#call your local reps and protests!

[bucciarattii]

It's starting to really piss me off people are like "we're so cooked" "oh we're doomed and gonna die" like why don't you do something then since you WON'T STOP BITCHING OH MY GOD DO SOMETHING "WE'RE SO COOKED" GUY OR ARE YOU GONNA SIT THERE WITH YOUR THUMB UP YOUR ASS PUSSY SPINELESS MOTHERFUCKER

[moonstruckme]

Was pretty proud of Texas yesterday :)

[sirpuntine]

"I'm just one person" "no one in government will listen to me" "nothing I do will have effect" Babe let me introduce you to collective action.

Do what you can, get your loved ones to join you, and trust that countless people you'll never meet are doing the same. Make one call once a week to recite a script and suddenly you're part of a web of advocates stretching farther than you can possibly imagine, all working together to pressure our reps like peers in a DARE ad.

Mental Health Helpline Master List ~ Advocacy can be mentally and emotionally draining. Help is here for you (and it’s free too). Please take care of yourselves friends.

Call Scripts:

A non-exhaustive Master List in progress

Find your representatives and their contact information here. This and this can help you prepare. This and this and this have tips and examples for writing your own scripts. This has various resources and advice for contacting reps.

❗️IMPEACH TRUMP ASAP❗️

🇵🇸 EMAIL CONGRESS - DEMAND RELEASE OF AID TO PALESTINE AND CEASE US FUNDING OF GENOCIDE 🇵🇸

General: This is regarding hr1526, and this is SAVE. This and this are a list of scripts covering a wide range of issues. This supports the Dept of Ed (rip).

LGBTQIA+: This shows pending anti-LGBTQIA+ bills. This is for Christians against anti-trans legislation, this is for Jews against anti-Igbtqia+ legislation, this and this are secular. This includes information and multiple scripts to support trans people (tell reps to support this bill).

Health: This is to protect NIH and CDC. This and this and this support section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This supports Medicaid. This is for #stoptheshock.

Foreign Policy: This and this and this are for USAID, this is against Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders, and this is to protect unaccompanied immigrant kids. Humanti has many scripts for Palestine. This is to support refugees and humanitarian aid.

Environment: This caption includes a script for rehiring park service employees. This and this are for protecting the Endangered Species Act. This opposes Trump's EOs on timber production.

Not everyone can attend in-person protests or donate regularly. But if you can access this post, you have the means to call or email your representatives. If you live in a red state it is especially important to voice your support for people in the direct line of fire. Community is our last defense against leaders intent on abusing power.

[humming-fly]

The NYT has a webpage for tracking ongoing lawsuits against Trump's policies if you're curious about watching those! It was last updated Feb 12th and presumably will continue to be updated as things progress

Trump got absolutely dumpstered in court in the last few days.

His and Elon's program to pay people to retire early has been halted by a temporary restraining order issued by District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. of the US District Court, District of Massachusetts in American Federation of Government Employees et al v. Charles Ezell (acting Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management). This temporary order only lasts until they have a hearing on Monday to determine whether this program is constitutional.

13 state attorneys general sued to prevent Elon from accessing personal data about government employees and citizen clients of their agencies, leading to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the case Alliance for Retired Americans v. Scott Bessent (Trump's Secretary of the Treasury) ordering the Department of Justice to ensure no unauthorized persons, including Elon and his team, have access to the Labor Department's database of information on tax filings, employment, and the like.

Two separate judges have ruled that Trump's executive order trying to eliminate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour of the western Washington district, a REAGAN appointee (!), said, "It has become ever more apparent that to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain." The other judge, US District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland, ruled that the executive order cannot be implemented until she has had a chance to rule on the merits of the case.

US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth in DC paused Trump’s restrictions on transgender women being incarcerated in women’s prisons and federal prisons providing gender-affirming medical treatment, after inmates (!) sued to block the policy.

US District Judge Loren L. Alikhan of DC broadly blocked the Trump administration’s memo halting almost all federal assistance.

That's six rulings scrapping five of Trump's major policy operations in the past four days (Feb 3rd through the 6th, 2025).

