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Can I borrow your hat for the Easter parade?

Hey lady, eat me! I’m a specialty bread, eat me!

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President Trump has threatened to pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, calling the military alliance a “paper tiger.” The Onion examines the pros and cons of withdrawing from NATO.

PRO

U.S. can finally join Warsaw Pact

Would free up time to join something more fun, like the International Pickleball Federation

Won’t have to defend Greenland against ourselves.

Can finally delete WhatsApp

Will make the eventual makeup alliance even hotter

CON

Can no longer hide behind military might of Luxembourg

Total redesign of NATO coffee mugs

Lose 10% member discount on stroopwafels

Learned what “Article 5” was for nothing

Probably never getting that phone charger back from Romania

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This perfect Tudor, which is walking distance from downtown and boasts plenty of space, will go to someone who bid exactly $7.34 more than you.

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A Gallup survey found that heavy social media users are less likely to think democracy is the best form of government and more likely to stray from democratic norms, with research suggesting that social media is contributing to a more fractured social environment. What do you think?

“Well, if democracy is so worried it can always buy more followers.”

Zara Okonkwo, Seam Inspector

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“But voting’s what got us the Blue M&M!”

Andre Silva, Sand Exporter

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“The only effective form of governance is to organize ourselves into discrete Farmvilles.”

Yusuf Ali, Porcelain Collector

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Earlier in the story Claire was wearing a blazer, but in the club scene she has a leather jacket. There’s a fun game you can play in the prior pages where it is possible to work out who she got it from. I say fun, it’s barely fun. As for Lottie’s outfit, I just think she keeps it in her “go bag” for any time she might have to go full vamp. That dress was £4 on Vinted.

Interpol Lottie and Claire are dangerous characters, aren’t they? We’d better hope that door never swings open again.

“Back in 2017, I made a ton of pussyhats,” Catherine Paul told me. “I just knitted pink hats like there was no tomorrow.”

At the time, Paul appreciated “the way that craft could be part of a demonstration of affiliation and belief,” the artist, writer, and longtime knitter told me.

Soon the pussyhat became a symbol of something else: a brand of feminism attuned to the concerns of a subset of middle-class, mostly white American women, and nobody else. By 2024, the hats, and the 2017 Women’s March at which many demonstrators wore them, were being held up as examples of ineffective protest. More than that, the hats came to be seen as cringe — not just exclusionary, but also kind of embarrassing. 

Then came Trump 2.0. In the face of an administration whose agents have kidnapped and deported children and shot more than a dozen people in the span of a few months, craftivism is back in the spotlight, with knitters, quilters, nail artists, and more getting renewed public attention for their political designs. 

Paul, for example, has been knitting red “Melt the ICE” hats, from a pattern sold by Minneapolis yarn shop Needle & Skein. Friends and acquaintances are begging her for the headwear, just as they did nearly 10 years ago.

Before I started reporting this story, I thought the rise of knitted and quilted protest under Trump 2.0 might be a sign of the left reembracing cringe — of a softening toward forms of political action once deemed uncool and annoying (and, not coincidentally, feminine). But in talking to artists and scholars about craftivism right now, I’ve come to think the explanation for its popularity is both more complicated and simpler.

“The news is so ugly all the time, you can’t really find peace,” Needle & Skein owner Gilah Mashaal told me. “So what do you do? You find people and you do things with those people. And since we’re crafters, that’s what we’re doing.”

As thousands of ICE agents swarmed Minneapolis earlier this year, “my regular knitters were all feeling kind of desperate and unsure of what we could do,” Mashaal said. Employee Paul Neary had the idea to create a pattern inspired by Norwegian anti-Nazi hats called “nisselue.”

Neary posted the pattern for the “Melt the ICE” hat on knitting website Ravelry in January, charging $5 per download, with all proceeds going to immigrant aid agencies. As Mashaal recalls, the Needle & Skein team thought, “maybe we’ll raise a couple thousand dollars.”

But the pattern quickly rocketed to the top of Ravelry’s most-popular list, where it’s stayed ever since. People from 44 countries have purchased it, generating at least $720,000 for immigrant aid groups, Mashaal told me.

Meanwhile, at this year’s QuiltCon, billed as the largest modern quilting event in the world, anti-ICE quilts grabbed attention, bearing messages like, “Our government abducted hundreds of people based on race while I made this.” Anti-ICE quilts are also blowing up on Reddit, where one user recently shared a quilt reading, “Japanese American families remember: We were taken from our communities too.” 

