#*bill nye chanting* DAD DAD DAD DAD

[chippedcupwrites]

(inspo.)sans

[heich0e]

OKAYYYY EVERYONE IM BACK and i read the latest installment of the trigun poly!au heheheheheheh LIVV ??!?? LIV LIV LIV LIV LIV (chanting and bouncing and sang to the tune of bill nye the science guy) i love when u write a sassy reader, she’s so fun to read i love how no nonsense and irritated she is hehe. when i was reading it was giving me a little bit of a star wars vibe??? IDK WHY like it reminds me of the same sort of old western feel of a star wars au LMFAOOO reader is so nice to let nico sleep on the floor instead of making him sleep outside on the porch tho. u always do this thing in writing where u drop little hints abt the backstory like in this one it’s readers dad and her mom and i’m picking them up and nibbling on them like a mouse trying to decipher everything. nico said reader is young and isn’t far into her adulthood so what happened to daddy 🤨 and mama??? hmmmm ALSO i looked up what nico looks like and he looks very scruffy so i understand why u made it a point to talk abt his stubbly jawline yummmmm CANT WAIT TO READ MORE THANK U LIVVIE

WHAT IF I CRYYYYYYYYYY

ok so re: sassy reader i think that it's so SO interesting to look at reader's character and personality in the prequel versus in the contemporary timeline of the fic bc it's SOOOO different!! like yes of course in the established poly era of the au she's still a little mouthy and holds he ground but in the past she was MEAN!! like a cat who hisses at everyone who walks past!! i tried to keep the cardinal elements of her characterization consistent but writing her when she's still an untamed little beast was really fun :')

LOVE THE STAR WARS REF in your comment as a bitch who loves a star war but ALSO because i rly did sort of consider making this a space western for a loooooooooong time (and there might still be an element of that which will come into play later he he he)

INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU ENJOYING THE BACKSTORY BITS bc i know that's a real point of contention in x reader but i will simply never be someone who can write something w/o backstory!!! daddy and mama are both mentioned a bit more later in the series but spoilers: they are both dead RIP (rest in parents)

I genuinely had to cut out so MANY allusions to nicholas's stubble/chest hair/nose because it got INCREDIBLY distracting how often i was finding reasons to talk about them but his NOSE IN PARTICULAR DRIVES ME CRAZYYYYYYYY

i love u i love u i love u messages like this make writing and sharing my writing so much fun they are my fav thing in the world u are my fav person in the world i ADORE YOU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH THANK UUUUUU :')

[jesterofinaba]

SOTFD (Hierophant!Adachi) | for @arcanalight​

When Adachi had been assigned to a team, he wasn’t quite sure what he’d been expecting, but it definitely wasn’t this. There were quite a few ‘Adachis’ running around this complex, apparently - so to differentiate himself, he’d given himself the nickname ‘Copper’ (after no one liked his first choice, but he had to admit that he liked this one just fine).

Still, he’d learned that his teammates were exhausted and could be prone to short tempers, so Copper supposed he fit in just fine.

He takes a seat across the table from one of said teammates. Akechi-kun is his name, he’s pretty sure. Copper sets down the mug of coffee he’d just prepared himself, leaning forward with his arms crossed. Maybe it’s because they were teammates, or both detectives, or, more likely, it’s because Akechi mentioned something about temporarily flatlining, but Copper feels as if they can get past any bickering, they might have a chance at being decent teammates.

“Guess we got off a little bit on the wrong foot.” He decides to start, with a tiny smile twitching at the corner of his mouth. “But I’m willing to look past it if you are. For the sake of the team - and for information.”

[chucklo7]

Random things my friends have said

1-“I have good poor taste” (Quincy)

2-“I’m a horn daddy” (Ezra)

3-“You’ve gotta be at least 19 or 20 to become an alcoholic” (my dad)

4-“puuut yur legs on mY SHOULDERS, HOLD ME IN YOUR THIGHS BAAABYYYYYY SQUEEZE ME OH SO TIGHT SHOOOW MEE, CUT MY AIR SUPPLY OFF” (Quincy)

5-“Do you think that guy over there is sexy” (Eddie)

6-“Do you know David and his 3 best friends” (Eddie)

