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#handsoff

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Spocko

Why must #DOGE keep it's #HandsOff Federal computer systems now?

Because when #DOGE CODE kills, there'll be no CRIMINAL accountability for the deaths.

There has to be proof of INTENTIONAL reckless acts in defiance of a law.
It isn't a crime to ignore best practices & experts. The #DOJ won't bring charges against anyone.

Maybe the families of the dead can bring a civil case, but against who? #ElonMusk? DOGE boys? #PeterThiel? Project 2025?

Who pays? It's a moral moment, not a monetary one.

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Janis

@Infrogmation I've filled my phone memory with cops pulling over people of color four times in the last four years. None of them were shorter than ten minutes. (Keep your device clean.) I also have an old camera within reach in my car if I run short.

Just FYI, the White House Press Secretary actually said, "Boys will be boys," today.

Yeah, #HandsOff. This is how we keep saying no.

simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.

Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Simply PsychologyKohlberg's Stages of Moral DevelopmentLawrence Kohlberg formulated a theory asserting that individuals progress through six distinct stages of moral reasoning from infancy to adulthood. According to Kohlberg, these stages are grouped into three separate levels known as preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality.
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Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!

Cliff Cash comedy organized a huge protest and die-in at the Heritage Foundation in #DC and DC rose to the occasion!

#handsoff #project2025 #protests

instagram.com/p/DIK-x4EANxl/

InstagramClifton Freeman Cash on Instagram: "4/5 HERITAGE FOUNDATION PROTEST. Just want to give props to these people. I hated to be 1,000 miles away. I just can’t be at every event but it made me really proud to get these pictures and know that you all made sure you were seen. What an awesome protest. We will continue to apply maximum pressure on the heritage foundation. We will not let up. We will not go away. They will feel the water rising #wearetheflood"662 likes, 15 comments - cliffcashcomedy on April 7, 2025: "4/5 HERITAGE FOUNDATION PROTEST. Just want to give props to these people. I hated to be 1,000 miles away. I just can’t be at every event but it made me really proud to get these pictures and know that you all made sure you were seen. What an awesome protest. We will continue to apply maximum pressure on the heritage foundation. We will not let up. We will not go away. They will feel the water rising #wearetheflood".
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DoomsdaysCW

#MassiveProtests Against #Trump are Just The Beginning

A co-founder of #Indivisible lays out a vision for harnessing millions of protesters into an unstoppable pro-democracy movement

by Tim Dickerson, April 8, 2025

Excerpts: "The demonstrations were organized by a broad coalition — including groups that rose to prominence in the first Trump administration, like Indivisible, upstarts like the #50501Movement, as well as established grassroots groups like #MoveOn. The upswell of resistance surprised even seasoned organizers. Indivisible cofounder #EzraLevin texted Rolling Stone on Friday to predict 'one of the largest single-day protests in years' adding that the public response was “kind of shocking."

[...]

"This was a Big Tent — everybody from like #DSA to #MattYglesias and #NeverTrump Republicans were endorsing it. I had briefly gotten excited about calling this the 'Normal March.'

"Like the wacko, MAGA, right-wing crazies are not gonna be part of this. But if you’re a normal person, you would want to take part. Because obviously you oppose #Project2025, you oppose #DOGE and the richest man in the world coming after your #SocialSecurity.

"But I’m happy we went with '#HandsOff.' It served as a good rallying cry, because we all come to this for different reasons. Maybe we’re concerned about the #tariffs, maybe we’re concerned about #TransKids in our community being targeted, or the #immigrants being disappeared, or maybe we’re concerned about Social Security. We’ve all got something to fight back on."

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
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#Resistance #Resist #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistFascism #BadDOGE

A large balloon with an image of President Donald Trump above protesters during the nationwide "Hands Off" protests against Trump and Elon Musk in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2025. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · Massive Protests Against Trump Are Just the BeginningBy Tim Dickinson
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William

“…the “#HandsOff protests that spread across the country this weekend offered a corrective, a sign that the depravity of the Trump agenda and the breadth of the injuries it is inflicting have roused a weary cohort of American liberals from their defeatist malaise. What emerged was a broad left-liberal coalition, with a slew of different priorities, united in opposition to what they see as an anti-constitutional assault on basic rights, civil society and human dignity.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Saturday’s Trump protests weren’t perfect. But they brought a glimmer of hopeBy Moira Donegan
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Theresa told the BBC that she was there because "we're losing our democratic rights"...

Asked if she thought Trump was receiving the protesters' message, she said: "Well, let's see. [Trump has] been golfing just about every day."

#Trump held no public events on Saturday, and spent the day golfing at a resort he owns in #Florida. He was scheduled to play #golf again on Sunday."
bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg1

In Washington, protesters lampooned Trump's move to tariff a penguin-inhabited Australian island. Protestors hold up stuffed penguins holding signs that say, "No Tariffs", "Resist!", and "Hands off!"
Protesters also gathered in Houston, Texas. Protestors surround a pool.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, protesters railed against Trump and flew an upside down American flag, a distress message that has become a symbol of protest.
#Resist#Resistance#HandsOff
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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

Another photo from the Los Angeles #HandsOff demonstration that didn't get enough love on social media following April 2025.
Large balloon of Corporal Bone Spurs rises above the crowd that turned out for the Saturday protest.
rollingstone.com/politics/poli
#HandOff #Indivisible #USPolitics #BoneSpurs #Protests #Demonstration #AntiTrump #TuckersBalls

Large balloon of Corporal Bone Spurs rises above the crowd that turned out for the Saturday protest in Los Angeles, California, April 5, 2025. Borrowed from Rolling Stone Magazine. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-protests-democracy-hands-off-indivisible-1235312482/
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