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Joey Skaggs interviewed by Mark Borkowski about creative dissent on BBC Radio 4

OUTRAGE INC, an audio documentary by Mark Borkowski, aired on BBC Radio 4, August 23, 2025:

“From Suffragette arsonists to soup on sunflowers – why the stunt still matters.

Legendary publicist Mark Borkowski takes a no-prisoners look at the history of the protest stunt – the noisy, theatrical interventions that have rattled the establishment for over a century.

With fascinating examples from the BBC archive and interviews with Led By Donkeys, The Centre for Political Beauty, Joey Skaggs, The Yes Men, veteran activist Jamie Kelsey Fry and Clare Farrell from XR.”

“We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore”, Mark Borkowski, The Guardian, 20 Aug 2025.

Listen to the full documentary on BBC Radio 4 (only available in the UK). For others, the interview is above.

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Is it a Bird, Is it a Plane, No! It’s Gavin Newsom to the Rescue

Maggie Reed, @mermaidmamamags, asks: Are We Doing This Right MAGA? And Adam Wren of Politico, ‘splains how Gavin Newsom is the new Trump troll.

Click this link to play the video:

“How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media,” by Adam Wren, Politico, August 20, 2025.

With an inescapable, smashmouth, all-caps-laden and meme-filled X account, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding a mirror up to MAGA — and MAGA doesn’t like what it sees.

There’s Newsom on Mount Rushmore. There’s Newsom getting prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and an angelic, winged Hulk Hogan. There’s Newsom posting in all caps, saying his mid-cycle redistricting proposal has led “MANY” people to call him “GAVIN CHRISTOPHER ‘COLUMBUS’ NEWSOM (BECAUSE OF THE MAPS!). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

If this genre of social media post provokes deja vu, there’s a good reason for that.

Read the whole article here.

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Signs Up! Trump’s Military Parade Revisited, 2025

Join us! Everyone is welcome, June 14, 2025.

The parade will kick-off at 1:00 pm in front of Trump Tower. Dress up in your favorite (and funniest) military garb. Bring your war toys and signs (or you can print ours). And, be prepared to march in place. It’s going to be a blast!

Trump Tower
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 1:00 pm
721 5th Ave (between 56th and 57th St)
New York, New York 10022

Click this link to download some masks.

Here’s a video of signs you can print.

Just visit this page, scroll down and choose the signs you’d like to print. You’ll also find some masks and a link to a Presidential Pardon if you think you’ll need it.

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Trump’s Military Parade Revisited, 2025

Wish President Trump a Happy Birthday and
Participate in his Military Parade!

Join us at Trump Tower on Saturday June 14th at 1:00pm.
Dress the part. Its gonna be a blast!

Click on image to play video:


Watch the video on Vimeo

Trump’s Military Parade
Trump Tower
June 14, 2025, 1:00 pm
57th St. & 5th Ave.
New York City

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A Sign of the Times

The writing’s on the wall and the bus stop…

The Street Artist Behind the Viral “Anti-Elon Musk” Ads, by Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic, February 24, 2025

Winston Tseng’s satirical ad falsely attributed to USAID at a bike dock in Washington, DC, elicited frenzied responses from Republican Senator Thom Tillis.

Street artist Winston Tseng was behind an anti-Elon Musk ad that led to a viral frenzy when it was installed in various sidewalk ad spaces within a mile of the White House two weeks ago. The ad, satirically attributed to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), read “Help Eliminate Elon” and featured a large red X crossing over an illustration of Musk doing the Nazi salute.

“In the spirit of transparency, I should disclose that USAID paid me $69M (in condoms) for this ad,” Tseng said in an email to Hyperallergic, riffing on Musk’s misunderstanding of the US’s provisions for international HIV prevention and treatment.

Read more here.

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