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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 6h

Today I pet a baby goat who was napping in a bucket. A perfect moment.

A striped black and brown baby goat with its eyes closed napping in a black bucket.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 of training to be a poll coordinator. Let’s all do what we can to ensure free and fair elections!

Foreground is a 2026 poll worker training manual on a table with lots of polling equipment in the background

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👏😂👇

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To say this has been a day would be an understatement.

A kitchen wall with the cabinets removed and a giant hole from ceiling to countertop exposing all of the pipes.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chicago! I’ll be at @maydelcraft.bsky.social on Saturday from 1-3 for a book signing to celebrate the opening of their new needlework reference library! I’ll be hanging with @stephxstitch.bsky.social …proving we are, in fact, two different people. maydel.com/in-person-cl...

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Maydel Chicago - Craft Classes in Embroidery and More

Chicago craft classes - learn embroidery, cross-stitch, mending, tambour, needlepoint, and other hand stitching from local expert teachers.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s wild how the US government is now just a Christian death cult trying to bring about the rapture.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel like a lot of folks are just holding their breath for the midterms. I would love for you to know about these free Zoom trainings so you can prepare and take action. statesatthecore.substack.com/p/community-...

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Upcoming ICE Watch & Community Defense

📌 BOOKMARK THIS PAGE >> A running list of upcoming trainings from STAC & Protect RP

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today was so awesome. A full crew gathered at Graceland cemetery to learn how to embroider. We made memento moris and talked about death, grief, and life. I will be back for Open House Chicago if you want to join the next one!

A beautiful chapel with wooden ceiling beams and skylights. Wooden pews filled with people embroidering. The far wall is an internment space for cremains.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Newsletter is out! - How 9/11 changed my entire life trajectory - Two free embroidery patterns - Upcoming events -Books you need to know about badasscrossstitch.substack.com/p/what-911-t...

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What 9/11 Taught Me About Capitalism

Plus: a free Memento Mori and Dolly Parton Pattern + a badass move against data centers

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I woke up thinking about the woman I met while I was living in my RV who told me I should go to the thrift store and buy a big pair of men’s boots to leave outside at night so people (men) would think there was a man in there with me. The look of horror on my face made her dig further into her

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A proposal to rename a Bucktown park after the late Chicago artist Dont Fret is one step closer to becoming a reality. buff.ly/Kr7ClHS

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last night I saw TLC, Salt n Pepa with Spindarella, and En Vogue. It truly was iconic. Those women looked amazing, sounded amazing, and can still throw down the grooves. Every muscle in my body hurts and I have no voice. BEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR!

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow! Only a few tickets left! Apparently you all want to stitch with me in a cemetery. Don’t miss out. 9/19 $16 No experience necessary. Materials included. Fun guaranteed www.eventbrite.com/e/1999166224...

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Memento Mori Embroidery Workshop

Learn to embroidery as we celebrate life by stitching a reminder of our shared mortality in the beautiful Graceland Cemetery! SO FUN!

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Chicago! I have waiting YEARS to make this happen. I will be hosting a memento mori embroidery workshop AT GRACELAND CEMETERY on 9/19. It’s going to be so fun! You need to be there. www.eventbrite.com/e/memento-mo...

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Memento Mori Embroidery Workshop

Learn to embroidery as we celebrate life by stitching a reminder of our shared mortality in the beautiful Graceland Cemetery! SO FUN!

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026

NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I love the first day of school bc as the child-free one all my mom friends call me between 8 and 9 to cry. It’s so sweet.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

All Mamdani does is get things done. Best NYC Mayor of my lifetime.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I vote for Sean Spicer. I loved watching him get so mad. Plus, we would get Melissa McCarthy back on SNL.

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I cannot tell you how little I care about why the air show practice is happening now. It shouldn't happen at all. It's propaganda aimed at tricking kids into joining the military.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Jumped off a cliff today…B”because my friends did. So that answers that.

Two women jumping off a cliff into crystal clear waters

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On vacation with friends and friends grandma. She walked into a book store, didn’t find my book, told the owner she should order it. Owner immediately ordered it and we are now planning an event together. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE HYPE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE.

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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/07/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.

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DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Charges Against Olympian It Indicted for "Vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Zohran Mamdani: “I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I love when people use their powers for good. At the airport and this man was both invading peoples personal space and cutting folks in line for security. The TSA agent saw it and pulled him for a “random search”. He was big mad.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Last year, I hosted an online fundraiser with my friends from central Texas to support local orgs on the ground. This year, I had to go searching for a news article about the floods which I only knew about bc everyone we helped is back under water.

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I just heard someone call Trump’s speech The Pettysburg address and now I have to go lie down 🤣🤣💀

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Data Centers are being built in secret. 🤐

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I went blueberry picking in Indiana yesterday.

The arm of a woman carrying a bucket full of blueberries

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Chicago! Head to Libby. CPL finally has the audio version of my book. You can listen to me talk into your ear holes for 7ish hours 😂📚 If you are at all creative and you care about doing something about this dumpster fire *gestures broadly* this one is for you!

An email screenshot announcing chicago public library now has let’s move the needle on Libby app

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