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Carrie O’Neill
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I’m a tender hearted artist/illustrator/mom in the PNW trying to find my way forward in light of recent events. Bi 🏳️‍🌈
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Carrie O’Neill @carrieconeill.bsky.social · Mar 6
Hi, it’s #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m an illustrator from Olympia, WA working in both digital and traditional media, incorporating handmade textures into my art. I’m currently working on a graphic memoir about growing up in the 80’s. I love to quilt and embroider, too!

www.carrieoneill.com
An illustration of a mother resting on the ground while her small child reads A Snowy Day aloud. The child looks like Peter from the book.
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muellershewrote.com
The amazing thing about brave people speaking out is that it inspires others to do the same by creating a permission structure. Since I published this article 4 hours ago, I've heard from multiple sources confirming what's in it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau
www.muellershewrote.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
djrothkopf.bsky.social David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · Jun 8
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
My trans teen and I went to a TDOV march in our sanctuary city yesterday. It started off so sweet with people giving out flowers and chocolate covered strawberries. We’ve been going to protests since they were a baby, but this was the first time we felt unsafe at one. (Cont. below)
Cardboard signs being painted for a Trans Day of Visibility March. Sign reads Protect Trans Youth.
March 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
Not sure how to proceed when the future feels so dark. I keep going though.

#graphicmemoir #kidlitart #illustration #ink #personalnarrative #hope #childhoodmemories
Graphic memoir panel of a girl walking through a mustard field with weeds taller than her. Ink on paper.
March 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
They are sadists in the White House.
March 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon
HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let's be honest, I like that they're ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart,. giant with power, heavy with blood. Don't you want to believe it? Don't you want to lift my shirt and see the huge beating genius machine that thinks, no, it knows, it's going to come in first.
March 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day!

I'm Ana and I love drawing bright, whimsical scenes and fairytales are one of my favorite things to draw.

🎨 lobomaravilhaart.wixsite.com/lobomaravilha

#kidlitart
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Hello! #KidLitArtPostcard! It feels like a good day to nurture precious moments. These kids are part 2 of the series from last month's postcard.

I’m represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social @bookendsliterary.bsky.social

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#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #childrensbooks #art
An illustration of a big sister reading a bedtime story to her little brother.
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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brookebaum.bsky.social
Hooray for #kidlitartpostcard day! 🎉

I'm Brooke and I'm an author illustrator seeking representation. I'd love to work on picture books and board books. I primarily work in collage and cut paper ✂️ I also experimented with homemade stamps for this one! #kidlit #kidlitart

heybrookebaum.com
An illustration featuring a city scene at night, in which four buildings are seen on a street. All the windows are dark except one in which we see a young girl looking out the window, looking amazed. She is looking at three ghosts playing double dutch on the sidewalk.
March 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
Hi, it’s #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m an illustrator from Olympia, WA working in both digital and traditional media, incorporating handmade textures into my art. I’m currently working on a graphic memoir about growing up in the 80’s. I love to quilt and embroider, too!

www.carrieoneill.com
An illustration of a mother resting on the ground while her small child reads A Snowy Day aloud. The child looks like Peter from the book.
March 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
#50501 protest in Olympia, WA today. Long line of protesters march towards the capitol building. #stopthecoup #protecttransyouth #dogeneedstogo #fucktrump
Protesters marching with signs in opposition to Trump Long line of protestors marching to the WA State Capitol in Olympia. Capital done in the distance.
March 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
Easy to do. Add in Meta/FB, too.
February 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Mar 8
Measles can cause immune amnesia so catching measles might mean that you would have to get every vaccine you've ever gotten over again and every cold, flu and infection your body has already learned to fight off it would forget. Except for measles itself.
rahaeli.bsky.social rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Feb 22
Because I will always repeat this when we see measles circulating again: if you were born 1957-1972 and did attend college or 1957-1987 and didn't attend college, you should get your MMR immunity tested with a simple lab test or one adult dose of MMR booster if your insurance won't cover labwork.
February 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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thedemcoalition.bsky.social
It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.
February 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
There’s a direct link between the death of these children and Trump. Doge has blood on their hands.
Two children killed by decades-old grenade in Cambodia
Accident happened in Siem Reap province that saw heavy fighting in 1980s between government soldiers and Khmer Rouge
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
He nails it.
February 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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meidastouch.com
A Delta flight carrying ~80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. At least 8 people injured.
February 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the fierce parents loving their kids unconditionally!
#transrightsarehumanrights🌈 #motherhood #illustration #color #kidlitart
An acrylic painting of a mom hugging her child. The child is wearing a clown costume and there are brightly colored circles in the foreground.
February 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal Judge Lauren King issues a temporary restraining order to block Trump Executive Order restricting health care for transgender youth.

Washington gets a court victory, again.

—Chris Daniels, Komo News

Cheers from supporters when WA AG Brown and his team leave the courtroom! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️
February 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
“I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice,…should demand the denial of life and joy…If it meant that, I did not want it.”
—Emma Goldman

The Joy and Dance Resistance!
Michael Patrick Key (@michaelpatrickkey) on Threads
Dancing protesters make their way to the Kennedy Center.
www.threads.net
February 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
Fuck them! I’m so glad I took my trans kid to the monument last summer. They can change the name but they can never erase what it means to us.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 13
The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument.

Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed.

3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened.

Erasure.
Stonewall National Monument New York Info Alerts Maps Calendar Fees “By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.” Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Five visitors and one park ranger standing next to an iron fence as they post rainbow flags. Plan Your Visit Located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Stonewall National Monument is one of the many parks in New York Harbor. Educational images of leaning at Stonewall National Monument Education No Matter where you are, we can bring Stonewall National Monument to your classroom. Find teachers resources here. A rainbow flag overlaid with "Stonewall National Monument, Established 2016" with the NPS arrowhead. LGB Flags What are LGB flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out.
February 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 7
Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age.

This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO.

Docs to come.
February 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
carrieconeill.bsky.social
So proud of Washington State for standing up for Trans Youth!!
State of Washington challenges unconstitutional presidential order criminalizing, and ending funding for gender-affirming care | Washington State
SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown filed a multi-state federal lawsuit today to halt a presidential order that threatens to end federal funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming ca...
www.atg.wa.gov
February 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM