Robert Gipe

Bloomberg headline: The real mastermind behind Trump’s imperial presidency. Photo: Russell Vought.

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Behind Trump’s imperial presidency, there’s Russell Vought

Vought is best known for co-authoring the Project 2025 policy playbook. A Trump loyalist, now director of the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), as well as the new acting director of the CFPB.

A Bloomberg deep dive: archive.is/mbgAk
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< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Kickoff in Philadelphia. #handsoff

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

people marching over the riverwalk

thousands of folks marching for #handsoff in downtown san antonio as the final four kicks off about 10 blocks away

Protest video shared with me from Massena, New York, a rural town on the Canadian border of ~12k people. Estimated 250+ in attendance. Amazing.

love a to-the-point sign

I know he means it too, that man would clearly rather be doing anything else than having to protest over basic shit in the rain in his good poncho

#GVerse Huge turnout in Columbus, Ohio! #HandsOff! Rally!

View from a distance of hundreds of people gathered around a park gazebo in the rain.

Closeup of protesters and raincoats with umbrellas. Signs say “Save Our Social Security” and “Our Constitution is not Optional.”

In Binghamton, a small city in upstate New York, it’s a sea of umbrellas. I’d guess 500 people despite the weather, maybe more.

And this is NOT the only #HandsOff rally in this area—others in Owego, Norwich, Ithaca, Syracuse, and Sayre, PA.

Photo of a large crowd with the US Capitol in the background.

Today at the Washington Monument. #HandsOff

Boliva NC hands off rally, way bigger than expected in the middle of nowhere. Lots of newbies, people getting fired up! #HandsUp #BrunswickCounty #trump

I've been to many many protests in Boston but have never seen as many people as #HandsOff2025

New Haven, CT! #HandsOff

360 patriots line the street in Galveston Texas on the GULF OF MEXICO.
#handsoff #revolution2025 #patriots

Two women hold signs and a flag next to the Washington Monument, with people visible in the background. One sign reads “Protest is patriotic.” Another says, Refuseresistrevolt.” And a third has a large red dot with “Send Elon to Mars” superimposed over it.

Vibe check.

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

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Chicago is out in full force today
#handsoff

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

A person holds a sign that reads "Old white guys against Trump"

Lines of people demonstrating at a busy intersection of St. Louis They are yelling Hands Off!

Hundreds of people showed up on a rainy day to demonstrate at a busy shopping center to fight Trump

A sign with a rainbow hydra, resist fascism it reads

Fuck the monsoons, St. Louis is turning out for #HandsOff.

So proud of American Resisters today!

#Handsoff

Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine

We have the momentum

Anti-Trump/Musk protest in Newark, Delaware (pop. 35,000). This is not a very political town. Might be the biggest protest I’ve seen in my six years here.

Organizers are telling people at Madison Square Park that “this is the end of the March! Keep it moving,” noting there are “thousands and thousands of people behind you” marching south down down 5th Avenue. Sort of a carnival vibe here, with a few groups tabling and using megaphones and speakers.

A photo of a large protest in Chicago. Hundreds of people in the street are holding signs. A large banner at the front reads "rise up fight back"

Front of the #handsoff march in the Chicago Loop

Small towns all over the country depend on federal services — which is why they're pouring into the streets today to say #HandsOff!

Here is Ames, Iowa 👀

Philly Hands Off @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Show me your pictures!

SUMMERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA !

Hundreds of folks out here to say #HandsOff !