7-*dramatically puts hand to forehead like an anime character* “NoOoOoOoOo” (me)

8-“Myles I will eat you go” (Damian)

9-“I have a kazoo and I’m not afraid to use it” (Quincy)

10-“I don’t even have a table” (Trixie)

11-“I am writing a character bio for my discord role play chat” (Damian)

12-“why does your phone have a chastity belt” (Damian)

13-“my body is kinda like a trapezoid” (Damian)

14-“your bread he’s after your bread” (Ezra)

15-“help my therapist is a local cryptic” (Chuck aka:me)

16-*chanting* “PEER PRESSURE PEER PRESSURE” (everyone)

17-“fuck you I was a cat in grade school” (Kiki)

18-“she turned back into a goldfish” (Kiki)

19-“go go faggot rangers” (Kiki)

20-“we walked in with a bag of quarters and a dream” (Chuck aka me)

21-“if you can’t cooperate you don’t get crucified” (Oscar)

22-“I’m your face lesbian” (Kiki)

23-“well ya he was sucking cat tits” (Damian)

24-“I’m aloud to be slut shamed” (Kiki)

25-“you can only trust yourself and the first 6 Black Sabbath albums” (my dad)

26-“and now that you know how to do marijuana don’t do marijuana” (my dad)

27-“these hips don’t lie I fucked bill nye” (Kiki)

28-“I am what you eat” (Quincy)

29-“I simply aspire to be a fever dream” (Ezra)

30-“I’m a pussy and I’m proud of it” (Quincy)

31-“the day I let Marie Antoinette eat me out is the day I get the best head ever” (Kiki)

32-“this shit smells weird do you wanna do drugs” (chuck aka me)

33-“you think your better then me just because you have a fucking pencil in your pocket” (Kiki)

34-“I’m stupid you know that” (Damian)

[dauntlessdiva]

My Dad learned who Bill Nye was today. He also made the mistake of playing the Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song out loud at the dinner table and was quite shocked to find my sister and I dropped everything to chant "Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!" At the top of our lungs (because of course we have the entire theme song memorized, who desn't?).

He didn't realise how large a roll this man had in shaping our childhoods. Even my mom knows who Bill Nye is, she was the one who brought him up!

My dad started reading a wiki article about his show out loud and my sister and I were like "yes, yes, we know this. He taught science to kids. On a tv show. That teachers will turn on whrn they don't feel like teaching. Because Bill Nye is the one thing they know we'd all actually pay attention to."

[genevaissleepy-archive]

the signs as random shit kids have said in science class (part 1)

Aquarius: I don't see with eyes. I see with brows.

Pisces: That light bulb is a good boy. A good rainbow boy.

Aries: Ty...Ty? Did you bring your purple vibrator again?

Taurus: *repeatedly chants* I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF

Gemini: Screw the science-ing; become a singer!

Cancer: Brendon Urie is a good dad dog.

Leo: My dad bought the sun for ten million dollars and he called it Sun.

Virgo: (to the teacher) I can't hear you. I can't hear fake news.

Libra: I love Jewish people! They make the best falafel.

Scorpio: Bill Nye: Teen Heartthrob and International Sex Symbol

Sagittarius: A supernova is NOT a suicide.

Capricorn: The fastest thing in the universe is you nutting. Zoom.

[babyghoulrat]

Today we were at the science march and i made this sign that just says Science Rules and its got a picture of bill nye on it so anyways i asked my dad to hold it for a sec while i took my jacket off and some people watching the march saw us and started singing the bill nye theme song so theyre just chanting "bill bill bill bill" and my dad looks at me with fear in his eyes and he's like "ceiti how do they know my name"

[yharnamsnewslug]

I love that you call Bill Nye the American Science Dad

Isn't he tho?? I mean, when I went to an American school, someone asked me something about Bill Nye and I told them I'd never watched it (still haven't) and the entire class + teacher went apeshit. Half gasped. The other screamed. At some point everyone started chanting "Bill Bill Bill!" And that was my experience with Bill Nye, basically.

[yoursupremeoverlord]

My mom: bill nye isn't even that cool

Me: MOM IS YOUR CONTITUTIONAL DUTY AS AN AMERICAN that when your hear "bill nye the science guy!" YOU MUST CHANT...

Me and my dad: BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL!!!

