#50501

[maichan808]

PHOTOS FROM r/50501 PROTESTS: 50 PROTESTS - 50 STATES - 1 DAY (2/5/25)

[xxwebpunkxx]

CRUCIAL NEWS FOR THOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Even if you don’t live there, if you still live somewhere in the states, please, listen up.

“The MA legislature and governor just proposed dangerous social media surveillance legislation that would require everyone in the state, including adults, to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to create a social media account. If something like this passes here, it will spread to other states faster than activists can fight back.

I have an op-ed out in today's Boston Globe explaining why this legislation would hurt kids and help Trump attack LGBTQ youth and undocumented folks. You can read it here (no paywall) https://archive.ph/rAK4P

If you're in MA, please send this to your state senators and the governor! They need to read it! You can also use this tool to easily call the key lawmakers who will be making decisions about this: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/ma “

- Fight For the Future Signal chat

I encourage reading EFF’s article linked below as it goes into the greater details of the legislation aside from this, but key notes:

• Forces everyone (not just kids) to upload a government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan to create a social media account or post online, even on educational sites like Wikipedia

• Force parents to send even more sensitive information to Big Tech companies to “verify” custody in order for a minor to create an account (think: sending a birth certificate to Mark Zuckerberg to let your teen create an account)

• Allow unsupportive parents to lock queer and trans youth off the Internet, restricting access to life-saving community and information with zero recourse

• Expand the Trump admin’s surveillance capabilities, making it easier for them to persecute people organizing protests, monitoring ICE, and criticizing the administration

• Cost Massachusetts tax payers enormously, as the legislation is clearly unconstitutional and would face legal challenges.

• Specifically harm undocumented folks who use social media to warn communities about ICE activity and raise money for family members

• Fine smaller and non-profit tech platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky out of business, further expanding the monopolies of Big Tech platforms

It is one of many of the worst pieces of digital surveillance legislation right now in the states.

If you’re in MA, please call and write to your state senators and governor through EFF’s article below, and if you’re not, either spread the word or call them too, but, don’t give them your ZIP code so they don’t know where you are.

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts

[cyanide-rush]

A very nice Anarchist tried to explain to Libs the point of covering your faces at a protest in the 50501 subreddit, and every lib in the comments is just saying

"Well theyre going to find me anyway, so I dont mask".

If you continue to go to 50501 protests, understand this is the viewpoint these libs have. Defeatism. "Theyre going to find me anyway idc". Ignoring that they arent "going to find you anyway", this idea that because things are bad you just Aren't Going To Follow Protest Safety is dangerous to everyone. Stop giving the state your info willingly, stop being a defeatist, wear your fucking mask and stop filming people.

[raygun631]

RESIST! His speech was inspiring!

[pissingonmonarchy]

The people telling you not to join protests are the same people who told you not to vote for Biden/Kamala.

Do not listen to them.

You have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTEST!!!

Your silence and complicity only helps the fascists.

Do not comply. Resist with your whole being.

[c-rowlesdraws]

There was a grassroots-organized “No Kings On President’s Day” protest in Boston last Monday, and I’ve been meaning to post pictures I took of my favorite signs! Here they are:

and the one I made, which tore in the intense winds as soon as I unrolled it, which led to me running down a side street, borrowing a stapler from the nice girl at the Planet Fitness front counter, and doing some emergency poster surgery before running back to the crowd. Picture is pre-injury:

Will these protests have any sort of meaningful political impact? I hope so, but more important to me is the psychological effect on the average person— normal people showing up to protest, and more normal people passing by and seeing the marches and crowds, hearing the chants, seeing the handmade signs. Most Americans live so much of our political lives in isolation, doomscrolling on social media and Posting, and I know that when I scroll and post too much for too long, I feel shriveled and hopeless. Being out in the freezing cold in the midst of a shouting, marching crowd feels electrifying and hopeful, and very human and powerful.

[crows-are-gathering]

“My parents work harder than your president,” from protest in Raleigh, NC. No Kings, June 14, 2025

[satansluckycigarette]

I feel like this is a great time to remind everyone that the reasons the founding fathers fought the Revolutionary War were: 1) burdensome tariffs placed on goods imported into the colonies from other countries, 2) the suspension of the right to assembly and fair trial for political dissenters, and 3) violence towards colonial communities known for anti-imperial sentiment (The Boston Massacre, the burning of Falmouth, etc)

Trump's burrowing from someone's playbook and it ain't George Washington's.