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It's being suppressed, I can't find the graph I saw yesterday but cumulative daily protests this year have far outclassed the protests from 2017, yet there's very little coverage of it from the major outlets.

Maybe you just aren't where it's happening?

https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab

"Protesters in Philadelphia and at state capitols in California, Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana and beyond waved signs denouncing President Donald Trump; billionaire Elon Musk, the leader of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency; and Project 2025, a hard-right playbook for American government and society."

50501 is very active, we're hitting the streets all the time. I've been at a demonstration almost every week for the past month and a half. Please, join us!

Edit: From one of my other comments in case you're uneasy about getting involved:

I don’t even like talking to people in the first place.

SAME SAME SAME. When I started confronting these [Trump supporters] people in my life my anxiety would flare up to the point my voice would shake lol. And I never in my life thought I'd be out marching in the streets.

It gets easier, but it takes practice (Prozac helps too). Now the anxiety has become anger. But not anger at them, rather anger at the system. Anger at what we let this country become. Anger at how lazy and complacent I've become.

Do your best, stay safe, and most important of all don't get scared. Get angry.

Estimates show 65-75% of households live paycheck to paycheck. We financially can’t miss a day of work, let alone long stretches. Or we are allowed so little time off that it has to be saved for sick/emergency days (if you get any at all!).

That’s setting aside things like long hours, multiple jobs, unaffordable daycare, lack of medical care on top of hard hitting inflation without any wage changes.

It’s by design. It’s like intentionally under feeding slaves so they don’t have the energy to run away.

There are. I've been to a few. They don't get covered by the media.

There are. And from what I know, apparently the media avoids reporting about them.

Whenever I attend a protest, there is 0 media stations in attendance or covering it.

By design. They're under control.

Honestly, I think everyone's waiting for the masses to be just pissed off enough to kick it up a notch.

There have been but i suspect they may have slowed down.

I feel like one reason why trump has crashed the economy is to hurt people so they are too busy working and struggling to be able to protest his fascist policies.

It's hard to help your neighbor when you are drowning yourself

There have been protests in every single state for awhile now. At least that is what I have heard through the grapevine. I'm Danish so I haven't seen the protests with my own two eyes, but I have seen pictures, read posts and talked to Americans who are out protesting. From what I have been told, it is unheard of that there are protests for the same cause in all 50 states at the same time. It is historic, but I'm not surprised that the greatest president who ever lived wouldn't want that information to slip out in the media. It would hurt his fee-fees bigly.

Yes. The media is suppressing them. See c/50501

I'm not sure where these questions are coming from, there are tens of thousands of people conducting dozens of protests across every single state at every level of government, and multiple stories about those protests in this feed.

there's absolutely some media suppression since Trump is friends with the owners of some media outlets, but there is also a lot of media documenting the literally Nationwide protests.

there's a super popular post like a few tiles up about the dozens of ongoing Tesla protests going on that are tanking the company.

35k in Denver today

There are, they are being reported. I couldn’t speculate as to why you are missing them.

Just remember, the media is owned by the rich.

There have been dozens.

Lol wut? There are. Where do you get your news?!?

@Yazer@lemmy.ca there is also the 50501 group organizing protests in all 50 states April 5.

As others have commented, there haven't been protests this large and often in the US since the Vietnam War. Organizing this takes time. Organizing without using billionaire owned services with questionable privacy policies takes even longer... but it is happening.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Why do kids, who mainly get their news from Tik Tok, not get mad?

Maybe look at who controls the algorithms

Low density and car based infrastructure neuters protests. I usually work from home but I had jury duty a few weeks ago in the courthouse in my downtown area. There were several protests daily the entire time I was there.

I live in the SF Bay Area. There's a website that was set up to track protests (https://www.actiontogetherbayarea.org/calendar). There are more than a dozen today and more than two dozen tomorrow. I think generally the larger protests are at state capitols and Washington DC, which are simply too far for many people to go to. Sacramento is our state capitol and that's about a 1.5 hour drive from here. CA is a big state, Sacramento would probably be an 8-hour drive from Los Angeles.

Also, as others have mentioned, the protests don't get a lot of media coverage.

In Usa, "protesters" are not allowed to do anything further than waving a few signs.

Even when they start shouting too loudly, they go to jail immediately. And then they need a president who releases them (but he releases only the right ones).

Have you noticed how many, many police and national guard troops they can afford? Massa Musk does not cut down on police, only on schools and scientists and caregivers for the sick...

There are but its a big country. Not everyone can walk on DC.

Tens of millions of Americans can't afford a sudden $400.00 expense without going further into debt.

That means they can't afford to miss a day of work.

And that's by design.

I think this is a factor of your media echo chamber. I've personally attended protests nearly every week since January. I'm going to one tomorrow. They are all over my news feeds.

Loads of people in this thread saying they're happening but media not covering them...

I don't think that's really what is meant by "mass protests". In the not so distant past I would have thought every american man woman and child would be weeping in the streets at the corruption and despotism.

There are protests, and maybe they're not being covered, but it's not the type of civil unrest I would have expected honestly.

Because the Americans don't know how to protest.

To a Frenchman a protest is storming and taking control of the representation of authority in the country.

To a Greek a protest is filling the streets of many cities throughout the country with hundreds of thousands of people.

To an American a protest involves standing in a square by the few hundreds, holding signs with semi-sarcastic or passive aggressive messages written on them.

I'm pretty shocked by this as well.

I always thought that America was on the ready to stand up against fascism and tyranny.

I guess they aren't.

Getting sick of Europeans falling for the blatant suppression and propaganda that our corporate-elite overlords are spoon-feeding them and using that to act superior.

the media is definitely suppressing it….

there are pretty significant protests in recent months. Tesla, the federal government, unions etc. It's just that nobody really care about them with all the funny shit happening in the federal government right now.

Realistically, they also won't do much, so you'll have better reach doing more traditional on the ground campaigning anyway.