Even Maine senate candidate Graham Platner recently sat for a Pod Save America interview wearing an Anti-Fascist Knitting Club T-shirt, though his recent social media activity doesn’t make him a particularly good ambassador for the cause.

Beyond the needle and thread, nail artists are showing off “FUCK ICE” manicures. And anti-ICE artwork is cropping up on shirts, stickers, and other accoutrements of daily life. When Nadia Brown’s students at Georgetown University open up their textbooks, she sees anti-ICE bookmarks inside, the government professor told me. 

Using handicrafts to send a message is far from new. Leading up to the American Revolution, women in the American colonies boycotted British textiles and staged spinning bees “in which they spun wool and flax yarn to make cloth called homespun,” Shirley Wajda, a curator and historian of material culture, told me in an email. 

Story quilts — visual narratives sewn in fabric — have been popular in Black communities for generations. “During slavery, when African Americans were not allowed to learn how to read and write, it was an easy way to tell stories,” Carolyn Mazloomi, an artist and curator, told me. 

Such art forms never left the American landscape — artists like Faith Ringgold have brought story quilts, often with political and social themes, to the walls of museums and the pages of beloved children’s books.

But political crafting gained a new level of media attention — and notoriety — in the wake of Trump’s first election. Photos of the 2017 Women’s March were a sea of pink, as demonstrators donned headwear knitted in response to Donald Trump’s comments about grabbing women “by the pussy.” But the march soon became controversial — though the Washington, DC, event boasted high-profile speakers who were women of color, most attendees were white. Many women of color felt pushed out of the march and the larger movement that — kind of — grew up around it. 

Organizer ShiShi Rose, for example, worked on the first march and wrote a widely read Facebook post calling on white would-be marchers to pay attention to the experiences of Americans of color. In return, she got death threats, from which she said the Women’s March organization did little to shield her. 

The pink hats became, for some, a symbol of this exclusion, even their color and shape appearing to represent white, cis women’s anatomy (knitters have since said the hats were supposed to look like cat ears, not vulvas).

When Trump was elected a second time, even some who marched enthusiastically in 2017 began to wonder if their efforts had been for nought. Meanwhile, concerns that started with women of color were appropriated first by liberal white men and then by conservatives, until questions about a movement’s racial inclusivity became a kind of all-purpose derision. As my colleague Constance Grady has written, “who wanted to be like those awful women with the pink hats? Everyone knew they were cringey and unfashionable, complaining over nothing.”

Given all this, it’s been a surprise to see the return of knitted headwear. But for Brown, today’s anti-ICE art- and craftworks aren’t cringe in the same way. Unlike 10 years ago, “there’s a very specific outrage around what’s happening now with ICE, and there are direct calls for policies that would make immigration more functional,” she said. The Women’s March was far less specific and targeted.

What’s more, anti-ICE art spans demographics. When it comes to stickers and other paraphernalia, “I see older people wearing them,” Brown said. “My college students are wearing them of every ethnicity, of every race. People are just outraged.”

In trying to represent the anger of all women nationwide, the Women’s March was doomed, on a certain level, to fail. The resistance against ICE in 2026, however, is famously hyperlocal, and craftivism is no exception. 

Pussyhats were about “fighting against and showing our distaste for the man that the country elected,” Mashaal said. With Melt the ICE hats, “we’re raising money to help our friends and neighbors.”

Neighborliness is emerging as a key value in the resistance to ICE. “What authoritarian regimes want to do is make people suspicious of their neighbors,” Brown said. Crafting, by contrast, brings neighbors together over a shared activity that helps them get past their fears and suspicions: “Building community in a way that gets you out of your head and working with your hands is an effective tool.”

No protest is immune to criticism, and some have argued that the Melt the ICE hats are little more than performative virtue-signaling, especially if people knit them without paying for the pattern. 

“Yes, knitting a hat is performative,” Mashaal said. “But it’s also a way to show your anger, fear, frustration, rage, care.”

I started this story thinking it was about the state of feminized forms of activism in 2026. I’m ending it thinking that a lot of the questions opened up by the Women’s March — whether it’s even possible to have a truly inclusive “women’s movement” in America, for example — haven’t been answered yet. Maybe now is not the time to answer them. Maybe now is the time for something smaller-scale — the size, say, of a pair of knitting needles or a sewing machine.

In addition to her Melt the ICE hats, Paul recently completed a quilt that reads, “Fuck it we ball.” “I wanted that persistence, a reminder of the way that craft can help us persist,” she told me.

