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We need to send a message LOUD AND CLEAR to the Trump Regime and El Salvador, that the people of the United States do not support the disappearing of our people to gulags! Hit 'em where it hurts!

Originally Posted By u/Living_Half3893 At 2025-04-26 02:22:54 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Naive_Sleep_6873 At 2025-04-27 10:16:21 AM | Source

Hi friends! This is just a suggested schedule - the sooner people can plan on attending, the better turnout we can have! I've been looking for the location where we vote on the schedule, but can't find it anywhere. Trying to get a bit of traction in helping everyone plan ahead and keep moving forward :)

Originally Posted By u/Crime_Panda At 2025-04-26 09:58:29 PM | Source

Tell a friend! Tell 10 friends! See you there!

Originally Posted By u/believetobe At 2025-04-26 07:48:05 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/TiktokRefugee123 At 2025-04-27 04:54:15 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/ArtisicBard_Kit At 2025-04-26 11:55:12 AM | Source

We have been fighting tirelessly to have rights and have been attacked by the Trump administration over and over. Are we not important enough? We lived in a democracy that still tried to outlaw our existence. Do y'all care if we're allowed to exist within the next government that takes charge? You complain when we advocate for our brothers and sisters at protests. For the younger generations of us trying to fight for their right for freedom. Because we're not popular with democrats who have abandoned us. Because we're too hard to stomach for some of y'all. Are we not good enough to y'all? Do you actually want us to thrive or do you just want our support so you can start a new government without bothering to give us rights? I am all for stopping Trump, but can we stop pretending that we aren't hated by tons of people and treated poorly and made to feel suicidal everyday because of what is being done? Just be honest if you want us in the movement or not. I'm done acting like it's okay to debate our existence. Tell me now if we have the support or if we need to protect our own.

Originally Posted By u/christermaxinework At 2025-04-26 11:32:34 PM | Source

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Anyone from national unless you have answers don't bother commenting on this. Cause y'all look crazy right now. How dare y'all pull this with heroes of our country who bled for our country? To the fee who had integrity, appreciate y'all but the others. Shame on y'all. And please try to dox me for calling y'all out, you'll only make the case against yourselves worse. We demand answers now.

Originally Posted By u/slimdawiz At 2025-04-27 10:43:17 PM | Source

Around 2014, the United Kingdom was one of the best places to be transgender. There were great protections, healthcare was readily available (although with long wait lists through the NHS), and in general, transgender people could live a pretty normal life. This is relative to the time of course as other countries had not progressed as much on transgender matters.

In the span of a decade, the U.K. has gone from this to having some of the most regressive transgender policies in the western world. The U.K. embraced the largely pseudo scientific Cass Review which literally claimed that transgender people can not possibly be happy and must be lying about their own happiness, which of course means that transgender healthcare is bad.

During the same span of time, Germany and France created their own transgender healthcare policies which are among the most inclusive of any country and directly call out the Cass Report as unscientific.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-german-swiss-and-austria-guidelines?triedRedirect=true

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french-guidelines-recommend-trans?triedRedirect=true

Yale University also created its own critique of the Cass Review.

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/integrity-project_cass-response.pdf

Despite this, news agencies such as the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, The Economist, The Atlantic, Telegraph UK, and many more took the Cass Review as gospel and began writing progressively harsher anti trans articles.

NYT in particular was cited in many of the worst anti transgender laws in the country and their false narrative has literally caused transgender youth to committ suicide out of hopelessness.

https://www.them.us/story/66-percent-new-york-times-stories-trans-issues-failed-quote-trans-person

In the U.k., the conservative government completely banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. Then the Labour Party refused to repeal that law and became progressively more transphobic throughout their time as the ruling party.

Fast forward to last week and the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that transgender women are men, do not qualify for protections reserved for women, and cannot even legal call themselves lesbians if they are in a relationship with another transgender woman or a cisgender woman. Transgender women must use the men's restroom. Transgender men are expected to use the women's restroom. However they have a clause that if a trans man's appearance could cause alarm in the women's restroom, he also could be kicked out of there.

These kind of policies are downright sadistic. Ironically, as an American citizen from a trans friendly state, I have more rights in the U.K. as a visitor. Since my birth certificate says female, the U.K. wouldn't readily have a way of knowing that I'm transgender. The Labour Party has expressed support for this ruling and truly has completely thrown transgender people under the bus.