That's news worth celebrating!

[fairuzfan]

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

[kozmou]

Everythings just getting worse and worse huh

the country's top brass is supporting a genocide, covid isnt gone but regulations are lifting and the cdc really thinks 24hrs is enough time to no longer be contagious, the war in ukraine is still fucking raging and in america no one/not many care to do anything about it except vote and even then that barely does anything at all

voting for someone who you might be able to pressure into doing what you want feels so fucking useless but with how this bullshit system works not voting can be worse because it might give a worse candidate an edge but i dont want to vote at all because either way one of these old fucks is still gonna support isreal and act in their interest

there is no hope in voting but i cant do much else i can hope someone whips out the guillotines but i cant put any faith in this system

its so fucking stupid

[maichan808]

Americans, our democracy is under threat.

Do you reject fascism and oppose the Trump-Musk coup? Want to do something, but aren’t sure what you can do to make a difference? Keep reading for ways big and small you can fight back:

Attend a Protest New to protesting? Here’s a primer for first-time protesters and a schedule of upcoming national days of action:

Mar 1st and ongoing (Tesla Takedown) Website | Find an event

Mar 4th (50501: 50 protests, 50 states) Website | Find an event

Mar 7th (Stand up for Science) Website | Find an event

Mar 8th (Women’s March) Website | Find an event

Search for future protests at /r/ProtestFinderUSA and join the mailing list of grassroots organizations like Indivisible to be alerted to future actions.

Put Pressure on Congress Want your elected officials to stand up to Trump-Musk and push back against the unconstitutional executive orders, disastrous DOGE cuts, and illegal funding freezes? Already calling your Reps and Senators daily using 5calls.org?

Then it’s time to escalate to in-person action. Visit their websites, join their mailing lists, follow their socials, and call their offices to find out when the next local event will be and make your voice heard. 

Applying pressure to congress works, and we are already seeing the results of constituent push back. House Democrats recently voted as a unified block against the Trump-sponsored billionaire tax cuts, with members breaking maternity leave and leaving the hospital to fly back to Washington just to cast their votes. And on the Republican side, negative town hall blowback has the GOP running scared.

If your congressperson is hiding from you, stage a protest event and put their cowardice on blast. For more information on how to implement these tactics, see the Indivisible congressional recess toolkit.

If your congressperson is already fighting the good fight, then make sure to thank them and provide encouragement to continue opposing the budget cuts. Courage is contagious, and vocal public support will help spur congress to fight that much harder. 

And finally, regardless of where you live, you can sign up to phone bank and reach out to voters in red congressional districts.

Get Out the Vote Did you know there are Special Elections as soon as April 1st that could flip control of the House back to Democrats? We simply cannot wait for the 2026 midterms, we must take action now! You can help get out the vote for Gay Valimont (FL-1), Joshua Weil (FL-6), and Blake Gendebien (NY-21).

In addition, the Muskrat is spending millions to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Phone bank or write letters to keep a MAGA extremist off the high court and protect Wisconsin elections from future gerrymandering.

Fight the Broligarchy If you own TSLA stock, or *gasp* an actual Tesla vehicle, drop it like a scorching case of herpes, then join the picket line at your nearest Tesla showroom. 

On socials, delete your Nazi-infested X and Meta (Facebook, IG, Threads) accounts and join the open source BlueSky. If you must remain on Meta, at minimum change your account settings so Fuckerberg can’t profit from your data. 

Stop using Google search/Chrome and install privacy-focused alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Firefox. As a bonus, in the DuckDuckGo browser you can permanently hide AI garbage from your search results.

Show your monetary support for companies that have renewed their commitment to DEI programs (like Costco and Apple) and boycott those who have not (like Target and Amazon). Also look up how other corporations score on the democracy scale and adjust your spending accordingly.

 And last, but not least, pledge to join the General Strike!

Stay Informed Corporate media has capitulated to Trump. From the cancellation of minority-hosted shows on MSNBC to the Bezos takeover of the Washington Post editorial pages, MSM cannot be relied upon to provide unbiased coverage of the Trump-Musk regime.

