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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Take a deep breath. Drink water. Eat food. Take your meds. Pet a dog. Look at the trees and birds. Hug your kids. Tell your people you love them. We love you. We got this.

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Pop up *suburban* leftist supply depot

Shelves with whistle kits in multiple
Languages, masks and safety goggles

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Reposted by Makwa Coffee

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26/01/2026

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Sending love to the family of the man executed by ICE agents this morning in Minneapolis. 💔 We love you. 🩵 Let us forever be radicalized by the deep truth that we take care of us. ✊

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I promise that you are enough and that you are appreciated and that all the love we are pouring into our community together makes a difference. 🩵Stay warm, melt ICE.🔥 3/3

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I don't know what our council will do but I do know this: you all continue to amaze me. So many people are doing so much and *it matters* even if some people in seats of power don't recognize it sufficiently. 2/?

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Thank you to all of the Roseville residents who attended the last city council meeting 10 days ago and shared your powerful testimony about how ICE's presence is harming our beloved community. 1/?

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thanks for coming in! This month has been our busiest ever 🫶

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We will be closed on Friday, January 23rd. There will be a unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity. Instead, Minnesotans will spend time with family, neighbors, and their community to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic power.

Black graphic with bold white font ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Biggest day of sales EVER For the *second time this week* I guess being publicly anti-Nazi was a sound business decision. Who knew?!

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Take a deep breath. Drink water. Eat food. Take your meds. Pet a dog. Look at the trees and birds. Hug your kids. Tell your people you love them. We love you. We got this.

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As the occupation continues, we know that the stress is taking a toll on everyone. Please take the time to care for yourself. We are many, and when you sit down to rest, someone else will stand up and help carry us. 1/2

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Whistle kits restocked, no fascists allowed, we love you.

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our sales are 200% up YOY for the month of January so far. 😌

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Stopped at Miigwitches Brew on my way to Duluth!

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

One of our awesome regulars is organizing adoption of the park by the shop! Everyone is invited to show up & help out.🌿 Invasive Clean Up at Cottontail Park Tues 4/29 6-7pm Bring gloves, hand weeder tools, pruners or clippers if you have them. (This is just the initial meet up, we will have more)

Graphic of green trees with a deer standing nearby and a fairy in the branches. “Meet by the park sign on C2”

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We do this every year to boost sales for Dining Out for Life. 25% of our sales will be donated to support people with HIV SOOOO many good restaurants participating: diningoutforlifemn.org

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Dining Out For Life Minnesota

Dining Out For Life is an annual fundraising event where the community comes together to eat out at restaurants that have committed to donating a percentage

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Peanut butter pie is back! Stop by any time after 12pm on Thursday 4/24 (we have to wait for the chocolate ganache to set) 🤤

Whole uncut round pie with dark chocolate topping in a silver pie pan

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Visit us any time on Thursday, April 24, 2025, and 25 percent of your bill will be donated to the Aliveness Project to promote health and wellness for communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS. PLUS we will have peanut butter pie available starting after noon!

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So yeah, Tax Day sucked. Speak truth and keep taking care of each other in every way you can. 🩵

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Please don't misunderstand me. I’m proud to pay my fair share to support public schools, plowed roads, healthcare for those who need, etc. But it's bullshit that any of those $$ should go towards further benefiting the ultra wealthy or disappearing people to concentration camps in other countries.

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Tax Day is hard for small businesses - we work SO hard and politicians talk about us all the time and yet...WE are the ones subsidizing Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And that's not hyperbole. That is how our tax system is currently designed. Those bros paid nothing and we had to pay thousands.

My dad passed away almost seven years ago and I don't think he contemplated that my tax dollars would be subsidizing asshole oligarchs sending people to space for media attention.

Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Small Business Corner: Tax Day Edition My dad always told me that if I got to the point where I needed to pay taxes, that was a good sign that I was doing well for myself and able to contribute to supporting others. 🧵

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New hours posted! Open until 6pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Photo of sign showing hours of operation. Sign also says NO FASCISTS ALLOWED

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Makwa Coffee @makwacoffee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Word Nerd tonight! Going forward, Word Nerd will be the second Wednesday of every month. Yay! Chill vibes for readers and writers, 5-8pm.

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We truly hope you will keep visiting our shop and supporting us how you can as we weather whatever comes next. It is a very stressful time to be a small business but we are heartened by our community every single day. Thanks in advance for your patience and caring. 💙

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Honesty is one of our values. We won't raise our prices until forced to. We are doing our best to stock up on our core ingredients before costs increase but there is just so much uncertainty. Some ingredients may no longer be available at all as we move forward; we just don't know.

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The pending tariffs and economic instability caused by the Trump-Musk regime will very likely force us to raise prices. Wholesale costs of coffee, tea and many other items already increased at the beginning of 2025, and the Trump Tariffs will impact nearly everything even further.

Taking allllll of this into account, we set our prices as low as we possibly can without sacrificing financial stability (a LOT of small businesses do not even survive the first year).

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We review what other businesses near us are charging. However, we often cannot match their prices because (1) we use better quality ingredients, (2) we source locally when we can, (3) composting is more expensive, (4) we pay decent wages, and (5) landlords raise the rent every year.