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Cats, knitting, books, and subversion. Educator, academic, and environmentalist. Working to create change. Currently learning Chinese. 你好
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On this Mother’s Day, let’s remember that the United States is the only large scale nation without a national paid maternity (and paternity) leave. We deserve better. We need to fight for better. How much time do you have to wait for better? #generalstrike #paidleave #happymothersday

🖋️ “STOP ICE lawless abuse now. Mayor of Newark arrested.” hit 1,000 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PMHAXV to 50409

#ShowMeYourKnits this week is DK. I love DK and cotton, so I have a lot of this cotton yarn. This was my first shirt I made for myself. Streamline tank on ravelry. #knitting #knit #plants #crafts 🧶

Turned on my PBS app to this message. Horrifying. Please sign and also send the letter to your reps. #pbs #ProtectPublicMedia #NPR protectmypublicmedia.org/protect-publ...

BUFFALO, NY: Join us Monday May 5 at 5:30pm to demand the release of a group of UFW farm worker leaders who were targeted for arrest and detention in the Batavia ICE detention facility. An attack on any worker is an attack on the rights of every worker.

On #MayDay farm workers and their supporters held a rally in front of Windmill Mushroom Farms before they joined in the Sunnyside WA May Day event. #WeFeedYou

All of this on a weekday we’re in complete awe of you. You always rise to every call to action. You’re amazing, and words can’t express how much we love and appreciate you all.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

Could they have chosen a funnier number of months?! #santos

This. This bout of fascism is class war, plain and simple. We’re all on the same team here. Us against the oligarchs. & Always remember, ain’t no war but class war.

Inspired by @aoc.bsky.social #workinprogresswednesday #WIPWednesday post, here’s mine. Going to be a gift for a friend. #knit #knitting 🧶

Take me to the trees Where the birds know not of hold music Music for the sake of beauty Is for the birds Until we all can fight For all the beauty and light I will go to the trees

Resharing this post for #EarthDay

It’s the best cat ever’s birthday today. She is 15! This is my first cat and she became my son’s cat the second he came home. She was only waiting for him to be born for her true owner haha we love you Maui ❤️ #cat #catsky #tuxedocat

#showmeyourknits prompt is gifts. Almost all of my knits are gifts! Here is my most recent gift, this shawl my kiddo saw me knitting and said he wanted a “little man shawl”. It came out better than I could have imagined! 🧶 #knitsky #knitting #lace

Sign of the day…

A grassroots-led campaign has hundreds of protests and events scheduled across the U.S. on Saturday. Organizers say the momentum built on resistance against the Trump administration has not slowed.

His legal dates are ridiculous as well. Good friday, holy thursday- Can they stop making this a self fulfilling prophecy

TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Dear fellow radical leftist lunatics, I'm just 188 subscribers away from hitting 133,000 tonight. Help me cross the line and piss off Mike Huckabee, who is one spot ahead of me in the rankings: www.thegodpodcast.com/subscribe

Olympia, Washington! Join your friends, family, & fellow Washingtonians on April 19th in community to protect our inalienable rights for all people. #evergreenresistance #fiftyfiftyone #olympia

Washington, we have added more events for you to join. #evergreenresistance #fiftyfiftyone #washington

This poem scrawled on the side of a roadside barrier near Olympic National Forest stopped me in my tracks. I hope this beautiful land will survive for generations to come. @altnps.bsky.social #nps #nationalparks #olympicpeninsula #nature

Just learned about #showmeyourknits weekly prompts. I don’t have anything fully grey, but I made a purple and grey tank and shawl as gifts. I’ll save my new lace knit 🧶 shawl FO for another time. #knitsky #knit

Amazing sign!

Here’s how to stay in the fight: 📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily. 🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances. 🚫 Boycott evil corporations. 🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. 🌳 Build community power. #FiftyFiftyOne