50501 General

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

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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

I decided to start a list of links as I thought that there was no collection of links. We should collect links and images relating to 50501. Please share this list around. If you want to save this repo to your hard drive, click the view source button and copy. Give suggestions to add or edit to the list.

Other lists:

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39549401
• https://www.buildtheresistance.org/resources 's table

Organizing:

• 50501 Protest in every state capitol!
• http://generalstrikeus.com/ If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
• Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election.
• https://www.buildtheresistance.org/ Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
• The Big List of Protests Straight to the point, protest flyers submitted by users, in the main page. You can add your own flyer and be able to sort by state and date.
• Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page.

Protestor Guides:

• EFF's Attending a Protest - Surveillance Self-Defense Phone digital privacy guide for protestors if you want to bring a phone.
• The Hong Kong Protestor’s Kit: A Packing Guide for Anyone Resisting Police in the Streets The kit used by Hong Kong protestors, should you have to resist violent police forces.

Boycotting:

• Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
• Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.

Home Actions:

• 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.

Trackers:

• https://www.project2025.observer/ A website tracking the progress of the Project 2025 agenda, something Trump said he had no involvement with, yet, many of these policies are being implemented right now.
• https://translegislation.com/ A website tracking anti-trans bills in 2025.
• https://trumpgolftrack.com/ Your tax dollars at work! Trump spends a big portion of his presidency playing golf rather than working.

Subreddits:

Media

• https://50501.chat/post/23737 List of Anti-Trump media so you can feed the algorithm your attention.

Other:

• Accusation in a mirror AKA "Every accusation is a confession." One of the tactics the GOP is using.

EDIT: https://50501.chat/post/23757

I'm talking posters, websites that track certain things, alternatives to MAGA companies, guides, etc? I've only found individual links, but not anything with a bunch of links. 50501 does have a resources page, but it doesn't contain much.

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.

RFS' mission is to recruit and support diverse, progressive Democrats age 40 and under, running for the first or second time in local and state races. You can learn more about our endorsement criteria here: https://runforsomething.net/run/candidate-endorsement-process/

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)

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.

Can we get a community for Canada?

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

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.

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://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/

We need to build local state-specific communities on 50501 Lemmy here!

Organizers, Coordinators & Liaisons:

Please create a thread on your state specific communities and you will get access to build a community here! (There will be additional checks to confirm)

See and connect with state organizers already on here by expanding the State Community List | Organizers title in the sidebar!

Here's a Short Tutorial

Lets get decentralized and away from centralized platform!

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!)

Select between whether to mirror the comment from /r/50501 subreddit or just have our own comments here

EDIT: Due to the results of the poll—comments are not posted now to encourage local lemmy comments.

Thank you for this! I've been wanting to contribute to the movement, but Reddit won't let me post with a VPN. :<

Could you put the announcement post back up at Reddit? I don't think many people noticed it, I'd like the Lemmy instance linked in the fiftyfifty.one website too.

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