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"Angry Knit-In" Washington State Capitol, Olympia, WA. With Evergreen Resistance on International Women's Day 2026.

shhhh you can’t see her tho she hidden

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

#craftivism

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💯 fair

A pelican floating peacefully in the water

Don't be a panican. Be a pelican. 🪶

Daniella Mestyanek-Young, still funny + fresh after 8 hours, closed the program with instructions to knit up our efforts and prepare for a protest march.

Long high-ceilinged room filled with dozens of people seated at round tables covered with colorful yarn squares. They are stitching together afghans from donated pieces solicited by Knitting Cult Lady (Daniella) from all over the world. Throughout the day, stitchers collaborated on sewing into blankets these hundreds of donated 5" squares.

Four people kneel around a blanket in the making, hands busy as they hurry to stitch together the last of dozens of colorful yarn squares. The events blankets became march banners before being broken up again for distribution to those who need them via Mutual Aid and service orgs.

In the foreground of a still bright (Daylight Savings!) sun low in the blue sky beside a silhouetted Washington Monument, women stand behind the day's work of colorful patchwork blankets, holding them high, strung together as a banner. The sunlight shining through the yarn work gives the effect of stained glass.

100s of Angry Knit-In stitchers (+ thousands more online) showed today how craft + culture make us stronger -- and dictators HATE being mocked.

🐸 "We will KNOT be unraveled by fascism. We will frog the system and start again," ripping out our mistakes to make society better.

angry knit in YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady

Hey, MAGA. Daddy may be home, but Mommy is PISSED.

Angry Knit-In packed anger but also resourcefulness, defiance, joy + action plans. Hear from #FreeDC #yarnbombing at hour 5:34--proud to present alongside brave, powerful women to hundreds of stitchers who care 💞.
@freedcproject.bsky.social

A row of frog hats

Frogs

Singing

Sound of Democracy singing protest at ICE PDX today. Uplifting solidarity!

Crocheted magenta banner with giant white italic script: Knot Today Fascism on wall, exposed brick in backgrd

✊🏼✊🏽 Tabling for Free DC! 5 smiling people wearing “Free DC” tees and a sash, standing together behind a table covered with handouts, zines, QR codes, yarnbombs and logo paraphernalia.

Two yarnbomb comrades and friends in Free DC regalia, volunteering at the registration table in a high-ceilinged old brick hallway.

@freedcproject.bsky.social representing at tje Angry Knit-In today, stitching banners + making friends. #yarnbombing

A green flyer featuring a colorful, rainbow‑twisted yarn ball at the top with large white text reading “ANGRY KNIT IN.” Below, white text describes an activist craft event in solidarity with the Angry Knit‑In Washington DC, where participants will “unravel the knots of patriarchy and tyranny” by turning fiber arts into authoritarian resistance. The event instructions say to dress warm, bring a chair, and your craft of choice. Details are given: *WHEN* – International Women’s Day, Sunday, March 8, 2026, 11 am–1 pm; *WHERE* – sidewalk along Capitol Way in front of the Capitol Campus, Olympia, WA; *WHAT* – an angry craft/hangout in defense of democracy. The flyer includes a contact email (olyknitin@proton.me) and the website angryknitin.org, with a logo at the bottom left.

Today!!!

angry knit in YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady

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Women’s International Day

Angry knit in great speakers✊🏽🐸✊🏽

@freedcproject.bsky.social is pleased to be tabling and sharing the dais in person at this amazing craftivism-palooza.

And it will be live-streamed: youtube.com/@knittingcul...

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of standing Indian women in an outdoor area holding banners

The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement created for/by British Indian suffragettes, 1911. Physician Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh played a prominent role within the women's cause #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

Intro to Embroidery with Badass Cross Stitch Learn to embroider, stitch something brilliant, have a laugh, try something new! Just in time to make all your holiday gifts!

I’ll teach you how to embroider on Saturday via zoom if you like. Pay-what-you-can.

