Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Second rate reporter says what?

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

This really is a full service blog.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Let there be snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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Hands Off! Worldwide Protests

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Today is the date of the Hands Off! Protests,  another day of action against the Trump administration. As of yesterday, there were 1,200 planned demonstrations with upwards of 600,000 people expected, per Indivisible.

Hands Off! Worldwide Protests

Not all of these actions are taking place in the US – there was a demonstration down in London’s Trafalgar Square, for instance (which I was not able to get to), and I’ve seen photos from demonstrations in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Lisbon, too.

Here are some Bluesky posts I’ve seen from attendees today. We’ll start with the big ones. Boston showed up big time:

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

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— Dylan Lion (@lionshue.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM

New York City:

#HANDSOFF #indivisiblebrooklyn
what a crowd on 5th Ave!

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— Randy G (@randygdata.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Checking In With the Protests

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I still have a bunch of photos to sort through, but here are the reports and/or photos from readers / commenters who attended the protests yesterday.

Commenter TBone:

Checking In With the Protests
Lewisberg, PA 2/17/2025 – by TBone

Hi MM, hubby is not the best photographer and it was so cold that his fingers went numb right away, forcing him back to the vehicle to heat them just when the biggest crowds arrived, much to my dismay. I was too excited after that to remember to cross the street to get an entire crowd shot.  The organizer and other random people who spoke up on the soapbox were compelling and I was paying attention to them!  I got one sentence in, shouted from said soapbox:  “WE ARE DONE ARGUING WITH NAZIS!”

I saw people from my new church as well as meeting new fellow citizens (I yelled out “Greetings, Fellow Citizens!” several times and got peoples’ delighted responses).  I am signed up to.participate in all future actions as well.
Some photos attached but I wish I had better “crowd size” shots because the protest was very well attended!  These photos do not capture the large crowd size at all. But traffic driving by was also delighted to see us all with our signs, honking and shouting frequent encouragement.  There was one single naysayer, a passerby who was quickly ignored.  She loves Elno and I hope she gets the wrong end of DOGE, the hard way!
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Orlando Fl – 2/17/2025 by Reader J
I am a lurker on the site who prefers to remain anonymous and so generally does not engage except for reading the site multiple times a day. However, I wanted to share some photos from the protests on 2/17 at the City Hall in Downtown Orlando, FL which I attended with my wife and a friend.
I am bad at estimating crowds but I would guess the number in few hundreds, maybe as many as a thousand. The protest started at 12 PM. It was still ongoing when we left an hour later to catch the train back.
There were multiple speakers, representative of various groups and communities threatened by the unconstitutional and lawless actions of this administration. These included – multiple transgender women including a military combat veteran, another male veteran, a Native American leader, a self-described white woman who said she survived a life-threatening miscarriage in 2014 only because Roe v Wade was the law of the land and thus allowed her to get the required care.
There were people from all age groups including some school age kids and many young adults. There were many really creative signs, most hand made, that covered many different aspects of the flight we are forced to fight. Unfortunately I could not take pictures of all the signs I liked but managed to get a few that were close to where I was standing. I am not able to attach all the photos to this email due to size limitations. I am sending a second email with just additional pictures attached.
Here are a couple more pics without write-ups:
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Seattle Protest 2/17/2025 – Reader E
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Protest at Rocky Mountain National Park 2/17/2025 – Facebook

The last sign is via Comrade Scott who linked me to Facebook photos of the protest at Rocky Mountain National Park.  Next year’s national park season is going to be a total disaster with the layoffs that are happening now.

I really appreciate everyone who took the time and effort to write in, and I’ll be cropping out protest signs for our ongoing series over here >>>>>>>>> on the bottom right.

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Denver 50-50-1 Protest Report

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Denver 50-50-1 Protest Feb 5, 2025

The protest was well attended – the front lawn and steps of the Colorado State Capitol were pretty full, plus the street in front was filled when the protesters who were walking around the block in front of the Capitol paraded there.

There were a hell of a lot of young hispanic folks there, some of them looked to be high school age. There were more Mexican flags than US flags. That crowd was mainly near the street and on the first flight of stairs in front of the Capitol. The second group higher up the steps had more anti-Musk signs and was older and whiter.

I met up with Comrade Scott and long-time lurker Steve on the front steps — good to see some of you there. I’m sure there were others I missed since it was a big crowd.

(Imgur used to let me embed a slideshow but I guess you need to click on the image to see the rest.)

Edit: One thing to note about the police — there weren’t many. Just motorcycle cops stopping traffic and a few others blocking traffic with their cars. I don’t know if this was the intention of the organizers, but there are a lot of protests at state capitols, so picking those as a location was smart, because the cops there are used to seeing protests and are probably less likely to freak out about people peacefully assembling than the average police officer.

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50-50-1

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Today is the day for the 50-50-1 protests.  This site has a list of all the planned protests.

Earlier today, Adam re-tweeted this post from the Kennebec County (Maine) Democrats who said they believe that today’s event was infiltrated by bad actors.  Others commenting on the post have said it’s back on.  This is going to be the first of many actions.  Make your own decisions about your safety, but keep all of the following in mind if you do go:

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I’ll be at the Denver protest.  Stay safe out there!

Also, here are Adam’s protest guidelines.

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