[ceciliavonjoy]

🖊+ Feather, Liberty and Cosette? :O

THANK YOU TOMA MY CROPS ARE FLOURISHING

Feather:

Found this on my computer, titled sadhipster.txt. Enjoy?

Feather's head drooped into his arms on the table. His whole body drew in as if to curl up into a ball in the chair. His hitched breaths fogged up the table's frosted glass. Something tapped him on the shoulder."Hey, uh," A stranger's voice said, concerned. Feather looked up, blinking at the tears in his eyes. His vision was blurry, but he didn't think he'd ever seen them before. "Are you okay?""Mm." Feather dabbed at his eyes. "I-I'm not Shadow." It was a rote response he'd said what felt like hundreds of times. "...What?" asked the stranger, confused. "Uh, what I said was, 'Are you okay?' You, um, seem upset."Feather stared at them, uncomprehending. They actually wanted to help him?"I-" He swallowed a lump in his throat. "I'm just- Hk-"He brought his face back down into his arms, unable to answer. Shame burned in his chest. Crying in front of a complete stranger. Stop it.He was already upset. Feeling bad that he was crying only made it worse.A chair was scooched over across from Feather, and the stranger sat down. "Did you get stood up?""Mn?" Feather looked up. "S-Stood up?""You know, uh...arranging a date but they never show up?""Oh." If only. That would make more sense to a stranger. And it would mean he'd found someone who would agree to date him in the first place.Could he tell them? He wanted to. They seemed nice enough to at least listen. And maybe he'd feel better."No, um..." Feather inhaled deeply. Just deciding that he was going to talk about it helped a little. "I know this...this guy," He started, pulling a napkin from the holder and wiping one eye with it. He didn’t want to say the name right now. "He's just- god, I hate him. We look almost the same, but I'm just a little uglier. He functions, and he's calm all the time, and I-I don't do either-" His voice broke. His face screwed up trying not to cry again. "M-My little brother likes him more than me. He's perfect. And I'm just- I'm just garbage in an overpriced coffee place!" Feather flung his head down and wept on the table. His sobs echoed in the small space and filled the dark cafe. Garbage.It only stopped when he choked on whatever robots had for tears in his throat and coughed into silence."I...I'm sure you're not garbage," The stranger said then, awkwardly. "Is there somebody we can call to pick you up?"Feather took a few deep breaths. That made sense. Go home. "My dad..." His voice was raspy now. He fished for the phone in his pocket. "Can- Can you please, please call him for me? I'm-" Another wipe of his eyes. "I'm a mess.""Sure." They took the phone from him, opened it, and pushed a few buttons. "Is he in your contacts?""Uh-huh." Another napkin, this one to dry his eyes with. "He's, um," He said, balling up the used napkin and dropping it on the table, "He's Blue."The stranger nodded. More button-pressing, and then the phone rang.Feather lay his head on his hands. With nothing else to think about, he became filled with trepidation. What would they say about him? 'Come get your garbage child, he's being garbage' probably. He should remember that; he could post it on Tumblr later. Maybe it would help him feel better."Hello, sir? ...No, but I'm calling for him."The voice on the other end got louder."I'm not a paramedic! No- Sir! Sir, he's in one piece." They said, trying to pacify the phone. "I'm calling because, uh, he's here in Starbucks in the side of the Barnes and Noble bookstore, and can you please come get him?"Another pause, the stranger listening intently. Nothing about garbage yet."He asked me to." They said. "He was crying. How fast can you get here?"Short pause. "Ok. I'll tell him. Goodbye."They hung up and looked at Feather, holding out his phone. "Your dad says he'll be here in twenty minutes," they said kindly. "Do you want me to stay until then?"Feather became teary-eyed again. They were so nice. He had no idea why they were being nice to him, but they were.He nodded a lot and took back his phone, not wanting to speak. Now that everything was being fixed he shouldn't complain. He stared down at the table and wiped his eyes."Your dad seemed nice." The stranger said, "He was really worried about you."Feather looked up and nodded again. "Yeah. He's really-... Uh. A really nice person." He'd almost said that Blue was really his brother. That as a machine he had no parents and his creator threw him away and that Blue was Dad simply because he chose to take care of everyone.It would have been too hard to explain. Feather didn't really understand it himself. That Blue would and could do that was astounding. Blue took care of all of them. Meanwhile Feather had trouble just taking care of himself."Hey, uh, is something else bothering you?"Were they getting impatient or was he imagining things? "No, um." He forced a smile. "I'm fine.""You sure...?"His gaze fell down to the table, and his smile with it. "No...but...I'll be okay. Later. Probably..."

