Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
More photos just in from today’s BWI “Avelo Takedown.” Someone counted at least 120 people at the BWI Overpass, including some of our regular protesters from the two HoCo overpass locations. Thanks for rising to the occasion!🍃
I’m here at BWI Airport to say, “Hey hey, ho ho! Avelo and ICE have got to go!” #AveloOutofBWI
I am one tired but happy Pikachu after the #AveloTakedown at BWI airport overpass this morning! So much joy amongst the protestors and so much solidarity honking from the drivers. Let’s get #AveloOutOfBWI! www.stopavelo.org
Back from the Avelo protest--chants, signs, song, community united against ICE flights. Now let's get the petition to Gov Moore signed by 5,000+ today--almost there: actionnetwork.org/petitions/go... ⭐ #AveloOutOfBWI #AveloShutDown #AveloTakedown #GroundICE #StopAveloNow #SayNoToAvelo
And I got to meet Free DC Mouse!!! Absolutely made my day! ❤️
Free tomorrow? Great! Join us 10 am-noon for an AVELO TAKEDOWN—an overpass protest and dance party complete with Pikachu and bubbles near BWI Airport! Short on time? Drive under the overpass and wave, honk, or surprise us with your favorite sign of support! #StopAvelo #AveloOutOfBWI
The Rev took attendance…
We won't shop at companies that profit off detention. Beginning today, we call on everyone who wants ICE out of our communities to #BoycottAmazon and all of its consumer brands, including #BoycottWholeFoods. Sign the pledge and tell us you're on board: FreeDCproject.org/amazon
END DC MARTIAL LAW! was our message at the Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass today for the afternoon commute. It was PERFECT Pikachu weather! @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social #FreeDC
@douglewin.bsky.social: "One acre of corn for ethanol = 25,000 miles in a Ford F-150. One acre of solar = 700,000 miles in an F-150 Lightning. That’s the scale of possibility Bill McKibben laid out on the Energy Capital Podcast." #alwaysbecharging www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes...
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Avelo Takedown! Sunday Aug 31, 2025 10AM-12PM 📍 7 Amtrak Way, Hanover MD 21076 Fight Avelo Airlines and its ugly $150 million contract to deport w/o due process. ‼️Sign the Petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/go... More info: www.stopavelo.org ⭐ #AveloOutofBWI #AveloShutDown #GroundICE #BWI
I’ve been staring at that ticker for MONTHS wondering when it would make a sizable leap! I hope people wake up and sign the strike card sooner rather than later.
Yesterday, while doing ICEwatch along the U St. corridor, I took photos of all the beautiful restaurants. It was around 5pm on a Sunday. The weather was beautiful. Do you see what’s missing? Some of these restaurants had customers, but it was…sparse.
Re-upping this. Please RT! (or skeetskeet 🤓)
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
Join us Sun, Aug 31, 10-noon for an Avelo Takedown Overpass Protest and Dance Party! Bring banners, flags, and your dancing feet to show Avelo Airlines we want them to stop the deportation flights. Let’s work together to get #AveloOutOfMaryland and #StopAveloNow!
DC is beautiful. #FreeDC
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
Democratic governors and leaders, fight while you can, as hard as you can. Trump and MAGA are going full fascist. They're coming after all of us, including you. You can't make "deals" with fascists. You have to FIGHT them. FIGHT, finally, please.
I just rewatched “Wings of Desire” (dir. Wim Wenders, 1987) and realized that the circus troupe friends and their spontaneity felt very familiar. Then I realized: that’s us—me and my activist comrades. The way we break into song, dance, rib each other, cackle. They are deep, unshakeable bonds.
My genius friends at @standupforscience.bsky.social have a creative way YOU can tell your rep to IMPEACH & REMOVE our QUACK HHS Sec, RFK Jr. For just $3, you can send a Quack-o-gram Rubber Duck to your member of Congress. Click here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
If u are seeking a space where you can reflect individually and with others on your ongoing activism and organizing, feel free to join me on the last Sunday of every month through December on Zoom from 4 to 6 pm ET. The next drop-in session is on Sunday, August 31. www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...
