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The Anxious Activist
@theanxiousactivist.bsky.social
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I’m a concerned U.S. citizen who’s trying to find peace of mind through art activism, craftivism, letter writing, and more. I aim to inform and encourage others to make a difference even when anxiety and depression make me feel like I can’t do it myself.
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Americans can’t afford healthcare, food, & other necessities thanks to Rubber-stamp Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill and their refusal to end Taco D’s tariffs.

It’s hard to have faith in a govt. run by people whose only work right now is lying to shift the blame for their own actions onto Dems.
Image of Representative Mike Johnson with the text: Speaker Johnson: “People’s faith in the government is at an all time low.” Republicans control all 3 branches of government. *This is not my meme, but kudos to whoever made it!
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It’s not my top issue, but I’m glad to see that people are calling their reps to get Adelita Grijalva of AZ sworn in to the House of Representatives!

Shame on Mike Johnson for protecting pedophiles and lying about what she can do with no budget or oath.
Screencap of the after call page on the 5 Calls app. The topic is Demand Speaker Johnson Swear in Rep. Grijalva. There have been 8,685 calls on this topic.
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#NoKingsKansasCity

More peaceful protest pics of people wearing fun, inflatable costumes. We also had people who drove by holding signs and waving American flags.
A man in a sunny yellow T-shirt wears an inflatable horse costume with cowboy legs built-in. The person in the foreground is wearing a silver jacket and a humorous mask over a red knit snood. The Trump Baby Blimp has been transformed into an inflatable costume with a whiny Trump wearing a diaper. He carries a folder labeled “Epstein Files” and a sign that reads, “No kings. Uphold the Constitution. Resist fascism!” The sign bears no smoking type of circle with a slash through a yellow crown engraved with the Nazi symbol for the SS and a swastika. In the background a group if elderly protestors stand together outside P.F. Chang’s. One holds a sign that says “Trump is the Liar King” with the last two words printed in the style of Disney’s Lion King movie title. An SUV in the foreground has a sign on it that says,”The most sinister President in U.S. history.” I couldn’t catch a good picture of this inflatable costume since two large American flags blocked my view, but it appears to be Uncle Sam riding a star-spangled bald eagle. Both wear patriotic top hats. A protestor passes by in a pink inflatable unicorn with a heart on the side. They carry a pink sign bordered in purple and magenta stripes. The words say, “I told you so” in glittery capital letters. Below that it cites Chappell, Hillary, Kamala.
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#NoKingsKansasCity

As we gathered to protest
the weather was gray
but some people wore costumes
to brighten the day!
A tyrannosaurus against tyranny protests with a sugar skull animal and an upside flag. A kind lady gathering petitions to put the gerrymandered maps up to a vote passes behind in her DIY No Kings sweatshirt and sun hat. Two more inflatable costumes: The unicorn carries a sign that says “ANTI-FASCIST,” and the shark’s sign says “FUCK ICE.” Another tyrannosaurus against tyranny and a blue axolotl bring some joy to Mill Creek Park on despite the gray weather. A frog balloon flies overhead. I think the person carrying it had a sign that said, “Don’t let democracy CROAK!” This protestor dressed as Uncle Sam carried a sign that says, “FUCK TRUMP” in all caps.
October 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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It’s not right to deprive Arizonans of constituent services or their representation in the House; and covering for pedophiles is even worse.
Screencap of the webpage for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The top of the image from shows the title with his name, and I’ve used a matching font to add text around his picture. The page now reads: U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she’s sworn to provide the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Feel free to spread this one around, too. 😉
Image of U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson with the following text added beneath his name: Refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she’s sworn to provide the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Here’s another reason Mike Johnson’s got to go.
Screencap of the webpage for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The top of the image from shows the title with his name, and I’ve used a matching font to add text around his picture. The page now reads: U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she’s sworn to provide the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Ooh, that‘s so much better than mine!
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Can everyone pass this info to Johnson’s constituents in Louisiana? He’s sworn in representatives during pro forma sessions before. The only plausible reason for him not doing the same for Grijalva is that he’s stalling for time so Republicans will change their minds and protect the pedophiles.
Screencap of the webpage for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The top of the image from shows the title with his name, and I’ve used a matching font to add text around his picture. The page now reads: U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she’s sworn to provide the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Worse, he’s covering for pedophiles. FYI, he’s sworn in representatives during pro forma sessions before, but he’s full of excuses now that the person who needs to be sworn in is a Dem who wants to release the Epstein files. Her signature on the petition will lock in all the others and force a vote.
Screencap of the webpage for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The top of the image from shows the title with his name, and I’ve used a matching font to add text around his picture. The page now reads: U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, because she’s sworn to provide the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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More people need to call their senators and remind them that dictatorships suck for everyone but the dictator. FYI, I tried to call my rep on another issue but couldn’t get through.

