Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
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With another congressional recess coming up and Republicans plotting to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich, we’re going to need A LOT more people showing up in their communities to say “hands off!” Anyone interested in joining this next fight can sign up here. 👇
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm recovering from hip surgery and unable to participate in protests, but have written my Senators and called
I thank all of you who are going out to stand up for us all! 🩷
The #Handsoff message needs to be repeated. The #handsoff protests had the clearest messaging I have seen since the first 50501 protest. Thank you for what you do for ##WeThePeople.
Schedule protests at their offices and have recall petitions ready for everyone to sign. Starting a recall will send a message and if signatures turned in before the end of the recess they will start to reconsider as an election would be this November!!!
Whatever grief we endure here is but a fraction of that suffered by the people of Ukraine.
President Obama said, "We have to fix this."
We can't wait for the midterms. WE HAVE TO REMOVE TRUMP NOW, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST.
Tesla Takedown is all fun and games. What we need is a TRUMP TAKEDOWN: NOW.
When you say MEDICAID is threatened, many people are NOT equating it with their state’s program name. It might help to use the actual name of the program funded by Medicaid in their state. https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip-program-names/
In Virginia, all Medicaid is handled through HMOs. Those plans are: Aetna Better Health of Virginia, Anthem HealthKeepers Plus, Molina Healthcare, Sentara Community Plan, and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. This isn’t on the website provided above.
We have to decide that our country is worth fighting for, and pray that someone is fighting behind the scenes to prove that Democrats actually won the election. trump keeps chaos churning to detract us. Let’s get to our leaders and demand they do their jobs!
I don’t expect that the results would have changed, but I believe that a hand recount was possible if the DNC paid for it, and that not paying for a hand recount leaves us in doubt.
Weakness. We just don’t know, and will likely never know, now. - b.rad
We may likely never know, but it's almost unthinkable that oligarch-backed fascists would have left the election up to the people to be fair and transparent.
Furthermore, because WE still believe in the "peaceful transition," they knew there would be no 'Jan 6th' reprisal.
I was one of those people. Senior citizen, feeling terrified and helpless…I got off my butt Saturday and protested.
Let me tell you, it energized me. I will be going out again and again…
We also sent a message to those do-nothing Democrats who did nothing and kissed up to plutocrats with more of their sheepdogging "now is not the time" BS. I want these folks gone from power too. We just need to cotinue to show up for each other and DEMAND that cartel parties start showing up for us!
The reporting sucked! “Tens of thousands” my as*. There were that many in New York. That many in Boulder and Longmont Colorado! I went to J school and there’s a formula for fIguring. Figure out the geographic area, divide into squares. Multiply that number by total squares.
[sidewalk](250 ft [block length] × 8ft deep × 14 blocks)
+ [median space in middle of street](200ft × 4 × 10)
+[extra space in alleys and open spaces](20ft × 8ft × 12 total)
equals 37,920! AT one person per square foot, which at TIMES, didn't seem enough! LOL
If a news outlet misinforms, I don't want to use it as a source of information. This is why I don't watch Fox News or Russia state television. I used to love the LA times but now I have to ignore it. For me, Ezra is not wrong. He was on @maddow.msnbc.com so he still believes in the honest press 👍🏽
Cable isn’t news, legally. So while I’m glad you don’t watch Fox News you should watch almost no cable channel. Maddow has deep journalistic ethics, so she’s an exception.
LA times was bought by a Hedge fund. But if you read the heartrending story about how those who are left are
I get most of my news on YouTube and BlueSky. I'm mad at the LA Times. The guy who owns it is evil in my opinion. I also don't Trust the Washington Post (even tho' part of their editorial dep. seems to still be intact). Ok, so I'm just 'mad/angry' right now.
(Be careful getting your news on YouTube - anyone who didn’t go to J school won’t have the training to deliver it impartially and balanced. I’m in discussion w my brother about this - he loves Meidas touch. But they plagiarize good reporting and color it w opinion. After all, chaos gets the clicks!)
Nicolle was a Republican working for Bush Jr when we were attacked, wrongly invaded Iraq killing many of our military and their civilians, and then advocated for extreme torture. She’s now making money off the people she spoke down about, labeling us Libs before most
Yes. You sent a strong message. Didn’t you think it was strange that there was no opposition? Yesterday served as a great intelligence gathering opportunity. Things will be different on 4/19, guaranteed.
