Propaganda Hat
@propagandahat.bsky.social
Seattle zinester and tax policy wonk
Host of @montlakezineclub.bsky.social
Wearer of The Hat
It's cheaper to be a good person.
Out of date website: tiny.one/propohat
Substack of snippets from my "Postscript Soap Box" zine email: propagandahat.substack.com
Host of @montlakezineclub.bsky.social
Wearer of The Hat
It's cheaper to be a good person.
Out of date website: tiny.one/propohat
Substack of snippets from my "Postscript Soap Box" zine email: propagandahat.substack.com
Free zine alert! Get thee to a printer!
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Free zine alert! Get thee to a printer!
Need some free smol reading, Seattle? I dropped off a bunch of zines at Elliott Bay Book Co's free shelf this morning. Zines include "Pronouns", "top surgery", my "Bike Thieves in Hell", and several copies of the Washington edition of @meganpiont.bsky.social 's zine on ICE. Share and enjoy!
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Need some free smol reading, Seattle? I dropped off a bunch of zines at Elliott Bay Book Co's free shelf this morning. Zines include "Pronouns", "top surgery", my "Bike Thieves in Hell", and several copies of the Washington edition of @meganpiont.bsky.social 's zine on ICE. Share and enjoy!
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Seattle! It's zine club day! Come get your scribbles on. Make a zine about the books that impacted you most in your life, or your favorite no-effort meals, or just chop pictures out of the mag-bag.
Our next zine meeting is:
November 19th from 18:00-19:30
at the Capitol Hill Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 19th from 18:00-19:30
at the Capitol Hill Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Seattle! It's zine club day! Come get your scribbles on. Make a zine about the books that impacted you most in your life, or your favorite no-effort meals, or just chop pictures out of the mag-bag.
@tech4housing.org is there a way to hop on y'all's email list without a google account? I've de-googled my email and only use aliases these days...
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@tech4housing.org is there a way to hop on y'all's email list without a google account? I've de-googled my email and only use aliases these days...
1977 votes ahead now. If we get just 33 more votes ahead, we'll know @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social will be Seattle's next next mayor before Thanksgiving!
Still a lot of votes needing curing (adding or updating signatures). So check your ballot status!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Still a lot of votes needing curing (adding or updating signatures). So check your ballot status!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
1977 votes ahead now. If we get just 33 more votes ahead, we'll know @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social will be Seattle's next next mayor before Thanksgiving!
Still a lot of votes needing curing (adding or updating signatures). So check your ballot status!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Still a lot of votes needing curing (adding or updating signatures). So check your ballot status!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
MRW I look up my friends and find out they didn't vote. 💔
In all seriousness, this just puts them on the "bother them relentlessly next time" list. 😈
In all seriousness, this just puts them on the "bother them relentlessly next time" list. 😈
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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
MRW I look up my friends and find out they didn't vote. 💔
In all seriousness, this just puts them on the "bother them relentlessly next time" list. 😈
In all seriousness, this just puts them on the "bother them relentlessly next time" list. 😈
Nitpick: I reject the idiom "on pins and needles" because that, to me, means "foot fell asleep feeling" not "waiting nervously". Nothing is anticipatory about foot fell asleep to me, it's "aw gaddamnit feck not again ow ow!" I'd say "on tenterhooks" or "on edge" or...IDK but not pins and needles. 😤
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nitpick: I reject the idiom "on pins and needles" because that, to me, means "foot fell asleep feeling" not "waiting nervously". Nothing is anticipatory about foot fell asleep to me, it's "aw gaddamnit feck not again ow ow!" I'd say "on tenterhooks" or "on edge" or...IDK but not pins and needles. 😤
1/ A difference of 91 votes, y'all!
Just for reference, an automatic machine recount is triggered when: "the vote total difference between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and also less than 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates" and a hand recount...
Just for reference, an automatic machine recount is triggered when: "the vote total difference between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and also less than 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates" and a hand recount...
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
1/ A difference of 91 votes, y'all!
Just for reference, an automatic machine recount is triggered when: "the vote total difference between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and also less than 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates" and a hand recount...
Just for reference, an automatic machine recount is triggered when: "the vote total difference between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and also less than 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates" and a hand recount...
1/ Hey you! With the University of Washington (UW) email address. Watch out for scams. This one's cute, but let's go over how I tell it's a scam so you can spot these in the future.