If you haven’t tried 5 Calls, you should get it before your provider pulls it from the app store like ICE Block.😡
Screen cap of the after call page on the 5 Calls app. It reads: You called on End Trump’s Dictator Rule. Total calls: 10,523,969. Calls on this topic: 12,522. Contacts: Emmanuel Cleaver. Skip. Josh Hawley. Made Contact. Eric Schmitt. Left voicemail. Support 5 Calls. Keep 5 Calls free and up-to-date. Donate today.
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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That is so much prettier than the real fish it’s not even funny! I wouldn’t have been afraid of aquariums growing up if Grandma had your lovely ceramic puffer on her plant stand instead of this creepy exoskeleton. 😅

Sorry your raku plan fell through, but that glaze looks great with your style!
Picture of a puffer fish exoskeleton. It’s prickly and round in shades of tan.
September 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Does anyone know how to contact the heads of ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair to complain about them violating Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech just to curry favor with the FCC chair? When you read what he actually said, it’s pretty clear that he didn’t say anything to merit being pulled from the air!
The image is a cropped, highlighted, and annotated screenshot of the Washington Post article “Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension reverberates beyond late-night tv.” The text begins as follows: Kimmel angered some on the right after he said in his opening monologue Monday night that the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” He was referring to 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of shooting Kirk. Robinson grew up in a Republican household but had apparently become sympathetic to LGBTQ+ causes, according to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R). He did not elaborate. Charging documents from prosecutors released this week said Robinson sent a message to his roommate that he “had enough of [Kirk’s] hatred.” Authorities have not announced a motive for Kirk’s killing. Kimmel has also called Kirk’s killing “senseless” and said he had seen “extraordinarily vile responses to this from both sides of the political spectrum,” including those he said were “cheering” Kirk’s death. End quote. Below this is a link to the source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-celebrities-react/ At the bottom, I’ve annotated the screenshot with my own opinion. I wrote the following: Jimmy Kimmel didn’t say a single cruel or critical word of Charlie Kirk. If anything, he defended him from people who [are] saying vile things and using his death to further their own agendas. *Note that the word are in brackets was added in red after I’d already finished typing the rest. Pardon my proof-reading error.
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Taco D’s desire to stop quarterly reports reminds me of how Timothy Snyder explained in his book On Tyranny that fascist leaders express “open hostility to verifiable reality.” You can see this in how Taco D claims any data that makes him look bad is a lie and any reports that do are “fake news.”
A picture of a page from the graphic edition of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. It shows an illustration of a person digging in a cave. The text says: To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true. then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
September 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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“Let’s be honest about Charlie Kirk’s life — and death,” an article by Zach Beauchamp of Vox, discusses how we must address the harmful aspects of Charlie Kirk’s political agenda without justifying or unintentionally condoning political violence.

www.vox.com/politics/461...
Screenshot of a segment of an article from Vox. It reads: Whenever a prominent political figure is killed , it inherently creates mistrust between political factions — something that the extreme right is counting on in their post-Kirk killing push for a violent crackdown on the left. It is incumbent on every citizen in a democracy to think about how the way we talk about the killing plays into this dynamic: whether it intensifies partisan hatred or signals a renewed commitment to peaceful civil discourse. I take that to be the intent of the people praising Kirk’s willingness to engage in the democratic process. But I think it’s possible to do so without sanitizing the ways in which his persona and political approach degraded that very same process — and how such whitewashing can provide cover for the further degradation of our politics in the weeks and months to come. Threading this very fine needle, however, requires thinking carefully not just about what we say, but about the way we say it.
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I’m so sick of Republicans accusing Democrats of being soft on crime that I decided to make a graphic to show what their “law and order” really is.

