No it wasn’t me and i made a comment in here describing where i found it.
Also i read carefully the rules and don’t believe my post will be deleted.
Finally, just in case, i made a cross-post at my own community for safekeeping.

Update : relevant results at ddg.com with :
reddit 50501

just saying, this seems really sketchy folks.

some tips to help you out

don’t take your phones to the protest
if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
don’t take anything that could identify you as you
superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).

pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.

ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.

know your rights. bring the proof of your rights. force them to acknowledge your rights.

stream everything.

if you are picked up you will;

go on a list
be unlawfully monitored
become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers

you will go dark for at least a month. no social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. after that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.

if you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.

one last thing.

there will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.

trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵

This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy

The instance anything is posted on here it’s already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.

Why delete this treasure trove of good information??

I absolutely fucking hate that I can’t say you’re being a bit overkill.

What the actual fuck

One thing I’d recommend that I’m unsure how to easily obtain, is getting the phone number of a civil rights lawyer ready. It does kind of contradict the point about not bringing phones, I suppose. At the very least, if one is available in the vicinity after attempted arrests it can be useful.

I also feel somewhat guilty, as I will be attending in a very blue state that’s unlikely to have so much resistance, so I may skirt some of those rules myself.

And based on the deal Trump is doing with Bukele, there’s a chance you could end up getting thrown into an El Salvadorian prison and locked up with MS-13 gangbangers.

I wish I was joking…

Yeah, this whole thing is very poorly done and really screams like annexcuse toncreate andalse flag moment. I saw a Reddit comment that this exact thing was listed in the Project2025 playbook as part of an excuse to create a scene and enact martial law.

Why is your entire comment history deleted?

Great advice except I’m confused about how to “stream everything” if we’re supposed to leave our phones at home.

50 protests

50 states

1 day

Thus 50501

They left out writing the number of your attorney or the ACLU on yourself in sharpie, so you’ll have it if you need it.

Watchout for Google too!

Not commanding enough. It should be “Avoid Google at all costs”.

Yeah February in WI is not a smart time to plan to stand outside. Same in most other northern states for at least another 2 months

i was also thinking it might be better in the weekend … fortunately, people will talk and decide.
But also it is called 50 Protests, 50 States, OneDay : February 5th

because in the middle of the week in the middle of the day is when it causes the most disruption to literally everything and everybody. Government officials won’t even be there on the weekend. May as well decide to do it in the middle of a huge field out in the country.

I’m guessing since they’re protesting project 2025 organizing the protest to happen on 2/5/25 kind of makes sense.

Thanks very much, i’m quite happy with the success of the post.
Just saw now your comment from 24 hours ago :
https://lemmy.world/comment/14838511

My post here started after i saw a comment quite similar to yours !

That’s my take as well.

Unless this goes on with some critical infrastructure impacted for at least a few weeks, it’s utterly pointless.

General strikes take a pretty large mass. To build that, a very important step is making sure more people are aware of how many are committed to resistance.

It’s like being invited to a party, and the host says “Well, you’re one of the first ten people I’ve invited, but I’m encouraging others to share-” and you just reply “Nope, I’m not going unless there’s already a million people going.” Of course, in this case, the protest has been shared outside of just Lemmy, so don’t use local numbers as an indicator.

a mess

Is that supposed to be a British way of spelling “disaster”?

Yup, that’s a good 8 hour drive for me as well.

ah yes, voting, famously known for being the only way humans have ever changed their material circumstances.

now that voting has failed us, the only thing left to do is nothing!

Thanks, i have edited my post with this and the [solved] flare.

Sorry, this for me is trolling, so, i’m blocking your account.
Have a nice life.

This made me lol out loud irl.