- 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.
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.
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.
Pull a Gandhi and sit and let them get recorded beating and arresting people standing still
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.
Not to mention: if the content doesn’t sell ad impressions, legacy media isn’t going to give a shit.
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
Signal? Found Hegseth, guys!
Here’s a map with the protests listed https://www.mobilize.us/map/?date=2025-04-05T05%3A00%3A00.000Z&lat=38.76&lon=-90.44&zoom=2
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).
I think people can add events if you’d like. But yeah it’s definitely not exhaustive.
Is it in bad taste to blast this the whole time? https://youtu.be/BlIREcAu0PI
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
SHARPIE THE PHONE NUMBER OF YOUR LOCAL LEGAL COUNCIL NON PROFIT ON YOUR BODY
https://www.nlg.org/massdefense/
Bonus points: bring a mini sharpie to mark it on others.
LEAVE YOUR PHONE AT HOME
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/
Can’t wait to see the democrats pull a January 6th.
Because staging a coup based on lies is the same as protesting against a fascist regime based on lies? Youre a real smart one arent you?
One was for corruption and fascism
It will be just as lame.
What is this ‘movement bubbling up’ BS? A jaccuzi?
In Europe there would be fire and blood on the streets if anything remotely resembling the US takes place.
Americans are a bunch of weak pussies.
Let the downvotes rain!You’re not wrong. We need riots weeks ago.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams
Gotta start somewhere I guess
Sure, no rush, it’s only a little fascism.
Half of Paris would already be ash.
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…
Glad there is a movement.
Block the access roads to Mar-a-Lago
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.
I’m going to one and so should you. Fuck these fascists.
I’ll see you all there!!! Hands Off!
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?
Bring an old fashioned digital camera and leave the phone at home
try a Faraday bucket instead.
- open bucket
- put phone in bucket
- leave at home
- go to protest
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Does nothing without copper-mesh lining.
You can’t just turn it off?
Off isn’t off anymore, unfortunately.
Pull the battery out?
If you can find one with a removable battery.
Sure just bring the tools to remove the glass and split the sealed phone.
I just upgraded to a Pixel 6 from Galaxy S8. The Galaxy had a panel that could easily be popped off. I realize this new phone does not. My bad.
On one hand the waterproofing is nice, but the literal black box nature is a problem.
They could make (and have made) waterproof phones with removable batteries. Greed and lack of regulation keeps modern phones sealed.
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.
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.
Yea just use your trusty hat
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.
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.
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.
Tell me why airplane mode isn’t good enough.
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.
You gonna wrap your car too?
Bike or train? I hope car doesnt have tracker in it.
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.
Came to say this. Tinfoil wrapping should work to keep your phone isolated.
So does, you know, airplane mode
Airplane mode is a software shutoff system. We want hardware shutoff system.
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.
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.
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.
Airplane mode can be used at the same time as airplane-provided Wi-Fi.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
don’t get on a list for nothing, folks. if you take action, make sure it accomplishes something. these protests won’t.
Gee, you sure seem to be posting a lot of replies trying to discourage us from protesting. 🤔 Hmm, I wonder why that could be?
because i have concerns.
i’ve been watching the left lose ground since bush, and i’m tired of watching naive children become bitter and give up. i’d rather you realize what it takes to win so you don’t waste your energy (of which you have a finite amount). i want to see a win in my lifetime.
EDIT: a real win, not a social media victory. something that changes the course of our trajectory on a long term scale. something that reduces human suffering for the next century.
And how does not protesting help us “naive children” “gain ground”? You’re concern trolling to try and discourage us from standing up for ourselves. Go away if you have nothing to contribute to defending democracy.
This is from a couple weeks ago, on why protesting ASAP is important: https://youtu.be/TxD18THltQQ
watched the video. this is a lady that donates to NPR (which is great!), not someone who knows how to fight a war. she actually makes some great points that, if extrapolated far enough, underscore the very same thing i’m trying to impress upon you.
