Ellen Luckett Baker

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

Must read by Ta-Nehisi Coates on what happened on Minnesota.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Paywall bypass here.

archive.ph/0TUGt

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up.

I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

Andry José Hernández Romero, as a teen, sewing costumes for his town’s Three Kings Fest.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 65 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

*as a teen, sewing

The Road to Freedom: Early African American Quilting The strong tradition of African American quilting has existed ever since the dawn of America. Quilts from this period are bound into horrific acts of slavery, a reminder of the terrors that shaped the...

Quilting served as a quiet form of resistance. Denied the use of bright colors, enslaved women used scraps of fabric to stitch patterns into their bedding and clothing, preserving native African textile traditions. 145 days until Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

Let’s Move the Needle Create change in the world with this inspiring guide to social activism, from the artist and craftivist behind Badass Cross Stitch. Craftivism, or the space ...

Ooooh want a sneaky discount on my book? Use code: QuiltCon20!

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Embroidery that says: sending you love because WOW what a shit show!

This months newsletter is out. Lots of info, action items, events, and this free pattern so you can share some vday love!

open.substack.com/pub/badasscr...

𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘜𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳, Faith Ringgold, 2022.

Presenting ACL-Blue!

50% of proceeds from the sale of this yarn will go directly to the @aclu.org!

Support the orgs supporting our community in this time of need and craft wisely! #craftivism #indiedyedyarn #dyesky #aclu #resist

Patchwork quilt with scattered stars in yellow, red, blue and green.

To celebrate Black History Month, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite makers!

Star Puzzle, 2001, by Nora Ezell (American, 1919–2007).

My quilt about women’s reproductive rights has been banned from all American Quilters Society shows this year. It’s been part of a traveling show with SAQA. My artist statement is too long for here. It’s on my website: laurashaw.net/quilts#/your-mother

#quiltsky

We strongly urge you not to resign and recommend seeking legal counsel!

Of Salt and Spirit Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centu...

New book announcement!

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South
Edited by Sharbreon Plummer
University Press of Mississippi, December 2024
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/O/Of-S...

No other words needed (although I have a lot more to say).

I Dissent. 2024.

Made by me with letters from @carolynfriedlander.

See it in person at Quiltcon 2025 in Phoenix.

Now let’s fight like hell for our country.

#quiltsky #idissent #wordquilt #modernquilter #quilter #craftivism

Firewall For Freedom: States Must Safeguard Our Rights | American Civil Liberties Union

We’re building a firewall for freedom with our affiliates across the nation. Join us.

Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Kathy Fuld

Lygia Clark, Planes in Modulated Surface 4, 1957

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137177

YOU ARE A VICTIM OF THE RULES YOU LIVE BY

The fall of the Roman Empire but very stupid and everyone has phones.