We the people are speaking out at every capital in every state, today, now!

A growing movement opposing President Donald Trump’s early actions is organizing protests across all 50 states on Wednesday.

What to Know:

The movement uses the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501 (50 protests, 50 states, one day).

Many demonstrations are planned at state capitols, while others will take place in major cities.

Flyers circulating online denounce Project 2025 and call for action against fascism and deportations.

Organizers, like Kelsey Brianne in Michigan, are mobilizing communities with grassroots efforts.

Protests have already begun, with thousands marching against deportation policies in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.

  • Kaja • she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    Share where? All the platforms that you’re implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs as well, or so sparsely populated you’re going to only reach some absurdly small percent of the population.

    I’m not trying to be a downer, it’s better to be doing something than nothing, but if the oligarchs you’re protesting own Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, AWS, etc, it just seems clear to me that if you can’t rely on the news to report about it, you definitely can’t rely on sharing to spread the word about it.

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      3 hours ago

      Share where? All the platforms that you’re implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs

      They can’t catch every post and comment from every user.

      Flood the zone.

      • Kaja • she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        They can and do catch every post. That’s how centralized platforms work; their logging platforms literally do see every single thing that’s posted, have alerting set up to monitor for trends in case something illegal or offensive to billionaires is trending.

        They use algorithms and language models to draw summaries about trending posts, what they’re about and why they’re trending, and can make realtime adjustments to their algorithms to deprioritize posts and accounts they don’t want to see trendIng anymore. They can analyze text, video, images, and audio in real time, and determine what the post is about, even if the title of the post is something intentionally misleading, and apply algorithms accordingly. That’s literally why they invested so much in AI moderation tools and image generation and analysis.