Tarso Ramos joined us this week on the Fascism Barometer! The episode is so rich that we're doing it in two parts and exploring fascist advances, how much time we have to address them, and strategies for our movements. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts and fascismbarometer.org
Trump can't militarize the capital city to distract us from his refusal to release the Epstein file. Today @eleanornorton.bsky.social, @robertgarcia.bsky.social, @vanhollen.senate.gov and I are introducing legislation to end Trump’s hostile and lawless takeover of D.C.’s police force.
SERIOUSLY—meet us at the overpass today. I promise Pikachu will be there to greet you with squishy arms! We can do this. Let’s BE BRAVE TOGETHER!! @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social
If you’ve been watching the occupation of DC and wondered what to do, seriously come join us at the overpass tomorrow. BE BRAVE WITH US as we express defiant joy and dance and wave at cars. We welcome newcomers with open arms. Where: Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass, N. Laurel, MD When: Fri 8/15, 4-6 pm
Now: Union Station in Washington, D.C.
This is everyone’s future if we don’t fight back. #freedc
SOLIDARITY!!!
We will also be on the overpass just north of Gorman Road, Vollmerhausen Road, at the same time. #BeBrave
TO THE OVERPASSES, EVERYONE! Tomorrow across the U.S., folks are gathering at overpasses for Visibility Brigade’s #BeBraveDay ! Local MD folks, be brave and join @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social at our overpass! Where: Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass, N. Laurel, MD When: Fri 8/15, 4-6 pm
Washington DC: Last night (8/14/2025) Federal police get public notice: “Get out of our streets!” Angry DC residents are defying the regime’s attack on freedoms. #Resist
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.
Our Laurel, MD overpass at Gorman Rd/I-95 showing our solidarity with DC yesterday! #FreeDC #VisibilityBrigade
I love this overpass crew. So much defiant joy!
It was a SPICY 🔥🔥🔥 day at the Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass in North Laurel, MD with two pro-DC messages: “Tiny Trump Hands Off DC!” and “End DC Martial Law.” Incredible support and literally hundreds of folks capturing video/photos. @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
👏We reached some 24,000 vehicles yesterday at Gorman and Vollmerhausen Rds over I-95. See you Tues, Aug 12, Gorman Rd, 4-6 pm. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... 📣 Fri, Aug 15, on both Rds, with unified message across country: BE BRAVE WITH US. WE'LL STAND WITH YOU 🍃 #BeBraveDay Visibilitybrigade.com
Play is why I’m often Pikachu (or blowing bubbles) at the overpass. Fascists hate defiant joy so I double down on play and creative acts.
It was another beautiful day of resistance at the Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass for the @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social crew. Tired (but happy) Pikachu is gonna sleep well tonight! @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
So lovely—both the poem and the sketch! ❤️
We ❤️ You Federal Workers! This was our special message at Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass today. From all the honking, waving, and thumbs up, LOTS of folks love federal employees! I hope feds saw today’s message and felt seen and supported. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social
Join @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social at Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass on Friday, Aug 15, 4:15-6:15 pm for a special @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social #BeBraveDay protest! We’d love to have you join us! (And please share this announcement far and wide. The more the merrier!)
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August! Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants. Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science. Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy? (1/4)
CALLING ALL ACTIVISTS! We need you to #BEBRAVEWITHUS against #fascism! On August 15th, The Visibility Brigade is launching the #BeBraveDay on hundreds of overpasses across the country! www.visibilitybrigade.com/bebraveday @maddow.msnbc.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social
Our champion Overpass Resistors had a great turnout at the Gorman & Vollmerhousen overpasses above I-95 on Friday. Great signs, great weather & great reception from the 24,000 cars who saw us! Join us at Gorman again Tuesday! 4-6PM 🔷 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
MOSSEUM. Love it. That’s the only acceptable name for my moss museum!!