We will not let the United States go the same direction. I will not let my right to exist be the heavy object the democrats throw out of their sinking ship. We don't owe that to you. We don't owe that to the stock market or whatever other dumb status quo bullshit you long for. If someone can look at this chaos going on and decide that trans kids playing sports is worse than pure fascism, they were never going to vote for a democrat in the first place. No one has rights until everyone does.

Note: apologies for typos. I literally wrote this wearing rubber gloves.

Originally Posted By u/Accomplished-Unit343 At 2025-04-27 03:25:28 AM | Source

This is the only way to directly block bad stuff from going through. I assume we can talk about stuff like this on Lemmy. People will get fired and arrested. That's how things like this go. Some anonymous people should try to do simple sabotage. No, it's not legal. It's considered property damage or something like that. Nobody needs to go full luiji or anything like that. Just flush a sponge down the toilet at an important facility or something. Park in front of the door to stop people from entering. Not obvious vandalism like with the Teslas. It has to degrade the function of the executive branch. It obviously should be inconspicuous. If anybody has networking skills, they can use that to their advantage. Don't be afraid of getting into trouble. Just say you are unaffiliated with the movement, and that it was an accident. Act stupid. More secure communication will need to be done in person, at a local meeting or something.

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🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the U.S., we will gather in solidarity—honoring the legacy of workers who organized for the 8-hour day.

Today, we face a new threat. A billionaire-backed minority is quietly reshaping our democracy—eroding workers’ and immigrants’ rights, defunding our public services, and concentrating power into the hands of the few. But across the country, people are coming together to push back… not with fear, but with hope and nonviolent action.

A peaceful People’s Movement is growing—rooted in community, powered by compassion, and determined to build a future that serves all of us. From mutual aid networks to labor unions, student groups to neighborhood coalitions, we are reclaiming power by showing up for one another.

May Day is more than a tribute to the past. It’s a call to action in the present, a reminder that when we care for each other, we all rise.

✊ Be part of it. Organize with us. March with us. Care with us.

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Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-04-24 09:31:36 PM | Source

✊ May Day National Day of Protest ✊

Labor Rights - Economic Equality - Solidarity

Washington Square Park (City and County Building)
451 South State St., Salt Lake City

Thursday, May 1st @ 12 PM

https://www.utah50501.com/

#50501 #Utah50501

#RISE #RALLY #RESIST

#Politics #USPol #USA #UTPol #Utah

Come out and join us 😁 I am looking for any fellow handmaids who would like to join me and march together. Message me so we can coordinate

Originally Posted By u/hiya555 At 2025-04-26 10:20:52 PM | Source

i know the plan is to 24/7 protest at the national mall, which i find punk as fuck personally, but what exactly is the plan here? are people LITERALLY going to be there 24/7? will it be a shifts type thing? are we really gonna occupy until trump is gone? just wondering

Originally Posted By u/theteufortdozen At 2025-04-26 08:10:27 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Knightly_Rogue At 2025-04-25 05:05:49 PM | Source

To the American resistance: we are all in this together! Whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who wants to stand with us in the cause for freedom, defense of the Constitution, and protection of human rights is welcome.

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for LGBTQ people."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for immigrants."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for Black Americans and people of color."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for Palestine."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for Ukraine."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for the disabled and the neurodivergent."

We do not say, "we stand for freedom, but not freedom for the cash poor and the working class."

We stand for freedom. Period. Freedom from executive overreach. Freedom as defined by the Bill of Rights. Freedom to enjoy the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

We stand together. We rise together, motivated by love, convinced that all are created equal, and committed to the idea of liberty and justice for all.

Whatever cause you want to bring to a the protest, whatever flag you want to fly, as long as it aligns with the cause of freedom, I say: do it. I stand with you. Our liberation is bound together.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

We are all in this together.

In solidarity, friends. ✊

Originally Posted By u/Primary-Weakness8728 At 2025-04-27 11:43:20 AM | Source

Faith in Democracy Interfaith Rally and March

Utah State Capitol Sunday, April 27th @ 2 PM

Welcoming faith communities standing together against tyrannay

Rally & Speeches at Utah State Capitol Steps

March from the Capitol to Washington Square

All Denominations Welcome!

Please read the linked PDF called Project Unity. It is a thoughtful examination of our current situation, how to solve as many of our problems with 4 solutions. I would propose we assimilate our goals outlined in our PDF and displayed here.