Support independent journalists and media and follow AltGov accounts on Bluesky to stay informed as to what is actually going on in Washington.

Get to Know your Community Authoritarians want you to feel helpless and isolated because they know we the people vastly outnumber them. Get to know your neighbors and join a group/team/club - anything that gets you interacting with your local community whether it is political or not. 

Under Trump-Musk, federal programs like SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, and even Social Security are in danger.  We will need to increasingly rely on our own communities to have our backs. Visit mutualaidhub.org to locate resources and learn how to start your own network.

And finally, remember that resistance is a marathon, not a sprint. So be sure to stop doomscrolling and simply enjoy life as AOC reminds us:

[chdarling]

Friends, we are there. We are at that point. ICE is abducting people off the streets and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador. That is happening. Trump has said that he’d “love” to send the “homegrowns” to these prisons and told the president of El Salvador to build 5 more. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was kidnapped due to an "administrative error" and the Republican regime is refusing to bring him home, even though the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that they must. A US citizen from Georgia was arrested in Florida for being an "unauthorized alien" and they refused to release him, even as his mother waved his birth certificate in their faces. (I just learned while making this post that he has now been released and reunited with his family, thank fucking god.) A hundred other horrors have happened that we don't even know about.

No one is coming to save us. We have to save us.

Please, please, please find a (peaceful!) protest this Saturday and attend if you are able. There are also protests planned for May 1. And, frankly, there should be protests every single day, but we have to build momentum and community for that. So let's start.

If you can’t attend a protest, please consider taking another form of action. I was depressed on the train this morning and brainstormed a very incomplete and unofficial list of Things You Can Do:

Print posters advertising the protests and put them up around your neighborhood, your school, your apartment mail room, public restrooms, anywhere.

Spread the word on social media, yes, but also text your family and friends and ask if they know about the 4/19 and 5/1 protests. This date is not getting the same publicity as 4/5 and people are reporting social media posts being suppressed. Direct communication is the most effective.

Call your representatives. The 5 Calls app makes it extremely easy, even if you have phone anxiety. If your reps, like mine, mostly have their voicemails shut down, email them instead. Resistbot makes it super simple. I know it feels like screaming into the void, but it does have an impact. And even if it turns out it doesn’t, it takes 2 minutes. Do it out of spite. Just do it.

Stop buying anything that’s not absolutely essential and start preparing yourself for a general strike. I don’t know that we will get enough of the population on board to do this, but it is our best hope, and each person that is prepared for it makes the reality of it happening a little more likely. If you can, aim to have food and supplies stocked for a few weeks. If you have the means, be extra prepared to help your neighbors. Talk to your friends about this. Start strategizing.

(Also, a note on that general strike website: I'm sharing it for info, but I know a lot of people don't want to sign their name to a strike card. I get it. You don't have to sign up for anything to get prepared for a strike. You don't have to sign up for anything to stop giving your money to this economy. You don't have to sign up for anything to strike, when the day comes. You don't even have to tell anyone. You can just do it.)

If you are financially able, donate to your local food pantry or mutual aid network. The Republican Regime is cutting funding to the food banks in advance of an economic crisis. We are only as strong as the most vulnerable among us. Help your neighbors! A general strike cannot happen without community solidarity. Start building that solidarity now.

Cancel any subscription you can. Especially Amazon. Fuck Amazon. And Target, and Walmart.

If you have to buy something, buy local. Support your community as much as possible. And hey, it's almost farmers market season, hell yeah!

Mask up!!! Do not throw disabled people under the bus in this movement. Wear a mask. It protects the most vulnerable among us, and it protects you. Not just from disease, but also facial recognition technology. And, you know, RFK Jr.

Stay alive. I am sure I’m not the only one who has plunged to new depths of despair over the past few months. Find something to cling to, even if it’s only spite (some days, that’s all I have). Please stay alive. We need you.