Liberty:Her music tastes are REALLY WEIRD. They’re all cursed techno nightcore gregorian chant miku hatsune version remix things. Stuff you’d find at 3 AM on youtube or on long forgotten tumblr posts. Her favorite is the Bill Nye Nightcore Remix.

Cosette:

Cosette has never met her time’s Yellow or her other robot uncles, and is increasingly curious about them. Yellow has even sent her gifts through the mail, meaning that her mysterious uncle/second dad is one of the few people whom Shadow trusted with their address after they fled from the government. 

[actionyak]

So it turns out the Bill Nye show (appearance? interview?) wasn't even open to the general public and only students and faculty at the university it was held at could buy tickets, and my dad was able to get some because he works in the IT department there. It was rad, it was a Q&A thing hosted by the head of the science department or something? I don't remember. After that he took audience questions but I didn't have anything to ask him.

 He said "get 'er done" a few times.

And yes we did all get to chant BILL BILL BILL BILL at the end

[repwinpril9y0a1]

White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump had barely wrapped up his White House Rose Garden speech about pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change when Rachel Schragis showed up outside the gates and plopped down a massive red alarm clock.

Schragis, a 31-year-old artist, made the 3-foot-tall clock out of cardboard boxes and masking tape. Hundreds of people would soon join her in flooding Lafayette Park, right next to the White House, to protest Trump’s Thursday announcement. But for the moment, it was just Schragis and her clock. She propped it up so it was facing the park, its screaming message easy for passersby to read: “WAKE UP to the climate crisis.”

“We made this clock … so it’s clear, wherever we go when we’re protesting, what we’re asking Trump to do and what we think is necessary,” said Schragis, who is also an organizer with the People’s Climate Movement, a coalition of groups focused on the climate crisis. “This is a movement of mass agreement. A majority of this country is with us, is standing with the world. But Trump listens to a very small number of people with big checkbooks.”

Chalk it up to gorgeous weather, or Trump hitting an unexpectedly raw nerve by backing out of a global climate pact, but even for a D.C. protest, this group was on fire. They set up a makeshift stage in the park and cheered on speeches by activists, politicians and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” who warned that Trump is “jeopardizing the whole planet.” They routinely chanted “shame” at the White House, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez chiming in with them on stage as he fired up the crowd.

People waved around all kinds of hand-drawn signs, with messages like “I’m With (Mot)Her Earth” and “Trump’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out.”

“Mr. President, are you serious?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said to the crowd. “We’re moving forward without Donald Trump!”

Schragis said many of the people there had taken part in the Women’s March in January and subsequent D.C. marches in support of science and combatting climate change. At this point, she said, people horrified by Trump on one front are uniting with each other on other fronts.

“I think we’re all in a moment of despair. On anything,” she shouted, trying to talk over a nearby man painted head-to-toe in silver and blasting a Neil Young song from a boombox. “A lot of these movements are coming together.”

As luck would have it, an eighth-grade class on a field trip from Chicago showed up to see the White House just as the climate rally began. It’s an annual trip for the students at Francis Parker School, a private school with progressive leanings. Kam Woodard, an eighth-grade math teacher there, said teachers told the kids this time that, if they wanted to make signs to voice their feeling on an issue, they could do so. So many of the roughly 75 students made signs about women’s rights, environmental rights and human rights in general.

“Everybody just made a sign, about what they felt,” said Woodard, who said it was “miraculous” that they happened to roll up in the midst of a protest.

The students fit right in. They arguably had the best chants of anyone there, which they made up on the spot.

“Show me what our generation looks like! This is what our generation looks like!” they shouted for several seconds, until they got quiet and huddled about what to say next.

”Science saves! Science saves!” one student began, spurring others to repeat after her. Another girl started up a call-and-response chant.

“Climate change is real!”

“Duh!”

“Climate change is real!’

“Duh!”

