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Places you can knit: the Woodstock Opera House during “The Nutcracker” intermission (pic: Woodstock Opera House; not pictured: the knitting) 🧶

Take a deep breath, and just do what you can 🫶
#knitting

Melissa Mattio (@northwoodsgothic) Reflections from a Maker: Life, Crafting, and Northwoods Gothic It’s currently October 1, 2025. It’s a Wednesday and I’m on my mid-day break whilst working my day job. Northwoods Gothic has been on ...

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Trump just announced tariffs so wide-reaching, they now cover a sub-Antarctic island group populated mostly by penguins and a Norwegian Arctic archipelago best known for its polar bears.

Election Truth Alliance Explore the consequences of election fraud and the importance of safeguarding the voting process for a healthy democracy.

Check out electiontruthalliance.org Their data analysis on the 2024 and 2020 election irregularities is pretty interesting

Musk fired the entire team responsible for managing the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which supports approximately 6.2 million people across the U.S.—from Maine to Texas—in paying their heating and cooling bills.

I refer to growing up in the acid rain/ quicksand/impending nuclear conflict era as being "classically trained" in generalized anxiety

Why aren’t we looking into corporate welfare? In the United States, it costs taxpayers billions each year, with estimates ranging from $92 billion to $100 billion annually. Meanwhile, USAID costs only $40 billion. Hmmm… doesn’t add up.

Article 1

Section 8

CONGRESS shall have the power...

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations

NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.

This is a fantastic thread! Thanks to @stitchandskein.bsky.social for sharing/circulating!! 🧶

Get Elon and his teenaged minions out of the server and telephony control rooms

Sneaking in some heel flap knitting during meetings, just below camera view 🫣🧦🧶

Finally getting around to yapping about knitting on YouTube 😂🧶

I don’t know everything, but this version of Reality is glitching hard, and the first thing IT asks is “did you turn it off for a whole minute and then turn it back on?” And I’m just wondering if anyone can find the power button for Reality so we can give it a try

Shut up about AI and actually do something that will help the working class

Top image is of the capitol building, the people there turning a blind eye. Bottom image shows workers saving other workers from drowning

No one's going to save us from fascist rule.

It's up to us, the working class, to usher in a new era of prosperity for all.

A spectre (poverty) arising from the slums handing a poor individual over to a judge (law) to put into a prison

It's ##SocialistSunday

The working class must be unified in the fight against fascist class violence.

Organize
Agitate
Overthrow

That is absolutely stunning work and you look amazing! ❤️🧶

Trump just levied 25% tariffs on all goods coming from Columbia. In a week, it increases to 50%. What does the US import from Columbia? Glad you asked. See below.

Well dang it!! Should we start a GoFundMe for handwarmers? Joking but serious because frozen fingers are no fun for crafting and other things

Yikes! Hate to suggest anything since I’ve never been to the shop in person but is plastic window sheeting a possibility at all for those draft windows?

Hey Candice! I would be interested in joining the Discord group since I’m actively not using FB. Would you send me the link or an invite? Thanks!

A new revised 2025 list is posted on our other pages/ in doc format on kofi.

I’d share here, but there’s an image limit and it’s long

The US constitution

Breaking News

The US constitution has been removed from the US government website.

Don't panic, he can't rewrite anything without a 2/3 majority in both the house and senate.

The Orange Idiot in Orifice is posing for the Nazis again

We urge everyone to post an image of the constitution today

Analysis | Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll What the jury found Donald Trump did to E. Jean Carroll was in fact rape, as commonly understood, even if it didn't fit New York law's narrow definition, says Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

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It is never too late to despise rapists or to publicly call out Nazis for gassing hundreds of millions of infants, toddlers and little boys and girls just because they were born Jewish.

I firmly believe in community support of neighbors! Hello (and following) from Northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border 😊