Fran | Cotton and Joy
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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HELLA BASIC BLOCKS
In my efforts to bring you more FREE creative projects this year, I am kicking off my new quilt block series! It’s affectionately called the Hella Basic Blocks and every other month I’ll be dropping a new basic block tutorial. To kick it off, let’s make the classic Nine Patch!
In my efforts to bring you more FREE creative projects this year, I am kicking off my new quilt block series! It’s affectionately called the Hella Basic Blocks and every other month I’ll be dropping a new basic block tutorial. To kick it off, let’s make the classic Nine Patch!
February 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
HELLA BASIC BLOCKS
In my efforts to bring you more FREE creative projects this year, I am kicking off my new quilt block series! It’s affectionately called the Hella Basic Blocks and every other month I’ll be dropping a new basic block tutorial. To kick it off, let’s make the classic Nine Patch!
In my efforts to bring you more FREE creative projects this year, I am kicking off my new quilt block series! It’s affectionately called the Hella Basic Blocks and every other month I’ll be dropping a new basic block tutorial. To kick it off, let’s make the classic Nine Patch!
Me: wow, my schedule is so busy
Also me: starts a new quilt no in the schedule just for funsies lol
Also me: starts a new quilt no in the schedule just for funsies lol
February 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Me: wow, my schedule is so busy
Also me: starts a new quilt no in the schedule just for funsies lol
Also me: starts a new quilt no in the schedule just for funsies lol
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He’s literally saying all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza via ethnic cleansing, forced to move to neighboring countries who do not have the space to house them, and that America should take over Gaza. That’s what your moral superiority got you.
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
He’s literally saying all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza via ethnic cleansing, forced to move to neighboring countries who do not have the space to house them, and that America should take over Gaza. That’s what your moral superiority got you.
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Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire with a long list of conflicts of interest and deep ties to China—is hijacking our nation's checkbook so he can block funds that help the American people.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire with a long list of conflicts of interest and deep ties to China—is hijacking our nation's checkbook so he can block funds that help the American people.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
Sitting here wondering if maybe i could just drive to QuiltCon — two plane crashes in a week? 😅
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Sitting here wondering if maybe i could just drive to QuiltCon — two plane crashes in a week? 😅
Today feels like the longest day in a long week in the longest month 😩
January 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Today feels like the longest day in a long week in the longest month 😩
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the disconnect between elected Dems (business as usual) and the base (boiling mad) is about as big as I've ever seen it
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
January 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
the disconnect between elected Dems (business as usual) and the base (boiling mad) is about as big as I've ever seen it
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
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1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I’m thinking of not only making a new backpack for QuiltCon but drafting my own pattern.
Someone PLEASE talk me out of it.
Someone PLEASE talk me out of it.
January 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m thinking of not only making a new backpack for QuiltCon but drafting my own pattern.
Someone PLEASE talk me out of it.
Someone PLEASE talk me out of it.
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There is a Guardian article about this with an interview with a farmer who said 2 white folks showed up to work, double counted everything they picked, and lasted half a shift.
What is happening now is cruel. What was already happening was also cruel. Everything about this is broken.
What is happening now is cruel. What was already happening was also cruel. Everything about this is broken.
Several years ago, Alabama decided to get "tough" on immigration and pulled this shit.
They stopped when crops were rotting in the fields and Billy Bob started crying that he couldn't buy his Wal-Mart tomatoes for cheap anymore.
They stopped when crops were rotting in the fields and Billy Bob started crying that he couldn't buy his Wal-Mart tomatoes for cheap anymore.
president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...
January 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There is a Guardian article about this with an interview with a farmer who said 2 white folks showed up to work, double counted everything they picked, and lasted half a shift.
What is happening now is cruel. What was already happening was also cruel. Everything about this is broken.
What is happening now is cruel. What was already happening was also cruel. Everything about this is broken.
What could possibly go wrong
An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
National Institutes of Health cancels scientific meetings after Trump directives
An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
What could possibly go wrong
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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I cannot properly put into words how angry this makes me.
These people have been working on their refugee status FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!
These people have been working on their refugee status FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!
Refugees who were slated to travel to the US have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo obtained by CNN
Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US | CNN Politics
Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners o...
www.cnn.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I cannot properly put into words how angry this makes me.
These people have been working on their refugee status FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!
These people have been working on their refugee status FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!
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This is how you do it...
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is how you do it...
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Don't forget to add alt text to your images. There's even a helpful setting you can turn on that makes it required, which saves my bacon a lot because I forget sometimes in haste.
January 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Don't forget to add alt text to your images. There's even a helpful setting you can turn on that makes it required, which saves my bacon a lot because I forget sometimes in haste.
LFG
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announces lawsuit against @POTUS over birthright citizenship executive order.
Live now on @komonews platforms.
Live now on @komonews platforms.
January 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
LFG
Im already tired and it hasn’t even been a full 24 hrs
January 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Im already tired and it hasn’t even been a full 24 hrs
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One of my biggest to date!
Pattern is Stellar Mosaic by Cotton and Joy
Pattern is Stellar Mosaic by Cotton and Joy
December 16, 2024 at 8:45 PM
One of my biggest to date!
Pattern is Stellar Mosaic by Cotton and Joy
Pattern is Stellar Mosaic by Cotton and Joy
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Fresh from the longarmer. Now to bind. Perfect timing as I need a weekend project while celebrating men who've led with character and integrity...MLK and Jimmy Carter💙. Not wasting time and attention elsewhere. TV off.
Pattern is Golden Hour by Cotton and Joy #quiltsky #quilt #quilter #quilting
Pattern is Golden Hour by Cotton and Joy #quiltsky #quilt #quilter #quilting
January 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Another look at my Pandamonium blocks — if you saw my IG reel then you know the yellow blocks are missing and that’s because I originally had a different color set here but the contrast was off so I made all new blocks, as one does 😂 #quilt
January 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Another look at my Pandamonium blocks — if you saw my IG reel then you know the yellow blocks are missing and that’s because I originally had a different color set here but the contrast was off so I made all new blocks, as one does 😂 #quilt
Listen. I’m going to sit here and hyper focus on the Onyx Storm release on Tuesday and my silly little legos over the weekend and whatever else because I honestly CANNOT believe we are doing this shit again in Monday.
January 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Listen. I’m going to sit here and hyper focus on the Onyx Storm release on Tuesday and my silly little legos over the weekend and whatever else because I honestly CANNOT believe we are doing this shit again in Monday.