Amazing to witness individuals from all 50 states (Puerto Rico, too!) stand in unison. Incredible to see the support abroad too! This is just the beginning, and Democracy is worth fighting for!
A great shoeing by the American people. Which members of Congress participated? We should thank those who did. I know if a few, but hoping fir a mire comprehensive list!
The anger was palpable. There is the disgust with the corruption and sloppy dismantling of federal programs by this ‘doge’ crowd of cocky elonists. It’s the VA, research, education, nutrition, Medicaid, SS, USAID, environment.
The greed, joy in cruelty, and ignorance is shameful.
Continue noise.
CALL the GOP! Call Thune, the new Moscow Mitch! Just bc you don’t live in his state doesn’t mean his cowardice isn’t affecting you! 202 224-2321. Call Ernst, and ask her why she betrayed our military! 202 224-3254. Call the bastard R’s CONSTANTLY bragging about fiscal know-how watching us COLLAPSE!
There is another thing we need to do. April 20. That day Trump intends to totally dismantle democracy altogether with the Insurrection Act. It must be stopped.
in a small town hundreds of mostly older people lined Main Street- a single pickup truck with giant Trump flag drove by and was rather politely booed.
Impressed that nowhere were significant counter protesters. Wonder if we are brave enough to mark our cars with signs - like Do Not Obey in Advance
As much as I'm thrilled and excited by these protests...
I do find myself wondering if this is sending a written message to an group of painfully illiterate people who don't enjoy reading at the best of times, let alone thinking about the content of those messages ever.
I am sitting here, crying, looking at the pictures of all these states and even foreign countries that are supporting a free democracy for us. I am so proud of Americans right now!!
I am so angry that Meet the Press did not cover this amazing day! I've been watching since I was a child, and today was the last time. Thank you to George Stephanopoulos for covering us and Senator Booker!
It's good to see people standing up for what they believe in but what made this one so heartening was not the large numbers of people in big cities. It was the huge number of people in their own smaller communities. Not just NY, but places like Longmont, CO and even tiny places like Fairplay, CO.
All the sponsor orgs should also band together to run paid advertising off the #handsOff #protests in major news outlets worldwide, but especially in red markets in the US. I know so many Americans would donate for that to happen so we can get the word out. Media is too censored here to cover it
Can we boycott Lutnick’s hedge funds? Appeal to institutional investors to drop them? He was at Cantor Fitzgerald (1983–2025). Does he have stock in Canter? Bring them down. Figure out how Lutnick is earning his billions & bring the A-hole down.
Seeing the international ones brought tears to my eyes. I realize it's partially because they are pissed too - but it's also more than a little in solidarity and goddamn if that isn't energizing. Who'd have thought THIS mofo would be the uniting force of several countries.
Peaceful protests don't fit "If it bleeds, it leads". Had there been any police action or violence with counter protestors, that would have made it on MSM. We were too "boring".
As momentum builds & our numbers grows, they won't be able to ignore us much longer. 💙🌊
I'm furious with the NYTimes! Is there ANY 'mainstream' media that will cover the facts? I was in DC and there had to be well over 100k-200k there - it was massive. Yet the Times reported 20k??
Indivisible - nice work on the nationwide protests. However, the weekend media coverage was weak. I suggest the next protest should focus on House Republicans to reverse Trump's Emergency powers and cancel the Tariffs. Maybe protest media outlets - they have to cover that!
It also sends a message to our elected representatives that we’re watching and want action.
When they whine about their friendships “across the aisle,” remind them how many of us now have broken friendships, families, communities because of the divisiveness spewing from MAGA Republicans.
I think we should do a media bombardment next. E-billboards, tv ads ,social media etc.
Make them short and concise like slides of him golfing while soldiers bodies returning home, with large text of the cost to taxpayers.
And what did that accomplish? NADA. Time for some real action. Don't use FB or buy anything from Amazon for a week. Everyone take vacation for a few days at the same time.
Next, we need blockades, strikes, something that will get more MSM to cover it! We need every member of Congress to do what Corey Booker did! Every day!
Not just us but the entire world as our 401K is go down the tube. Thank God I moved the majority of my investments before he took office! I'll 🙏 for everyone who didn't get out in time.
"Treasury Secretary S. Bessent says Americans looking to retire aren’t concerned about day-to-day markets,dismisses concerns about a..recession."
CONTACT SEC. BESSENT. LET HIM KNOW YOU CONCERNS.
