You probably all know that Cliff and I were married in Norway, I have Norwegian relatives, etc.  (Now I really wish that we’d tried to move there back when we likely could have.)  Anyway.  Before then it had not really sunk in how much of Norway was taken over by the Germans in WWII – and how underhandedly they had resisted.  My late cousin’s husband was killed in that war.

I loved the story of the red knit stocking caps – which became a national sign of resistance to the Nazis.  In Norway, of course, it’s not a bit odd to see a red stocking cap most all year (so, kind of hard for the Germans to forbid them…).  The hats were incorporated into everything, inc. cartoon characters wearing them.

I don’t think the pussy hats are going to be recycled, but I understand that a number of the federal employees who received Musk’s “Fork in the Road” e-mail have settled on the symbol of a spoon to indicate their resistance.  Here’s mine in support (altho’ I have not been a federal employee since I was, like, 22…)

Use it if you want 🙂

from Carol: Here’s Rachel Maddow on Facebook about this.