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Dan SinkerOne in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.
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A timely one just as quirky: the Pentagon Pizza Report uses Google "busy-ness" charts to predict destabilizing global events
https://flowingdata.com/2025/06/16/pizza-activity-spikes-just-before-reports-of-israel-attacking-iran/
https://flowingdata.com/2025/06/16/pizza-activity-spikes-just-before-reports-of-israel-attacking-iran/
Broadly speaking, the 3.5% number is a metric for the collective organizing capacity needed to get those kinds of numbers without the internet, when you're working with phone trees and paper phonebooks at best — and even then, it's 3.5% in the streets for a week straight. Without the internet, getting those numbers generally implied a meaningful political program, a lot of community political education work, and an actual plan.
One of the lessons of the protests of the last decade was that the internet lets you get those numbers way more easily, but does not help at all when it comes to getting those people to have a unified belief in what happens next. You may be able to take a government down, but all you've done is create a power vacuum, and you do not necessarily have any say in what fills it.
evacideTeen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-be-an-activist-when-youre-unable-to-attend-protests
Chris WellensI am joining the #NoKings protest on Saturday.
Why?
Because when a threshold of 3.5% of the population engages in a non-violent protest, the result is (consistently) major change.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. "In 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day.
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Ethan Marcotte“When we internalize the belief that nothing can change, we stop demanding change. When we accept corruption as normal, we stop fighting it. When we dismiss documentation of wrongdoing as pointless, we give wrongdoers exactly what they want: permission to continue unchecked and with no record of their actions.”
Grateful for @molly0xfff’s work every day, but especially today: https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/
It matters. I care.
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
Isaac LymanA city passes the Bikedel Test if there are two safe and reliable ways to get where you’re going other than driving a car.
404 MediaAirlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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