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
1/ Hey you! With the University of Washington (UW) email address. Watch out for scams. This one's cute, but let's go over how I tell it's a scam so you can spot these in the future.
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
Seattle turnout is at 54% as of 10am. Did you know you can watch the elections folks? They're still working on taking ballots out of envelopes, there's some sorting going on, folks are verifying signatures and envelopes. Mundane but interesting if you've never peeked! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Watch us in action - King County, Washington
kingcounty.gov
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Seattle turnout is at 54% as of 10am. Did you know you can watch the elections folks? They're still working on taking ballots out of envelopes, there's some sorting going on, folks are verifying signatures and envelopes. Mundane but interesting if you've never peeked! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
Meanwhile, in Mississippi: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Meanwhile, in Mississippi: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Hey Seattle! If you're waiting for more results in the mayoral race, take a second to verify your ballot went all the way! In Aug 2024, I volunteered riding around the city getting folks to fix ballot issues for Public Lands race. Don't make me do it again! 🙏 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hey Seattle! If you're waiting for more results in the mayoral race, take a second to verify your ballot went all the way! In Aug 2024, I volunteered riding around the city getting folks to fix ballot issues for Public Lands race. Don't make me do it again! 🙏 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Seattle! It's zine club day! Come zine your mayoral race jitters out. Make a zine about the religious violence of Guy Fawkes et al failing to blow up British parliament + King. Guy Fawkes Night celebrates failure of the plot, not rebellion. Or make a wish list of constitutional amendments. Or...?
Our next zine meeting is:
November 5th from 18:00-19:30
at the Montlake Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 5th from 18:00-19:30
at the Montlake Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Seattle! It's zine club day! Come zine your mayoral race jitters out. Make a zine about the religious violence of Guy Fawkes et al failing to blow up British parliament + King. Guy Fawkes Night celebrates failure of the plot, not rebellion. Or make a wish list of constitutional amendments. Or...?
Up next in politics this week:
SCOTUS hears args in Learning Resources v. Trump to decide if he can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs without Congress' approval. Live blog here: www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/oral... live stream: www.youtube.com/live/eLtdV1C...
SCOTUS hears args in Learning Resources v. Trump to decide if he can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs without Congress' approval. Live blog here: www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/oral... live stream: www.youtube.com/live/eLtdV1C...
Oral argument live blog for Wednesday, November 5
Beginning at 9:30 a.m., we will be live blogging as the court hears oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. Note: A login is not required to participate in […]
www.scotusblog.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Up next in politics this week:
SCOTUS hears args in Learning Resources v. Trump to decide if he can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs without Congress' approval. Live blog here: www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/oral... live stream: www.youtube.com/live/eLtdV1C...
SCOTUS hears args in Learning Resources v. Trump to decide if he can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs without Congress' approval. Live blog here: www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/oral... live stream: www.youtube.com/live/eLtdV1C...
I refuse to believe we need to moderate on human rights, and here's another example to support that. Trans kids are a distraction from the inequality sucking us dry for profit. Don't give in to transphobia. Trans people are not the enemy. Greed, fear, hate, and calls for harm are the enemy.
I live in a rural county an hour or so from Seattle. The county has 3 towns big enough to style themselves "cities," and I live in the smallest of them. This town has a reputation for being reactionary. There was a "concerned citizens group" who targeted a school board member who was not a ...
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I refuse to believe we need to moderate on human rights, and here's another example to support that. Trans kids are a distraction from the inequality sucking us dry for profit. Don't give in to transphobia. Trans people are not the enemy. Greed, fear, hate, and calls for harm are the enemy.
SEATTLE, HAVE YOU VOTED, YET?! Get your ballot in a box by 8pm! Lost yours? Go to wa.omniballot.us/sites/53033/... to print a replacement. Your library has printers if you don't, free if you have a card. Hoping for a new mayor in @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social 🤞🤞
#ElectionDay #vote
#ElectionDay #vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
SEATTLE, HAVE YOU VOTED, YET?! Get your ballot in a box by 8pm! Lost yours? Go to wa.omniballot.us/sites/53033/... to print a replacement. Your library has printers if you don't, free if you have a card. Hoping for a new mayor in @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social 🤞🤞
#ElectionDay #vote
#ElectionDay #vote
Should you find yourself at Seattle Central Library this weekend...