DO NOT GIVE INTO THE FEAR OF BEING CRINGE. Taking action in the face of fascism is cool as fuck and anyone who tells you otherwise is trapped in a prison of their own making and they will bring us all down. Do not get distracted by moral purity tests. Do not be afraid, do not be embarrassed. BE CRINGE, BE FREE.

And finally, most importantly, do not let perfect be the enemy of good. We can all only do the best we can under this oppressive capitalist hellscape we’re forced to endure. We're all struggling, we're all tired, we're all scared. Do not guilt yourself into despair and apathy if you have to buy groceries at a big box store or if you can't take off work for a protest because you'll lose your job/house/healthcare. This is the system. This is how it's designed. The important thing is to try. If you can't do one thing, find something else you can do. Little acts add up, and we are all in this together.* As my dad likes to remind me, no one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Let's do something. <3

*yes I did start humming high school musical here

[docholligay]

You can't act like the game is lost before it is. This is, in fact, what they want you to do. They would love you to believe that nothing matters. Every time you roll over and do nothing, you are playing into what they would like you to do. They want you scared. They want you thinking it's already lost. You are giving them so much power.

If you want to live in your own doom slop, do. But scroll on past this and for the love of god shut the fuck up about it. Don't discourage people who are trying to do something.

And, know fucking what? I don't think that the ability to be won is the whole of the merit of the fight. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was unwinnable--was it stupid to fight? Did the guy in Tienanmen, standing in front of a row of tanks, fucking fix China? No! But I still think they were worth it, and that the people who did those things were better than those who didn't.

At the very least, you can give someone trying to ruin your fucking life a really bad day. Why would you not? I am happy to light up some intern on the phone every single day, and I hope they can't fucking sleep at night.

Screw your courage to the sticking place. It's been two fucking weeks. This is all a bunch of shock and awe bullshit, and we we CAN fight back, but we have to fucking do something. Internet activism, INCLUDING WHAT I AM DOING RIGHT NOW, is mostly useless. like 5% useful. Write a letter. Make a call. Go to a protest. Actually, you want to know what works really well? Learn what reps look like and if you see them in public, bully them. I just told a local government rep Tuesday I was 'real annoyed about this culture-war bullshit that i've never personally experienced, i gotta say, that you're wasting your time on while young people are fleeing the state. You grew up here. i grew up here. I do not think a net increase of Texans and East Coaster rhinestone cowboys are improving the place, do you? Focus on jobs and parks, jesus christ." And you know what? HE HATED IT. It was EMBARRASSING*. He just had to shrug and mutter that he did care about jobs but we go to the same gym! I didn't even yell! I said it with my usual flat "I'm unimpressed' affect.

Volunteer for the things you believe in! Run for fucking dogcatcher! Stop looking for an adult to do something. WE ARE THE ADULTS WHO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, NOW.

*Some of this is you can't yell at a 5'3'' 125 pound women who's dressed like a tradwife. But you know how much YOU hate to be confronted in public? THEY DO TOO, GIRLIEPOP.

[leebrontide]

Ok darlings.

The bad bills are coming and here.

It is good to fight them. DO!

But it seems like a lot of you are not thinking about opposition to bad bills outside of calls to reps. YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY CONTACT YOUR REPS.

But also there are loads of orgs like the ACLU and 350 who fight clearly corrupt and damaging bills. AGs fight bad bills. Mayors and judges. Hell, that bad anti-psych-meds bullshit? You know who’s gonna fight that? The American pharmaceutical industry. And there’s more money in American meds than there is in foreign oil. They are a powerful lobby. Often a powerful lobby up to bullshit but they do not want to loose out on those med sales. They will be front row fighting.

I’m not saying we as people living here shouldn’t call/email/protest. We need to do that.

But I am baffled by how many posts I see on here act like that is the only dam against the rising bullshit tide.

Vote in your local elections. Support good orgs when you can. And try not to spread misinformation that leads to panic and despair.

Look around for who else is fighting.

[revscarecrow]

https://5calls.org/

Find your local reps here:

House of Representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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

Be specific and straight forward. If they aren't acting the way you want say so and that you are disappointed in them specifically. They care about thier jobs.

