Over 1,000 anti-Trump protests, both big and small, are scheduled across America Saturday
  • Large protests are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to express voice discontent with President Trump’s administration.
  • Organizers aim to make the protests accessible by holding events in many places, including small towns.
  • The protests reflect growing momentum and dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies on immigration, transgender rights, and the firing of federal workers.

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  • UnPassive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 小时前

    Gonna be my first protest. Was gonna go for Canada but now it feels more like a protest for every country besides Russia and North Korea…

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 小时前

      I just want to note that one of the key links on the NLG site, under Protest Tools > Legal Hotlines, is broken. (The “Chapter Page” link goes to a broken draft version.) If you went to that site specifically to find a local chapter’s phone number to write, the correct link to that page is: https://www.nlg.org/chapters/

  • Lit@lemmy.world
    381·
    19 小时前

    Take back the white house from russia agent, Kasnov Trump and Nazi Felon Musk.

        • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
          11·
          16 小时前

          I’m going too! Making some puppets to hold signs with in support of PBS funding and unions. I recently learned how to work with felt and want to use my new skill for good.

          I’m thinking signs could be:

          “Have you learned NOTHING from sesame Street?”

          “This is not very Mr. Rogers of you Donald”

          “That’s not how we treat our neighbors” with a cutout of Mr. Rogers

          “Even puppets can recognize that clown”

          any additional ideas welcome!

    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
      12·
      20 小时前

      The weird ass trump supporters already do that every day still like the election is still happening. It’s a cult I swear. They’re on the fucking overpass waving flags constantly.

      I checked the map, the closest protest seems to be a government building in west palm.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    1113·
    1 天前

    Remember, folks: avoid attempts by bad actors to turn your peaceful legal protest into a riot, 47’s itching for an excuse to invoke martial law and seize more power. Disable biometrics on any phone you bring. Make sure someone knows where you’re going and is waiting to hear you made it home. Don’t post pictures or videos that identify people, who may be risking a lot more than you by being there. You don’t want to be the reason ICE disappears someone. Protect yourself from teargas but also from plain old sunburn and dehydration.

    • outrageousmatter@lemmy.world
      26·
      1 天前

      Itching, he wants to invoke it, using specifically the insurrection act of 1807, tomorrow they may push it earlier then 90 days since it was always part of project 2025 and also due the senate most likely passing a bill to limit his power for tariff by needing approval from them to be used, so they enact it just a bit earlier to make sure national emergency still exist. Don’t be surprised if it is invoked as this was always planned as part of project 2025.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
          131·
          20 小时前

          Problem is, 47, his henches, the entire GOP and cops in general have zero ability to feel shame or remorse, and nobody who does has the power to stop them. I think protesting peacefully but being ready to run and scatter seems to increase the likelihood you’ll live to protest again.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
      10·
      21 小时前

      it really doesn’t matter because Trump doesn’t care about or relate to actual fact for anything. HOWEVER, it is critically important that you get to the protest and start connecting to other protestors on Signal before the crackdown happens

  • piecat@lemmy.world
    1881·
    1 天前

    Stock market crashing -> now a reason for corporate interests to align with resistance -> finally hearing about protests in mainstream media

    • frezik@midwest.social
      45·
      1 天前

      To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism. This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.

      From Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”, emphasizes added.

      The bourgeoisie aligning to the resistance has happened before. Now, make no mistake: they will betray the movement as soon as it’s in their interests to do so. Don’t trust them past the current crisis.

      • metaldream@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        5 小时前

        Don’t even trust them now. Nothing has happened yet. We can say that they took our side after MAGA is out of power and the extremist apparatus that supported them is totally destroyed.

        If there’s one lesson we can learn from Trump, it’s that it’s much easier to destroy something than it is to build it. IF we gain power again, we need to take that lesson to heart, and turn it against the fascists who gleefully applied it to the American people, and the rest of the democratic world.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      21·
      21 小时前

      It’s fascinatingly dumb how short-sighted they are. Do they like having money? People deported, in jail, dead, unemployed, homeless can’t buy their stuff. A delusional hope of feeding off government money only works until the government no longer has a use for you, or decides to just take you over and you become part of the government.

      It is in their best interests to support the masses, but they can’t ever see past 3 months in the future.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
        7·
        21 小时前

        Eventually! Yes! I got 3 billion dollars!.. Hmm tasty! How much is that Apple my fellow citizen?..its 2 billion dollars please!