SHARED TRUTHS SUMMARY We all feel our world is off kilter Wealth inequality in systems causes violence Our system is experiencing that Deregulated media does not talk about how to rebalance our system Memories saved from learning environments, like news sources, lacking critical thinking, and remembered during topics of conversation leads to disunity and lack critical thinking open-mindedness. Disunity harms relationships, like the violent rhetoric and difficulty seeking the truth together politically, spiritually, rather than “winning.” Lower taxes on wealthy and corporations isn't working, hence our 40 years of the shrinking middle classes resources, the need for both parents to work and sacrifice their relationships, mental health, physical health, and is why we aren't raising families. There are forces at work to divide us, we choose a Pantheon, inclusive, sustainable organization.

Shared Goals Resource reallocation New Fairness Doctrine Reverse Citizens United and “Tips” for corrupting politics Sustainable Practices

Shared Spiritual Goals (ShHEE): Shared Happiness Shared Experiences Shared Expressions

By aligning our movement with goals like the above, we more broadly impact all of us, including those we may not see eye to eye, like friend, family, neighbors, misled over time.

https://substack.com/@savvii/note/p-162234097?r=50f2n5

he productivity of the industrial revolution was enormous, if the productivity from computers in the early information age being allocated disproportionately created oligarchs which are demolishing democracy slowly, but ramping up speed more recently, the need to begin resource reallocation to save and evolve our democracy is ever more important. How little ideas, voices, American dreams will we have with an exponentially larger increase in productivity with AI, robotics, and automation, as it matures, if it continues to be allocated inequitably? What kind of world do we strive for our kids?

If inequality in a system causes violence, and we're already experiencing leading indicators of violence with our current level of inequity, how bad can it get with the growth, and inequitable allocation, with the continued maturation of AI, automation, and robotics?

Join the Discord and vote on the next national day of action in June! Head to the server-announcements channel to find the poll.

Discord link: https://discord.com/invite/50501

Originally Posted By u/ForcedCreator At 2025-04-27 02:23:49 PM | Source

For fucks sake, trump wearing a blue suit to a funeral gets more media attention than all the horrible shit he’s done and still doing this week. Let’s focus on the Supreme Court and their sitting on their hands instead of having him taken out of office by whatever and all means possible.

Originally Posted By u/Panelpro40 At 2025-04-27 08:31:36 AM | Source

There're constant language games. "Lefties." They do it because it works.

I no longer say MAGA. I say the whole name, every time.

"MAGA Nazis." Every single time.

After the first two minutes they stop bickering.

After ten minutes of otherwise reasonable discussion, it sticks in their craw, and they repeat it too.

I don't say this about republicans. I want them to feel like choosing to be a republican, and not a MAGA, means they're different. I want to drive a wedge in their heart between their old self identity and being part of (gestures widely) this.

Is it different? No. But I want them to feel like they can be not a part of this without admitting it.

We can work on admitting it next year. Baby steps.

Fuck those MAGA Nazis. You? You're just an innocent republican caught in the crossfire, poor dear. You didn't vote for this. There, there. You're still an American.

Now prove it and pick up a shovel.

You're not a MAGA Nazi, right?

... right?

It works. Give them an out.

Originally Posted By u/StoneCypher At 2025-04-27 08:17:48 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/ArcaneChronomancer At 2025-04-25 07:54:57 PM | Source

I frequently see people on the various 50501 subreddits asking people to check their pet issues at the door. To go protest for specifically dethroning Trump and his Republican regime and to focus solely on that. Sometimes these posts are very vague, sometimes they are specifically asking pro-Palestinian or trans rights protesters to leave that issue at home.

I totally get this instinct. The left has historically been plagued by infighting. With respect to Palestine in particular, that is an issue which the DNC and the DCCC have made absolutely clear they will not budge on, and that understandably makes people nervous. There's a lot of very legitimate anxiety over the possibility that civil protest carries us through to 2026 and then the Democratic party only coughs up center right candidates and the protest movement fails to translate into electoral support, killing any hope of fixing things.

I think we are all aware that we are staring down the reality midterms (assuming we still have free and fair ones in 2026) where the Democratic party is going to run a bunch of transphobic, starkly anti-immigration, who are going to try primarily to appeal to conservatives. And if I had to guess, a lot of us are trying to brace ourselves for the reality of what the leftist infighting about that is going to look like. Especially after Harris lost not because Trump gained any votes since 2020, but because the Democratic party had reduced turnout across demographics.