They are more likely to react to in person confrontation (as in protests) than anything else but if you need something to do calling gets to them more than emails. They are old people and don't understand or care about the internet.

Reposting here from bluesky out of a request. Enough dooming time for action.

Original post skeet

https://bsky.app/profile/revscarecrow.bsky.social/post/3lhokgq3qi22e

Edit: The links were broken fixed

[scientia-rex]

Oh my god the punishment for having a post blow up is so real. People trying to win at the discourse without doing anything in the real world—deliberately misreading the post—knowing what I’m saying and feeing attacked—it’s just relentless.

If you are mad about me saying that voting for a third party candidate in November is not going to solve the problem of a genocide that is happening right now, may I suggest that you take that time and energy that you want to spend yelling at me, a stranger, on the Internet, and do literally anything else with it? Call a rep, go to a protest, send money to reliable orgs, do whatever you want, but I don’t believe that your intention is actually to create change unless you do something to create change.

Because—and we’re gonna keep coming back to this—what is your objective? To convince me? One person whom you are certainly not going to convince by being an asshole? To convince your followers? How many of those do you have? How many of them have direct connections to sociopolitical power? How much can any of them achieve? How would they achieve that? Do they already agree with you?

Leverage in the political system in the US is a very expensive privilege bought and sold by the very rich. You as a voting individual (are you old enough to vote?) have very limited ways in which to exert any leverage at all. It feels frustratingly difficult to try to change a country’s trajectory through those limited means because it is true that you have so little individual influence. You have the best chance at influencing relatively unimportant politicians, because they have the fewest rich people buying their attention.

So call local politicians. They can continue to exert pressure up the chain. There are fewer senators than there are House reps. There are fewer national congressional reps than there are state reps. Go to lobby days with your state reps. Go to protests at your state capitol; do not make the mistake of thinking that every step must be as large as influencing the President of the United States, because there are so many layers between you and them that they will never hear what you’re saying. But they will hear what senators are saying. And the senators who sit in DC are hearing from the house reps in your own state. And you can get the attention of your local house reps; I’ve met all three of mine personally, through lobby days, which are generally open to many different groups.

Find a real thing to do and do it.

[traegorn]

Is there really any hope with all of these horrible things going on..? I’m so scared and have no idea what to do. All I keep seeing is bad news. How am i supposed to be hopeful and not think that we’re all doomed

Their whole plan is to make you feel scared. They want to overload you and think there's nothing you can do. This feeling you have? That's their whole strategy.

Don't let it work. As long as you're breathing, there's hope.

All of these are executive orders and illegal actions. While the rule of law may be flimsier than most realize, this isn't Eastern Europe in the mid 20th century. Everything they do will either not hold up in a court of law or be something in the long term we can overturn.

Very bad things will happen to people in the meanwhile, but that doesn't mean there isn't hope or that you won't make it through this.

This is what you need to do: Make real, local connections. Find community. This is how we stay safe. Call your Democratic Reps and Senators if you have any and demand they obstruct and investigate. If you have Republican reps, still reach out and demand why they're letting Trump violate our freedoms -- the latter is less likely to do anything, but there's a small chance one of them might listen.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the news cycle, take a day off. Do not read, watch, or engage with it.

Dan Savage is a controversial figure for a lot of reasons we won't go into (especially on trans issues), but he did say something very good and important that I want you to take to heart:

During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we re going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing

You need to find joy or else this is going to be too much. Hope is a choice we make every day, and when your enemy wants you miserable, joy is an act of defiance.

Find your joy and rub their bigot faces in it.

[subdee]

While Trump hasn’t made a final decision about whether to strike Iran, he suggested that “the next week is going to be big” and said “I like to make a final decision one second before it’s due, you know, because things change.” Earlier in the day, Trump told reporters: “I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m going to do.” The U.S. military, meanwhile, sent a second carrier strike group and F-22 fighters to the region. Trump said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “keep going” and claimed Iran is “defenseless” under Israeli pressure.

He's getting off on this, I hate him so much.