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    37·
    1 天前

    100% unrelated, Anyone know if Faraday bag for phone is a good option for large gatherings where i uhh… just want to be part of the moment?

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      22 小时前

      If you really can’t bear to be without a phone, get 2 burners. Put the number of each on the other. Nothing else. Bring one, and give the other to the person who might need you urgently or might be able to bail you out. You can write their burner number on yourself for EMTs to call, without giving police any justification for getting into their real phone.

      • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
        8·
        22 小时前

        Hmm seems like the concern is more police going through your phone if they grab you for some reason more than location. That make sense.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      121·
      21 小时前

      I’ve tested some and they work good if properly wrapped shut, but probably better for day-to-day use and less for such an event where you’d probably be best just to leave it home. Phones use radio frequencies from 14MHz (NFC) to 39GHz (5G mmWave) with spec up to 71GHz. It is real hard to get a radio wave blocker bag that can block almost every conceivable frequency band in the RF spectrum.

      It is also hard to truly turn phones off anymore, many broadcast Bluetooth beacons when powered off, and even outside of that, they leave dead-reckoning tracking turned on that can extrapolate where you may have gone just by how you walk. It is also why a phone turned off can still have a dead battery in a month or two, because stuff is kept running, when older phones truly turned off and you could pick it up a year later and still have a charge.

      • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
        17·
        19 小时前

        EE here - a well sealed foil pouch should work just fine for basically all RF radiation. Even at a few MHz a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil has like 150dB of attenuation, and that goes up to basically infinity above 1GHz.

    • Bienenvolk@feddit.org
      274·
      1 天前

      If you don’t want to be tracked down afterwards based on your phone’s location, turning it off will suffice.

      If you fear to get arrested, you should just leave it at home or somewhere it cannot be found too easily.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        31·
        1 天前

        And if you do take it along, set your lock screen to a pin, not a fingerprint. There are still some legal protections left (for now), and police can make you unlock a fingerprint but not a pin. I know, it’s silly, but that’s how it works.

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        22 小时前

        You need the phone turned off, and the offline Bluetooth most phones these days broadcast also disabled. The NFC could also passively respond, although that would require more clever engineering to make a directional NFC scanner. ISO 15693 apparently extends the NFC distance to 3 feet.

        • Bienenvolk@feddit.org
          6·
          21 小时前

          Don’t know, but that’s kind of the point. Even “off is off” isn’t entirely true anymore. So I just don’t know what airplane mode exactly does.

    • The_Caretaker@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      1 天前

      Try wrapping it in aluminum foil. You can test to see if it works by trying to call your phone from another phone while it’s wrapped up.

            • dev_null@lemmy.ml
              33·
              19 小时前

              I don’t know your threat model, but if airplane mode is not enough, then I wouldn’t trust wrapping it in tinfoil either, as that would be less reliable. There are of course better ways than both of these methods. Like leaving your phone home.

          • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
            131·
            21 小时前

            No, in fact airplane mode often keeps Bluetooth and WiFi powered up until manually disabled, depending on the phone model, sometimes other radios as well. It also keeps GPS on so the phone can still track where it goes while in airplane mode.

            • dev_null@lemmy.ml
              3·
              19 小时前

              I’ve never had a phone that keeps Bluetooth or Wi-Fi on when enabling airplane mode, but sure, if yours does that then of course also disable them separately.

              Airplane mode is supposed to stop any radio transmission from your device. GPS does not transmit anything, so there is no reason to disable it.

                • dev_null@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  10 小时前

                  Yes, what’s your point? Airplane mode turns off the cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. You can then turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth back on if you choose to, which only leaves the cellular network disabled.

    • Fungah@lemmy.world
      61·
      22 小时前

      So. I have had some recent experiences that have been… Very educational about a lot of the less thought aspects of technology that most people take for granted. H Most faraday bags you can buy are fucking garbage. None of them hurt in the grand scheme of things but they more involved this but I can’t do calculus so feel free to do the math). At around the 5 and 6 ghz range (guess what frequency wifi 6 and 5g operate at?) the gap size in a faraday cage needs to be something like 1-2mm.

      Of course you’re not talking about a farDy cage, but a shielded bag. So buy one, close it with the Velcro clasp, and ask yourself: how snug is sealed Velcro? How much can I roll this up? And all the other myrad questions that lead to the same fucking conclusion: this is not the radio blocking solution you thought it was.