#protestart
Graphic with black background and stylized handcuffs with cyan and magenta highlights. Rough text in white states, “Law and order without due process is also called authoritarianism.”
September 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Here’s the creepy page of Epstein’s birthday book that I think only MSNBC is mentioning thus far. I’ve transcribed the handwritten note and put it with the alt text for the image.

⚠️ TW: The note contains a vile “joke” about selling a woman and refers to her in a dehumanizing manner.
Picture of a graying Epstein with two men old enough to know better (they have some age lines) and a young woman whose face has been redacted for privacy. The men are all holding a giant check that says, “Pay to the order of Jeffrey Epstein. $22,500”which is written as “twenty-two five hundred” in long hand. The signature line says “DJ Trump” in all caps. The paragraph below the picture is a handwritten note that says, “Jeffrey showing early talents with money and women! Sells “fully depreciated” [redacted name, presumably female] to Donald Trump for $22,500. Showed early “people skills” too. Even though I handled the deal, I didn’t get any of the money or the girl!” The picture was taken in a location with a lot of palm trees and green grass and a table with a white tablecloth and white folding chairs can be seen in the background. A balding man and another woman whose face has been redacted are seated at the table. In the distance, you can see blurry fencing, a grass covered hut roof on white poles, and a rectangular hedge row on the right.
September 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Here’s the creepy page only MSNBC is mentioning thus far. I’ve transcribed the handwritten note and put it with the alt text for the image.

⚠️ TW: The note contains a vile “joke” about selling a woman and refers to her in a dehumanizing manner.
Picture of a graying Epstein with two men old enough to know better (they have some age lines) and a young woman whose face has been redacted for privacy. The men are all holding a giant check that says, “Pay to the order of Jeffrey Epstein. $22,500”which is written as “twenty-two five hundred” in long hand. The signature line says “DJ Trump” in all caps. The paragraph below the picture is a handwritten note that says, “Jeffrey showing early talents with money and women! Sells “fully depreciated” [redacted name, presumably female] to Donald Trump for $22,500. Showed early “people skills” too. Even though I handled the deal, I didn’t get any of the money or the girl!” The picture was taken in a location with a lot of palm trees and green grass and a table with a white tablecloth and white folding chairs can be seen in the background. A balding man and another woman whose face has been redacted are seated at the table. In the distance, you can see blurry fencing, a grass covered hut roof on white poles, and a rectangular hedge row on the right.
September 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I hate leaving voicemails, but I hated having Sam “No-Show” Graves as my representative more! 😡

If you want to stop the #gerrymandering of #KCMO, please, contact your local representatives ASAP and tell them to oppose H.B. 1. The 5 Calls app will look up and dial their numbers for you.
Screenshot of the after call page on the 5 calls app. It says, “You called on Stop the partisan gerrymandering in Missouri. (Updated 9/4.) Total calls 10,246,743 Calls on this topic 657 Contacts Bill Allen, left voicemail. Justin Brown left voicemail.”
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Here’s your friendly reminder that most of those people have never been convicted of a crime.
An infographic stating that Trump's agents are not just targeting immigrant communities involved in crime. It shows figures representing the proportion of immigrants taken by ICE, categorized by criminal record: 7% with violent convictions, 28% with no violent convictions, and 65% with no convictions, captioned with a note that ICE is breaking up families and not only pursuing criminals.
August 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This was a pleasant surprise: As of today, Missourians no longer have to pay sales tax on products that address menstrual flow or urinary incontinence. This includes period underwear and both child & adult diapers. Follow the link below for more details. ⬇️

dor.mo.gov/faq/taxation...
The image is a cropped screenshot of a Missouri Department of Revenue page which explains that beginning on August 28th, 2025, all retail sales of diapers, feminine hygiene products for managing menstrual flow, and hygiene products for urinary incontinence will be exempt from state and local sales and use tax. An amorphous pink shape holds the text “Missouri axed the Tampon Tax!”
August 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Somebody I love is getting her license renewed, and I told her to get a Real ID to ensure she doesn’t have trouble voting. Increased processing fees start today in MO.