My fellow elder millennials ... Do you remember when literally all of this happened already? Because I do. The protests against the war in Iraq were the LARGEST in our nation's history until the Women's March against Trump in his first term and the #NoKings rally just this past Saturday. Going to war with Iraq was overwhelmingly unpopular among the large number of people who knew it was bullshit. Didn't matter. We went to war. The newspapers lied about weapons of mass destruction to sell the war to Americans who weren't paying attention. Literally no one outside of this country was fooled. If there's another 9/11 type event this time it WILL be an inside job (and I'm no 9/11 truther). You hear that? If Iran conveniently bombs a US base in the next few weeks... no they didn't. Trump's administration did because they're a bunch of delusional warmongers trying to keep their poll numbers up, and they want an excuse to use the military to crack down on the domestic protests this war will inevitably bring on. Only 16% of the country wants to go to war with Iran. Not even Republicans want this war. That's why they will have to manufacture a fake crisis - a Trumpian speciality.

Anyway.

Some reading for you guys, because knowledge is power:

Timothy Snyder: The Next Terror Attack

Laurie Woodward: Trump's Delusion, Our Consequences

Your reps already know you don't want this, but feel free to call them anyway. Write letters to the editor of the local newspaper. Talk to your neighbors. Post anti-war things on social media. And if there's an anti-war rally in your area - show up.

[xenthosss]

What You Can Do Right Now

What you-Personally-Can do right at this moment

Call Your representatives and senators. Light a fire under their ass. Call either once or twice a week. Let them know you're not happy. No matter who your rep is call them, blue or red

Attend protests. Any ones you can fine. 50501 has one on the 19th and it's nationwide but look for ones in your area. There are more that you might think.

Print flier and tape them around your town. Choose a simple message and either make some of your own or find some online you can use, there are plenty of options

Call your friends and family, even the more distant ones. Talk to people. Don't be rude but don't let people pretend this is normal and don't let them pretend it is either

Look for local groups. Check any fliers in your town. If there are none look at your library or ask around on your Facebook; or even in person. Talk to people in your town. This will get you farther than you might think, and local groups often do the post in resisting

Attend town halls and town meetings to both keep informed and because local grassroots movements often speak here and if there's a speaker that resonates with you talk to them after the meeting is over and ask about what you can do to help or any organizations they're a part of

Donate money, if you have it-And I don't mean to random gofundme's or posts on social media, I mean donate to actual reputable organizations

Talk to people; Tell them what you are doing to help and ask them the same. A lot of people do want to help but don't know how

Social media is not activism-Nothing you do on social media is activism. Maybe if you're famous or a celebrity it can be, but you are neither of those things, so if you want to make a difference you need to log off.

Don't let yourself be paralyzed with indecision; doing nothing is the worst thing you can do right now and it's what this current regime wants. You don't need to do everything, but you need to do something

[durnesque-esque]

I'm seeing a lot of my friends sharing this article this morning and it is a good article. But, if you are sharing this article or if you read it and understand what's happening and are angry (justifiably angry), I need you to start thinking about next steps. Start getting informed about the protest networks in your area and get involved NOW.

The next large, country-wide protests are being organized for April 5th. Many of them under 50501 with local organizers. Refuse Fascism, the group I'm working with is planning for that day too - probably alongside 50501. Most of these are on other social networks like IG & Bluesky.

PSLNational is also a good one to look into and follow. For LA, look at SoCal Uprising, RevComs, there are local branches of PSL and 50501. For Atlanta, there's PSLAtlanta, 50501_Ga. These are just cities I have been active in, but please look for locals in your area.

At this point, overwhelming the phone calls and e-mails of your reps is only going to go so far. If you're more of a phone caller, consider upgrading to looking for town halls and local council meetings. Say exactly what you would on the phone or in the e-mail in person. But really, we need as many people as possible to escallate to mass protests.

All that stands between us and the end is the mass uprising of the people. This is supposed to be a government of the people and by the people. The time for being suprised and alarmed is past. We have seen this coming. If you're just realizing now, you've got to start moving a lot faster and with a lot more intention. Get out and make good trouble.