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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Apr 5

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · Apr 5

#GVerse Huge turnout in the tiny town of Brandon, Vermont #HandsOff!

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lorainkc.bsky.social @lorainkc.bsky.social · Apr 5

#handsoff
Topeka KS

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · Apr 5

At the #HandsOff protest at Bryant Park in NYC. There are too many people to count… and also bagpipes.

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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · Apr 5

So proud of American Resisters today!

#Handsoff

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Apr 5

Kickoff in Philadelphia. #handsoff

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Apr 5

Gigantic crowd in NYC for the #HandsOff march against Trump, Musk, and MAGA. So many people that the participants can barely move along. Signs decrying Trump and Co. on many fronts: immigration, science, Social Security, reproductive rights, tariffs, autocracy, kleptocracy & the price of eggs.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Mar 30

@repstansbury.bsky.social Loved your skewering of Rep. Comer and his “give all Congressional power to Trump” bill.

Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Mar 14

What a craven act by you, Senator Schumer. You are very publicly bending the knee and making Trump’s wrecking machine move faster.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Feb 3

Hey all, we've gotten a *lot* of tips since this post. Keep 'em coming.

The deep-dive investigations we tend to do will often take longer to source, report, corroborate, fact-check and publish, but our reporters are hard at work following up on leads you’ve sent.

Thanks for your trust in us.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jan 25

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.

If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

Do You Work for the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Feb 3

A poem for the times.

The Time of the Wasps

Now is not the time for your usual life.
Within our hive
the wasps have already launched
their swift assault,
overwhelming our guards,
killing the workers,
turning their avid eyes
on our pooled, collective honey.

They come for our eggs, too.

We have expected the assault—
they are wasps, after all—
but not the shape of that assault,
and that could well be
our undoing
if we pretend that
now is the time for our usual life.

Now is the time to shower love
on those who wield the pen;
the poets, the comics,
the resolute reporters,
yes,
but also on those who build palisades and pitfalls from
statutes and precedents,
who slow the charge
of the lawless now empowered.

Now is not the time for your usual life.
Use normality as a ruse, silence as a shield,
but not as a path.
Hold close your joy and love and frolicsomeness—
the you that longs for your usual life—
while in safe places you share rumblings and connections
and lay smart plans
to make a swarming cacophony in unsafe spaces.

Now is the time of the wasps
who bring their billions to crush our millions.
But they are few.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Feb 3

Thanks for sharing it, Helen.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Feb 2

Protests and protest organizing is being censored or suppressed in the US. The people who are supposedly anti-Trump but complain or denigrate anyone talking about protests are also helping the regime secure its grip. Now more than ever protests are needed to create solidarity & resistance networks.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 2

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.

But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Helen Prejean, CSJ @sisterhelen.org · Jan 25

I love the latest edition of the Graphic Dead Man Walking newsletter. I hope you've subscribed - I read it each weekend.

Bishop Mariann Budde is an affront

May we all be like her

graphicdeadmanwalking.substack.com

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Jan 12

Including 949 prison inmate firefighters.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Jan 11

Two Aussies walked into a Louisiana prison...
graphicdeadmanwalking.substack.com/p/two-books-...

Two books for 2025

Add them to your criminal justice reading list!

graphicdeadmanwalking.substack.com

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Jan 8

I am hugely enjoying Sarah Perry's new novel Enlightenment, but something in it prompts me, in this year of quantum, to write a little thread on how to think about the quantum double-slit experiment. Let's say it's done with electrons, giving interference fringes in the detected distribution... 1/n

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Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social · Dec 22

Need new graphic novels in your class or library to start the new year? Check out the Penguin Graphic catalog!
📚💙 penguinschoollibrary.com/GraphicNovel...

Cover for Penguin Graphic Novel catalog showing art in panels from various graphic novels and the Penguin Graphics colophon.

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Helen Prejean, CSJ @sisterhelen.org · Dec 23

Biden has commuted almost all federal death row. This is indeed a good day to do the Lord's work. I'm thankful to so many religious leaders and justice advocates who helped make this possible. I pray for victims' families, knowing that wishing for death is not a healing course.

Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions (Gift Article)

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.

www.nytimes.com

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Dec 23

So many of us have been working for this for so long.

FACT SHEET: President Biden Commutes the Sentences of 37 Individuals on Death Row | The White House

Today, President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row. Those individuals will have their sentences

www.whitehouse.gov

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Clara 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · Nov 20

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · Dec 22

I write a weekly Substack about the forthcoming graphic version of Sister Helen Prejean’s (@sisterhelen.org) Dead Man Walking. It ranges across writing, adaptation, the arts, and criminal justice. Latest issue is about blurbs. open.substack.com/pub/graphicd...

The back of the book

Entering the realm of the dreaded blurbs.

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