Megan Piontkowski illustration
@meganpiont.bsky.social
Illustrator, urban gardener, maker of zines
Zines: https://linktr.ee/meganpiontkowski
Member of @illustratorsforhire
http://meganpiontkowski-illustration.com
Zines: https://linktr.ee/meganpiontkowski
Member of @illustratorsforhire
http://meganpiontkowski-illustration.com
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70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Just pre-ordered and you should too!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just pre-ordered and you should too!
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Print is back and that's a fact.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Print is back and that's a fact.
Hire the Hot Rat Summer artist!!
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hire the Hot Rat Summer artist!!
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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A swell time will be had by all! RSVP here for the @comixaction.com event at Chinatown Soup on 12/12!
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December 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A swell time will be had by all! RSVP here for the @comixaction.com event at Chinatown Soup on 12/12!
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
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it's only imperialism if it comes from the imperial capital of the United States, Washington DC, otherwise, it's sparkling did not happen what are you talking about i don't remember reading about that
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
it's only imperialism if it comes from the imperial capital of the United States, Washington DC, otherwise, it's sparkling did not happen what are you talking about i don't remember reading about that
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We’ve reached the point in this crisis where comrades from out of state are shipping us packages of thousands of whistles to distribute.
Know that when we win here- we’ll return that favor for the next city. Just as Chicago has taught us.
We are all in this together.
Know that when we win here- we’ll return that favor for the next city. Just as Chicago has taught us.
We are all in this together.
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We’ve reached the point in this crisis where comrades from out of state are shipping us packages of thousands of whistles to distribute.
Know that when we win here- we’ll return that favor for the next city. Just as Chicago has taught us.
We are all in this together.
Know that when we win here- we’ll return that favor for the next city. Just as Chicago has taught us.
We are all in this together.
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“Tax lawyers and accountants said that an audit was almost guaranteed for any former New Yorker who made more than $1 million in a year in which they claim to have moved. At $10 million, the odds are 100 percent, they said.”
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“Tax lawyers and accountants said that an audit was almost guaranteed for any former New Yorker who made more than $1 million in a year in which they claim to have moved. At $10 million, the odds are 100 percent, they said.”
Arepas, zine folding, whistle card assembly and good company tonight! ❤️
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Arepas, zine folding, whistle card assembly and good company tonight! ❤️
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It's here. Applications are now open for exhibitors, workshops and volunteers for the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair taking place on 5/9/26. Applications are accepted until Feb 9. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's here. Applications are now open for exhibitors, workshops and volunteers for the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair taking place on 5/9/26. Applications are accepted until Feb 9. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you are nice and you are not an actual AD, but you have hired me to make an illustration, I'll send you scans of the pencil drawings before I ink! No surprises!
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If you are nice and you are not an actual AD, but you have hired me to make an illustration, I'll send you scans of the pencil drawings before I ink! No surprises!
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Periodic reminder that @librariesftp.bsky.social is interested in your stories of taking action in support of your local public library systems. Let us know what you are up to and we'd love to feature your stories in our newsletter.
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Periodic reminder that @librariesftp.bsky.social is interested in your stories of taking action in support of your local public library systems. Let us know what you are up to and we'd love to feature your stories in our newsletter.
Yup:
Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yup:
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A chilly night but lots of honks
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A chilly night but lots of honks
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That arc toward justice won't bend itself
January 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
That arc toward justice won't bend itself
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JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
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If anyone in the cities (or MN in general) wants whistles to use for I C E alerts, message me. Chicago has been through this crap already, and we want to help y'all out. 🖤 (I have SO MANY whistles)
Why the hell do they keep complaining about Minnesota and saying horrible things about our governor and our Somali friends?
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
We’re freakin’ Minnesota.
Everyone else should think about us once or twice a year, tops.
Leave us alone.
We have a quarterback situation to worry about.
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If anyone in the cities (or MN in general) wants whistles to use for I C E alerts, message me. Chicago has been through this crap already, and we want to help y'all out. 🖤 (I have SO MANY whistles)
You can find all the 75+ "How to Report ICE" zines (English & Spanish versions) in the link in my bio.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You can find all the 75+ "How to Report ICE" zines (English & Spanish versions) in the link in my bio.
So all these super famous people schilling for everything from bottled water to @mazon, is this a recession indicator or is it just that there is no shame for being super famous and in an ad for cell phones?
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So all these super famous people schilling for everything from bottled water to @mazon, is this a recession indicator or is it just that there is no shame for being super famous and in an ad for cell phones?
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Yes 👇
I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yes 👇
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Good morning, NYC. Please join us in doing this.
Have you called your city council member this week to tell them that library funding is a non negotiable priority?
Find your council member and use our script:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
Already called?? Let us know how it went with our quick survey!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Find your council member and use our script:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
Already called?? Let us know how it went with our quick survey!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Good morning, NYC. Please join us in doing this.
OMG, yes.
Scientists if you’re like “man I wish more people knew about X” then I humbly suggest hiring an artist to make a thing that communicates X and then put it into the world because it’s so fun, extremely “hell yeah” inducing, you gotta try it.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
OMG, yes.
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.