Wajda, the historian and author, is thinking about the coming spring. “Pussyhats and Melt the ICE hats have one thing in common: They are winter wear,” she told me. “Now I’m thinking about what would a craftivist create for warm weather protests!”

Mazloomi, the artist and curator, has been working for the last several years on a series of quilts about African American history, with a concentration on the civil rights era. “The stories have disappeared from the news, disappeared from museums and art centers, and I don’t want to see that happen,” she said.

Quilts remind people of “home and grandma,” Mazloomi said. “It’s a soft cushion for difficult stories.”

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After demolishing the East Wing of the White House and rushing into construction of a ballroom, the administration was finally ordered to stop until the plans go through the necessary reviews. NYT’s the Upshot made notes on the ballroom design, which is more flashy than practical, such as a stairway to nowhere and fake windows.

I like the enhanced byline: “Junho Lee is a trained architect, Larry Buchanan studied fine arts, and Emily Badger has long written about urban planning.” Apparently NYT has been doing this for a few years.

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MONTREAL – With CEO Michael Rousseau stepping down following a widely-derided public statement made only in English, Air Canada has vowed that their next CEO will mercilessly overcharge travellers in both of Canada’s official languages. In a move intended to put the english language PR disaster behind them, Air Canada is assuring Canadians that the […]

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FLATS, a lens-based art space in Houston, has announced the 4th annual Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine & Book Market, to take place Saturday, April 11, and Sunday, April 12, at Silver Street Studios in the Sawyer Yards creative community.

Among more than 60 vendors announced for the market are Abigail Simpson, with her Houston-based Spike Studio; Blake Leiker, a Houston street photographer; Pamela Powell, a Fort Worth-based photographer; Robinson Lopez, an Austin-based photographer and archivist; and Reyes Ramirez, the current Houston Poet Laureate. Participating organizations include Houston Aura Photography and Houston Camera Exchange.

Jessi Bowman, FLATS Founder and Curator, told Glasstire that this year marks the first time the market will be an official participant in the FotoFest Biennial. Ms. Bowman started Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine & Book Market in 2021 along with Anastasia Kirages, a Zine Fest Houston organizer, and Brenda Franco, a Houston-based photographer and artist. 

According to a press release, the name of Uncle Bob’s market is meant to evoke “that well-meaning, overly enthusiastic relative we all know. He’s not the hired photographer, but he’s always got a camera, a question about your lens, and an unsolicited opinion. He’s scrappy, curious, and persistent — just like the artists we aim to uplift.”

Ms. Bowman said the goal for the market is “about building infrastructure for photographers and [photography] publishers in our region,” prioritizing artists from the Southern U.S. She noted that the event has evolved to incorporate the expanding field of independent photography publishing, particularly “the ongoing conversation of what defines a photo zine versus a self-published photo book.”

“We … aim to create something that not only supports local practices but grows into a destination event and a lasting, community-rooted book fair for the Third Coast,” Ms. Bowman said. 

Admission to Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine & Book Market is free. For more information on open hours and participating vendors, visit the FLATS website.

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In brief: I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. Just a quick post this morning to update our thinking on the potential for storms later today, and what this all means for our weather on Easter Sunday.

Saturday and Saturday night

The Houston area radar should remain largely quiet this morning, but off to our northwest I expect an area of showers and thunderstorms to begin developing in the Brazos Valley. We may see a few scattered showers and thunderstorms in the Houston metro area this afternoon, but I suspect that this larger mass (or possibly line) of storms will not start moving into our region until 4 to 6 pm. The bulk of the storms will then move through between that time and around midnight, or shortly before.

What to expect? There is definitely the potential for some briefly strong thunderstorms, although the overall threat level for damaging winds and hail is not particularly high. I’m not ruling anything out, but I don’t anticipate that most of us will see those conditions. Heavy rain is also possible, but again I expect this to be fairly sporadic rather than widespread. However, if you are out and about this evening in a spot that does get hit, know that we could see some briefly backed up streets.

In terms of accumulations I expect widely varying totals. Some parts of Houston may get 2 inches, and other parts 2 tenths of an inch of rain between now and midnight. The signal for heavy rain is slightly stronger for areas north of I-10, but really anywhere is at risk. I’m hopeful that most of our area gets some much needed rain, but know that parts of Houston and surrounding counties will probably be disappointed.

