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So you're saying that looking at Spotify is going to be even more misleading because 100% of Joe Rogan's listeners are there vs not all listeners of other podcasts?

Spotify is not the only way to listen to podcasts

Democracy Docket is a good source for court battles. They cover all kinds of court cases and the updates on them you hardly find in other media

The other action is harder to find concentrated in one source, but there's people on various social media that try to signal boost the limited media coverage of that stuff. For instance, Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social), various activism groups like Indivisible, the r/fednews and r/50501 subreddit, etc.

Protests are a starting point not an ending one. Many of the groups involved in this like Indivisible are also recruiting people from theses protests to do the less flashy work of fighting back in other ways

They also are quite the lighting rod to get people to feel engaged more broadly. If you've never gone to a mass protest, it's hard to describe how they reignite you to fight back. Seeing all those people there makes you realize you are not alone. That you are not the only one who doesn't think this is okay

These most recent protests were also much larger than the media is describing it. The media is saying thousands nationwide, but there were multiple cities that each had 1000+ people. Many smaller cities had hundreds protesting

There have been people fighting back. They just get 10x less media coverage than all the horrible things going on. This is part of what people mean when they say the revolution will not be televised

Many of their actions have been blocked in many of the federal courts and they are largely complying with those orders

There are many federal workers refusing to go along with all kinds of their action that slow them down

Many blue states and localities have already passed laws/ordinances to stop cooperating with the federal government ICE raid making them more difficult to carry out

My reaction is to get to work. The far-right is trying to take over much of the world, and it's going to take many of us to push it back. Don't wait for someone else to step up - everyone else is waiting too. Be the person who steps up. The people have power if we use it

There's groups like Indivisible doing directed pressure of those in government that need more people to contact their house representatives and senators. With that pressure for instance, they've started to get Democrats to use procedural tools to slow down senate confirmation of Trump's picks

There's movements like the 50501 protests in many cities in all 50 states yesterday, on Feb 5th, and there will be future protests

For anyone else reading this, don't think this can't happen wherever you are in the world, join the fight back locally. People in the US thought it couldn't happen to them too until it did. People in the UK thought Brexit wouldn't happen until it did. It can happen to you. Take what's happened in the US as a warning for you too to get involved in the push back

but there isn’t a mass movement right now

Lookup the 50501 movement. There were protests across the entire country in every single state yesterday and they are planning future ones too. Many of them were quite large especially considering how short notice they were prepared

Here's one video montage with just handful of some of the protests https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lifqkjki2k2o

Not that I'm aware of. Closest I can find are Mastodon accounts like @50501_movement@events.pol-rev.com

There's a large communities for it on Reddit (r/50501) and Bluesky (like @50501movement.bsky.social)

It wasn't by a large margin - the swing states were a lot closer than people think. Its just that the shift nationally was a pretty uniform making the results in the overall electoral college look less close than each state was. Each swing state was within 1-3%, so small differences to splitting or not filling out the ballot mattered way more here leading to split results

The swing states actually moved less to the right compared to 2020 than the rest of the country in 2024. Probably because of more campaigning in those states

EDIT: Also for an example with some specific numbers, let's look at the Wisconsin

President race

Trump - 1,697,626

Harris - 1,668,229

Third Party - 30,015

Senate

Baldwin (D) - 1,672,777 [ 4,548 fewer votes than Harris ]

Hovde (R) - 1,643,996 [ 24,233 fewer votes than Trump ]

If we assume no split ticking, that would mean ~1.4% of Trump voters and ~0.2% of Harris voters in Wisconsin likely left the down ballot blank

A decent number of trump voters only voted for Trump. They left the downballot blank because they don't really care about anything but Trump

Protests organize people to fight for more

A hell of a lof of people just signed up to do work with groups like Indivisible who are putting in the less flashy work

Protests are a first step, not a last

Not sure if she will, but she could now actually do that in 2028. She just now reached the minimum age to run for president (35)