After a long time away from my space art and poetry, I’ve finally reconnected with it so anything’s possible! ❤️ Thanks for the lovely idea of collecting into a book. As part of the rekindling, I made a new piece called “Zero G and she feels fine.” I was so pleased with the velvety purple print.
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PIKACHU! Thanks for the lovely post! I’m really happy about the return of Pikachu weather, and hanging out at the overpass in the suit today was awesome.
I am going to create the most amazing Museum of Moss EVER with mossy gardens, moss labs, an exhibit on how mosses can help us battle climate change, touchable live moss walls, boggy ponds of Sphagnum moss you can walk on…etc. All moss all the time.
PIKACHU CAM! The view from the suit is lots of supportive honking, high beams flashed, waves, and thumbs up at Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass today where the big message is STAND UP GET LOUD FIGHT BACK! @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
On Tuesday, drivers started honking support at the Gorman Rd overpass before we had put up a single sign. That’s what these ongoing protests mean to regular I-95 commuters. And you can be part of it, too! Join us tomorrow (Friday) 4:15-6:15 pm as we connect with drivers and support each other.
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social “Good Trouble” day (7/17/25) video collage of overpass protests was released recently. And I was excited to see that our @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass protest was included at the 0:59 mark! m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWD...
Dearest Bluesky buddies: consider this your personal invite from me to you! Join us on the Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass in North Laurel, MD on Fri., Aug 15, 4:15-6:15 pm for #BeBraveDay! @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social
Happy 67th Birthday to NOAA and NWS partner NASA! At NWS, the Space Weather Prediction Center works hand-in-hand with NASA to understand and prepare for space weather events, like solar radiation storms.
I am so jealous of the folks attending the sphagnum mosses seminar at Eagle Hill Institute in Maine this week. I have such fond memories of moss seminars there the last two summers. (The solo drive up the East Coast was a nice adventure, too.) Sadly missing this summer. If you get a chance to, GO.
Great question! You might try connecting with a Delaware chapter (Wilmington or Newark) of Visibility Brigade and seeing if they know a good overpass. Chapters are listed in the Group Directory. www.visibilitybrigade.com
Avelo Airlines is taking money from ICE. ICE pays Avelo Airlines to fly immigrants to concentration camps. Community members gathered on the outskirts of BWI airport, then marched to a nearby overpass to let the world know that, “Avelo Airlines Fuels Fascism.” #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
I’m looking forward to the return of Pikachu season! Anything 80 degrees and under is fine. It’s just way too hot to be in an inflatable suit right now.
I’m here at BWI Airport to demand Avelo Airlines stop assisting ICE with its human trafficking operation. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
I gave an F today. (Seriously, I gave an overpass buddy an F for a protest message today. 😂) #SesameStreetLives #VisibilityBrigade #FIsForFascism
I was out with friends today at BWI/Thurgood Marshall Airport protesting Avelo Airlines and their role in the ICE flights! Lots of supportive honking. #BoycottAvelo #StopICEFlights #AveloAirlinesFuelsFascism #VisibilityBrigade
Avelo Airlines is cashing in on deportations. In April, they took $150M from ICE to run flights that tear families apart. We won’t be silent. 🗓️ July 27, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 📍Amtrak/MARC Station, 7 Amtrak Way, BWI Airport 🚶Walk the BWI (paved) trail to the 195 overpass!
Find your courage in this chaos. If you find yourself alarmed, furious and deeply anxious about the unraveling of our democracy, you are not alone. If ever there was a time to take action and to do things you aren’t used to doing, that time is now. dcmediagroup.us/2025/07/22/f...
💯 Solidarity!!
I'm the wrong person to tell 'that can't happen.' I think anything is possible. You have to build the power to impose your will.