Reyna Smith, a middle school counselor at the school, stood to the side with pride as her students spoke out on whatever was on their minds.

“In our school, we have a mission to raise global citizens,” she said. “I don’t know a better way to exercise our mission than allowing them to use their voice.”

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[porchenclose10019]

White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump had barely wrapped up his White House Rose Garden speech about pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change when Rachel Schragis showed up outside the gates and plopped down a massive red alarm clock.

Schragis, a 31-year-old artist, made the 3-foot-tall clock out of cardboard boxes and masking tape. Hundreds of people would soon join her in flooding Lafayette Park, right next to the White House, to protest Trump’s Thursday announcement. But for the moment, it was just Schragis and her clock. She propped it up so it was facing the park, its screaming message easy for passersby to read: “WAKE UP to the climate crisis.”

“We made this clock … so it’s clear, wherever we go when we’re protesting, what we’re asking Trump to do and what we think is necessary,” said Schragis, who is also an organizer with the People’s Climate Movement, a coalition of groups focused on the climate crisis. “This is a movement of mass agreement. A majority of this country is with us, is standing with the world. But Trump listens to a very small number of people with big checkbooks.”

Chalk it up to gorgeous weather, or Trump hitting an unexpectedly raw nerve by backing out of a global climate pact, but even for a D.C. protest, this group was on fire. They set up a makeshift stage in the park and cheered on speeches by activists, politicians and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” who warned that Trump is “jeopardizing the whole planet.” They routinely chanted “shame” at the White House, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez chiming in with them on stage as he fired up the crowd.

People waved around all kinds of hand-drawn signs, with messages like “I’m With (Mot)Her Earth” and “Trump’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out.”

“Mr. President, are you serious?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said to the crowd. “We’re moving forward without Donald Trump!”

Schragis said many of the people there had taken part in the Women’s March in January and subsequent D.C. marches in support of science and combatting climate change. At this point, she said, people horrified by Trump on one front are uniting with each other on other fronts.

“I think we’re all in a moment of despair. On anything,” she shouted, trying to talk over a nearby man painted head-to-toe in silver and blasting a Neil Young song from a boombox. “A lot of these movements are coming together.”

As luck would have it, an eighth-grade class on a field trip from Chicago showed up to see the White House just as the climate rally began. It’s an annual trip for the students at Francis Parker School, a private school with progressive leanings. Kam Woodard, an eighth-grade math teacher there, said teachers told the kids this time that, if they wanted to make signs to voice their feeling on an issue, they could do so. So many of the roughly 75 students made signs about women’s rights, environmental rights and human rights in general.

“Everybody just made a sign, about what they felt,” said Woodard, who said it was “miraculous” that they happened to roll up in the midst of a protest.

The students fit right in. They arguably had the best chants of anyone there, which they made up on the spot.

“Show me what our generation looks like! This is what our generation looks like!” they shouted for several seconds, until they got quiet and huddled about what to say next.

”Science saves! Science saves!” one student began, spurring others to repeat after her. Another girl started up a call-and-response chant.

“Climate change is real!”

“Duh!”

“Climate change is real!’

“Duh!”

Reyna Smith, a middle school counselor at the school, stood to the side with pride as her students spoke out on whatever was on their minds.

“In our school, we have a mission to raise global citizens,” she said. “I don’t know a better way to exercise our mission than allowing them to use their voice.”

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[grgedoors02142]

White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump had barely wrapped up his White House Rose Garden speech about pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change when Rachel Schragis showed up outside the gates and plopped down a massive red alarm clock.

Schragis, a 31-year-old artist, made the 3-foot-tall clock out of cardboard boxes and masking tape. Hundreds of people would soon join her in flooding Lafayette Park, right next to the White House, to protest Trump’s Thursday announcement. But for the moment, it was just Schragis and her clock. She propped it up so it was facing the park, its screaming message easy for passersby to read: “WAKE UP to the climate crisis.”

“We made this clock … so it’s clear, wherever we go when we’re protesting, what we’re asking Trump to do and what we think is necessary,” said Schragis, who is also an organizer with the People’s Climate Movement, a coalition of groups focused on the climate crisis. “This is a movement of mass agreement. A majority of this country is with us, is standing with the world. But Trump listens to a very small number of people with big checkbooks.”