Easter Sunday

The front will slog its way down to the coast during the overnight hours, and low temperatures should be in the upper 50s for most locations by sunrise on Sunday. Skies will be mostly cloudy and remain so throughout the holiday. If you see a speck of sunshine, count yourselves lucky. (So yes to bunny; no to sunny.) With some lingering moisture higher in the atmosphere, I expect that coastal areas (i.e. south of Interstate 10) could see some additional rain on Sunday. For the most part these rains should be light. Highs on Sunday will likely reach the mid-60s, or perhaps a touch higher. With lows on Sunday night dropping into the upper 50s, Monday night looks to be our coldest night of the week.

I hope everyone has an egg-cellent holiday and we’ll be back on Monday morning with our usual in-depth update.

President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general after growing frustrated with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and what he perceived as her lack of aggressiveness in prosecuting his political opponents. What do you think?

“I thought she was mishandling things perfectly.”

Seamus Flannery, Nutrition Enforcer

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“I wouldn’t want to be unemployed in this attorney general job market.”

Molly Yeats, Circus Accountant

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“Put a man in there and show the ladies what a real sycophant looks like.”

Kenji Harada, Party Invoicer

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In brief: Houston’s best chance at rain remains Saturday, where some parts of the area could see a stronger thunderstorm. Still, it will be a bit of an uneven distribution of rainfall, with some areas likely seeing little rain when all is said and done. Easter looks cool and dreary but overall, not very disruptive.

Pretty much as expected on Wednesday morning, most of the area was void of meaningful rainfall yesterday. So where did it rain? Go north.

From the Brazos Valley to just near Lake Conroe saw anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain, as did a small bullseye south of Lake Livingston and in Sam Houston National Forest. The 2.81″ of rain in College Station was a record for April 2nd and the wettest day of 2026 with the most rain measured there since October 25th of last year. Good news for that area. For us? Frustrating, but that’s how it goes. Are the odds better tomorrow? Let’s discuss.

Today

Today should see clouds, some sun, and a few mostly inconsequential showers around the region. A few places may see up to a half-inch in a steadier downpour but most of us will see minimal rainfall or nothing at all. Highs will be in the mid-80s.

Saturday

The front half of the day will probably much like Thursday and today across most of the area. We cannot rule out some passing showers, but primarily it will be cloudy with some sunny breaks, warm, and humid. A line of thunderstorms should begin developing near College Station in the early afternoon and drop south and east into the Houston area by late afternoon. Some of these storms could be on the stronger side, and the area is highlighted in a marginal risk (1/5) for severe weather tomorrow.

As the storms push toward Houston, we may see the line become a bit more scattered in nature. Areas west of I-45 and north I-10 still stand the best odds of seeing appreciable rainfall on the order of 1″ or more. There are some signs that the boundary may stall near Houston or just south and east. That could allow for some additional rain to fire up through Saturday evening and overnight. Rest assured, we have alerted the Easter Bunny to wipe his paws at the door.

Don’t focus on the exact rainfall totals forecast from the HRRR model below, but you get the sense of how sporadic it may be, with some areas easily seeing 1 to 2 inches, while others see little to no rain at all.

Generally speaking though, we should see the rain trend toward less coverage and intensity from late evening to overnight.

Easter Sunday

With the front stalled out near the coast or just inland, we should see at least some low clouds, drizzle, and rain showers around south and east of Houston. So, if you’ll be attending any sunrise services, you may need a poncho. Some steadier rain is possible on Easter morning south of the region, toward Matagorda Bay or Corpus Christi. Highs on Sunday will be held back due to cooler air and cloud cover and may not get out of the upper 60s in much of the area.

Monday

Clouds or a shower may even remain with us into Monday morning, but we should see brightening skies with highs in the low 70s. Morning lows will be in the 50s.

Tuesday and Wednesday

A generally nice pair of days is setting up for midweek with highs in the mid to upper 70s and some sunshine. We could see a few extra clouds on Wednesday, along with a chance of a shower. But for the most part it looks quiet. Our coolest morning will be Tuesday, with lows in the 40s and 50s.

Later next week

We look to get back to a more active spring pattern later next week with at least the mention of shower or thunderstorm chances each day. As of right now, nothing in particular is standing out, but hopefully we can get some parts of the area a little more rainfall. We shall see.

First of all, I’d like to say that what we’ve suffered here tonight is not a defeat. Definitely not a defeat.

It may look like defeat. It may feel like defeat. It may even smell like defeat… oh, what the heck.

STICK TO HOCKEY, WAYNE.