/r/50501 Mirror

Originally Posted By u/theologi At 2025-05-23 11:33:06 AM | Source

in hosting actions to advocate for the end of the genocide actively taking place in Gaza?

Originally Posted By u/LudicrousSlug At 2025-05-23 11:27:25 AM | Source

What can we do to draw more attention to this?

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-preparing-to-go-to-war-on-immigrant-detention-centers-mciver

I find the footage of plainclothes ICE agents abducting immigrants at court hearings especially troubling (at the bottom of the article): “Increasingly—and contrary to the White House’s rhetoric—it’s the most law-abiding migrants, who follow the rules and show up to their regularly scheduled hearings and are therefore the easiest to nab.”

Originally Posted By u/beautimoose At 2025-05-23 01:12:05 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/HumusSapien At 2025-05-23 09:59:06 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/No_King_25 At 2025-05-23 09:01:13 AM | Source

Full unlocked article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-memecoin-dinner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.ifRq.doyzXWKDt2jA

Originally Posted By u/WildImportance6735 At 2025-05-23 09:27:47 AM | Source

Stop thinking like activists that work within the constraints of the laws enforced by a corrupt government, start thinking like revolutionaries and bend those laws. Push the boundaries. People are losing passion because we’re doing the same thing the Democrats are doing, we’re doing the absolute bare minimum. It’s time to step up, and it’s time to start hitting back harder.

Originally Posted By u/I_eat_mud_ At 2025-05-23 10:32:18 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/HumusSapien At 2025-05-23 10:14:06 AM | Source

Is this because people are keeping their phones at home for safety or is it because the media just won’t cover most of it? I feel like all media is being censored to some degree.

Sending positive vibes from 🇨🇦

Originally Posted By u/cdnphan At 2025-05-23 09:33:04 AM | Source

From what I understand, the Byrd Rule is a legislative rule that can be used to make it harder for non-budgetary items to be passed in budget reconciliation bills.

All it takes is one senator to raise a point of order against a provision in the bill, which sends that provision to be assessed by the Senate Parliamentarian, who is Elizabeth MacDonough. She has held the position since 2012, and means that she is not necessarily a magat sycophant. If she agrees the Bryd Rule is applicable to the provision, it then takes 60 votes to keep the provision in the bill versus 51 needed to pass budget reconciliation.

I believe the most important provisions to be targeted by the Byrd Rule are :

Section 70302, limits the judiciary from holding parties under contempt if they ignore their ruling

Section 50401, prevents any regulation on AI for ten years.

Section 60112, deregulates silencers for guns

Section 80221, Medicaid work requirements

I know this doesn’t stop the bill, but it could defang a lot of the danger in the bill. The fact they’re trying to limit judiciary oversight is eerily similar to the Enabling Act of 1933 which greatly strengthened Hitler’s authority. It would allow all trumps executive orders to not be hindered by the courts, ultimately making his own laws without the legislative branch, literally like the nazis did.

Please call your senators and ask them to apply Byrd Rule to these provisions. I did this morning. If you have more ideas to resist this bill, or have corrections for me, I’m all ears!

Originally Posted By u/Brambo_Style At 2025-05-23 10:50:01 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Competitive_Pop2507 At 2025-05-23 07:45:22 AM | Source

The U.S. House of Reps passed H.R. 1, the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill Act that attacks civil liberties and cuts Medicaid by at least $600 billion, the largest cut in the program’s history. The reconciliation bill now moves to the Senate.

CALL YOUR REPS AND SENATORS! FIGHT THIS BILL! 202-224-3121

Originally Posted By u/VociferousVal At 2025-05-23 01:56:47 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/mrcanard At 2025-05-23 08:31:48 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/lnkydeeps At 2025-05-23 08:40:38 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/wabanero At 2025-05-23 04:01:23 AM | Source

Withdraw bank accounts, withdraw 401ks, all of it. If enough of us did it, it would tank all of their stocks. We can survive on little to no money. They can't.

Originally Posted By u/207Menace At 2025-05-23 05:07:00 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Sufficient_Syrup4517 At 2025-05-22 09:23:11 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/snowpie92 At 2025-05-22 04:08:13 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/NathanJack0Lantern At 2025-05-22 11:25:49 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Sufficient_Syrup4517 At 2025-05-22 09:23:11 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/meamacaveman At 2025-05-22 09:37:49 PM | Source

All companies listed have donated significantly to the Trump administration (campaign or inauguration fund ) and/or pulled back support if LGBTQ+ and DEI initiatives.

Originally Posted By u/goldengod518 At 2025-05-22 08:23:59 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/ragnarokfps At 2025-05-22 05:48:52 PM | Source

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lpqafd2cxf2w

Originally Posted By u/MaintenanceNew2804 At 2025-05-22 09:49:54 AM | Source

It’s in the title. We have one chance to make a real stand here — one that will be broadcast worldwide and set the narrative for the coming political battles. If no one is brave enough to block the parade route, no one is brave enough to save democracy.

Link arms and form a chain across the route. The route is public. If there’s a railing, jump it. Don’t obey officers who tell us not to. Will people get arrested? Absolutely. Maybe tear-gassed. But there is no way the public outcry won’t ruin political careers. This is the best chance we have to make a protest statement that means something. If no one agrees, I have to say that we’ve already lost.

Fully anticipating to get kicked from this sub, know — that if I am — everything folks are saying about 50501 is true.

Originally Posted By u/Streszhouna At 2025-05-22 03:48:05 PM | Source