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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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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 2h

I will say that "night patrols" in DC where we film at night when ICE operates on desolate streets, we film, and we advise those being kidnapped of their rights, has made them back off more than once. The National Guard needs to be asked why the fuck they aren't in Texas at every occasion.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 22h

If you're in NYC, we have 3 Communiversity workshops this Saturday, Oct. 11th. In-person, sliding scale.

Want to learn how to raise money to support critical work, something that is very hard these days? Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a session on grassroots fundraising:

Communiversity Catalog: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Joe Driller Killer @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 2h

There's a whole-ass list of reasons to do this, they're a genuinely awful company on so many levels.

As someone who just did this to move my banking to a local credit union, it's intimidating, banking inertia is real, but when you do it, it's really not that big of a pain.

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 22h

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 5h

This is america

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Abolitionist Mail Project @massamp1312.bsky.social · 18h

Drop in to meet us Friday 10/10 between 6-8pm at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

You'll learn why pen-pals are important, get some tips, and then write birthday cards to incarcerated people.

Birthdays are often complicated. Help someone know they are remembered.

tinyurl.com/AMP-BB1010

Image 1: a dark grey background with lines drawings of envelopes. A red box with white text is framed by quotation marks.

Top text: Why be penpals with someone incarcerated in Mass?

Main text. A white block that looks like a Corrlinks email. I really want to thank people for sending me birthday cards sense my family haven't. I believe that [highlighted] small gestures like this can make a difference in people [end highlight] specially if there going through a rough time like I am right now.

Bottom text: Visit AbolitionistMailProject.com

A computer graphic of a dark grey background with lines drawings of envelopes. A red box with white text is framed by quotation marks. Top text: Why be penpals with someone incarcerated in Mass?In the middle is a scan of a handwritten letter. It is on white paper with blue lines. Dear AMP (DYKE MARCH) Re: pride month June 18thThank you for being a Beason of light- a voice for some who are not heard - a voice for have been turned off by many and a reassurance that it is OK to be who I amPeople who have hollared at us at different rallies, marches, events. I was blessed to get a shout out from [name scribbled out]. Well if anyone ever hears or sees [name scribbled out]-- Tell her I said she is a BADASS. Again-- Thank you 4 all that you doHis signature is the name Michael in a circleBottom text: Visit AbolitionistMailProject.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 15h

Portland 🖤

Sign at a bar says “we love dogs. Noem go home”

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 19h

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 15h

This anti-unhoused bullshit makes me SO ANGRY.

If seeing unhoused people bothers you, maybe try advocating for affordable housing, jackasses.

Freeze @cfreiss.bsky.social · 1d

"Somerville is working to move and upgrade SHC’s homeless shelter from one church to a bigger space at First Church Somerville. However, the work was halted by a lawsuit filed by residents in September." Of fucking COURSE. NIMBYs are the worst. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

'Seedy and disgusting': Davis Square residents vent frustrations at public safety meeting

"Could you please do something for us," one woman said, "and stop them from shooting up outside the day care?"

www.boston.com

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking about how society has normed ignoring people who are displaced. Cities often don't allow testimony from non-residents. People routinely ignore emails, calls, and texts.

Transportation and meetings are inaccessible.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 3d

I keep trying to have a cozy New England fall but getting cock-blocked by climate change. 😭

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

I want to live in a world where "the economy" (i.e., everything) is controlled by regular people collectively making decisions about the things that affect them, not by unaccountable institutions and corporations that only serve the ultra-wealthy and powerful.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

This Sunday, @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social is holding a workshop about mutual aid at @portersqbooks.bsky.social (Cambridge):

portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...

Be the Change Workshop: What is Mutual Aid and How Do We Practice It?

Come as you are—no required materials—but if you would like some additional context, here are some supplementary materials we might reference in our conversation:

portersquarebooks.com

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

Somerville folks, help the HONK! Festival happen this year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dnb...

2025 HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands

The HONK! Festival is a one-of-a-kind street spectacle of revolutionary proportions. This year marks the 20th festival!

www.kickstarter.com

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23h

The better world I imagine, the world I'm working toward, is one where no one has enough concentrated power to commit genocide against another people.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23h

Kasha varnishkes defender here.

I don't know why, honestly - I just think they're tasty, especially when caramelized onions are involved.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23h

Almost every Jewish deli food, I can make a case for. Like, knish is a carb bomb that can be made tasty, and the mustard is right there. Kugel? It's not a top ten desert, but when good it's like bread pudding with noodles.

But how are kasha varnishkes restaurant food?

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 15h

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 15h

New Portland Frog fan art just dropped

Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 15h

My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.

A painting of a lone green and white belly frog wearing a blue scarf is facing off a line of feds, who are in helmets and faceguard and carrying batons. A line of tear gas flows up into the sky from the cops.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a cottage during a pouring rain in front of a crackling fire whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support cinnamon rolls?

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23h

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I confess I don't understand, and don't wish to understand, the moral principle which states it is disrespectful to protest genocide today, but not disrespectful to commit one.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

That's why mutual aid is so important. Instead of complaining about people who can't afford to lose everything, let's build people up so they don't have to choose to destroy their lives to fight back.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

Dear White Democrats:

The word you're looking for is GENOCIDE. That's what Israel is doing. You won't spontaneously combust if you call evil by its name. It feels good to have a spine.

Sincerely,
Sheryl

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