Last Call – DemocracyICED We make art for social change, installing temporary public sculptures to mark important historical events. Today, our democracy is melting. meltedaway.com Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social Setting up, see you at NOON!

Last Call - DemocracyICED October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C. MeltedAway.com @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social

- Judge halts shutdown layoffs—for now - Virginia AG candidates will debate tonight - Flying ferry to Be tested on Potomac www.washingtonian.com/2025/10/16/s...

In the end, a C C for “crisis”? MeltedAway.com

Did you see the Democracy ice sculpture melt in DC yesterday? Hear all about it from artists @bellvisuals.bsky.social and @nora-ligorano.bsky.social on Friday, Oct. 17 at 4 pm ET hosted by Randall Packer Register here: luma.com/8vyh58az

Each generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. - Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

What weighed 3,000 pounds at dawn’s early light in Washington and will virtually disappear by sundown? wapo.st/4nLtD6Q @joeheim.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social

We’re unironically down to D.C. Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. 10/15/2025 MeltedAway.com

Thank you! So poignant and meaningful.

Each generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. - Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

Democracy has no children or grandchildren. Each and every generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. (1/2) - Rev. William H. Lamar IV

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Contemplating America’s weakened democracy and the costs of its failure amid growing militarism and authoritarianism. You? The cracks are showing. Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social MeltedAway.com #publicart

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility. He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...

I was born in D.C., my parents were federal workers. Today’s sculpture has an urgency we could never have foreseen in 2008 when we first put it out into the world… We’re here on the National Mall, livestreaming all day, watching our democracy melt into a puddle. MeltedAway.com #publicart

Last Call – DemocracyICED We make art for social change, installing temporary public sculptures to mark important historical events. Today, our democracy is melting. meltedaway.com Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social Setting up, see you at NOON!

Dawn’s early light…

🚨Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. Weds noon MeltedAway.com In view of the U.S. Capitol, we’re raising a literal ton of ice in a one-word melting poem. The sculpture transforms the abstract concept of “democracy” into a visceral loss Live and livestreaming

Last Call - DemocracyICED October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C. MeltedAway.com @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social

What we like about these sculptures is that they are very popular in the best sense of the word, people love to touch them, but in the shape of a word, to see them meltdown and vanish, they take on a completely different meaning. -MR

The temporary monuments of Melted Away are markers for the opening decades in the 21st century - DEMOCRACY broken, the ECONOMY ruined, the MIDDLE CLASS disappears, THE FUTURE tenuous, THE AMERICAN DREAM vanishes, TRUTH an open question. meltedaway.com/video

Temporary Monuments meltedaway.com/video/

Partnering with @upinarms-us.bsky.social sounding the alarm about what’s happening to our country before our very eyes MeltedAway.com

🚨 October 15, 2025 on The National Mall in D.C. *Last Call - DemocracyICED* our latest temporary monument made of ice, melting away. Since 2008, we've installed seven ice sculptures in cities across the U.S. Economy, Middle Class, The Future, The American Dream and Truth, all melted away.