M.Koda 🥫

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

A Venn Diagram. In the left circle: "Comparing getting a 'free' plane to the Statue of Liberty". In the right circle: "Talking to my cat". Text in the overlapping center reads "Ooooh, big stretch!"

Happy MayDay! Making our voices heard at the state capitol ✊

Two knit hats depicting the phrases "delay deny depose" and "eat the rich"

Still here, crafting as a form of resistance. 🧶 Patterns by lanechka

Trump’s organization is out here selling Trump 2028 hats like the Constitution is just a suggestion.

Reminder: The 22nd Amendment exists. You can’t run for a third term.

A horror movie that ends with the killer stabbing the final girl but then it turns out she's cake and they all have a party

Yum! Perfect for making violet lemonade on those hot days that are coming soon.

⚠️ Warning: Flashing lights or patterns

🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the U.S., we will honor the legacy of the workers who gave everything for the eight-hour day—and we will carry their struggle into today’s fight for a country that serves the many, not the few.

JOIN US at www.FiftyFifty.one

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

What an adorable little piggie!

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

Signed! Every little bit helps.

The current political situation in the US feels a lot like the bit in Gremlins where the horrible chaotic nihilist monsters are running riot and destroying the town, but it's worth remembering that the next bit is where people start stuffing them in blenders and microwaves and what have you

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Stabbing something thousands of times sometimes helps with the relentless internal screaming.

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Other things that libraries do or have:

1. Host citizenship classes
2. Host ESL classes.
3. Have seed libraries.
4. Have autism support kits.
5. Have Narcan on hand for overdoses.
6. Have developmental toys
7. Have language learning databases.
8. Lend laptops & hotspots.

#booksky

We'll miss you, but totally understand. Are you still planning on attending Watch City?

Urgent trans and nonbinary update: I called a passport office and got a sympathetic rep who told me officially any information about gender markers is posted online. Unofficially, they *literally whispered,* they have heard the same rumors about passports being confiscated.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN INTERACTING WITH ICE OR POLICE

No matter your immigration status, you have rights when you interact with immigration agents or the police.

ACLU has easy-to-use resources available so you can have your rights at your fingertips.
www.aclum.org/en/know-your...

Boston area heads-up: ICE raids in Everett, Mattapan, Chelsea, and Fields Corner right now.

Things that should not be controversial: Science is real, Trans people have always existed, Black Lives Matter, & the US was founded in genocide and built on the backs of immigrants.