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50501 is a nationwide movement of Americans standing for democracy against the GOP Administration's undemocratic vices by protesting across 50 states to demand upholding the Constitution and end executive overreach


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We are looking for admin/mod especifically from Lemmy community itself. We are in serious need of moderators or admin with Lemmy knowledge. Please let us know if you would like to be a part of the movement and this Lemmy instance. If you would like to be a part please understand there would be significant time commitment needed as we are a growing community here at Lemmy.

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May Day is a day where we celebrate workers. It’s a day that commemorates the historic struggles and gains made by the workers and the labor movement.

On this day, we mobilize with unions and grassroots organizations accords the country : We stand with Immigrants, we stand with workers. We stand united. #50501 #mayday #maydaystrong


Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-04-20 11:17:23 AM | Source


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(v24) I decided to start a list of links as I thought that there was no collection of links. We should collect links and images relating to 50501. Please share this list around. If you want to save this repo to your hard drive, click the view source button and copy. Give suggestions to add or edit to the list, via replies or messages, description is not required but appreciated.

If you are creating a guide or list for protestors, lets link to each other so we can get a info network!

Info Network (We are linked to each other!):

Other lists:

Organizing:

  • 50501 (Linktree) Protest in every state capitol! Find actions/virtual actions, Flyer templates so you can edit to include details, and some other resources.
  • Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election. Sign up with your Email and Zip code to receive actions you can take locally. You can also file a form to start organizing in your own area.
  • Hands Off! Website for the April 5th DC protest led by multiple protest organizations. Don't know if this is a one-off website.
  • Build The Resistance Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
  • Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page. It has a map of protests.
  • Political revolution
  • Women’s March An organization by feminists. There is an action hub where you can find protests, digital actions, and a People's Toolkit, where you fill out a survey of issues you care about so they can find stuff for you.
  • Stand Up for Science Find protests, local rallies, and local events, to stand up for science. Contains a link to protest safety too, and in the FAQs is a Google Drive for flyers and square images.
  • Tesla Takedown Protest at Tesla dealerships to hurt Musk's gravy train.
  • Americans United Dedicated to the separation of church and state, which means they have to fight Project 2025, which they have a page on. Click on the "GET INVOLVED" button to find events and volunteer.

Transport/Protest Tools:

  • Rally.co Book bus rides to reach your protests! Search and book.
  • Block Posters Useful for making bigger signs by using multiple pieces of printed paper and combining them to form one big image.

Protesting Areas:

Protestor Guides:

Striking/Unionization:

  • The General Strike If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
  • Industrial Workers of the World A grassroots general union that you can join from any job or trade. This union will also help you with forming a union and has resources on how to do so, or you can sign their Red Card for membership. They would be the first to start or join a general strike, and if you want it to happen faster, then start unionizing your workplace.
  • Strike For Our Rights A nonprofit that promotes strikes. You can sign a strike card here.
  • SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS Slow down productivity by doing simple mischief to your workplace or possibly any relevant place. Contains advice for the saboteur. Click to get a card.
  • National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Hold off on paying your taxes. Has some resources, including on motivation and consequences.

Boycotting:

  • Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
  • MAGA Trash Search for companies that are MAGA.
  • Boycott MAGA Has names of brands and celebrities that are MAGA.
  • PublicSquare MAGA website where it has an interactable map full of MAGA companies that have self reported their location to. You even had to sign up to get on this map. You can search with your ZIP code to find MAGA businesses around you. (Note, this is a MAGA website, and someone should archive this.)
  • Bankrupt Trump Find alternatives to products made in the US or Russia. You can search, and pick your location to show local options.
  • Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.
  • Buy Beaver Website and App where you can search and Buy Canadian. Rates each product by how Canadian it is (Manufacturing, Ingredients, Brand) alongside some pictures. Even includes a scanner.
  • Buy European Buy European. Can search, or browse by category, or look for an alternative.
  • Go European Switch to European products and services. Also available as a browser extension. Use filters or categories to find physical or digital alternatives to American companies, or even search for a specific country.
  • European Alternatives "European alternatives for digital products." Search by category or by alternatives.