Chalk it up to gorgeous weather, or Trump hitting an unexpectedly raw nerve by backing out of a global climate pact, but even for a D.C. protest, this group was on fire. They set up a makeshift stage in the park and cheered on speeches by activists, politicians and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” who warned that Trump is “jeopardizing the whole planet.” They routinely chanted “shame” at the White House, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez chiming in with them on stage as he fired up the crowd.

People waved around all kinds of hand-drawn signs, with messages like “I’m With (Mot)Her Earth” and “Trump’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out.”

“Mr. President, are you serious?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said to the crowd. “We’re moving forward without Donald Trump!”

Schragis said many of the people there had taken part in the Women’s March in January and subsequent D.C. marches in support of science and combatting climate change. At this point, she said, people horrified by Trump on one front are uniting with each other on other fronts.

“I think we’re all in a moment of despair. On anything,” she shouted, trying to talk over a nearby man painted head-to-toe in silver and blasting a Neil Young song from a boombox. “A lot of these movements are coming together.”

As luck would have it, an eighth-grade class on a field trip from Chicago showed up to see the White House just as the climate rally began. It’s an annual trip for the students at Francis Parker School, a private school with progressive leanings. Kam Woodard, an eighth-grade math teacher there, said teachers told the kids this time that, if they wanted to make signs to voice their feeling on an issue, they could do so. So many of the roughly 75 students made signs about women’s rights, environmental rights and human rights in general.

“Everybody just made a sign, about what they felt,” said Woodard, who said it was “miraculous” that they happened to roll up in the midst of a protest.

The students fit right in. They arguably had the best chants of anyone there, which they made up on the spot.

“Show me what our generation looks like! This is what our generation looks like!” they shouted for several seconds, until they got quiet and huddled about what to say next.

”Science saves! Science saves!” one student began, spurring others to repeat after her. Another girl started up a call-and-response chant.

“Climate change is real!”

“Duh!”

“Climate change is real!’

“Duh!”

Reyna Smith, a middle school counselor at the school, stood to the side with pride as her students spoke out on whatever was on their minds.

“In our school, we have a mission to raise global citizens,” she said. “I don’t know a better way to exercise our mission than allowing them to use their voice.”

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[repwincoml4a0a5]

White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump had barely wrapped up his White House Rose Garden speech about pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change when Rachel Schragis showed up outside the gates and plopped down a massive red alarm clock.

Schragis, a 31-year-old artist, made the 3-foot-tall clock out of cardboard boxes and masking tape. Hundreds of people would soon join her in flooding Lafayette Park, right next to the White House, to protest Trump’s Thursday announcement. But for the moment, it was just Schragis and her clock. She propped it up so it was facing the park, its screaming message easy for passersby to read: “WAKE UP to the climate crisis.”

“We made this clock … so it’s clear, wherever we go when we’re protesting, what we’re asking Trump to do and what we think is necessary,” said Schragis, who is also an organizer with the People’s Climate Movement, a coalition of groups focused on the climate crisis. “This is a movement of mass agreement. A majority of this country is with us, is standing with the world. But Trump listens to a very small number of people with big checkbooks.”

Chalk it up to gorgeous weather, or Trump hitting an unexpectedly raw nerve by backing out of a global climate pact, but even for a D.C. protest, this group was on fire. They set up a makeshift stage in the park and cheered on speeches by activists, politicians and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” who warned that Trump is “jeopardizing the whole planet.” They routinely chanted “shame” at the White House, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez chiming in with them on stage as he fired up the crowd.

People waved around all kinds of hand-drawn signs, with messages like “I’m With (Mot)Her Earth” and “Trump’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out.”

“Mr. President, are you serious?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said to the crowd. “We’re moving forward without Donald Trump!”

Schragis said many of the people there had taken part in the Women’s March in January and subsequent D.C. marches in support of science and combatting climate change. At this point, she said, people horrified by Trump on one front are uniting with each other on other fronts.

“I think we’re all in a moment of despair. On anything,” she shouted, trying to talk over a nearby man painted head-to-toe in silver and blasting a Neil Young song from a boombox. “A lot of these movements are coming together.”

