Just wish I had some 20s to write on....

I found the law:

DEFACEMENT OF CURRENCY:
Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Writing doesn't seem to be included in the definition of defacement.

Never mind because of this sentence fragment;

"with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued"

And they're perfectly legal for trade and re-ssue.
Not to mention all those "Where's George" bills that you can track online, or bills with phone numbers or bible text written on them that you might get anywhere - even from an official bank teller or ATM.

When our puppy of happy memory ate about $50 in various denominations my daughter was saving up for purchases at ComiCon a decade or so back, I spent a week recovering them, soaking them in bleach, and taping them back together (mostly - I think we still ended up with one bill that was only 5/6th complete) to take to the bank for replacement. Since we didn't want to re-issue, after a good laugh, the bank manager gave us replacement bills. The old bills were put in the send-out-for-burning bag.

Haele

Pretty hard to do unless someone within the U.S. Treasury law enforcement actually witnessed a person in the act. The law may exist, but it's pretty toothless.

not a lawyer, but i believe defacing currency is only illegal if it's done in an attempt to defraud, e.g., make a $1 bill look like a $100 bill.

So gonna take out my marker...

I'll just do it old style. Have marker, can stamp!

Smaller bills stand a better chance of Trumpsters getting them as change, and making them sad.

Just saying!

It was intended to stamp that in red ink on US currency. I gave it to our team leader last year during the campaign - he loved it!

Here is where it came from - they have various stamps: https://www.stampstampede.org/

It was started by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's!

"The Brainwashing of My Dad" documentary (2016) shows how filmmaker Jen Senko and family managed to rebalance her father who'd become an obsessed Fox follower for years, to the exclusion of all other news. Well done film.

It's a major challenge discussed often. Overcoming hardened attachment to decades of widespread and free extreme RW outlets, also connecting people and places to alternate credible news sources. The loss of Net Neutrality is now another obstacle. But serious effort and resources are needed somehow, absolutely.

http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

We handled large deposits from stores, etc., and we routinely wrote on the top of what ever stack we'd just counted, noting the amount. For instance we counted $125 of five-dollar bills, we'd write 125 on top of that stack. Everyone did it. We were never told not to.

which would take a lot of writing. I would keep it in the boarder areas.

I wrote the date and casualty numbers on all currency passing through my wallet.

start using cash just so I can write #trumptreason on every bill

As others have said, https://www.stampstampede.org/faq/yes-its-legal/

If you feel it is juvenile, that's your prerogative. But don't spread misinformation. If it really is "technically illegal", please provide a reference to demonstrate such.

as long as the bills are still legible after writing or stamping.

http://hereandnow.legacy.wbur.org/2013/09/23/ben-money-politics

I was a manager at a movie theater in the 90s that was cash only. I had to hand count piles of money every night. I saw " gay money", "black money" etc frequently.

Meanwhile, Sharpies rule!

"I got it at the store, gas station"

#get it before it goes in Trump’s bank
#our money, not for Congress
#my last $20, Trump got the rest

in the #trumptreason twitter feed.

RW types are taking 20's and writing "President Trump Lives Here" on the back (there's even
a rubber stamp for it).

Whole idea seems kind of pointless since no one really looks at the back of bills anyways.

18 U.S. Code § 333 - Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

I'm in!

To my crossing out the words "In God We Trust" and writing "Harriet Tubman" (that one just on 20's)!