Propaganda Hat
@propagandahat.bsky.social
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Out of date website: tiny.one/propohat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
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Out of date website: tiny.one/propohat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
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...
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...
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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...
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...
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!
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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!
1) who is Mrs. Lynn? She has no first name at all?
2) Eric Clapton's guitar *FOR FREE*??
3) just pay for shipping!
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")
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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")
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...
Watch us in action - King County, Washington
kingcounty.gov
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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...
Meanwhile, in Mississippi: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
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.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Meanwhile, in Mississippi: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
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/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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/...
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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...?
Our next zine meeting is:
November 5th from 18:00-19:30
at the Montlake Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 5th from 18:00-19:30
at the Montlake Branch Library
As always, we'll have the bag of magazines, scissors, glue, and paper available. BYO writing tools and anything else you zine with.
Club policies in our bio.
See ya there!
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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...?
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...
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...
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 […]
www.scotusblog.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
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...
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.
I live in a rural county an hour or so from Seattle. The county has 3 towns big enough to style themselves "cities," and I live in the smallest of them. This town has a reputation for being reactionary. There was a "concerned citizens group" who targeted a school board member who was not a ...
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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.
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
#ElectionDay #vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
#ElectionDay #vote
Should you find yourself at Seattle Central Library this weekend...
🌼 As we celebrate Día de los Muertos this weekend, the Trans Pride Ofrenda on Level 8 at the Central Library honors the MesoAmerican Trans Lives taken by violence in Mexico. The ofrenda is part of the exhibit Nuestra Euforia/Our Euphora, curated by our Artist in Residence Vaquero Azul.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Should you find yourself at Seattle Central Library this weekend...
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...
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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...
More resistance zines in this thread 👇
People in Chi & other places having Whistlemania events (or u can do this solo if ur an introvert!) Buy whistles to alert folks to ICE activity & you can print out KYR fliers & legal info & make it into a packet (lots of places to distribute these incl bars stores Little FreeLibrary etc). Links next
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
More resistance zines in this thread 👇
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.
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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.
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. ✊
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
ResistMap
resistmap.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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. ✊
In other news, New Yorkers are resisting. Stay strong, y'all. ✊
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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!
One reason I love going to @montlakezineclub.bsky.social is because I often end up taking some #zines home in addition to sharing some of mine. This photo is my recent haul :)
#zinehaul #zine #zineclub #montlakezineclub #seattlezines #seattlezinescene
#zinehaul #zine #zineclub #montlakezineclub #seattlezines #seattlezinescene
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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!
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. "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5y4rnovu6jaqxfh6lufqxere/bafkreigtd275eja6dx2lpdv3wstp2dvnskou26odrt6kmjua4dcsigxl6a@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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.
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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...
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...
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
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...
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
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
ia601309.us.archive.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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
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
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.
Don't touch grass, touch lives.
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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.
Don't touch grass, touch lives.
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...
No Kings Seattle:
Can't make it to the march? Watch the No Kings Seattle Event on LIVESTREAM. Thanks to @nwprogressive.org Progressive Institute , we will have a professional Livestream on the Seattle Indivisible facebook page. @indivisible.org
#NoKingsSeattle #Seattle #nokings
Can't make it to the march? Watch the No Kings Seattle Event on LIVESTREAM. Thanks to @nwprogressive.org Progressive Institute , we will have a professional Livestream on the Seattle Indivisible facebook page. @indivisible.org
#NoKingsSeattle #Seattle #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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...
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...
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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...
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.
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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.
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
@seattleindivisible.bsky.social
1965: Marcos becomes president
1970s: students, others protest
1980: Marcos still president
1983: opponent assassinated, more protests
1984: general workers strike
1985: Marcos steals election, military joins protest
1986: Marcos flees
20 years.
We're working on it, David.
See you Saturday. 🏴🚩🇺🇲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊
1970s: students, others protest
1980: Marcos still president
1983: opponent assassinated, more protests
1984: general workers strike
1985: Marcos steals election, military joins protest
1986: Marcos flees
20 years.
We're working on it, David.
See you Saturday. 🏴🚩🇺🇲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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
@seattleindivisible.bsky.social
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.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
Voter fraud is < 0.0001%. This'd only make it harder for citizens without ID to vote - nothing more.
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
Voter fraud is < 0.0001%. This'd only make it harder for citizens without ID to vote - nothing more.