Tel. 202-622-2000
Email: [email protected] https://share.newsbreak.com/chd376tv
Thank you to all of the Americans that came out to oppose the dictator. Thanks especially to our European, Canadian and Mexican allies that came out to support us. It makes me happy to know that we are not being cast off as a pariah. We can't let the tyrants win!
#Indivisible will you please organize Americans who cannot attend rallies to protest the Trump Administration by using our lawns to voice our opposition to what they are doing?
Yes! And for us in Kansas, thanks for publicizing the Topeka and other large but smaller protests! We need help getting this message to our representatives and Senators! Our media outlets are less than helpful. This backs up our efforts!
Yes we did. They'll all be ready to join us again on 4/19. As for the lack of enthusiasm or even accurate reportage in the mainstream, note they have a lot to lose from Good rising to take down the malevolent menace and level the playing field - a necessary result. Change is hard on the entrenched.
Superb! Reclaiming decency & democracy. Demonstrations also held in Europe in solidarity with you all. You are not alone & we, too, will not be silenced. Stay safe, principled people.
There is nothing left to be done other than hope for a supermajority in the mid terms and to impeach the orange turd as quickly as possible to limit the damage
This was peaceful and I think we were all glad to be out and loud. But things need to change or there won't be peace. As Bob Marley wrote "A hungry mob is a angry mob."
It was thrilling to be at the rally in Philly Saturday. So many great people united in our opposition to this horrid administration
I look forward to more!!!
He didn't get the message. He WILL NOT get the message. Too vain. Too brainless. Too foolish. We need to make sure the rest of the GOP caucus does get the message.
Call your senators and members of the House and show up at their offices. Show up and be loud. Inundate them with phone calls. Especially republicans. They alone have the power to stop Trump and Musk. Make them uncomfortable. Make them hear you.
It really was a wonderful reminder that we are not just a handful of people but we are the majority. When I first arrived at the rally yesterday I felt like crying when I saw how many people had already arrived. What a relief.
Joining INDIVISIBLE is the best thing I have done. I find strength in knowing that I'm not alone. Even my purple town in my red county in my thankfully blue state had a great turnout.
Lets not be cute...
No message was sent outside of Left virtue signalling spaces.
Action...votes...
Thats the message.
The pale majority effed that up in November yet again...but want points for showing up now?
Nope...
The next election cycle is when we will care
At the Portland OR march, a couple and I tried to guess how many were there - we figured 50k+. Maybe not, but it was incredible. As we crossed the Burnside bridge, people behind could be seen still crossing the Morrison bridge. That is a long distance to have people filling the streets.
That will work GREAT with GOP electeds skipping town halls. It will be another performative effort, only with fewer pussy hats. They need to be cornered, not paraded before.
These bastards can easily outlast protest matches. They don't even need to acknowledge them.
“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”
These marches are energizing and inspiring! The sense of collegiality and patriotism is unbounded! Our small community has been doing weekly vigils, a TDOV rally and now this. Our numbers are growing and ppl are embracing their power!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@indivisible.org national msm is barely reporting on this. i'm not a tech person, but wouldn't it be great if there was a website/bsky account that collected LOCAL media reporting about the #resistance so the PEOPLE know the truth?
Thank you all for participating! You give me hope, and I’m so proud that we came together on Saturday to stand up against tyranny! Our fight has just started and we have to keep on keeping on! Love you all! 💕
Colorado protests I know about because friends were there: Frazier, Montrose, Fairplay, Glenwood Springs, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs and Denver
You don't have to sign up for protests. In fact signing up creates a list of names that a fascist regime can use to find & use as proof you were at a protest. Anonymity is your friend.
I feel better since yesterday. I feel less shaken, hopeless & afraid. Thank you & bless your hearts at Indivisible as well as many others who pulled this nationwide mass protest together so successfully in a relatively short period of time.
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I thank all of you who are going out to stand up for us all! 🩷
President Obama said, "We have to fix this."
We can't wait for the midterms. WE HAVE TO REMOVE TRUMP NOW, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST.
Tesla Takedown is all fun and games. What we need is a TRUMP TAKEDOWN: NOW.
The answer is 12 million people on the street, more than the threshold of 3.5%:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip-program-names/
3 WEEK WALKOUT
Has anyone else commented that with so much visible and loud opposition, the results of the November election seem even more weird ?
I had thought that Reproductive Freedom would dominate the vast majority of races, didn’t see it.