🌼 As we celebrate Día de los Muertos this weekend, the Trans Pride Ofrenda on Level 8 at the Central Library honors the MesoAmerican Trans Lives taken by violence in Mexico. The ofrenda is part of the exhibit Nuestra Euforia/Our Euphora, curated by our Artist in Residence Vaquero Azul.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Should you find yourself at Seattle Central Library this weekend...
If you need it, mutual aid is all over. If you can, donate 💵 or ⌛ to the food banks in the hardest hit area in your state. In WA that's Yakima, iirc. Western WA: foodlifeline.org/find-food all of WA: feedingwashington.org/find-food/ Pedaling relieve project: cascade.org/outreach-adv...
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you need it, mutual aid is all over. If you can, donate 💵 or ⌛ to the food banks in the hardest hit area in your state. In WA that's Yakima, iirc. Western WA: foodlifeline.org/find-food all of WA: feedingwashington.org/find-food/ Pedaling relieve project: cascade.org/outreach-adv...
More resistance zines in this thread 👇
People in Chi & other places having Whistlemania events (or u can do this solo if ur an introvert!) Buy whistles to alert folks to ICE activity & you can print out KYR fliers & legal info & make it into a packet (lots of places to distribute these incl bars stores Little FreeLibrary etc). Links next
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
More resistance zines in this thread 👇
The ICE_ERO (enforcement & removal ops) subreddit is a study in the banality of evil. Just wandered down a thread where ICE folks were talking about how much time is desk/paperwork and how important it is to get the paperwork right so that "what you took off the streets doesn't go back". Truly vile.
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The ICE_ERO (enforcement & removal ops) subreddit is a study in the banality of evil. Just wandered down a thread where ICE folks were talking about how much time is desk/paperwork and how important it is to get the paperwork right so that "what you took off the streets doesn't go back". Truly vile.
So here's a useful website if you're in an ice invasion zone: resistmap.com
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
ResistMap
resistmap.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
So here's a useful website if you're in an ice invasion zone: resistmap.com
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
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Seattle! It's Zine Club day! Come make one about the Mariners, or harness the energy from @seattleindivisible.bsky.social and #noKings and make one about how the GOP impacts you or folks you love. Or just stick paper onto other paper! 6-7:30pm at the Capitol Hill Branch Library. See ya there!
One reason I love going to @montlakezineclub.bsky.social is because I often end up taking some #zines home in addition to sharing some of mine. This photo is my recent haul :)
#zinehaul #zine #zineclub #montlakezineclub #seattlezines #seattlezinescene
#zinehaul #zine #zineclub #montlakezineclub #seattlezines #seattlezinescene
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Seattle! It's Zine Club day! Come make one about the Mariners, or harness the energy from @seattleindivisible.bsky.social and #noKings and make one about how the GOP impacts you or folks you love. Or just stick paper onto other paper! 6-7:30pm at the Capitol Hill Branch Library. See ya there!
Before you get excited for Japan's first female PM, check her politics. Women aren't more virtuous and special because they're women. Thinking so is misogynistic the same way it is to think women are all ditzy and childish. Women are not angels and men animals. Women are humans. Don't pedestal us.
![A screenshot from the Wikipedia article on Sane Takaichi: "Her views have been variably described as conservative[7] and ultraconservative.[14] Her domestic policy includes support for proactive government spending and the continuation of Abenomics. She has taken conservative positions on social issues, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, the recognition of separate surnames for spouses, and to female succession to the Japanese throne. Her foreign policy includes support for revising Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan,[15][16] which renounces the use of military force, and strengthening the US–Japan alliance. She is considered pro-Taiwan and a China hawk. A member of the Japanese ultranationalist organization Nippon Kaigi, she has argued that Japanese war crimes have been exaggerated; she regularly visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine prior to becoming prime minister. "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5y4rnovu6jaqxfh6lufqxere/bafkreigtd275eja6dx2lpdv3wstp2dvnskou26odrt6kmjua4dcsigxl6a@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Before you get excited for Japan's first female PM, check her politics. Women aren't more virtuous and special because they're women. Thinking so is misogynistic the same way it is to think women are all ditzy and childish. Women are not angels and men animals. Women are humans. Don't pedestal us.
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I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...