Pussy Riot Planning Tribute to Bernie — and a Song for ‘Dickhead’ Trump

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Almost immediately after the leader of Pussy Riot arrived in Washington, DC, to headline an annual libertarian gathering on Friday, she was already DMing on Twitter with the Bernie Sanders campaign.

“I will have fun tonight with Bernie Sanders’s office, we will have drinks tonight,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (also known as "Nadya Tolokno&quot told The Daily Beast, as she was wrapping up her evening at the International Students for Liberty Conference. “I am going to hang out with Bernie Sanders’s team.”

Tolokonnikova, who describes herself as a social democrat and was a supporter of Occupy Wall Street, is a leading member of Pussy Riot, the anti-Putin, feminist punk-rock collective based in Moscow. (It goes without saying that she is well to the left of many of the libertarian activists and students who she addressed at the Q&A session on Friday.) In 2012, she was famously convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in Russia.

Shortly after getting off her flight early Friday morning, she tweeted, “my ass just landed in Washington, and I urgently need a t-shirt with Bernie. could i pick it up somewhere tomorrow morning?” (Earlier this month, the Pussy Riot account posted a photo of her donning a Bernie 2016 shirt with the caption, “¡Viva los revolucionarios! ¡Viva Bernie!”)

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