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Originally Posted By u/MIResist At 2025-04-25 10:19:16 PM | Source

Trump has now had two federal judges arrested, we can't be quiet about this! I'm trying to get a last minute protest going for tomorrow, 4/26 at the Nebraska state Capitol. Aiming for 1pm to 3pm as a time frame, please help get the word out

Originally Posted By u/KngyRoo At 2025-04-25 06:35:32 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Skyfoxmarine At 2025-04-26 10:17:28 AM | Source

Call out their hypocrisy!

Originally Posted By u/SinisterPaperclip At 2025-04-23 10:52:18 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/BigTopGT At 2025-04-24 06:57:14 PM | Source

With the movement kind of in shambles at the moment (we’ll be okay, purely because this is decentralized), we need to agree on the next day of movement. June 14th is a good day (Trump’s birthday/alleged military parade and Flag Day), but I feel we need another day before then.

I think Memorial Day/Memorial Day weekend is a good date, but I’d like some other ideas as well.

Originally Posted By u/ColoradoSteelerBoi19 At 2025-04-26 07:53:14 AM | Source

There is no greater single imperative right now than removing Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. He is the clearest, most immediate, and most powerful danger to our biosphere, our health, our welfare, our safety, our privacy, our lives, and our freedom in the world today.

There have been millions of people like me who have been shouting this at the top of their lungs. And tens of millions more have this thought on their lips, yet to take form.

My campaign began when I realized how close we are to losing what makes this country worth loving. Not with rage, but with clarity, I thought—we deserve more than this. America wants to live again, I know it. And if we mean that, really mean it, we’re going to have to move with conviction, and fight with purpose.

Congress dithers, posing for pictures glad-handing local notables, all forcing smiles while the walls of autocracy go up around us, brick by brick. This is the worst national emergency of our lifetimes, and Democratic leadership has failed to address it in remotely accurate terms. Donald Trump has broken America. And when the enemy is cheating, we must refuse to play with a rigged deck. When the enemy is ignoring norms, you can’t keep clinging to them like a life raft. Clinging to the past is drowning us. We need to swim for something new, or we go down for good.

Congress today is full of a bunch of corpses they haven’t gotten around to burying yet. Soundbites instead of spines. Press releases instead of plans. Dinosaurs dutifully manning the slow grind of bureaucracy, pretending they can outlast a meteor.

My name is Jesse MacKinnon. I am a history teacher. I am a parent. I am a longtime local of CA-10. I am someone who believes in individual liberty and working-class dignity. And I am bone weary of watching people with no imagination and no urgency try to “wait out” a fascist movement that never sleeps.

I know I’m not the most likely candidate to run for Congress. But I believe deeply that either Mark DeSaulnier and our Democratic leaders will do more to confront this growing despotism, or that I will go to Washington and try to help stop the pillaging of America myself. I’ll leave that choice to the voters.

Originally Posted By u/mackinnon4congress At 2025-04-24 03:30:27 PM | Source

I’m not local but found this info on blue sky and wanted to pass it on to anyone who might be available to join. There is another one starting at 3pm. I will post that info in the comments. In solidarity 💪🤍❤️💙🇺🇸

Originally Posted By u/Eunice_Peppercorn At 2025-04-25 02:22:37 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Publius1919 At 2025-04-26 01:37:33 PM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/HotLava00 At 2025-04-25 05:46:18 PM | Source

Look around:

ICE is breaking into homes without warrants.

A sitting judge was arrested for protecting rights.

Court orders are being openly ignored by federal agencies.

Sensitive data has been breached—then covered up.

This is no longer a slow erosion. This is an active dismantling of constitutional government.

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We Are in a 4–8 Week Window to Fight Back

Right now, Trump’s team is moving fast to lock in unconstitutional policies before courts and the public can catch up. Every day without mass resistance strengthens their position. If public action doesn’t explode immediately—organized, strategic, overwhelming—then by summer, the balance will tip.

Courts are trying to push back. But without real public force behind them, they will be isolated and neutralized—one judge at a time.

What We Must Do

Non-negotiable actions:

Massive, focused public protests specifically defending the courts and the Constitution—not scattered outrage, but unified pressure.

