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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 Out of date website: tiny.one/propohat Substack of snippets from my "Postscript Soap Box" zine email: propagandahat.substack.com

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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social I typically don't care about sports, but this is so hekkin cool! Can we have city movie nights here next??
View of Seattle's new pedestrian bridge and stairs packed with people watching the USA v BIH world cup gameFacing West view from the top of the pedestrian bridge park, people lined the railings watching the USA v BIH world cup game on two big screens. The Puget Sound and cloudy Olympic peninsula in the background
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BremertonZineFest @bremertonzinefest.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is it folks.... tomorrow is the last day to get your application in for Bremerton Zine Fest on Aug 7 and Aug 8. This will be a PARTY! We are planning two days packed with incredible artists. Link in bio or www.bremertonzinefest.com
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Montlake Zine Club @montlakezineclub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
‪Zine Club is today, 6/11, 6 - 7:30pm @ Montlake Library. Join us, Seattle! Upcoming meetings: - Cancelled: June 24 - July 8 (Wed) @ Capitol Hill Library 6 - 7:30 - July 22(Wed) @ Capitol Hill Library 6 - 7:30 - Aug 6 (Thur) @ Montlake Library 6 - 7:30
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Montlake Zine Club @montlakezineclub.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Zine Club is today, 5/28, 6 - 7:30pm @ Montlake Library. Join us, Seattle! Upcoming meetings: - June 11 (Thurs) @ Montlake Library 6 - 7:30 - June 24 (Wed) @ Capitol Hill Library 6 - 7:30 - July 8 (Wed) @ Capitol Hill Library 6 - 7:30 - July 22(Wed) @ Capitol Hill Library 6 - 7:30
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Seattle, have you called @murray.senate.gov re: HR 2616? It will block funding to schools having/teaching anything "gender ideology" related and require parent consent for preferred names, pronouns, etc. 5calls.org/issue/lgbtq-... Thx @jayapal.house.gov for opposing, sad it passed the house, tho.
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Oppose H.R. 2616 Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students (UPDATED 5/20) - PASSED HOUSE ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates May 20, 2026: The House has passed H.R. 2616, the PROTECT Kids Act, by a vote of 217-198. Democratic Reps Cuellar (TX), Davis (NC), Fields …
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Me: I burn through brake pads in less than 500 miles. Weird. My bike the second I get my bike back from its brake change:
The cargo end of my bike, with a big plastic box so full of groceries I can't put the lid on the box.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
1/ I have a Tern GSD. It's pretty great, but some things I didn't know going in are: 1) it requires an oil change yearly or 5000km, whichever first, because of the Rohloff cassette; one oil kit is $30; you can diy that 2) no regenerative braking 3) I go through brake pads in about 400 miles and
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
thing the second: a thread.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thing the first: it's zine club day! If you're itching to put pen to paper, Seattle, drop on by.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Happy #BikeEverywhereDay! I made y'all a "How to Play Bike Tag" zine! I'm dropping copies off at the CapHill celebration station at Barbara Bailey Way on my way home. Snag one if you pass through! Bike tag is hosted by @biketag.bsky.social and you can play in Seattle or your own city! Dooooo it!
my left hand holding four copies of my "how to play bike tag" zine like you would hold your cards for a poker hand.  The top two are full color, the bottom two are black and white.  The cover is a polaroid picture taped onto black paper with bits of orange washi tape.  At the top and bottom of the picture is the title in all caps gold outlined in black.  The picture itself is a bike tag I took at a sculpture in Seattle called "Black Sun".  It's a giant black donut cast in metal.  My bike is in front of it and I took the picture from the ground so all you can see in the background is the sky.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@theneedling.com @citycastseattle.bsky.social Salmonberry Balsamic. Salt and Straw would only have to substitute in some smoked salmon to this flavor, though, so it's not that clever :P : saltandstraw.com/products/str...
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Strawberry Honey Balsamic w/ Black Pepper | Salt & Straw
A strawberry triple threat. We steal a trick from the Italians, using balsamic and citrusy cubeb black pepper to help coax out the fruit's acidity and brightness.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Seattle folks! Come make a zine with us!