Consider this your reminder to make sure you have all the req’d documents to verify your identity, SS#, residence, & name change.
Picture of a Missouri DMV postcard showing the requirements to renew driver’s and non-driver’s licenses, Real ID compliant or otherwise. An original document is required for each category: Identity, Social Security Number (may be provided verbally if previous verification is on file), Missouri Residency, and Name Change (only if applicable, but more than one document may be required). Real IDs require an additional document. Visit dor.mo.gov/driver-license/issuance/real-id/ if you’d like to know more.
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It says CATO.org in the world’s tiniest font, but the CATO Institute got the info from ICE’s booking data.

Here’s a pic of the original pie chart they used on The Briefing with Jen Psaki. It’s not rounded to the same place value as Indivisible’s graphic, but it shows more.
Picture of a pie chart as seen on The Briefing with Jen Psaki on MSNBC. It’s titled “ICE detains very few serious public safety threats. ICE book-ins by Criminal Conviction. FY 2025 as of June 14.” The wedges on the pie chart show immigrants booked with the following convictions by percentage: Unlabeled wedge sans numbers represents property crimes. Gray wedge is Vice 4.5% Yellow: Other 5.6% Orange: Violent Crimes 6.9% Lavender: Traffic 6.9% Purple: Immigration 7.0% The largest wedge of the pie chart is navy. It reads: None 65.4%, meaning that over 65% of immigrants booked by ICE have never been convicted of any crime. Courtesy: CATO.org/ICE data.
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Your article on Halimi is fantastic, but if you leave the screencaps without annotation, people can use them to spread Musk’s conspiracy theory further. Here’s my attempt at fixing it.
Annotations on a screenshot. The original Twitter post by Elon Musk says, “Any government institution is likely to be the opposite of its name.” I’ve crossed part out and added to it so it says, “Any government institution is likely to be doing good work that DOGE employees don’t understand.” Below that is an article from Amuse that Musk linked. The caption says, “DOGE: The DOGE team fought for days to gain access to the United States Institute of Peace. Eventually, with help from the FBI and Metro Police DOGE was able to access the agency and discovered” — From that point, I’ve blocked out the lie-filled text and replaced it with the following: “that their reading comprehension skills and narrow minds were woefully insufficient to grasp how foreign policy advisors may have complicated backgrounds that give them unique insight in how to build bridges between the radical culture they came from and the peaceful future they’re trying to build.” Below, there is an image of the propaganda piece by Amuse. I have crossed out the headline and teaser that claims “United States Institute of Peace funded Taliban and Iraqi leaders” and have written “This is a lie” in red above it over the image of USIP. The teaser names the foreign policy advisor who worked with USIP; it misrepresents his work and endangers his life and the lives of his family and relatives still living under Taliban rule.
August 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Don’t forget that terrorizing immigrant farm workers makes food more expensive and scarce! Cruelty has many prices.

Shame I didn’t place a bet on my 🍊🤡 predictions, because I could really use the grocery money.
Screencap of the today.com article Elizabeth Warren posted. The sentence “Ongoing labor shortages can also contribute to price hikes.” is highlighted, as is “efforts to deport undocumented people across the country have left many farm workers nervous to show up to work.” “Tariffs on imported vegetables and food can also make domestic prices rise,” has also been highlighted. In the center of the page, I’ve added a caption that says, “Stupid Trump policies that raise your grocery prices. Tell Republicans in Congress to stop letting Trump screw the working class.” Red arrows point to the words “effort to deport undocumented people” and “tariffs” for extra emphasis.
August 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM