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In the era of Trump 2.0, acts of defiance, big and small, have gotten creative

Kase Wickman

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Denied the option to vote remotely or by proxy during parental leave, Colorado representative Brittany Pettersen treks DC to vote against a GOP budget plan—bringing her four-week-old son onto the House floor to do so.

Screens in the Department of Housing and Urban Development offices are hacked to show an Al-generated video depicting Trump licking E on Musk's toes.

Meta employees restock men's bathrooms with tampons after Mark Zuckerberg removes sanitary products as part of sweeping DE cuts.

Emphasizing legislative double standards against women, Mississippi state senator Bradford Blackmon introduces the Contraception Begins at Erection Act, which wou d penalize "discharge [of] genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo."

The email address for the Office of Personnel Management's HR is publicized. Chaos, memes, and a lot of spam ensue.

Swedish EV manufacturer Polestar offers a $5,000 bonijs to Tesla owners who switch to its brand.

After the Trump White House removes a reproductive rights resource page, TheSkimm republishes its content.

Vermonters picket Vice President JD Vance's family ski vacation, holding signs reading "Vance Skis In Jeans."

"MAGA Granny" Pamela Hemphill turns down a January 6 pardon. The now anti-Trump septuagenarian says it's the president's attempt to "rewrite history."

An Etsy shop sells more than 18,000 anti-Musk bumper stickers to those experiencing buyer's remorse about their Teslas.

"O Canada" performer at the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament changes lyrics in response to Trump pushing for Canada to become the "51st state."

Civil servants spam a chat about Musk's "fork in the road" policy with spoon emojis, which administrators later disable.

'8647" begins to appear written on paper money. Its hidden message: a plea to "86" the 47th president's rule.

National Park Service workers at Yosemite hang the American flag upside down (code for "dire distress") on El Capitan.

Artist Diana Weymar and others express their rage by turning absurd Trump quotes into textile art, dubbing it the Tiny Pricks Project.