October 18, 2025, may be a turning point. The administration has been gearing up to stomp a jackboot down on people who would oppose them. There’s going to be a lot of us out there marching, and some of us might end up under that heel.
Be prepared. Bring water. Have an escape plan. Be ready to help those near you.
This is also important: if you aren’t able to directly participate, for whatever reason, you are still needed. Just like there needs to be ten times the number of support people in the wings behind fighting troops, we will need you in the wings supporting us.
I’m going to be focused on the world in my immediate vicinity, so I’m going to need you to post relevant breaking news as it comes up. That way I can check in from time to time to keep abreast of what’s going on elsewhere, and pass that information to the people near me. People who need to escape are going to need somewhere to go, and maybe a way to get there. They’ll need food, water, medical care, and moral support when they get there.
We’re in this together. Wherever you are, whether you’re carrying a sign on the street, keeping yourself safe away from the fray, or anywhere in between - you are necessary and you are still part of this.
Here’s my prediction: In the grand scheme, nothing will happen.
The majority of the protests will be uneventful. In a few cities, police forces will crack back unnecessarily hard and a few protesters will be arrested, with most released after a day or two.
There will be a near media blackout of these events, eventful or otherwise. The administration will not feel any pressure, and within a month, everyone will forget it even happened.
This is what will happen every time a peaceful protest is planned on a weekend that inconveniences nobody.
Yeah, call it off, let’s do nothing instead.
Imagine a house fire. Imagine that instead of directly fighting it, people are trying to organize a mass demonstration to show the fire that people really want it to just go out on its own.
And then when you point out that will accomplish nothing, that it’s entirely performance just to make the participants feel better, that time should be spent fighting the fire instead of dancing around the issue and trying to combat it by wishing really really hard that it would just go away, people respond with “Fine, I guess we just do nothing then! Is that better?!”
Nations aren’t houses, the rise of fascism isn’t as simple as a fire, and the long-term solution isn’t just “put the fire out.”
If you want a real successful revolution (which I do), there needs to be a critical mass of people willing to act. That critical mass hasn’t yet been reached, but I’d be willing to bet that putting a bunch of like-minded people in the same place, loud and angry, will help to build it. Especially if the fascists react to any of it with “impropriety.”
All efforts great and small. Go do your part.