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Laura

@tutusntinyhats.bsky.social

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The future is mutual aid. ✨ 💪 Trying to build community at the intersections of art and justice movements, sometimes organizing mutual aid fundraisers and distributing zines. 🕎 for a free 🇵🇸. Dog auntie, flower lover, tchotchke queen. she/her

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · Feb 23

One of my favorite things about Bluesky (or at least my little corner of it) is that people are always sharing resources for taking action.

So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 37m

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 38m

Normally when an economy collapses it's one giant bubble that pops all of the related bubbles but right now we have the giant AI bubble functioning as a normal collapse bubble and also there's an about 1 in 100 chance every day the President blows up the economy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

War is hell, Portland style

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3h

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18m

Democrats don’t believe protest is patriotic, tho. They believe obedience is patriotic. They beat the shit out of, arrested, deported and blacklisted college students, staff and faculty over Gaza. For a year and a half!

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 34m

Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 4h

I survived in body alone. my soul didn’t make it out alive.

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5h

Friends, I am feeling extremely depressed. I haven’t even been lucky enough to see or embrace what’s left of my memories, my clothes, my bed, and my room in my home, as my city is still under the grip of occupation.
I feel a very, very, very deep depression.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 20m

Sending you so much love. I'm so sorry for everything you're going through - no one should have to live under these conditions. 💔💔💔

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 17h

It's almost impressive how capitalism keeps finding new, creative ways to exploit people and the environment to keep the wheels of profit turning.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 18h

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 47m

Uggh, I'm sorry!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3h

It’s been a long week, everybody. Area Dog says you can knock off early.

The head and upper body, plus one paw, of a black and white Labby-looking dog wearing a red collar and snoozing on a dog bed.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3h

Poster selfie with guy in inflatable frog outfit.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 56m

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 4h

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1h

Either egg and cheese on a whole wheat everything bagel, or scallion cream cheese on a whole wheat everything bagel.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

The court wins we're seeing in Chicago this week are great news, but also make me worry about what Trump might do in response (disregarding the courts, escalating differently). I'm glad these suits are happening, but sometimes, even things that have to happen can be a prelude to shit you don't want.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 6h

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 7h

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

www.oregonlive.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 7h

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 7h

So when the Japanese colonisers launched an attack on Hawaii, IT WASN'T ON "US SOIL". It was an attack on colonised Native Hawaiians who had nothing to do with the COLONISER VS COLONISER quarrel. The US went into that war to protect their colony, and capitalist and imperialist ambitions. That's it.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 7h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 1d

bridge

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 4d

This is Poppy :)

#art #illustration

A digital drawing featuring a little flower character standing among lots of flowers and sparkles. They are wearing a flower dress, and have a kind of flower bulb as a head, with a flower growing out of it.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 1d

A drawing for #peachtober prompt "strawberry"!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a dark background with lots of strawberries on top. The strawberries are bright red and white, and the leaves are a soft yellowy green.

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