Thoughts on 50501 Protests today

Update - I went to my local one with great caution and this is how it went. I'd say 300-500 people. The organizers was there. She said she showed up with her kids last week and it was just the four of them so an impressive growth in numbers. Two local news stations showed up. No bad actors unless you count the guy at the end who was telling everybody that they should arm up in a weird way. Like he was doing a very bad job of pretending to be a lefty to get us in trouble or something like that not sure. Police presence was two cop cars in the distance keeping an eye on things. Majority white. And yes lots of libs there. But my two cents on that is I definitely live in an area where the left infight and eat their own all the time. At least the libs did something today. I'm going to continue to keep my ears open for marginalized-led groups doing the work that want to organize something and I will show up. But honestly my hot take at this point is that I'm willing to work with just about anybody to stop what is fucking going on, including jackasses that voted for him that might now finally see the error of their ways, libs, etc. I am an old queer and I have disablities, so my radar is always on but I don't see how we get through this if we can't figure out to work with the people who want to stop this even when our ideologies don't match. Finally I just want to say that I completely understand that this is only one way to deal with what we're dealing with and possibly not a very effective one. I'll keep trying and adding multiple methods to resist and fight.

Probably should have sent this sooner than 2 hours before the East Coast protests are about to start but I would like to know people's thoughts on attending the 50 protests ln 50 states actions that are going on. I feel like I am caught in an endless loop of more seasoned activists saying don't go, no one with any kind of organizing cred is running this and there might be bad actors to people arguing that this is a people's protest and decentralized and this is one of the ways we should actually be protesting. I have heard Robert comment many times before how the left has failed to organize really good protests/opportunities for general strikes (I know this is not a general strike I don't need that explained to me). I'm just a little stuck on whether this is another example of this or maybe some folks just stepped up and are finally trying to do something. Would love to hear from people who really spend a lot of time at protests and rallies etc and what their thoughts are on these event are.

Edited to change autocorrects that were driving me batty and basic typos