OK honey, go out and start your war or whatever, I’ll check to see if you make the 10 o’clock news.
But stop trying to discourage the people who are actually trying to find practical ways of dealing with our current reality, actually taking steps commensurate with that and building a resistance movement, which includes protesting.
that’s my entire reasoning for being so insistent. it takes all of us. don’t waste that energy.
one of us will get to come back here and say “i told you so”. i don’t care how it gets done, but from my years of observation, it’s not going to be protests. not unless they become riots, which is a different beast than carrying signs.
but the problem is, once it becomes riots, then we’re sitting ducks, unorganized and mostly still ineffective. i’m just trying to save us from that pain. if you’re willing to riot, then you’re willing to take a calculated approach.
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2019/05/the-3-5-rule-how-a-small-minority-can-change-the-world/
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
There are, of course, many ethical reasons to use nonviolent strategies. But compelling research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, confirms that civil disobedience is not only the moral choice; it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics – by a long way.
Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.
it’s a war. treat it like one. stop being the lambs. be the lion instead. i have something VERY IMPORTANT TO CONTRIBUTE. are you not listening?
stop being the lambs. be the lion instead.
Ignore those sheeps. I CAN HEAR YOU ROAR!
this isn’t about me. it’s about us.
i’d rather you realize what it takes to win
Let me guess, guns? This is your moment to be the man you always knew you could be, to put on your Walmart tacticool gear and engage in gorilla warfare on the streets, to rise up the ranks of the resistance where you’ll meet your 18-21 year old boyfriend-free girl and when it’s all over, you’ll be elected the mayor of America, and you’ll add ANOTHER amendment saying we all have the right to bear arms (as a backup in case the other one gets repealed), and you’ll even show leniency to those people who downvoted your internet comments because you’re such a good person, and America is all that matters now.
I salute you, friend.
you’re not interested in honest discussion. you’d rather make personal attacks. over the ineternet, of course. not in person.
over the ineternet, of course. not in person.
Duh. I would never get between a lion and his meal.
Whatever crazy thing it is you’re planning to do, just remember the shooting in Pennsylvania. That gave the Trump campaign so much credibility that it might have even won him the election. Even my neighbor replaced the American flag on his lawn with one showing Trump’s face with a bloody ear. The GOP message is that there’s a conspiracy/evil cabal trying to undermine America, and they’re the good guys.
Large scale peaceful protests showing that America disagrees with their nonsense is much more powerful than any well-placed bullet. The former can lead to change and possibly even impeachments, the latter to civil war, death, and destruction.
the thing you don’t get is that all those middle america people want a good guy. and they’re gullible. so give them what they want. the american left looks like a bunch of cowards. if we believed in what we say we do, we wouldn’t let this affront to humanity go unchecked. there needs to be consequences. but the fact that we’re such pathetic pacifists looks like weakness and lack of moral fortitude, and it truly is. the entire fate of global civilization hangs in the balance and we post memes.
and even given some kind of miracle that somehow we politics our way out of this mess, those same idiots will still be here and this shit will repeat itself in 20 years. unless they fear us. this is the owner class flexing its sociopathic muscles in front of us. and we are letting them do it like humble peasants. and you’re contributing to that.
A real win is increasingly seeming to require flames.
i honestly don’t see how people don’t get it. they can’t explain it either. they just make personal attacks.
Yeah I’m not proud to say it but it’s just getting to that point. What other options are there? Just let them destroy the country and when it’s finally down to not having food or water, maybe then we fight? Pathetic. The French would already have Paris on fire.
exactly.
(notice they’re downvoting me even though you and i are saying the same thing)
Don’t sit and wait for better opportunities. Fuck the lists. Band together for some of Booker and Lewis’ Good Trouble. Get out on the streets. There are millions of people who are just as upset as you are, and every voice added to the crowd multiplies the reach.
and this accomplishes what?
Let’s ask instead - what does sitting around whining about it accomplish?