Crush the silence: hammer Congress with calls, letters, and in-person pressure. Overwhelm their offices every day.

Strengthen legal defenses for whistleblowers, journalists, and judges under threat.

Force local leaders to take sides—no neutrality when constitutional rights are under attack.

The Most Radical (Lawful) Resistance Tools Left

Court defense actions: assemble at courthouses to shield judges and court proceedings from intimidation.

National general strikes: freeze the economy to make the cost of ignoring the Constitution unbearable.

State rebellion against illegal orders: push governors and AGs to reject federal abuses publicly and legally.

Mass civil disobedience campaigns: peaceful but disruptive tactics that force national attention on due process violations.

This isn’t a warning. It’s a countdown.

We have until June. Act like it.

The 505051 movement exists for this moment. Let’s not fail when it matters most.

Originally Posted By u/deathrowslave At 2025-04-26 02:54:47 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/bluesunset90 At 2025-04-24 12:14:12 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/lokey_convo At 2025-04-24 09:22:24 PM | Source

In case you missed it, trump is signing executive orders targeting law firms that represented his political opponents. Then after they agree to work for him for free, he reveals the orders. Finally two firms said no and sued, but more than six law firms already caved and agreed to do free legal work in order to get the president to stop illegally retaliating against them for the crime of representing trumps political opponents.

Why is this not a bigger story?

Originally Posted By u/D2Foley At 2025-04-24 08:36:26 AM | Source

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

This is an emergency!!! All hands on deck, Trump just arrested a sitting judge because he didn’t like her ruling. We must quickly organize and then ACT.

According to this source she should have been before a judge about an hour ago but I cannot find any information confirming that.

We need to get loud and we need to do it now. Contact your representatives. This is a direct attack on democracy.

Originally Posted By u/Canoe-Maker At 2025-04-25 11:50:45 AM | Source

I’ve decided I’m gonna protest at a major intersection in my city tomorrow, any advice or sign ideas would be appreciated!

I’m nervous but excited 🇺🇸

Originally Posted By u/Stonner22 At 2025-04-24 10:36:44 PM | Source

Musk immediately addressed his efforts with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump, saying he would be reducing his federal budget-slashing efforts starting in May.

“I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term,” Musk said on the call. “So I think I’ll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it is useful, but starting next month, I’ll be allocating far more of my time to Tesla,” he added.

Here are five key quotes from Musk on the Tesla earnings call, as transcribed by FactSet:

Future of Tesla: “The future of the company is fundamentally based on large-scale autonomous cars and large-scale and large volume, vast numbers of autonomous humanoid robots.

So, the value of the company that makes truly useful autonomous humanoid robots and autonomous useful vehicles at scale at low cost, which is what Tesla is going to do is staggering. I continue to believe that Tesla with excellent execution will be the most valuable company in the world by far.”

Financial impact of robotaxi: “I said I think on the last earnings call that we will start to see the prosperity of autonomy take effect in a material way around the middle of next year. We expect to have – be selling fully autonomous rides in June in Austin as we’ve been saying for now several months. So, that’s continued.

But the real question from financial standpoint is when does it really become material and affect the bottom-line of the company and start to be a fundamental part of the – when does it move the financial needle in a significant way? That’s probably around the middle of next year, second half of next year.”

Optimus robots: “And with regards to Optimus, making good progress in Optimus. We expect to have thousands of Optimus robots working in Tesla factories by the end of this year, beginning this fall. And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product, I think, in history to get to millions of units per year as soon as possible. I think we feel confident in getting to 1 million units per year in less than five years, maybe four years. So by 2030, I feel confident in predicting 1 million Optimus units per year. It might be 2029.”

Tariffs: “Now tariffs are still tough on a company when margins are still low. But we do have localized supply chains in both America, Europe, and China. So that puts us in a stronger position than any of our competitors. And undoubtedly, I’m going to get a lot of questions about tariffs. And I just want to emphasize that the tariff decision is entirely up to the President of the United States. I will weigh in with my advice with the President, which if he will listen to my advice but then it’s up to him, of course, to make his decision.