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We got this -- shared around among #yarnbombers for inspiration. 💞 (And happy to support local @mahoganybooks.bsky.social via @bookshop.org.)

#yarnbombing #craftivism #FreeDC

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

Activism is powerful, y'all.

yellow on sea-blue FREE DC street sign banner on the edge of a grassy park bordering a city street, bare winter trees in background

blue on baby-blue FREE DC street sign banner on a red brick city sidewalk

*classic* white on red FREE DC street sign banner near a city crosswalk, brick Victorian rowhouses in background

Busy fingers getting us nearer the point where it will be impossible to go anywhere in DC without encountering cheery #FreeDC #yarnbombs. Already pretty much there on Capitol Hill, where these beauties are letting our Freek DC flag fly. #FreeDC

array on table top of four colorful, non-identical granny squares, a crochet hook and small scissors, and a rolled (and therefore not entirely visible) knit banner that says "JULIAN," in memory of DC citizen Julian Bailey, murdered this month by a U.S. Marshal.

A+ for cheery color, so far, and C- for consistency of shape and size.

#yarnbombing (soon)

Should DC's awesome soccer team (no disrespect to the men's soccer squad) celebrate Black excellence and local representation even if not on Juneteenth? We think so.

{Not to crassly self-promote (more for impact than clout), repost if you agree. NB 👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿: Bluesky does not amplify "likes"!}

Shouts to the Zamboni riders at tonight's Sirens game!

Frumin followed up with the question we were shouting at our screen: "So, are you thinking of ways to fix that?"

Carroll seemed pretty resigned to it, like bad weather.

{Thank you SO MUCH for covering!}

Did we stitch during these proceedings? Heck, yeah. Crocheted our first granny squares. (Ally in the next seat Tunisian crocheted a #FreeDC banner.) The 🟩🟧🟪 are for
a #yarnbomb we've knitted for a subject of testimony today, Julian Bailey, shot dead in D.C. by a U.S. Marshal.

#JusticeforJulian

11 things we’re asking DC Council to do during today’s MPD Performance Oversight Hearing

1. Prohibit facecoverings for federal officers operating in DC. 2. Require federal agents operating in DC to follow the same requirements for public identification as MPD, including name, badge number, and agency information. 3. Require MPD arrest reports to list all officers from all agencies present during the arrest along with officer names, badge numbers, and descriptions of their use of force. 4. Prohibit MPD from coordinating with federal agents in sensitive locations like churches and schools.

5. Repeal local qualified immunity protections for federal officers making arrests under DC law, as well as any law enforcement officer who enters a DC school, community center, or house of worship. 6. Require MPD to file a report on any interactions with a minor, including conversations on the street. 7. Conduct an independent investigation of all officer-involved shootings in 2025 and 2026 and release the names and body camera footage of all officers involved.

8. Restrict vehicular pursuits for all federal agencies. 9. Close the loophole in the Sanctuary Values Act so it applies to all DC agencies that contact residents outside of holding them in custody, including MPD. 10. Hold a hearing on the Safe Community Places and Policing Amendment Act of 2025. 11. Prohibit MPD from contacting federal agents over personal possession of cannabis.

Over the last year, MPD has started cooperating more than ever before with federal agents. It has had deadly consequences, and it's beyond time for DC Council to address it.

Here are the 11 things we're asking for during DC Council's annual Performance Oversight Hearing on MPD.

We saw police pull somebody over with their lights on a few weeks ago. They only stopped for a moment so unmarked cars could pull up and ICE agents could exit, then continued down the street to 4D

Too many of us have seen this shit to believe them at all

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Pinto: "DC passed a law in 2021 restricting cooperation with immigration enforcement. Is it MPD's policy to follow that law?"

Carroll: "Yes."

Pinto: "Are you aware of any instances of MPD officers violating that law?"

Carroll: "No."

Cries in the room: "You're under oath!"

The final witness of today's MPD Oversight Hearing is Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll. Here are Councilmembers' questions and his responses. 🧵

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