendants receiving the maximum sentence for their charges.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/06/2026
The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march
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AAHHHHH!ddy, @addyct.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn’t even at the protest — his wife was — but prosecutors are pressuring him into giving up his permanent resident status because he allegedly moved a box of zines the day after. Now that he’s going to trial, he’s looking at decades behind bars and deportation.
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Immigration Protester Faces Terrorism Charges, Deportation as Trial Approaches - UNICORN RIOT
Alvarado, TX — On February 17, 2026, the trial of nine people connected to a July 4, 2025 protest outside Alvarado, Texas’s Prairieland immigration detention center begins. Daniel “Des” Rolando Sanche...
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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Yes, this! Strong, healthy, personal relationships in both the political and social realms are the key to strong movements and increased security. This is organizing 101 and should be the priority when laying the groundwork of what's to come.
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Bread & Roses Press @breadrosespress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And another one! We've very excited to be tabling the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair at the People's History Museum on Saturday 8th November. 🏴
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Bread & Roses Press @breadrosespress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Hey Bristol! Our US crew is flying out to attend this with our UK crew! Come say howdy. 🏴🏴🏴
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Student journalists at The University of Texas at Dallas formed a guerilla newspaper, The Retrograde, after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus. They shared their story with UR contributor Aeffia Feuerstein.
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RIP Mercury, Hello Retrograde! How Administrators Failed to Stop the Presses at The University of Texas-Dallas - UNICORN RIOT
Student journalists at The University of Texas at Dallas formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The law is not going to jump out the books and save us from people who are intent on destroying everything in their path and who are willing to kill us all in the process. Please understand this.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
👇🎯 The problem with building your entire staff & business model around covering politics as theater/sporting events is that your entire staff/business model is completely unequipped for covering politics as policy/governance, or for dealing with a far right authoritarian party interested in neither.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Looking to start a new newspaper comprised of refugees from LAT, WaPo, NYT, & elsewhere. Our motto will be “Hold the Door.” We will fund it Robin Hood style, by robbing data centers, as soon as we figure out how.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Los Angeles-area people! Trying to compile a list of mutual aid groups/community kitchens/animal shelters/etc offering services or mobilizing to help those displaced by the fires. Let me know/send links and any info to donate.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 08/01/2025
It's not just Los Angeles. It's all of southern California, from Ventura to San Diego that's seeing off-the-charts wildfire risk right now. The worst case scenario Wednesday is 85mph winds fueling simultaneous urban firestorms across the entire region.
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Adam Gnade @adamgnade.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
You guys should follow my publishers @breadrosespress.bsky.social and @threeoneg.bsky.social
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Bread & Roses Press @breadrosespress.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Our new website is live! We're having problems with some payment options, but PayPal and Venmo are good to go! (This is what we get for launching a business on a Sunday during a blizzard.)
Image centers around a logo with two roses surrounded by the words "bread and roses publishing" and leaves. Image reads: Website launch. Sunday, January 5th. Bread & Roses Publishing. Www.breadandrosespress.com
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Adam Gnade @adamgnade.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Here's to 2025. Big plans ahead. Photo: @jessieduke.bsky.social @breadrosespress.bsky.social
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Jessie Duke @jessieduke.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Now that Patel is in the running to head one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S. government, the question of whether he will really 'come after' journalists is troubling both sides of the aisle ..."
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Kash Patel once said he would 'come after' journalists. It now hangs over his FBI candidacy.
Trump's pick for FBI director has vowed to "come after" the media. But he also later emphasized to NBC News that his comments apply only if people "broke the law."
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Texas has a violent Nazi problem, including Elon Musk. I recommend supporting @texasobserver.org, they are a model for journalism in a fascist state.
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Jessie Duke @jessieduke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Very excited to be hosting this event next month at the ECM Community Center with @breadrosespress.bsky.social. Andrew will be flying in from Atlanta, so come show him some love. #smallpress
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is the guy Trump is installing as FCC chair. The point here, IMO, is not that he’s going to go in and start yanking licenses. But by saying things like this he can intimidate broadcasters into covering the Trump administration more favorably.