It’s not changing minds. They laugh at the cratering stock market and subsequent outrage. They’re gonna need something a little more corporeal than a loud protest chant.
who’s whining? i’m trying to help you.
you have to stop taking criticism personally. i’m not going to sugarcoat the truth for you. there are hard, cold facts that you just need to acknowledge for the benefit of humanity.
Coward
actually, i’m a strategist and tactician. i just don’t see the point in wasting your energy when we could be planning real shit that actually makes a difference.
some republicans are even protesting, the older ones. thats definitely doing something than sititng home and on your keyboard, like yourself.
you’re all a bunch of lemmings
So what are you planning? Which movements do you think are going to accomplish something?
becoming the bully. making them fear us. coordinating attacks that disable their ability to propagandize. creating real life consequences for sociopaths, christian nationalists, and conservatives. making examples out of people.
Get out there, the minimum you can do is stand with your working class sibling. Being together rather than just sitting at home despairing IS doing something.
No, the absolute minimum you can do is sit it out and watch as people are harmed, which they advocate for. When there is no country, no democracy, no empathy, and no community, remember that people like this told others to do and say nothing.
but what is it doing?
Excuse my patronization, but I’m getting exhausted at having to explain it over and over for defeatist Americans. You have to keep up the fight even if it’s not perfect. It brings people together. It motivates people to action and become stronger as a group rather than divided as individuals. You have a country to save from the destruction and occupation by the billionaire class. There’s so many more normal Americans than there are billionaires, you all need to be in a big group to begin to realize that. If you’ve given up, the 1%ers win by default. A movement is brewing, be part of the solution rather than throwing it away because it’s not completely coherent yet. Start peacefully, take precautions as necessary, let them put all Americans on a list and prosecute you unjustly. Pre-emptive capitulation is how you all got here.
I’m not so sure that person is simply a “deafeatist American”. Their insistence, insults, and number of posts they’re putting up to discourage us from protesting tells me it’s someone with an agenda, not on our side.
you think i don’t know what’s going on? i’m trying to steer the energy towards something effective. i’m not trying to discourage resistance at all. i just want these children to wake up to the reality that massive protests just make us sitting ducks. this admin is more than willing to trample our constitutional rights.
there’s no need to walk into tragedy when we can become the one who knocks. don’t wait for the fight to come to you. assume they are the fascists. they keep telling us exactly who they are. don’t wait for them to strike first. that’s how wars get lost.
I hate to be this brash, but for fucks sake…
Throw a fucking brick.
Exactly.
or better yet, disable things. work discreetly and covertly. don’t be a target. if we’re going to be a mob, let’s act like a mob and drag someone into the streets.
Yeah, we should all do the nothing you’re recommending, while people are disappeared, family members are harmed, and millions have their retirements decimated by Trump’s ego, I mean tariffs. If you’re scared and won’t do anything but bend over, just admit that…
while people are disappeared, family members are harmed, and millions have their retirements decimated
You think peacefully occupying some sidewalk will prevent this? Perhaps if these crowds appeared outside their mansions instead of buildings that oligarchs never need to set foot in? Why are these large gatherings organized for the most ineffectual areas? Almost as if they’re being purposefully steered away from said oligarchs mansions? They’re people with names and addresses, not some symbolic building of mystical legislative omnipotent powers.
shhh. don’t tell them they’re not accomplishing anything. it hurts their fee fees. they need content to post on their social media for internet points.
I’ll be in Seattle! See you there!!
Stock market crashing -> now a reason for corporate interests to align with resistance -> finally hearing about protests in mainstream media
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.
Eventually! Yes! I got 3 billion dollars!.. Hmm tasty! How much is that Apple my fellow citizen?..its 2 billion dollars please!
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.
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.
Last time I checked police depended on pensions too and they are invested
congress almost never touches police funding at all, because they are useful tools.
Emphasis on the “tools”
Take back the white house from russia agent, Kasnov Trump and Nazi Felon Musk.