So there is an urge to create a movement which can hold together in spite of that. Which brings as many people on board as possible. Which isn't going to fall apart at the finish line over specific wedge issues. If what I'm saying strikes any sort of chord in you, believe me I get it. The thought keeps me up at night.

But I don't think asking people to keep their "distracting messages" at home and out of these protests actually helps.

Because those "distracting messages" are things people actually care about. Enough to show up and be involved and form community about. And people are more likely to believe politicians and leadership figures actually have interests aligned with the movements they claim to represent when those leadership figures show that they hold meaningful and distinguishing personal opinions which they hold to even when it might not be politically optimal.

People don't just abstractly want an America without Trump, people have positive and inspiring visions of what they actually want America to be. And the people who care enough to put themselves out there and protest a fascist regime specifically because of something they care about? The people who see violence halfway across the world and imagine a nation which is better than that? The trans people who believe this nation can have a place for them, their allies care enough to fight for that?

Whether you agree with them or not, those people care. They have skin in the game. Those people who you might be worried will clash with centrist or right leaning Democrats, because they protested the Democrats too? The thing to focus on is the fact they were protesting. They were showing up. Anybody who has a positive and constructive vision of the United States of America which shines so brightly in their mind that when they put their body in the streets to protest fascism they are thinking "this, this is what I'm fighting fascism for"? Those people show up.

I know that personally, when I see huge variety of signs of protests, I'm not seeing a fractured movement, I'm one hundred reasons people cherish enough to risk protesting fascism.

And I think you will find these people very pragmatic about who they are willing to fight beside to deal with Trump. Tell somebody that they can be loud and vocal about their issues, so long as they are willing to be in the same crowd as people who have other highest priority issues? Anybody in that position knows that having a foot in the door for whatever comes after Trump is better than nothing.

Unless you tell them they have to leave their issues at home. Because that is overtly telling them that even raising the possibility of their issues being addressed is too much. That there is no resolution for their issues to be found in this movement.

So they're going to join different groups, focus more narrowly on their specific issues. They will still be fighting. But they will not be part of the much vaunted big tent. Insisting people with specific priority issues leave those issues out of their protest is unquestionably going to fracture the movement.

But who will be part of the big tent, who will only join if those loud and proud voices weren't present?

Because we're not talking about people who disagree about whether we have the "luxury" to fight for these issues. If you're one of those people who thinks of those fights as luxuries right now, I'm sure you're still going to be fighting if even people show up at protests with Palestinian and trans flags. We're not even talking about people who are outright transphobic or racist, but see Donald Trump as the principal threat. Because those people aren't going home because of pride flags either.

We are talking specifically about the people who would home rather than protest against Donald Trump. Who would rather have Trump if they thought there was any chance that the movement against Trump might result in trans rights, or divestment from the IDF, or more immigration, for public health care, or whatever other "distracting messages" you might be worried about.

And I hope you can forgive me for making presumptions about strangers, but I just don't think anybody in that group is going to be all that dedicated to fighting fascism.

Call me a cynic, but if somebody is driving by a protest and thinking about showing up at the next one, but then they see a trans flag and decide they don't want to protest Trump that badly, I just don't trust their commitment.

If we make a big tent by telling people to leave certain issues at home, specifically to invite that group of people in, I just don't think the big tent is going to have much force behind it. If we characterize the movement by not offending the sensibilities of its most conditional supporters, I think we will weaken the movement rather than strengthen it. When a movement's message is defined by the reticence of its least committed members, well ... first you get a big tent. And then it deflates.

Politics is determined by those who show up, especially in the system the United States has. What we need isn't to maximize the number of people who are tepidly on board with protesting Trump, we need people who are going to have follow through. We need people who care. Who have faith in what they're fighting for, whatever specific issue that may be.

I won't paint a rosy picture about it.This is messy. It opens the door to infighting. There will be wedge issues that people will try to exploit. It takes work to make a coalition work, and it is often frustrating and painful work.

But no one has ever actually made a big tent by limiting which ideas are allowed in the tent. If you want a big tent, you just invite people to show up. With all their baggage and crusades that drive them.

And the people who would rather have fascism than protest next to a proud Palestinian or a trans person, well. Don't stress over it. I promise you they're not worth the effort.

Originally Posted By u/Sengachi At 2025-04-26 10:13:55 PM | Source

Looks like 50501 has been infiltrated by the opposition. I don't know what's true here, but it sounds like some fuckery.