Local printer very very grateful, very very tired, and truly lucky for such a long and deep connection. Love you, Joanie.🖤

“I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent.” — Justice Elena Kagan #votingrightsact

“Whatever happens tonight, the president, by saying such things, has already changed the world for the worse, and made acts of mass violence more likely. If we are Americans, he has also changed our country. He has changed us, because he represents us…” — Timothy Snyder, April 7, 2026.

NEW: Bondi's portrait already in the trash at DoJ per a photo shared with @msnowreports.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

“So <Americans> don’t know, still, the exhaustion, this existential exhaustion that comes over you and you don’t know what it means to lose faith in yourself, in others, in politics, in democracy. So before that happens, this has to be stopped for sure…”’ —Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social

Thank you Italy! America? Not so much…. Providence and Neapolitan linotypists meet in Napoli, find community and solidarity when and where you can. In the words of @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social , “it is only with each other we can survive. “Thank you Carmine for opening your shop to me once again.

Well, THAT was embarrassing.. I meant to say MONSTROSITY…!

Well, THAT was embarrassing.. I meant to say MONSTROSITY…!

“We attacked them so that they wouldn’t attack us. It’s like eating so that later you won’t poop.” — Michelle Wolf @michellewolf.bsky.social #linotype #letterpress #iranwar #epsteinfiles #minabiran #woodtype #warofepsteindistraction

Well, local printer trudges through snow to make print! (That’s 96.266 cm!). #meltsnowfuckice #letterpress #linotype #snow #blizzardof26 Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra, with 30 Line French Clarendon wood type

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Well, it’s a strange time to be crossing the country talking about artists books and prints, but it is important to use whatever platform we have - as ineffective as it might feel - to share and bare witness to the beauty and unvarnished cruelty of this world, in communion with other strangers. And

ICE OUT NOW.

In solidarity and witness to the untold thousands massacred in Iran in nationwide peaceful protests in just the last week. Safety and liberation for the Iranian people. Down with murderous corrupt clerical tyrants and fascists everywhere, from Tehran to Washington. #iran #womenlifefreedom

JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD. 37-year-old mother Renee Good murdered by ICE agents while monitoring an ICE action in Minneapolis, MN.#letterpress #linotype #reneenicolegood #abolishice #abolishicenow cast in 9pt times Roman and set with 30-line wood type To be identified.

“Its all so so so stupid” — Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social #linotype #letterpress #venezuela #nicolasmaduro #manuelnoriega #warpowersact #dinosaurcarcasses #typecasting

“We’re coming to the end of the world as we know it and we will need each other. This shouldn’t create fear, it should create humility and generosity and kindness.” — Ece Temelkuran, Nation of Strangers (2026) @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social #linotype #letterpress #bellhooks #yokoono #rememberlove

Love and healing to all involved in this mess of a week, and mess of a world. We can do a whole lot better. Thank you to all the visitors at the DWRI Letterpress open house for printing these posters! #linotype #letterpress #providenceri #i❤️providence #gunviolence #nomoreguns #enough

None of this can be normalized. Not the gun violence, not the pointless devastation, not the ice kidnappings destroying families. Let us embrace the compassion, resilience, and courage to demand change and not accept these preventable horrors. ❤️ to PVD, the Brown community and students everywhere.

It’s called “burying the lead”… Finger good. Very very very lucky and trying to take it eeeeeeeasy. Please forgive me and thank you to all my friends whom I PROMISED I would not come in and finish this print. ❤️

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Pretty gross stuff… In other news, local printer still tired! #letterpress #linotype #megynkelly #megynkellysucks #magadepravity #epsteinfiles #chuckschumer #schumerstepdown #marjorietaylorgreene #magaisacult #typecasting Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra with cursive

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

New sign outside the Oval Office..

THANK YOU NEW YORK! (And thank you Virginia, New Jersey, Providence Council Ward 2 @jillsdavidson (!), Pennsylvania voters, and @zohrankmamdani for giving me the opportunity to set Eugene Deb’s words in hot metal type!)

