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And now, for a station break...

<breathe>

UPDATE, less than 24 hours later:
On a morning run, saw that "MAGA bites" and "ALEX" both were gone.

"RENEE" and "Free DC" banners are still flying, though!

Oh, hello. If you are stuck at the red light at 12th Str. SW crossing Independence Ave., at least you have something to look at while you wait.

Until it's torn down, anyway, which is true of everything in our city, come to think of it--way of all things, and all that.

#FreeDC #yarnbombing

We got a few thanks and thumbs-up from passersby, incidentally, as we struggled with our needle, crochet hook and knots to make these taut.

MORE epic #yarnbombing for #FreeDC, memorials for Renee Good + Alex Pretti in the mix. These went up today by Smithsonian Metro stop + USDA, facing Freer Gallery.

Guy in the suit tried to rip down "MAGA bites" but gave up. Bring scissors next time, we guess?

Yeah, baby.

Lest we forget, Miller lives in government subsidized housing bc, when he tried to survive in the real world, mean people…

chalked his sidewalk.

#NoKings

🧶🧵 {"yarn thread"}

#yarnbombing

busy hands for #FreeDC

@freedcproject.bsky.social @brooklandcivic.bsky.social

giant fat, red letters spell FREE DC on a neon green background banner is strung across the back of a city park bench

Edgewood Triangle Park - a big 'un

crosswalk, two-story yellow brick building housing a Cool Coffee Co shop on the other side -- on utility pole beneath a ped x'ing sign, a baby blue horizontal FREE DC banner wraps the pole

Anyone for CoolCoffee (and #FreeDC)? Brookland

#yarnbombing @freedcproject.bsky.social

Yellow FREE DC horiz. banner with lettering and 2 stripes (like DC flag) in black, in front of a Mr. Henry's sign in a picture window

Capitol Hill (west) - Mr. Henry's bar kindly made space for this one in their picture window.

white-on-red FREE DC banner running down a white Metro bus stop signpost; bench, sidewalk, trees and row houses visible along both sides of street

white-on-red FREE DC banner running down a white Metro bus stop signpost with sign for D74 bus in frame; bench, sidewalk, trees and row houses visible along both sides of street

red-on-white Tunisian crochet FREE DC banner running down a sapling trunk. Woodridge Library, grassy lawn, yellow shrub (forsythia?), bench and sidewalk, visible behind

Woodridge Library entrance plaze, red-on-white FREE DC on tree in left foreground

CAUTION: Yarnbomb storm brewing. Well, yb *photo* storm. The work is already out, folks. Go forth and enjoy.

First up: Brookland

Mayor BOWSER: I am worried about congestion pricing. I worry the Council will use it to plug budget gaps.
#BikeDC: Council, make our day.

CONFESSION: We're 🧋 thirsty for attention to DC's fight to End the Occupation
@freedcproject.bsky.social

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Unwanted National Guard deployment in D.C. now on its 211th day

DATA
➡️ $602,000,000 yearly cost
➡️ 0 effect on crime

Dana on Instagram: "some clips from the Angry Knit In - I had THE BEST time meeting so many like minded crafty people - more to come when I get home from DC! @daniellamyoung_ @dr.chygunn #angryknitin... 58 likes, 10 comments - scrappy_stitch on March 9, 2026: "some clips from the Angry Knit In - I had THE BEST time meeting so many like minded crafty people - more to come when I get home from DC! @da...

🎶🎤 Do you wanna eat chips,
And [knit] shit...

#AngryKnitIn

Yarnbombers love "tablers" (esp when they do the tik-tokking for us) -- from our #AngryKnitIn tabling comrade.

"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

See e.g…

💯 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!!!