The view from the road! The overwhelming support from drivers for the “FUND NASA NOT ICE” message was very heartening. @nasa-needs-help.bsky.social #SaveNASA @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
So much support—honking, flashed high beams, waving, and thumbs up—for our very large “FUND NASA NOT ICE” message at the Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass today!! We love you, NASA employees! 🪐🚀🌗🌎 #SaveNASA #StandUpForScience @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
Pikachu says SAVE NASA!! Support the dissenters by signing the petition (www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...) or joining a protest or calling your representatives. Their fight is our fight, too!
“What's our ambitious, bold, 50-year plan? What’s the progressive, democratic, humanistic version of Project 2025?” Important piece on where we go from here.
As a present for my 25th anniversary on #SkyatNight, the team made a montage for me, complete with dodgy hair, odd shirt choices and all the rest... Enjoy! 🔭 🛰️ 🧪
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️ NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
My favorite “Good Trouble” interaction from Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass Thurs: the guy who held a hand puppet out his driver window. I wish so much to know what that puppet had to say!! Anyway, love to the puppeteer from the overpass crew. ❤️ @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social
We added a strong message with our new banner—SILENCE GIVES CONSENT—on the Gorman Rd overpass today! Thanks to Brian Dunn, who runs Completely Dunn in Columbia, for the banner! Join our special “Good Trouble” event on Gorman Rd, this Thurs, the 5-yr anniversary of John Lewis’ passing, 3:30-5:30pm.🍃
Bravo to the woman inside the Pikachu costume (on a 90-degree day) and the man sporting a Pikachu hat, part of a Tesla protest in Maryland. WHY PIKACHU? Pikachu has become a symbol of resistance to authoritarianism starting at a protest against Turkey’s Erdoğan. www.youtube.com/shorts/wPp6t...
Join us at the Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass today 4-6 pm!
“It doesn’t have to be this way.” When I feel like I’m falling into a despair trap, I say this out loud. It helps me reject the “this is just the way it is” false narratives the fascists keep peddling. It puts the fire back in my belly. 🔥
"With the risks changing so quickly, it’s no longer enough to look to the past as a guide to the future. We need to prepare for what’s coming, not just what’s happened before." #climatechange #climatecrisis
Traffic backups below but enthusiasm all around 👏 at our overpass event last Fri the 11th! Our next “regular” events: Tues the 15th on Gorman Rd, and Fri the 18th on both Gorman and Vollmerhausen Rds. Plus a special overpass event Thurs the 17th, 3:30-5:30, with signs to reflect “Good Trouble”!🍃
Very excited that my piece “Zero G and she feels fine” (print on paper) sold in the first day of Creative Alliance’s BIG SHOW!
😂 Perfect!
Save the date! We will be hosting a protest in D.C. on the afternoon of July 20th. Check back for more details soon.
Love and solidarity to the Vollmerhausen crew! Pikachu will drop by to say ‘hi’ some Friday soon.
Dear Gorman Rd / I-95 overpass crew, my comrades: you are the antidote to despair, and I admire you all so much. See you again this Tuesday, 4-6 pm at the overpass (and you, dear reader, can join us, too!) #NoICE #VisibilityBrigade @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social
Be like Pikachu. Poké(mon) fun at power. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/the-...
This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.
And the answer is, not long at all! Last Sat., July 5, day after celebrating our nation’s independence, Pikachu joined us at Rockville #TeslaTakedown, resisting tyranny just as American patriots did 1775-1783, only this time we’re using nonviolent tactics--and maybe Pikachu's electrical powers.
An ICE detention center located in Baldwin, Michigan is the largest in the Midwest, with a capacity of 1600. Kalamazoo protesters are here to rage against the Regime today, saying NO to ICE in Baldwin. Way to go Kalamazoo!!
And I you!!! Solidarity!
Me: The wrong people are in power, and there are so many battles to fight, so many people to protect, and so many programs to try to save. It all feels hopeless. Also me: HOIST THE COLORS!
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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For east coast early birds, start spreading the word - presser today @ HOB Rayburn 2pm. Standup for the #EPA139 and all federal workers being silenced & erased by Trump. #AFGE #SaveTheEPA139 #StandUpForScience Resist here www.standupforscience.net/ep.....
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.