>> Yes! There's always that danger in a society so openly #racist. I am a PoC myself. That's why I linked to #CivicSolidarity — #Cops kept #protesters safe! #BlackMastodon
This is a #MoralMoment — #CoryBooker
We need a broad coalition with civic solidarity, not just solidarity within racial or other groups targeted by haters.
If #Trump and #Musk have riled up SO MANY AMERICANS in just the first 100 days, they've #AwakenedASleepingGiant 
>>>> The protests were not perfect. Anecdotally and observationally, they were very #white—not exactly representative of the #Democratic coalition.
>> Might that be because #POC are more likely to be arrested than #white people during protests?
Yes! There's always that danger in a society so openly #racist.
I am a PoC myself. That's why I linked to #CivicSolidarity — #Cops kept #protesters safe! #BlackMastodon
>> The protests were not perfect. Anecdotally and observationally, they were very #white—not exactly representative of the #Democratic coalition.
#Chicago has a significant population of #BlackPeople and other #POC. I took hundreds of pictures, some of which are in this thread 
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/114288703437767643. It was obvious that #BlackAmerican community was underrepresented.
Also see #CivicSolidarity — #Cops kept #protesters safe!
"Tens of thousands of #protesters mustered in cities and towns across the country on Saturday to sound off against the #Trump administration's cuts to the federal #government and its policies.
Carrying homemade posters and chanting "Hands Off," the protesters came out to the more than 1,200 rallies nationwide despite rain in many cities"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/huge-crowds-gather-hands-off-rallies-nationwide-protest/story?id=120523176
"The town of 1,300 people [of whom apx 1000 protested] has just one school for all children K-12... It’s an affluent and idyllic-looking town on the shores of Lake Ontario in a county that voted 61% for #Trump in 2024. And when #protesters marched down the streets in solidarity with their stolen neighbors, they made sure to pass by the home of one community member in particular: #TomHoman, Trump’s Border Czar."
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-harbor-tom-homan-jaime-cook
Can anyone recommend an EXIF-metadata scrubbing tool for our protest photos?
"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.
In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."
Private groups work to identify & report #student #protesters for possible #deportation
When a protester was caught on video in January at a NY rally against #Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask & headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along w/her name & employer, were circulated online.
#Trump #immigration #law #FacialRecognition #technology #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #dissent #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef
New #Trump demand to #colleges: Name #protesters — & their nationalities
The demand for #student information came after the admin promised to #deport non-citizens who participated in what it called “pro-jihadist protests”
#immigration #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #democracy #authoritarianism #dissent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/25/trump-administration-campus-antisemitism-investigations/
Incredibly PROUD of the #Michiganders that showed-up To Protest (Tariffs, Doge,Ukraine policy) &…
Show our love & support for our…
Canadian sisters & Brothers!
Double appreciation for the brave & courageous
Folks in #ontario cheering us on!
You have our loyalty!
#Protesters in #detroit #canada unify across #river rally against #trump #presidency - Detroit Free Press
subsonic weapon reportedly used on Belgrade Serbian protests against government corruption
"JD #Vance Flees To Undisclosed Location After Hundreds Of #Protesters Disrupt His #Vermont #Ski Vacation"
https://www.politicususa.com/p/jd-vance-flees-to-undisclosed-location
I haven't seen an article about this that has said what the protest target was yet. Was there some reason Boro Park was targetted other than a bunch of Jewy lookin' Jews live there?
"Political leaders in #NewYork condemn an #antiIsrael #protest that took place last night in #BoroPark, a #Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Orthodox population.
“Mask-wearing #protesters chanting #antisemitic slogans in the middle of the most Orthodox #Jewish community in the city is all about provocation and not about free speech,” says Senator Chuck Schumer of New York."
Imagine how ignorant you have to be to roll into Boro Park to call a bunch of Bobov and Satmars zionists and how fucking wackadoodle you have to be to also tell them to go back where they come from.
"The #protest, led by the Pal-Awda activist group, takes place in #BoroPark, an area with a large Orthodox population.
The crowd is separated into three parts. The #antiIsrael #protesters and a group of pro-#Israel #counterprotesters gather inside police opposing barricades on the street, and a crowd of Jewish residents watch from the opposite sidewalk. The anti-Israel protesters mostly shout at the neighborhood residents, who are closer.
They chant “#settlers settlers go back home, #Palestine is ours alone,” and “#Zionists go to hell.”
“How many kids did you kill today?” they chant to the beat of a snare drum. Some flash their middle fingers at the #Jewish pedestrians. Children on their way home from local #yeshivas watch from their school bus windows."
#Trump signed a trio of #ExecutiveOrders on #education Wednesday seeking to control how schools teach about #race & #gender, direct more tax dollars to #PrivateSchools, & #deport pro-#Palestinian #protesters.
The flurry of action…tests the limits of #PresidentialPower. In each case, Trump is pushing to use the levers of government — sometimes in unprecedented ways — to force American #school districts, #colleges & #students to align w/his point of view.
#law #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/29/trump-education-orders-indoctrination-school-choice-antisemitism/
#PeteHegseth, who is seeking to lead the Dept of #Defense, & #PamBondi, Trump’s selection for #AttorneyGeneral, were greeted warmly by Senate #Republicans during their confirmation hearings, despite withering questions from Democrats about their #independence from #Trump & other matters. Bondi declined to distance herself from Trump’s lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, & Hegseth dodged questions about whether he would…order US #troops to shoot #protesters.
#democracy #law #USpol
“Dollinger, you can’t hide! #Zionism is a crime!” shouted the students, clad in masks, standing at the back of a classroom where Marc Dollinger was delivering a lecture on #American #Jews and the #BlackPower movement of the 1960s. About 10 protesters entered during the talk, Dollinger told J.
Cellphone video shows the commotion, as attendees sit quietly waiting for it to end. “Anti-Black and settler too, Zionist violence we see you!” the #protesters chant.
“This is so dumb,” one student attendee says.
Dollinger is a tenured professor of #Jewish studies and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair at San Francisco State University. As a scholar, much of his work has focused on the intersections of Jewish history, liberalism and American social movements."
#Trump still denies he lost the 2020 election, & as part of that effort, he proposed “the termination of all rules, regulations, & articles, even those found in the #Constitution”
He says his political opponents — from #Democrats to #protesters to #journalists — are “the enemy from within” & “should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by #NationalGuard or, if really necessary, by the #military.”
He wants to pardon those who attacked the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.
#LGBTQ #Supporters #DrownOut #WestboroBaptistChurch's #AntiGay #Message in #Fresno.
A few #protesters showed up at #Roosevelt #HighSchool with #antigay signs, met by hundreds of #LGBTQ #counterprotestors, many with #rainbow #umbrellas blocking #students’ view of their hateful message.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
