Last Call – DemocracyICED
We make art for social change, installing temporary public sculptures to mark important historical events. Today, our democracy is melting.

meltedaway.com
Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social
Setting up, see you at NOON!

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"Frame from a video of the ICE goons tear gassing a whole block near 105th St and Ave N.

It shows 2 people pulling a baby in a carseat from a car and running away from the area...

...left you can see someone ducking as another tear gas canister is launched over their head.

Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

🚨Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. Weds noon
MeltedAway.com
In view of the U.S. Capitol, we’re raising a literal ton of ice in a one-word melting poem. The sculpture transforms the abstract concept of “democracy” into a visceral loss Live and livestreaming

Have you watched Criminal, directed by Robe Imbriano: an animated musical documentary about the cash bail system in Houston’s Harris County Jail and what happens to poor people in jail before they’ve had a trial.

via @newyorker.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALr...

And if you DO want to go, boy do I have a video for you!
IFAK coming soon. ASMR: what’s in my protest bag.

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Fact.

I didn’t want to run the President’s Physical Fitness mile in high school, so I ran it with a lit cigarette singing Eagles songs with my Catholic school cohort.
I wasn’t actually a smoker but I didn’t like Reagan or mandatory physical fitness.

This photo 😍 that’s a Fresca!

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

16 reasons why we need a #FreeBenAndJerrys

Again and again Unilever/Magnum have blocked Ben & Jerry's social mission - on Gaza? Silenced. Student protests? Silenced. Trump? DEI? You know where this is going...

yes, us! here you go:

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

The short film, CRIMINAL, asks, are they too poor to be presumed innocent? The animation is by the amazing Thomas Curtis, and music and lyrics are by The Negro Problem's Stew and Heidi Rodewald, the team that created Broadway’s Passing Strange.
via @newyorker.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALr...

Sad news. R.I.P.

Listen up, Chicagoans. He thinks this is ok.

NPR's veteran defense reporter Tom Bowman: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon Pass

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Last Call - DemocracyICED
October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C.
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A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

Public health was already under assault – and the current shutdown accelerates the destruction of our health defenses that began ten months ago.

In my new piece, I share why this affects us all and what we can do about it.

Partisan shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt reut.rs/4nY0dSY

🤦🏻 UPDATE/NYT: The Trump administration on Saturday raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

A 77 year old man sent a postcard to Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia that simply read: “You lack values.”

Police showed up at his door.

This is not only a first amendment violation but a clear sign of how fast the fascists are moving to censorship and constant monitoring.