Ginger Brinn, Ph.D. (she/her)
@gingerbrinn.bsky.social
Art Education - Dr. Mom
Teaching Artist
Fiber Arts 🧶🪡🧵
Teaching Artist
Fiber Arts 🧶🪡🧵
All of this!
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
All of this!
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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I love a meme targeted for my demographic
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love a meme targeted for my demographic
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Apparently this is the company that destroyed the East Wing…
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Apparently this is the company that destroyed the East Wing…
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For Trump, the cruelty is the point.
October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
For Trump, the cruelty is the point.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart
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If you celebrate the “under god” part of the Pledge - which was added over a half-century after its inception as a response to the “Red Scare,” - but ignore “liberty and justice for all,” I have to wonder, which god are you referring to?
October 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you celebrate the “under god” part of the Pledge - which was added over a half-century after its inception as a response to the “Red Scare,” - but ignore “liberty and justice for all,” I have to wonder, which god are you referring to?
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September 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Xenobia Bailey, US fine artist, designer and fibre artist known for her large scale crochet pieces and hats #WomensArt
September 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Xenobia Bailey, US fine artist, designer and fibre artist known for her large scale crochet pieces and hats #WomensArt
Art is everything, our culture, our society, our very essence, it tells our stories.
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
www.npr.org
August 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Art is everything, our culture, our society, our very essence, it tells our stories.
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
August 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
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“Ruefle, who is based in VT, has been making erasures, which she illustrates with collages, almost daily since 1998. Usually working on two pages a day, she has completed more than one hundred and twenty-five erasures to date, a selection of which are now on view through September 6 at Poets House”
Erasure Notebooks by Mary Ruefle
August 12, 2025 – "These erasure texts range from slapstick to the absurd, from the lyrical to a wry melancholy."
www.theparisreview.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Ruefle, who is based in VT, has been making erasures, which she illustrates with collages, almost daily since 1998. Usually working on two pages a day, she has completed more than one hundred and twenty-five erasures to date, a selection of which are now on view through September 6 at Poets House”
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
This is more than concerning…how much more will it take for folks to wake up to what is happening? How are there still folks who are seemingly oblivious to all of this?
Trump vows to evict homeless from Washington, official says National Guard may be deployed
Trump said he will give homeless people places to stay, "but far from the capital." The White House declined to explain what legal authority Trump would use to evict people from the District.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is more than concerning…how much more will it take for folks to wake up to what is happening? How are there still folks who are seemingly oblivious to all of this?
Umm, if a democrat were to do something like this all hell would break loose. Does this poor excuse for a human ever even work? It seems that he’s always on a vacation on the taxpayers dime. I’m tired of my taxes going for this mess and all the rest of their crap.
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Umm, if a democrat were to do something like this all hell would break loose. Does this poor excuse for a human ever even work? It seems that he’s always on a vacation on the taxpayers dime. I’m tired of my taxes going for this mess and all the rest of their crap.
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New Yorker posts unique multi-media story about an affirming single mom who fled US to support her 16 y/o trans child. Interestingly, she left Maine, one of the more supportive states so far. [no paywall]
A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.
After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New Yorker posts unique multi-media story about an affirming single mom who fled US to support her 16 y/o trans child. Interestingly, she left Maine, one of the more supportive states so far. [no paywall]
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Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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A lot is happening with federal student debt at the moment. Here is some of our thoughts — and what we think you need to know.
July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A lot is happening with federal student debt at the moment. Here is some of our thoughts — and what we think you need to know.
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Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.
What borrowers should know about student loan changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill
Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.
n.pr
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.
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Donald Trump's bill makes your life more expensive this year, next year, the year after that, and the year after that.
July 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Donald Trump's bill makes your life more expensive this year, next year, the year after that, and the year after that.
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"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'"
untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...
untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...
July 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'"
untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...
untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...