Art of Protest Johnny Blue Skies Names the Whole Arrangement on Ain't That A Bitch consequence.netSturgill Simpson has spent a decade refusing to be country music's anything, and on Ain't That A Bitch, sitting deep in the Johnny Blue Skies record Mutiny After Midnight, he stops being coy about the… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Batavia Turns Out Against the AI Campus 13wham.comKen Sauer's photo for 13WHAM caught Genesee County turning out against the data center proposed for Batavia, one of well over a hundred such standoffs nationwide this summer. See Ken Sauer's photo at … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Vince Staples Put the Camera Behind the Gun on Blackberry Marmalade stereogum.comVince Staples cut Blackberry Marmalade loose back in April, his first solo release on his own after 2024's Dark Times on Def Jam, and the Long Beach rapper spends it riding a bassline that sits closer… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
dailyrecordnews.comArt of Protest National Guard Passes the Lincoln Memorial Before the 63rd March on WashingtonJulia Demaree Nikhinson's AP frame of Guard troops passing the Lincoln Memorial moved on the wire same day, syndicated across the country as thousands gathered for the 63rd-anniversary March on Washin… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
npr.orgArt of Protest Los Jornaleros del Norte Parked the Flatbed at the Detention Center WallLos Jornaleros del Norte have been the house band of the anti-ICE fight in Los Angeles since federal agents started running raids across the city last June, and they play it off the back of a flatbed … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
minnpost.comArt of Protest Steve Sack draws the crackdown a judge just called Orwellian minnpost.comSteve Sack draws the wider immigration crackdown this week, Stephen Miller and ICE agents doing the enforcing while Trump signs off from behind. The timing is sharp: a federal judge just struck down M… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Ann Telnaes draws the beaver's answer to Lake America anntelnaes.substack.comTrump floated renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" this week, the latest escalation in his trade war with Canada after talks with Carney collapsed and Washington slapped 50 percent tariffs on twenty b… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest The Parents Outside the Meta Trial, Oakland wsls.comNoah Berger shot it for the Associated Press outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, the day the multistate case over Meta and youth self-harm opened in Oakland. The wire moved it that afterno… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
jensorensen.comArt of Protest Jen Sorensen Draws the Truck Built to Hit You at Chest Height jensorensen.comJen Sorensen turns her pen on truck bloat this week, and she draws a clean line between actual work trucks and what she calls the posh consumer rigs that haul air ninety-nine percent of the time. The … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido - the other print in the Rebel Loon Archive therebelloonarchive.comA linocut by La Gata Fea, one of the pieces anchoring the Rebel Loon Archive's 550-artist book of Operation Metro Surge protest art out of Minneapolis-St. Paul. MPR News and KARE 11 gave the archive's… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest You cannot afford a house, so the silver lining is the climate will only wreck a rental drewsheneman.substack.comDrew Sheneman draws a couple walking their dog under two trees, captioned that the affordability crisis made buying a house impossible, so when the climate crisis destroys the place at least it will o… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Mike Lindell lost the primary Trump endorsed him for, and now he refuses to believe it claytoonz.comMike Lindell lost the Minnesota GOP governor primary to Lisa DeMuth and still will not concede. Clay Jones draws him sobbing in bed clutching an orange MyPillow while Trump, the man who endorsed him, … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
claytoonz.comArt of Protest Half the press pool waited by the wrong plane while the president snuck out in a catering truck claytoonz.comClay Jones draws the red carpet at last weeks NATO summit stretching out to a food-service cart going ZZZZ with flies buzzing over it, staff and press stranded at the empty end while the actual presid… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Trump's approval rating just lost to puppies and data centers drewsheneman.substack.comDrew Sheneman put Trump's approval number on the same bar chart as puppies and data centers, and it came in dead last, which tracks with the fresh second-term approval low Forbes reported yesterday. S… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Mni Sota Knows How to Handle ICE artyouheart.comJearica Fountain painted this for the Rebel Loon Archive, the hardcover catalogue of Operation Metro Surge protest art that Minnesota Public Radio and KARE 11 both profiled this week. Erica Helander s… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest The Fence at Delaney Hall, One Ribbon at a Time cnn.comRyan Murphy shot this for Reuters outside Newark's Delaney Hall days after detainee Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died in ICE custody there, and CNN put it in its own weekly photo roundup as New Jersey opens a … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest KAL drew the attorney general trampling Epstein survivors, and a judge just threatened him with contempt over the files kaltoons.substack.comKevin "KAL" Kallaugher's watercolor stampede of GOP elephants over Epstein survivors landed the week Todd Blanche took over the Justice Department, and now a federal judge has warned Blanche's own law… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest A father and his daughter, painted onto Alfred Street: the Biddeford mural for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero wgme.comRyan Adams, his wife Rachel Gloria Adams, and Erica Sedler painted this mural on Alfred Street in downtown Biddeford, Maine. It honors Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero and his daughter, painted onto the… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest A Mariachi Funeral Song Outside Susan Collins' Office A file of National Guard silhouettes marches past the Lincoln Memorial colonnade while a red crowd of marchers gathers with signs Channa Steinmetz photographed the mariachi band outside Senator Susan Collins' Biddeford office on Tuesday, playing a funeral song for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero and everyone else lost to ICE cust… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Kalyn Heffernan and Jello Biafra hold the weapons budget up next to the housing budget wheelchairsportscamp.bandcamp.comWheelchair Sports Camp open their new record with the question Denver rapper Kalyn Rose Heffernan has been putting to city councils and senators for a decade: how is there always money for weapons and… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Sorensen found the one thing worth being jealous of: an island with no billionaires and no data centers jensorensen.comJen Sorensen found the one thing actually worth envying, and it is not the yacht or the 15,000 square foot house: it is an island with no billionaires on it and no Meta-scale data center parked next t… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
timesfreepress.comArt of Protest Grassley carried the Blanche nomination out of committee at arm's length with his nose pinched timesfreepress.comTodd Blanche took the oath of office Monday in the Oval Office, administered by Judge Emil Bove, who not long ago sat at the same defense table representing the same client. Clay Bennett drew the step… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
lataco.comArt of Protest How to Report ICE: the hand-lettered pocket zine that folded its way into 33 states lataco.comMegan Piontkowski hand-letters an eight-page rapid-response zine, How to Report ICE , and gives it away free in editions cut for 33 states and the District of Columbia. Her own post of the downloads c… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest Bill Day gave the new attorney general a muzzle and a red leashTodd Blanche took the attorney general job on a 50-49 vote at 4:31 in the morning, and Bill Day answered it with one groomed poodle, a muzzle, and a leash labeled TRUMP. See the cartoon by Bill Day at… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Art of Protest A wind turbine does the math on 1.2 billion dollars of not wind power wtfacomic.comSpotted off the port bow: the administration paid RWE $1.22 billion to walk away from offshore wind leases off New York, California and Louisiana, and Chris Rywalt let the turbines do the arithmetic t… Upvotes: 1Downvote Comments: 0Share