50501 General

To start, I use this account (almost) solely for current events, gathering protest information etc. Apparently, the link to my DC list of protests consistently gets removed from r/washingtondc.

While the original post I made there got some traction, it seems that several, possibly all comments I've made there with the link have been removed (even though I can still see them). It also seems like mentions of r/vetsagainsttyranny /Sons of Liberty also get blocked regardless of what subreddit I post them in. This has happened in r/50501 and r/ProtestFinderUSA.

Keep sharing these links and groups. Apparently we need to find a way around these walls. I'm really curious how this post will do. It seems as though it mostly applies to comments, however.

EDIT: I discovered how to see all past comments through reveddit, and I can now confirm that all comments in r/washingtondc with the link were deleted except ONE. It seems that the subreddit is heavily censored. In addition to the link, any mention of r/50501 was also deleted, as well as mentions of Proton, a google alternative that I use for the list. One mention of r/50501 was also censored in r/genz.

House dems are PISSED at what Schumer just did. This is the case where outside voices are maximally helpful - when people on the inside of the party want him out. Let's build continued pressure. This will not happen overnight, it will happened when we keep the pressure consistently high

Link to find direct numbers your senators

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121

Link to find direct numbers your senators

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121

Tell them no on cloture and no on the bill itself

Post link

https://bsky.app/profile/bkindivisible.bsky.social/post/3lkdms4t4wc24

Pack up your bags, Tesla is woke. You heard it from Elon Musk himself.

Taken from the 50501 reddit...

US : Request your private data obtained by DOGEUS News (self.50501) submitted 8 hours ago * by Vivid_Midnight_1066

Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This law encompasses the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, which entitles any citizen to access personal information held in any U.S. government records system.

https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

Please spread the word so we can inundate DOGE with requests for our personal data.

Edited to add a direct link to the form letter: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/images/Raskin_DOGE_Privacy_Request.pdf

Protests are well known, and popular. The trouble is, when I look back on the one-off protests I’ve joined over the years, I don’t remember a single one that changed the policy we were protesting against.

In February 2003, I joined millions of others around the world on the eve of US/British war on Iraq. The BBC estimated that a million protested on 15 February in London alone. In the US, unprecedented numbers turned out in 150 cities, according to CBS.

The New York Times said in a front page story that the protest indicated a ‘second global superpower’. I wish. Even while we were in the streets, I realised that the protest wouldn’t prevent the war, because the protest’s leadership wasn’t telling us what we would do next, and that we would escalate after that – how we would take the offensive. The leadership didn’t offer us a campaign.

George W Bush and Tony Blair had a plan to persist. We did not. The peace movement in the US never recovered in the years since, even though the majority shifted and came to agree with us while the war continued. After mounting that one-off protest, and then failing to shift strategy to focus on direct action campaigns, discouragement and inaction accompanied the growing suffering and death in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency.

Department officials announced the cuts Tuesday, raising questions about the agency’s ability to continue usual operations.

The Trump administration had already been whittling the agency’s staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. After Tuesday’s layoffs, the Education Department’s staff will sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said.

The layoffs are part of a dramatic downsizing directed by Trump as he moves to reduce the footprint of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are expected to be cut across the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and other agencies.

The department is also terminating leases on buildings in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland, officials said.

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Public comment period is open until the 17th. You can do so anonymously. The Trump admin has backed down from some fights when enough push back occurred, so don't think this is hopeless. The chance of success is never zero. It's minimal effort, so worth a try even if for no other reason to make them the think about slowing down future attacks

(The ACLU is also suing about this in court too)

Can we get a community for Canada?

Ignore post for those outside of 50501.chat instance. I wanted to delete my post.

Find protests locations and times at the link above. Here are some of their flyers:

And here's another with more words https://www.nalc.org/news/body/Public-flyer.pdf

This was popular in 2017 and 2018, and is even more relevant today.

Keep resisting.

The title of this community is "general". When people do a community search on "50501", it will not show up in the search results. Can we please rename this to "50501" or even "50501 - General"?

https://opdreadnought.com/

Twitter was replaced by this website for a couple of minutes. In the website, it states that it's purpose is to fight the fascism plaguing America, and lists helpful info/resources on protesting, OPSEC, and evil groups assisting with Trump's agenda. It even mentions 50501 and Tesla Takedown within the resources.

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

With a likely increase of people here from Reddit, might be helpful to use this to offer a old.50501.chat domain so people have something familiar

See what it looks like on some instances:

https://old.lemmy.world/

https://old.lemmy.zip/

How Hitler used hate to gain power and that its not worth it to fall for hate. Worth a watch, you can even do a movie night on it maybe, its scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_a_Sucker

Videos:

https://spectra.video/w/t4sN6wtVxGox9V8MyK1EzX

https://archive.org/details/dont-be-a-sucker

Response to https://50501.chat/post/12085

I'd say that we should not mirror Reddit comments if our comments will not be mirrored to the subreddit. It will not allow for Lemmy users to give their thoughts on the sub's posts because it would be hard to find Lemmy comments. But afaik, the mirror only saves posts for 15 to 30 days? With that restriction, it might be slightly pointless to not mirror comments.

I would like to be able to cooperate with the people on Reddit, but it might not be a good idea to mirror Lemmy posts/comments either because Reddit might crack down on it. Hoping for screencaps though.

If you wanted to see comments from Reddit, you could go to Reddit directly or use a privacy front-end like Redlib. (If you are gonna use that, I'd recommend the LibRedirect add-on!)

Stop trying to be resist liberals and actually participate in actions that do something. Stop trying to build coalitions with fascist supports and actually be antifascists.