As luck would have it, an eighth-grade class on a field trip from Chicago showed up to see the White House just as the climate rally began. It’s an annual trip for the students at Francis Parker School, a private school with progressive leanings. Kam Woodard, an eighth-grade math teacher there, said teachers told the kids this time that, if they wanted to make signs to voice their feeling on an issue, they could do so. So many of the roughly 75 students made signs about women’s rights, environmental rights and human rights in general.

“Everybody just made a sign, about what they felt,” said Woodard, who said it was “miraculous” that they happened to roll up in the midst of a protest.

The students fit right in. They arguably had the best chants of anyone there, which they made up on the spot.

“Show me what our generation looks like! This is what our generation looks like!” they shouted for several seconds, until they got quiet and huddled about what to say next.

”Science saves! Science saves!” one student began, spurring others to repeat after her. Another girl started up a call-and-response chant.

“Climate change is real!”

“Duh!”

“Climate change is real!’

“Duh!”

Reyna Smith, a middle school counselor at the school, stood to the side with pride as her students spoke out on whatever was on their minds.

“In our school, we have a mission to raise global citizens,” she said. “I don’t know a better way to exercise our mission than allowing them to use their voice.”

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White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump had barely wrapped up his White House Rose Garden speech about pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change when Rachel Schragis showed up outside the gates and plopped down a massive red alarm clock.

Schragis, a 31-year-old artist, made the 3-foot-tall clock out of cardboard boxes and masking tape. Hundreds of people would soon join her in flooding Lafayette Park, right next to the White House, to protest Trump’s Thursday announcement. But for the moment, it was just Schragis and her clock. She propped it up so it was facing the park, its screaming message easy for passersby to read: “WAKE UP to the climate crisis.”

“We made this clock … so it’s clear, wherever we go when we’re protesting, what we’re asking Trump to do and what we think is necessary,” said Schragis, who is also an organizer with the People’s Climate Movement, a coalition of groups focused on the climate crisis. “This is a movement of mass agreement. A majority of this country is with us, is standing with the world. But Trump listens to a very small number of people with big checkbooks.”

Chalk it up to gorgeous weather, or Trump hitting an unexpectedly raw nerve by backing out of a global climate pact, but even for a D.C. protest, this group was on fire. They set up a makeshift stage in the park and cheered on speeches by activists, politicians and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” who warned that Trump is “jeopardizing the whole planet.” They routinely chanted “shame” at the White House, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez chiming in with them on stage as he fired up the crowd.

People waved around all kinds of hand-drawn signs, with messages like “I’m With (Mot)Her Earth” and “Trump’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out.”

“Mr. President, are you serious?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said to the crowd. “We’re moving forward without Donald Trump!”

Schragis said many of the people there had taken part in the Women’s March in January and subsequent D.C. marches in support of science and combatting climate change. At this point, she said, people horrified by Trump on one front are uniting with each other on other fronts.

“I think we’re all in a moment of despair. On anything,” she shouted, trying to talk over a nearby man painted head-to-toe in silver and blasting a Neil Young song from a boombox. “A lot of these movements are coming together.”

As luck would have it, an eighth-grade class on a field trip from Chicago showed up to see the White House just as the climate rally began. It’s an annual trip for the students at Francis Parker School, a private school with progressive leanings. Kam Woodard, an eighth-grade math teacher there, said teachers told the kids this time that, if they wanted to make signs to voice their feeling on an issue, they could do so. So many of the roughly 75 students made signs about women’s rights, environmental rights and human rights in general.

“Everybody just made a sign, about what they felt,” said Woodard, who said it was “miraculous” that they happened to roll up in the midst of a protest.

The students fit right in. They arguably had the best chants of anyone there, which they made up on the spot.

“Show me what our generation looks like! This is what our generation looks like!” they shouted for several seconds, until they got quiet and huddled about what to say next.

”Science saves! Science saves!” one student began, spurring others to repeat after her. Another girl started up a call-and-response chant.

“Climate change is real!”

“Duh!”

“Climate change is real!’

“Duh!”

Reyna Smith, a middle school counselor at the school, stood to the side with pride as her students spoke out on whatever was on their minds.

“In our school, we have a mission to raise global citizens,” she said. “I don’t know a better way to exercise our mission than allowing them to use their voice.”

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