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
While I have my own opinions on TSA as an institution, the people who work for TSA at SeaTac are members in my community. They're not being paid because of refusal to hold ICE + DHS accountable for violations of the law and constitutional rights. If you can, pls support local TSA employees. 👇👇👇
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The SAVE act is like requiring everyone to buy volcano insurance: a solution for a problem that happens so rarely it effectively doesn't exist. Even the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute data agree on this point. (I stole the volcano example from someone; apologies, I can't remember who)
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Listening in on Senate SAVE act. Senator Blackburn (R-TN) said "it is common sense that you are going to show a photo ID many times a day to prove that you are who you are." Lol wut? Where?? Days since I had to show ID: 3 I'm ignoring my work badge because that isn't accepted ID for the SAVE act.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social I don't know any current service members, but I want to follow the suggestion of @standardsnotforce.bsky.social to reach out to folks in uniform and thank them. I've found a few orgs that will get letters to troops, but wondering if you have any recommendations?
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Art (alone) won't save us, but it is still incredibly important. Check out #iceoutcomics where artists are documenting their and others' experiences under this fascist regime. #zine folks might want to jump in on this, too.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Free zine alert! Get thee to a printer!
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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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Montlake Zine Club @montlakezineclub.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@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...
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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/...
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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.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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. 😈
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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. 😤
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
screenshot of the latest Seattle mayoral election results:
Katie Wilson has 133469 votes (49.83%), Bruce Harrell has 133378 votes (49.79%), write-ins 1028 (0.38%).
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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!
Screenshot of an email:

Dear All,
Mrs. Lynn, a long-standing supporter of our academic and arts community, will soon be relocating permanently to Italy with her family. As part of this transition, she is generously offering several of her late husband’s musical instruments and personal equipment to staff and students who may find them useful. The following items are available free of charge, apart from a flat shipping fee: Available Items
Violin – Yamaha AV7-44SG
Camera – Leica S (Typ 006) Digital SLR Camera
Piano – 2014 Steinway & Sons (foldable legs; fits through a standard doorway)
Guitar – Eric Clapton’s Martin OOO-42
MacBook Pro – Latest model with M3 chip
Shipping Information
Each item requires a flat-rate shipping fee of $200, which includes professional packing and home delivery. As Mrs. Lynn is in the process of relocating, on-site pickup is not available. Interested individuals may request more than one item, provided they can cover the total shipping fees.
To Express Interest
Please text the number provided in the subject line (phone redacted) and include the following details:
Full Name
Item(s) of Interest
Delivery Address
Email Address (for confirmation and tracking)
Get the Expenses to Mrs. lynn
This is a limited, one-time offer available only while Mrs. Lynn’s relocation arrangements are being finalized. Please respond promptly if you are interested and prepared to proceed with the shipping process.
Warm regards,
Mrs. Lynn’s Family Estate Representative
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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")
A bar graph from King County Elections showing the number of challenged ballots by age, narrowed down to the "City of Seattle" races (Mayor, attorney, etc).  City of Seattle has 2,086 challenged ballots, about half were unsigned, the other half the signature didn't match, and 14 ballots need a witness signature.  For the 18-24 age, 316 didn't match, 238 unsigned. 25-34 age: 290 didn't match, 229 unsigned. 35-44 age: 207 didn't match, 198 unsigned.  45 - 54: 110 didn't match, 152 unsigned.  55 - 64 age: 66 didn't match, 135 unsigned.  65+ age: 52 didn't match, 195 unsigned.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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...
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Watch us in action - King County, Washington
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Meanwhile, in Mississippi: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
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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.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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/...
a screenshot of my King County Elections "Where is my ballot?" results.  There's a horizontal green line with four green dots along it.  From left to right, the dots are labeled "Ballot sent", "Ballot received", "Signature verification", and "Ballot counted".  Under that, it reads, "Congratulations!  Your ballot has been counted."
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Montlake Zine Club @montlakezineclub.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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...?
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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...
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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 […]
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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
The rear of my bike at the base of the space needle. The frame is tilted diagonally to the right to fit the whole needle in frame. My bike box has a cardboard wedge with a US letter white sheet reading "HAVE YOU VOTED YET?". below that, my bike box sticker reads "BIKES NOT BOMBS", then I have a "Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor" mailer taped under that, and a trans pride flag folded over a rainbow pride flag. 
The sky is a characteristic Seattle gray, a smooth layer of clouds.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Should you find yourself at Seattle Central Library this weekend...
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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Find Food | Food Lifeline
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
More resistance zines in this thread 👇
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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. ✊
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ResistMap
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Montlake Zine Club @montlakezineclub.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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!
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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. "
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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...
Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”No Kings logo: a drawing of a crown with a red x over it
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Apparently there's a particular construction crew in Washington DC right now... In unrelated news, this thing on Internet Archive is old, but neat: ia601309.us.archive.org/14/items/Sim... At 32 pages, it's a short read. Also this: specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/688... #antiFascistBookclub
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Zine WIP based on a quote in @benhoerman.bsky.social 's 3rd film on fascism, "The Aesthetics of Anti-Fascism". youtu.be/akSH-UIGca4 The painting's "a little prayer for those who migrate" by local artist @jakeprendez.bsky.social (via the Stranger's Public Art issue). Don't touch grass, touch lives.
A collage US letter size paper in "portrait". It is made of clippings from magazines and newspapers. The focus is a painting of a little girl looking up with her hands pressed together in prayer. Her hair is braided, up on her head like a crown. There are three pink roses peaking out at the top of her head. There's a golden halo behind her head and two hummingbirds, one on either side of the halo, with their long beaks pointing towards the roses. There are a pair of black and orange monarch butterfly wings behind her as though they're hers. The left side of the girl's face is painted black and white in a sugar skull Dia de Muertos style. Her left eye socket is painted blue and outlined in black. She has what looks like a rebozo draped around her shoulders. It is a black base with thin red vertical stripes at the edges, then vertical sections of patterns separated by other thin stripes of colors. The patterns are gray, red, green, orange, pink, and blue. I added two eyes cut from another paper between the hummingbirds and the wings. Behind the cutout of the girl, to her right, are cutouts of a colorful, geometrically painted wood sculpture that was accented with an outline of white LED light strips. Along the outline created by the lights are small words cut from newspaper that read "LIVE TO SEE THEM DIE." The geometric shapes are filled in with pink, green, blue, and orange and outlined in black. The whole collage is on a page from a calendar that is a photo of a patch of rudbeckia (black-eyed susans). They have yellow petals and black centers. On top of the collage, in individual letters cut from many different pages (ransom note style) are the words "HOPE IS RESISTANCE". "Hope" is above the girl's head, so it looks like she's looking at it. "Is" is on her right shoulder under her chin. "Resistance" is at the bottom of the page. The artist's name, "JAKE PRENDEZ" is written in white gel pen on a black patch along the shawl's left edge.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
To anyone who can't attend, for whatever reason, you can join us in spirit over the tubes. And if you're chronically ill or housebound, here's a zine for you! "Revolution from bed: how to protest and boycott while disabled" decolonizationcoven.com/freezinelibr...
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
After you're done filing Hatch Act complaints with the Office of Special Counsel oscportal.powerappsportals.us for the accounts in this list bsky.app/profile/eva.... and then blocking them, consider following some of these accounts instead: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In true Me fashion, I have taken a simple idea to eleven. My little mobile free zine library isn't going to be ready for Saturday, so I'll have a sandwich board, instead. BUT BEHOLD MY ADORABLE LITTLE DOORS! I'm using shrink plastic for the "stained glass" windows. An Adafruit feather may get added.
Two of my little doors. They're 2.5" by 4.5" rectangles of double thickness cardboard. The one on the left is coated in white acrylic gesso and the window in the center is taped off with black painters tape. Both doors have raised patterns around the windows made with hot glue. The one on the right is painted bright red with iridescent gold on the raised outlines. The window is a 1" by 2" rectangle of shrink plastic colored blue with a red flower medallion in three center.The finished door lit from behind to show how the little window will look with lights. The window is a blue background mottled with green and darker blue splotches. In the center is a circle outlined in black, surrounded with delicate, thin black swirls. Inside the circle is a red rose with a bit of yellow center, also delicately outlined in black and the remaining space in the circle is yellow with a bit of orange around the outline.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We DO need our institutions to stand up to Trump's bullying, but David Brooks' own example of the Philippines rising up against Marcos took them 20 YEARS. The Philippines is tiny compared to the United States. We're still building momentum. Join us Saturday #noKings @seattleindivisible.bsky.social
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1/ You have until October 20th to comment against Stephen Miller's "America First Legal" and their petition to require a passport or Real ID to vote nationwide. www.regulations.gov/document/EAC... Voter fraud is < 0.0001%. This'd only make it harder for citizens without ID to vote - nothing more.
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Propaganda Hat @propagandahat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
From an essay I wrote (includes an #antifascistBookclub recommendation): "In Memoriam, or: about what happened last month..." 1/ A great American hero is dead. He was a man whose deeply-held Christian faith informed how he spoke to millions of young people in America
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