Home Actions:

  • 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.
  • Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Lets you find your representatives by state and you can choose one to call.
  • FaxZero Send free faxes to people, especially your representatives if they are ignoring your calls, which on the home page is links to a list of representatives you can fax to.
  • Democracy.io Email your representatives. Put your address, city, and ZIP, and it will find your representatives and you can email more than one at the same time.
  • Resistbot Bot you can text to via phone. Can mass email/text/fax representatives. I don't completely understand it's paid content coins and premium stuff.

Privacy/INFOSEC/OPSEC/OSINT:

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide Huge guide by many people on how to be anonymous online, or even offline/IRL. Covers many things. If you want to participate anonymously, or do any kind of activist or whistleblower work, this is worth a read.
  • OSINT Framework Big tree of resources for searching and gathering public data for intelligence. Also includes some privacy stuff.
  • Intelligence X OSINT search engine. /tools is also worth a try.
  • OSINT? WTF?? What is open-source intelligence? Explains what OSINT is.
  • EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
  • Tails OS The portable Operating System that forgets. Designed specifically for privacy and activists.
  • The Privacy Raccoon Privacy software list that I recommend. It has most of the stuff I would recommend to anyone for privacy.
  • PRISM Break Another privacy software list that I recommend second.
  • Awesome Privacy (1) (2) Cut away from big tech's control and selling of your data with this awesome privacy list.
  • Privacy Guides Another privacy list.
  • Digital Defense Your own interactable privacy checklist.
  • Practical Privacy Choose your privacy goal path, and follow the card's instructions. Each card has resources.
  • Digital security for activists Part of the Activist Handbook. Explains why you need security, and how to do it.
  • Data Broker Remover Tool Put your email on there, and this tool will tell many data brokers to stop selling your data and remove it.
  • IntelTechniques Has some free PDFs in the Resources section, and some Tools.

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Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.

Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.

“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.

Non-paywall link

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Inception bitch!

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cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/165736

collapsed inline mediaLenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

At least in the U.S. and Canada, that is.

This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post where a user (presumably a resident of Canada), had posted how Lenovo was shipping laptops with Fedora and Ubuntu at a cheaper price compared to their Windows-equipped counterparts.

Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing is.

Cutting the Windows Tax

When I dug in further, I found out that the US and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives.

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US pricing on left, Canadian pricing on right.

Interestingly, while the difference in pricing is noticeable, your mileage may vary if you are looking for such laptops on the official website. Not all models from their laptop lineup, like ThinkPad, Yoga, Legion, LOQ, etc., feature an option to get Linux pre-installed during the checkout process.

Luckily, there is an easy way to filter through the numerous laptops. Just go to the laptops section (U.S.) on the Lenovo website and turn on the "Operating System" filter under the Filter by specs sidebar menu.

collapsed inline mediaLenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

Yes, it's as simple as that. You can do the same for the various official online regional storefronts that Lenovo runs to see whether Linux-based operating systems are being offered on their laptops in your country.

Closing Thoughts

It is good to see that Lenovo is offering Linux in its laptops. In fact, there is another big-name laptop manufacturer, Dell, who also does something similar with its Ubuntu-certified laptops, but both have the same constraint of having limited options for buyers.

Also, as far as I know, Dell doesn't reduce the pricing if you choose Linux instead of Windows. Correct me if I am wrong in the comments.

Nonetheless, I think these manufacturers could do a better job in marketing these Linux-based alternative operating systems to general consumers, showing them how they can save big when opting for these instead of the pricey and bloated Windows.

Otherwise, we might have to start observing Windows Refund Day again.

💬 Your take on this? Would mainstream users benefit from having Linux pre-installed on their laptops?


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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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An American citizen born and raised in California is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country "immediately."

Aldo Martinez-Gomez received the DHS notice on April 11, threatening "criminal prosecution" and fines if he does not depart within seven days.

Martinez-Gomez works full-time assisting immigrants in court for a non-profit and believes his advocacy work may have placed him on the government's radar.

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A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares. According to the outlet, Hegseth threatened top officials with lie-detector tests to root out media sources on recent embarrassing stories.

https://archive.ph/dJ74K

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Someone toss his ass in prison already!

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Summary

  • Volkswagen beat Tesla in European EV sales across the first three months of 2025, data shows.
  • Registrations for VW EVs are up more than 150%, while Tesla lost huge ground.
  • However, the Model Y and Model 3 remain Europe's top two most-registered EVs.
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