      This isn’t to say you can’t buy a faraday bag that works (even if it does you may need more than one) it’s that as the frequency it gets increasingly difficult to block the signals coming in and out.

      And I don’t understand the math, at all, but I’m not sure how the power of a signal would effect a faraday bag. Like.im assuming it would but.

      Anyway…my point is: if you’re bringing a faraday make very, very, very,VERY fucking sure it actually works.

      How do you do that? I’m not 100% be t I’m pretty sure the equipment needed is complicated and expwnaive.

      Someone more knowledgeable can expand on any of this, . Since everything I’ve learned on the subject has been severely limited by the fact that the Internet is a fucking wasteland.

  • OffColor@sh.itjust.works
    671·
    1 天前

    We had an anti-Trump protest in Alabama. In ALABAMA. And this wasn’t mostly college-aged liberals. It was primarily older white people, the republican core demographic. If we, by some miracle, make it through the next three and a half years, the Republicans are going to suffer historical losses across the board.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.org
      35·
      1 天前

      Even if the system isn’t completely rigged by then, it’s been proven time and time again that the average voter has the attention span of a toddler on sugar. I’m afraid what happens now, three and a half years away from the elections, will have no influence on the elections.

      • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
        22·
        1 天前

        “The new guy cant be as bad”

        Or

        “I’m not voting for a woman”

        Or

        “I’d rather vot for Trump than a demented person X”

        I have very little faith in the average person.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      241·
      1 天前

      They are going to let the protests grow. By next summer, there will be massive protests about all sorts of bad stuff. Just pick your issue, there will be a protest for it. Most cities will have multiple mass protests over multiple issues simultaneously.

      HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to stir up some standard street violence, then send in the authorities to quell the violence with ferocious lethal violence. Many will die.

      He will use that to justify Martial Law and suspend elections for the first time in American history. He can’t afford to allow the House or the Srnate to flip, and give the Drmocrats control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        12 小时前

        they have used agitators in the past before too during his 1st term. there is one right winger influencer his shtick is to agitate blm and these types of protests.

    • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
      162·
      1 天前

      the Republicans are going to suffer historical losses across the board.

      No, no they’re not. Because they are and will continue to gerrymander and rig to ensure that they stay in power.

      • RainbowHedgehog@50501.chatEnglish
        4·
        18 小时前

        They did after the Great Depression. The tariffs Trump is implemented have a good chance of creating a Depression.

    • iridebikes@lemmy.world
      41·
      21 小时前

      They aren’t changing any Trumpist minds. They just aren’t. The stock market could reach zero valuation and theyd still be shilling for Trump.

      • tomi000@lemmy.world
        9·
        21 小时前

        While youre right, the MAGA core is a small portion of US voters. Even if it was half the Republican voters, thats about 15% of total US voters. They are a minority that pretends to make up 90% of the population. Get the turnout up and convince those brainwashed by Fox news and you got yourself a 70-30 win.

        • iridebikes@lemmy.world
          41·
          20 小时前

          Not possible as long as 90% of the public just need to be told that trans people are evil. I’m sorry man. I’m glad you’re optimistic but I’m increasingly convinced this is going to end in violence.

          • RainbowHedgehog@50501.chatEnglish
            4·
            18 小时前

            I don’t want it to end in violence but with the really bad recession or even depression that is headed our way… there’s no way to keep people together over that. Too many people will lose too much.

            • iridebikes@lemmy.world
              3·
              17 小时前

              And even worse? They’re losing it all while the offending political party mocks and belittles them. Yeah, it’s gonna get bad. They fly Trump flags in front of their houses and wear the merch and decorate their offices with it so…

              It won’t be hard for the resistance to find them.

              • RainbowHedgehog@50501.chatEnglish
                2·
                17 小时前

                I think a lot of the working-class Trump voters will protest once the economy gets bad enough. Not with us, but I don’t think they’ll be able to take it when enough of them lose their jobs.

                • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  12 小时前

                  all those farms going under, and being bought out by tyson and other mega-corp farms. and they still think he would do the right thing. remember the soybean tariffs.

          • tomi000@lemmy.world
            5·
            18 小时前

            Oh Im absolutely convinced this is going to end in either violence (which would be the better alternative) or a dictatorship enslaving the majority of the US population for corporate profit while waging war as a side hustle. I was just commenting within the scenario of elections in 4 years, which will not happen. Fascists dont give up power for democratic reasons.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      5·
      20 小时前

      This map is missing the one planned for Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, which is likely to be the biggest in the area (popular protest location).