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Jessie Duke @jessieduke.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Book bans go against the very nature of an open, civil society. Whether through the legal system, the ballot box or our voices, we must uphold educational freedom and support knowledge. We must stop the censoring of books."
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Book Bans Harm Kids
Censoring what children read deprives them of reality and the chance to feed their curiosity and develop empathy
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Ari Bloomekatz @bloomekatz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“It remains true that people cannot stand the denial of freedom, and that’s what’s on the menu. Cohering opposition and organizing together are the recipe not just to resist, but to win.” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Out of the Ashes
Democratic failure gave rise to the second round of Trumpism. Collective action is the way out.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Research on the Radical Right: The number of ideologically motivated domestic terrorist attacks and plots against the government is triple the number of incidents in the previous 25 years combined.
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Research Desk: Rising Threat of Anti-Government Domestic Terrorism
Research on the Radical Right: The number of ideologically motivated domestic terrorist attacks and plots against the government is triple the number of incidents in the previous 25 years combined.
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Jessie Duke @jessieduke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The ECM Community Center is proud and honored to host events like tonight's vigil for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you to everyone who joined us. And thank you to @lawrencekstimes.com for their ongoing coverage of our community events. 🖤
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 21/11/2024
it begins www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
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Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House
The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation would clear the Senate before the current ses...
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Adam Gnade @adamgnade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
London. Go see my head talk tonight about @justinpearson.bsky.social and San Diego and our little scene.
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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 20/11/2024
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the lives of trans people killed in acts of anti-trans violence. Black transgender women, in particular, are disproportionately killed in the U.S., according to deaths tracked by the Human Rights Campaign.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One thing to hold fast to is that so much of the work we do to fight fascism is also work that builds a better world. Building community, building power at work, forming bonds and practices of solidarity all lead us towards a better society, particularly if we approach it with that orientation.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you’re like me and think independent media should collaborate instead of compete with each other, then this is the starter pack for you. The Movement Media Alliance has been working together for a year to build each other up and better inform our collective audience. Give us a follow:
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi... Jesus Christ. The NYT really not even taking a moment to reflect on why nobody trusts or cares for them any longer
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NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans, internal email reveals
Reporter reveals frustration that editors blocked story on Amsterdam events falsely portrayed as anti-Semitic.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My god
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Winks 👻 @winkiedoo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Pay attention folks 👇
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/11/2024
The “nonprofit killer” bill is coming back is likely to pass unless many of the 52 Democrats who support it flip. Read @hurwitz.bsky.social on how “material support” aimed at Palestinian protestors could gut all news/NGOs www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump plans to silence dissent
Building off a bipartisan push to punish pro-Palestine protesters, Trump has a broad crackdown ready to implement—including deportations.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/11/2024
fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just read it.
The Yew Work Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-
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GUEST ESSAY
I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET
Ms. Beinart is a 16 year-old high school junior.
On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.
I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes.
There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.What made my skin burn most wasn't that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don't even share the same future.
I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B - the same way they did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose.
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I have seen the ways in which many of the boys in my generation can be different from their fathers. The # MeToo movement went mainstream when they were still wearing Superman pajamas. On Tuesdays in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often make them in public.
I've heard they even use new language in the locker room about getting rejected by a girl, one where no means no and don't try again. I love and care for many of these boys and have always felt they were on my side. I'm grateful to my school for taking gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry.
But most of the guys I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said sarcastically, "Good election" in the same hallway where I saw a female teacher clutching a damp tissue.Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities.
That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl.
Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger
— but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.
In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.
I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel.
Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New here and looking for authors, journalists, and grassroots media platforms and organizations to follow? Check out this list we made! go.bsky.app/HnGMTGN
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𝓵𝓪 𝓼𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓪 🧜🏾‍♀️ @arielisreading.blacksky.app · 13/11/2024
There’s been a lot of skeeting about public libraries this week! Here are some ways you can support public libraries in these Trying Times™️. www.librariesforthepeople.org #librarysky
A ten point graphic about ways to help public libraries.
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