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Kate M
@heggieknitter.bsky.social
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Scientist, musician, knitter, progressive
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Poster showing a parody of a clown with an orange combover that says "End the Greatest Shitshow on Earth, Kick out the Clowns" "Join Us! June 14th Nationwide"
May 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Drawing if a man in a suit and fedora with a large stack of money behind him pointing with his left hand and making a fist with his right. Text reads "They blame the immigrants si you won't blame the billionaires."
April 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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April 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Photo of trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills with text: "Everyone who has commented about Mills and the transgender issue needs to go back to the beginning at the governors' meeting when President Trump declared that HE and his executive orders were the law (listen to the original argument between Mills and Trump.) Here is a clean and concise explanation of that argument, which is based in a states rights issue, not a transgender one. Title IX, the law that Trump's executive order is based on, was written in 1972 and does NOT address gender identity because transgender was not even a word back then. President Biden issued an executive order in his last year to add gender identity to Title IX based on Title VIII. The Supreme Court blocked that executive order, saying that it violated the American Procedures Act, so it was never added. President Trump issued an Executive Order to block gender identity utilizing Title IX in the SAME EXACT way President Biden did. However, an executive order must be based on existing federal law, and Title IX does not address gender identity, so there is no federal law. This means the executive order is not valid. The court case on that is working its way through the courts right now, but when no federal law exists, state law prevails. (federal versus states rights in the Constitution). The Maine Human Rights Act was updated by the Maine Legislature (not Mills) to add gender identity as a protected category, so that is the law Mills must follow. That is the law Maine schools must follow. President Trump is acting like a backyard bully by throwing a temper tantrum and 'penalizing' Maine left and right on this issue because Mills will not follow what he tells her to do. Newsflash, the President of the United States doesn't dictate federal law. Congress does. Mills, is obeying her oath to enforce the Maine constitution and our laws. She has said that Maine has a long history of standing up to bullies, and in that, I agree."
April 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Black and white drawing of a person with rainbow-colored hair and glasses standing in a crowd of scowling people with word balloon that says "No one's asking you to change your beliefs. They'are asking you to stop using those beliefs as an excuse to treat people like trash."
April 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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March 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Photo of Bernie Sanders that says "At this particular moment in history, despair is not an option. Giving up is not acceptable. And none of us have the privilege of hiding under the covers."
March 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Blue background with white text that states "Most of us are three bad months away from being homeless. None of us are three good months away from being billionaires. I know whose side I'm on."
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Four-block comic series. First block shows a male announcer sitting at a desk holding a microphone saying "It is finally Super Bowl Sunday". Second block shows first announcer and a second announcer now holding the microphone putting on an owl mask. He says "Or as some people like to say, Superb Owl Sunday.". Third block shows them both laughing. Fourth block shows an owl sitting on a branch holding a beverage with a stir-stick watching TV. He says "We get one holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people." Captioned by Otterly Human.
February 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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White text on green background that says 'I hear some folks saying "There's hate on both sides." and I can't disagree. One side hated black people, brown people, Asian people, gay people amd any people who don't fully subscribe to their own rigid ideologies or who don't look like them. The other side hates bigots.'
February 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Auschwitz was liberated on this day in 1945. Never forget.
January 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Everyone who is surprised please raise your hand. 🙎‍♀️
January 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Image showing a shark with a school of fish in the shape of a large fish appearing to eat the shark. Text says "The day people understand this image everything changes."
December 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Photo of a post by class-struggle-anarchism with festive red and green squiggles added. Post reads: 'we wish you a merry christmas' is a pretty good christmas carol, no jesus, no god, just some good wishes that quickly give way to a militant demand for figgy pudding and direct action in the form of a sit down protest
December 17, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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White letters on a blue background: "Hate can't make us great" with Hate in a red box and great in a blue box
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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Image of a tweet by @Roseofwindsong that says "They call it 'wokeness' because calling it 'basic empathy' reveals that they're the ones in the wrong."
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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Image of room with vertical rainbow stripes, two toilets separated by a door, and one person facing one of the toilets. Text reads: Every Transphobic Argument Can Basically Be Boiled Down To: "I actually don't know the science at all nor do I have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort." -- Charlotte Clymer
November 21, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Retirement Socks Project complete. Now if I can just convince my coworker to call off their retirement.
Black cat looking at camera with handknit blue and white socks in the foreground. handknit blue and white socks being blocked. Mosaic knitting on legs ans instep, stripes on bottom. Closeup of handknit blue and white sock. Mosaic knitting on legs and instep, stripes on bottom.
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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Franciscan Version - Serenity Prayer for Our Times - God, grand me the patience to work with the unjust systems I cannot change today, the courage to strategically enact progress when I know I can, and the wisdom to know that, despite structural oppression, I can still make a difference. Amen.
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Photo of flooded street with a sign with "but the price of eggs" showing above the water
November 17, 2024 at 3:03 PM