Republicans tear gas trick-or-treaters while denying food aid to millions as a political maneuver…. Yeesh! #linotype #letterpress #chicago #thecrueltyisthepoint #typecasting Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra with cursive, with Ludlow Halloween mat.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” — Fred Hampton #linotype #letterpress #antifa #antifascist #antifascista #iamantifa #presidentialnationalsecuritymemorandum7 #PNSM7 #precrime #gazeceasefire #publicenemyno3 #governmentshutdown #fightfascism

Call your representatives (if your government is open…) and demand the safe return of these illegally arrested volunteers attempting to break the siege demanding the worlds attention on Gaza, and DEMAND an end to our complicity in an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Survival mechanisms are important… #coffee #espresso #caffè

Done! #boycottdisney #boycottabc #cancelhulu #cancelstreaming #jimmykimmel

“I do not celebrate the killing of anyone. Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life…

Omg! This is funny as fuck‼️ 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣💀

Thanks to all the citizens of Providence and visitors and organizers of @pvdfest for printing today’s edition of The Linotype Occasionally! @providenceact @firstworksri @pvdmayor please no more ice police collaboration!

Epstein distractions, authoritarian actions. BE LOUD! #linotype #letterpress #coup #itsnottimetobequiet #freedc #sandwhichguy #fightfascism #chicago #ice #fuckice #washingtonstatewildfires #climatecrisis #rfkjrwantsyoutodie #cdc #globalsumudflotilla #letgazalive #typecasting

“And what about us? We are failing the test of our humanity. Too many media, governments, companies, universities, too many guilty consciences and dirty hands. This genocide bears our fingerprints. It’s under our eyes. Denying it today means being ignorant, or complicit.” — Francesca Albanese

“In The revolution will not be televised, we were saying…the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move…. I’m on the wrong page, or I’m on the right page but on the wrong note. . . ” - Gil Scott-Heron.

33-year old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City democratic mayoral primary - will face off in the general election November against trump’s corrupt puppet Eric Adams. #handsettype #typesetting #italiantype #letterpress #woodtype #zohranmamdani #zohranformayor #pqrspqrs #spqr

As predicted… Racist dipshits just can’t seem to agree on best way to destroy our country!#letterpress #linotype #nokings #billionairebromance #racistdipshits #cappucino #cafescumato #typecasting #Heidelbergwindmill Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra w cursive, 12pt Metromedium Italic, and 14pt Metroblack

“What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy - knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated. Yes, Israel is committing war crimes,” —Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Giving Nazi tech bros control over all of our public and private information might not be such a good idea… #letterpress #linotype #killyourtelevision #killyourtelephone #oligarchy #fightfascism #ecetemelkuran #kilmarabregogarcia #supremecourt #tankparade #june14th #qataribribe #typecasting

“If we have faith in our beliefs .. the belief that justice is inevitable, we will not fear anyone because our fight is a fight for love, is a fight for democracy, is a fight for humanity. and I am saying it clear and loud, to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”- Mohsen Mahdawi

But what does the orange smoke mean??? #letterpress #linotype #25aprile #25aprile2025 #festadellaliberazione #stopice #disappearances #iceabduction #defenddueprocess #fightfascism #antifascista #typecasting Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra with Cursive, and 96pt Gothic Medium Condensed on the Ludlow

Local printer concurs… Thank you @mollyjongfast.bsky.social for keeping us vaguely (but definitely not really…) sane! letterpress #linotype #curseddiscourse #mollyjongfast #thenewabnormal #fastpolitics #measles #measlesdeaths #tariffs #morons #fury #typecasting Cast in 12 and 14pt Bernhard Fashion

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.

About time, let’s go! #linotype #letterpress #woodtype #fightfascism #handsoff

An intercontinental collaborative print on our ability to be lost in the world of rational thought and language, made with @franpesca_betterpresslab @giulia_for_betterpress_lab 👉 Thank you to the brilliant and sensitive minds of Francesca and Giulia at Betterpress Lab, Rome.

Constitutional Crisis? “I don’t care what the judges think.” — Tom Homan, Trump’s so-called border czar. Cast in 8pt Bodoni Bold with Italic, and 30, 48, and 72pt Bodoni Campanile on the Ludlow. SEE YOU IN ROME!@betterpress_lab

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!