We have to work from where we are, strength ! — b.rad
None of these destructive corrupt morons should have been allowed on the ballot, and they all have to go, now!
It’s not just a good idea, it’s not just moral, it’s not just common sense —
— it’s the Law ! OUT! NOW ! — b.rad
Weakness. We just don’t know, and will likely never know, now. - b.rad
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
Furthermore, because WE still believe in the "peaceful transition," they knew there would be no 'Jan 6th' reprisal.
The oligarchs seemed to have too much faith in the outcome, even so, from the reporting, bending over way too early. Maybe the margin surprised them.
The DNC is maddening . . . b.rad
Let me tell you, it energized me. I will be going out again and again…
Let's show them we're PISSED AT THEM TOO!
AND the media strip too!
So I figure JUST at Longmont, we had ALMOST 40,000 people!!!
Calculations cont'd next!
+ [median space in middle of street](200ft × 4 × 10)
+[extra space in alleys and open spaces](20ft × 8ft × 12 total)
equals 37,920! AT one person per square foot, which at TIMES, didn't seem enough! LOL
LA times was bought by a Hedge fund. But if you read the heartrending story about how those who are left are
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It’s like writing off USaid, Veterans Affairs or the CDC.
Because an institution is under attack, means it’s very very important to us.
And Wapo I think is slightly worse off than we think…but again our reporters are fighters.
When we support them. They cannot do it alone. We’ve brought back many a paper from a bad owner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOyMIcplMhQ
✊🏼😊
https://www.5calls.org
https://youtu.be/cnQRcYnG-CQ?si=5JIw27JP1zc3J6uw
https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
The greed, joy in cruelty, and ignorance is shameful.
Continue noise.
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But of course, they should have some balls to do that, and they are currently stored in Trumps’ bathroom in Mar-a-Lago with the Epstein files.
Impressed that nowhere were significant counter protesters. Wonder if we are brave enough to mark our cars with signs - like Do Not Obey in Advance
I do find myself wondering if this is sending a written message to an group of painfully illiterate people who don't enjoy reading at the best of times, let alone thinking about the content of those messages ever.
We showed up in Olympia Wa✌️
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
I can’t square Fox propaganda with WSJ supposed economic expertise & claim to “legitimacy.”
I am hoping we can boycott WSJ & cause Murdoch some financial pain like the boycotts against Tesla.
Fox pundits lies & WSJ supposedly reports facts on financial matters.
I say it’s a dichotomy that cannot be reconciled. Therefore they both must go down like Tesla.
Thank you! I will keep showing up in Alabama.
As momentum builds & our numbers grows, they won't be able to ignore us much longer. 💙🌊
#NoKings
3,000 strong!
When they whine about their friendships “across the aisle,” remind them how many of us now have broken friendships, families, communities because of the divisiveness spewing from MAGA Republicans.
Make them short and concise like slides of him golfing while soldiers bodies returning home, with large text of the cost to taxpayers.
CONTACT SEC. BESSENT. LET HIM KNOW YOU CONCERNS.
Tel. 202-622-2000
Email: [email protected]
https://share.newsbreak.com/chd376tv
Really? I’d love to get the actual count. Can’t wait to do it again.
Let's have a national 'take back our flag day' on June 14th.
Once u get over it, nothing can control you. 🇺🇸🕊️❤️
Looking forward to V-A Day! 🇺🇸
WE CANNOT STOP
OUR VERY LIVES
and the lives
of those we care for
ARE ON THE LINE
No one should have to live under the threats this Grifting Fascist Traitor poses
NO ONE 🤬
#StandProud
#StandStrong
#WeAreAmericans
I look forward to more!!!
No message was sent outside of Left virtue signalling spaces.
Action...votes...
Thats the message.
The pale majority effed that up in November yet again...but want points for showing up now?
Nope...
The next election cycle is when we will care
Step 1
He has seen the numbers of people (assuming anyone has let him look) against him. They all held funny placards, etc. But what now?
Dems/liberals are good at planning for the win (protests, here), but terrible at planning for after the win (gen'l strike?).
What NOW?
Welcome to grassroots change.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible.org/post/3lm6guldfq22t
These bastards can easily outlast protest matches. They don't even need to acknowledge them.
So it is all performance.
i was so irritated yesterday by how hard it was to find coverage on tv.
are there/will there be live feeds/youtube pages for the next one?
Where is this campaign?
@indivisible.org
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2025/04/06/hands-off-protest-in-oakland-video-photos/