This is very smart
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-think-and-act-like-a-dissident-in-trumps-america
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-think-and-act-like-a-dissident-in-trumps-america
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It will begin this summer. You can count on it.
We need the large, loud crowds in the streets sooner rather than later and every attack they make on freedom must be pushed back on immediately and forcefully.
According to researchers, "no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event."
3.5 percent of the population is 11 million Americans. If we mobilize at this scale, the research shows we'll win.
to prove that we can and will deliver for them.
The GOP only wins through fear.
Fascist leaders often maintain a cult of personality and seek to generate enthusiasm for the regime by rallying massive crowds. This contrasts with authoritarian governments, which want their subjects to remain passive and demobilized.
The number of April 5th demonstrations in Oregon is growing daily. Not just a big rally in Portland people see on the news. Something you see in person.
That will make people brave and join in the next.
I mean sure, you can get there with baby steps, that's one way.
Or you could just DO IT.
I'm in NE.
https://handsoff2025.com
Palm Springs 10-12 and Rancho Mirage 1-2.
(It’s Riverside County, where VERY right-wing MAGA County Sheriff Chad Bianco is planning a run for Governor.)
was looking for an organizer for a MO chapter if you'd be interested
Start with "the provinces" as JVL puts it
*feeling angry and desperate and willing to show up*
The US needs to be destroyed before whatever this is occurs! 😆
😀😀😀
We need a general strike now.
2026 is too late.
Beyond April is too late. https://bsky.app/profile/motherjones.com/post/3llmqlrz7s224
I’ll add:
Citizens should be calling and emailing their elected representatives daily until MAGA is out of office.
Civilization level dismantling requires grassroots effort now.
There's no reason, for example, not to send federal judges and justices letters expressing your strong desire for the judiciary to protect and defend the Constitution.
Though they’re more constrained due to the nature of their roles, that’s a smart way to remind them of their importance— and their grassroots support.
I'm going with a brother and a friend.
Making good trouble.
https://Handsoff2025.com
Elizabeth Warren will be in Nashville on April 5 for the People’s Town Hall:
I hope not, but that certainly would be the tipping point.
Time to invest in some Kevlar pants, when Chump Gestapo gets orders to shoot us in the leg
Which is exactly what 🍊💩 yearns to do, so he will also be a big man like poppa Puti.
Our insecure hateful squatter in the WH is a danger.
https://youtu.be/kQYW_ITznX4?si=v4b_eu6xKX2bjtkg
Donald knows that’s the only reason his hater base blindly follow, so he will hurt the people they fear, or are jealous of.
Who knew there were this many loser whites in the USA that need to resurrect oppression in order to give them a leg up, that they neither earned nor deserve.
Everything is going to change now, though. Consciousness is evolving so fast, it's making my head spin. The internet is making us aware of all of the rot in our society. It's like lancing an infected boil. All the pus has to come out before it can heal. 🙏🏽
I'm pleased the Tesla Takedown rallies on Saturday were not marked by serious violence.
I knew it was coming for 10 years now...but I did not expect it to go so fast when he got in office. Guess we should have listened when he said he would be a dictator on DAY ONE!!! 😔
And we will need every last one of us of every stripe to keep this democracy and get back on the path to a more perfect union.
RESIST TOGETHER
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029625793/black-lives-matter-protesters-targeted
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-attorney-general-bondi-tells-fox-news-many-judges-need-be-removed-2025-03-27/
I feel like that’s been his plan all along… 😕
:-(
At the rate of destruction of norms we’re seeing, I put our chances at 10%.
*WE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THEN FOR A SERIOUS AND MAJOR CHANGE TO THIS WHITE HOUSE.*
If it were too clever and not obvious it would not work.
This is the blueprint we need to follow
It’s happening as far south as Key West, FL!
I’m going to Marathon in the Florida Keys - find an event near you!
https://handsoff2025.com/
We need an explosion of outrage in the streets NOW or at the latest, within the next couple of months. DOGE is cooperating by screwing w/SS. If those checks stop arriving it is ON.
Which we should have.
THIS plan is 6 months behind and needs to be accelerated dramatically to work.
Plus everyone else that is pissed off.
This is DOABLE.
LFG
Find a march near you - DC National Mall + Major US cities, Local US, AND INTERNATIONAL.
IT IS TIME TO STAND UP.
https://fiftyfifty.one
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
#standUP #fiftyfiftyone #handsoff #MARCH
Go to DC if you can, or go to your state capital. There will also be protests in cities.
Do the best you can. Just get out there!
If you're in, let us know @generalstrikeus.bsky.social https://generalstrikeus.com
As is the case with armed resistance, nonviolent resistance requires courage and involves serious risks. However, fascist power is more precarious than it looks, and we can bring it down.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
Lasting power is built with face-to-face recruitment of the masses, not just online activists—and I doubt you can convince them to act as bait
The more people in more places then, they more will turn out the next time.
Anti-Trump or Pro-Trump.
Everyone will have to choose.
The Congress, courts, lawyers, press, etc. can’t and won’t do it.
It’s up to WE THE PEOPLE.
NEED
TO
MAKE
THEM
SEE
Watch Fellow Travelers to find out what happens when McCarthyism takes over again...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/30/just-like-mccarthy-trump-spreads-fear-everywhere-before-picking-off-his-targets?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
and that’s why I said that it has to start somewhere. They are growing but obviously the momentum has to keep building. Indivisible is sponsoring protests nationwide on 4/5. Check for locations near you if you want to participate.
I get what you’re saying—I’ve been there. Disillusionment with the limitations of that style of social change is what led me to grassroots organizing
I was trying to explain the difference between organizing and protest mobilizations. They have different power-building models, and in my
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/report-covid-19-vaccines-saved-us-115-trillion-3-million-lives
In the end, the soldiers defied orders and refused to hurt the masses who were holding rosaries, handing them flowers and notes that said "we love you". Marcos and his family fled the country that evening.
Helpful comments appreciated. :)
Local news is dead. Its replacement - social media - is fragmented and in the hands of local lunatics who are themselves downstream of national programming.
Big basketball tournament on. Baseball's back. Draft coming up, and there's school and kids.
The folks under the hump are dimly aware something is Not Right.
Most people on Bluesky have never talked to strangers in their community about the issues. They falsely believe that they *are* the masses
I think it is going to be a long, hot summer. How long can we resist?
Epic failure. No democracy should ever make the same mistake again.
I'll continue to call it: GULF OF MEXICO!