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@boone.bsky.social and I just updated our WIRED Guide to safe protests—which I first wrote with @louryn.bsky.social back in 2020, and we've been updating since—and it includes new considerations for citizens and non-citizens alike. Please read www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

This is great - and what every Dem leader needs to be doing. And Jeffries and Schumer and the whole Dem leadership should be calling for a day of action when millions stream into DC and many millions more all turn out for parallel events in every state with local Dem leaders.

#NY #Westchester #Rockland #NY17 🗓️Tomorrow, Sat 3/22 ⏰1pm 📍900 Main St, Peekskill, NY MAGA Mike Lawler might not show up to listen to NY-ers affected by the devastating budget cuts he voted for. 🤬 But Indivisibles & @fightlawler.bsky.social will! 💪 📺🎥 So will the media! So help fill up the room!

When these institutions — big law firms, Ivy League universities —bow to Trump rather than fighting what appear to be illegal orders, do they think he’ll just be satisfied and stop? Do they just expect others to fight where they won’t?

As today's originalists sit idle while the world's richest man and his minor billionaire patron run the US government with no regard for checks or balances, it's worth remembering that in 1787 the fairly conservative Noah Webster noted that great accumulations of wealth could destroy a republic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

The Onion is on it

If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.

And there it is. Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity. In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.

If we are honest, we are ready to throw our phones at Senators, but we still need to push them. This bill cannot pass. 📱 (202) 224-3121

“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938

Learn from history- rights to peaceful protest & assembly CANNOT be taken for granted. Use them or lose them! For that to be effective, we need to create safety in large numbers. They can arrest/intimidate a few of us, but not ALL of us! 💪 Keep showing up! ✊ 📆Next 50501 Day of Action is Sat 4/5!

We have been complacent, trusting the system, for far too long. We have to be more vocal & stay that way… Keep ☎️📱💻✉️📠 Use every form of contact your Reps have; as many as you can find; as often as you can. Take advantage of helpers like @5calls.org & @resist.bot Overwhelm them with feedback

The problem with Democratic Party is that no one takes them seriously because they don’t take themselves seriously. You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

As clear a sign as any that congressional Dems either don’t fully grasp or are incapable of confronting the constitutional crisis.

Trump hails his first month as the greatest first month of any president and he's more popular than ever. But...

It is time for more Democrats to get themselves thrown out of this room

Trump didn't win 50% of the popular vote. The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate. His approval ratings are tanking. He does not have a mandate. Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful. He's not.

Democrats should have a hundred video editors doing rapid response on everything that's about to happen but just not clear if there's the organization or energy for any of that absent a campaign.

At first I thought this was an Onion headline. Unless we all rise up and protest, we are all doomed. I’ve given up on the Dems.

the New York Democratic Party is completely broken. everyone needs to be primaried

Fabulous.

@socialists.nyc @timothysnyder.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @ultramarine13.bsky.social

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi… Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla. Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

If any right-thinking foundations or rich people (there are some) are looking for things to back, this sounds like a worthy one.

I do love me a cleverly designed cover

Demonstration against Trump-Musk fascism outside the Tesla showroom in downtown Chicago. I joined about 30 patriots in protest.

Wow. Huge Protest today outside Meatpacking District Tesla Dealership in NYC. People are pissed.

#Tesla protest erupts in #SanFrancisco

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

This is an inspiring article — please read!