The Way Forward

ancianita

(41,085 posts) Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:51 PM Jun 24

From WIRED: Online Tools That Fueled 'No Kings' and the Trump Resistance

https://archive.ph/nJVwD

https://www.wired.com/story/technology-tools-donald-trump-resistance/

... The change from a top-down movement to a much more decentralized one is key to understanding what’s happening, says Dana Fisher, a professor of sociology at American University and author of American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave. “This is what we who study social movements call a moment of tactical innovation, where there are going to be all these innovative ideas about ways to break through and to get people to mobilize and work together in these very dark moments,” Fisher says

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List of tools (online supporters use them to hit the streets when ICE is spotted):

-- Realtime Fascism, a website that uses AI to trawl the internet for news articles featuring keywords linked to fascism. The tool analyzes those stories to produce a score for the threat posed by fascism in the US at any given time.

-- Data from the Crowd Counting Consortium,
a joint project of the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, shows that in late January and February alone there were over twice as many street protests in the US than in February 2017. The numbers have kept growing.

-- QR codes, Reddit 50501, online platforms, encrypted messaging apps like Signal

-- Mobilize.us allows participants to share information about upcoming protests, while state-level groups come up with ideas for signs and chants on shared Google Docs.

-- Bluesky's Spotlight On DOGE aims to fact-check claims made about DOGE's alleged savings, having recruited more than a dozen professionals, including lawyers and doctors, across the US to help analyze DOGE's actual savings.

Whatever can help any area of The Way Forward.