I’ve been on the record many times saying that I believe lower tariffs are generally a good idea for prosperity. But this decision is fundamentally up to the elected representative of the people being the President of the United States. So I’ll continue to advocate for lower tariffs rather than higher tariffs, but that’s all I can do.”

Tesla energy segment: “With respect to energy, our energy business is doing very well. The Megapack … enables utility companies to output far more total energy than would otherwise be the case. When you think of the energy capability of a grid, it’s much more than, let’s say, total energy output per year. If a power plants could operate at peak power for all 24 hours as opposed to being at half power, sometimes a quarter power at night, then you could double the energy output of existing power plants.”

Originally Posted By u/ChiefHippoTwit At 2025-04-23 03:12:27 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/RoyalChris At 2025-04-23 05:31:43 PM | Source

Starting May 1, 2025, join the Mayday Movement, partners of 5051, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to demand the impeachment, conviction, and removal of President Donald J. Trump. Through a continuous, peaceful protest, we aim to hold our leaders accountable and restore constitutional integrity.

Donate or shop here: https://maydaymovementusa.org/donate/ or check out the QR codes to see what items we need.

Originally Posted By u/Lets_see_whats_next At 2025-04-25 09:50:48 PM | Source

I think part of this fight is getting our message across effectively and I think this photo does such a great job.

Originally Posted By u/DigExisting9971 At 2025-04-23 10:52:27 PM | Source

The last couple of days have been SO déjà vu it's enough to drive one to mutter to hell with it and go get several beer. Because I've seen this in about every North American movement since I was a kid with the adults on the line back in the 1950s.

Some things happen in every movement, no matter how well it starts. First, 'leaders' emerge, because most humans are followers and need leaders. Then the 'leaders' begin to like being leaders and rapidly come to view disagreement as a challenge to their power and an attack on the true nature of The Movement. At the same time, Ideologues begin questioning the intellectual and/or moral purity of The Movement (ideologues seem to think in Capitalisation). The non-violent are upset by the Bloc, the Bloc mocks the Kumbaya crowd (terminology of the 1990s), vegans attack meat eaters, then vegetarians, left leaners refuse to working with right leaners, Trots shoot down the crowd on the Odessa Steps and yadayadayada. People spend more time determining the most democratic way to make decisions than actually deciding. Soon groups spin off into little bubbles of purity and conspiracy, until the formerly powerful Movement is reduced to monthly meetings devoted to determining rules and the agenda for the next meeting.

And the capitalists/fascists/bosses win again.

Everyone,please, TAKE A DEEP BREATH! Decide for yourself whether it is more important to save the tattered shreds of your democracy or to be in charge, or morally correct, or have the most intellectually rigorous interpretation, or only co-operate with people who agree with you 100%, or....

Screw central structure, branding, trademarks and consensus: NO REVOLT WAS EVER WON THAT WAY! Look at what happened to BLM and Occupy Democrats. NO!

Whoever you are, wherever you are, turn to the person next to you and agree on the goals you share -- there will be time when that battle is won to fight over details. Work with the people in your community who share those goals to reach them, no matter what other stuff you have to set aside for now.

Then DO IT! It might be marching.or grafitti-ing slogans, or flooding your Congressperson's mailbox/phone/office plastering the town with posters, standing alone with a handmade sign.

Or maybe you are a member of the Black Bloc. That's your choice, and you can only be responsible for your choices, not your neighbour's. Support those who are working parallel to you, or in the same field, or for a cause that aligns with yours, even if it's not yours.

Because you ain't gonna win this any way but through mutual support and co-operation: that's the only way numbers grow overwhelming and revolts succeed.

Thanks for reading the old woman's rant. Be back later to see how thoroughly it's ignored.

Edit: teeny tiny typo.

Originally Posted By u/MrsWidgery At 2025-04-26 08:53:57 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/itsokbirdie At 2025-04-24 11:48:12 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/NewDiamondBox_ At 2025-04-27 12:36:22 PM | Source

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I'm sorry but I trust the vets and if they're saying national was moving funny I gotta agree

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