Ordinary Citizen Protesting
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting
@thewelcometable.bsky.social
Spiritual director, coordinator of The Welcome Table LGBTQ founder, ordinary citizen protesting illegal, unconstitutional, & unethical actions by the Trump administration.
Day 330.2
"Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked"
ICE threw him to the ground, handcuffed him..striking his head w a steel baton. They told ER staff he had purposely run into a brick wall.
apnews.com/article/immi...

IMPEACH TRUMP NOW!
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
apnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Day 330
"A few days ago, we saw that in the White House..blatant racism is not..a practice of the past..Our shock is real. So is our outrage. Nothing less than an unequivocal apology – to the nation & to the persons demeaned – is acceptable."
-Cardinal Cupich
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, calling for an apology from the White House for a racist social media post - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
Portraying human beings as animals – less than human – is not new. It was a common way in past centuries for politicians and others to demean immigrant groups as each arrived, the Chinese, Irish, Ital...
www.archchicago.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Day 329.3
Protest tomorrow in Aurora; Immigrant Solidarity Network
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Day 329.2
Celebrate Black history by translating historical lessons into contemporary movement-building & leadership practices. Speaker: Barbara R. Arnwine pres & founder of Transformative Justice Coalition.
Monday, February 23
7 – 8:30pm ESThttps://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/897551/
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Day 329
For those w a Lent tradition, a talk w Yunuen Trujillo, a married lesbian who is Latina & Catholic, undocumented & an immigration lawyer talking about intersectionality in prophetic practice. Highly recommend!

Register: dignityusa.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/d...
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
It's a little more than "bad behavior" when you terrorize, beat, starve, kill, and unjustly incarcerate large populations of humans based on skin color (including children), but still glad he did it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Day 328.2
"Last April, at the Border Security Expo in AZ acting director of ICE Todd Lyons told attendees: 'We need to get better at treating this like a business.' He called for a deportation process 'like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.'"
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7...
February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Day 328
"last night [2 judges] ok'd the Trump admin’s new rule denying detained immigrants the rt to release on bond..'millions of non-citizens who have..never committed a crime &..pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to pub safety.' www.stevevladeck.com/p/195-the-im...
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Day 328
"To be salt..to preserve love by resisting social decay & moral numbness. It is a call to resist neutrality in the face of suffering..to stand in the gap when injustice, violence, and dehumanization threaten to become normalized." www.newwaysministry.org/2026/02/08/b...
Being Light and Salt After the Death of Renée Good - New Ways Ministry
Today’s Gospel calls us to be “salt of the earth” and “light of the world.” So what does it mean to be light and salt in times like these?
www.newwaysministry.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Day 327
Online 2/12, 7pm “Resist & Reimagine: Lessons from MN on Fighting Authoritarianism.” Reps. Ilhan Omar & Pramila Jayapal share actionable lessons on organizing w corporate pressure tactics, rapid response, & nonviolent community defense. Hosted by Indivisible.
www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/...
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Day 326.2
The Defiance Dispatch by Jiggy Geronimo
Content to Amplify as nat'l media is taken over by Trump collaborators!

Today: ICE, Epstein, Trump's election, & disrupting ICE operations

Subscribe: defiancedispatch.substack.com/p/february-6...
February 6th - Content to Amplify
ICE, Epstein, Trump's election, and disrupting ICE operations
defiancedispatch.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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NO SLEEP FOR CEOs HOUSING KIDNAPPERS.

Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta has refused to stop housing ICE, and has punished franchise hotels and employees for doing the right thing.

Until Hilton stops collaborating with fascism, we will be at his doorstep to haunt his dreams.
February 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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When Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon.

This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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I have read entirely too many Epstein files at this point, but here is what's in there about the tech billionaires (and how often each of them shows up):
The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Trump's former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon — who exchanged thousands of texts and emails with Jeffrey Epstein btw — is calling for ICE agents to surround polling places ahead of the 2026 midterms, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
February 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Day 326
Trump admin has given ICE access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses & ethnicities. "The new agreement makes clear that DHS will use the data to identify, for deportation purposes, people who in the country illegally."
apnews.com/article/immi...
Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
apnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Day 325.2
Weds, February 11
Join Actions at Target stores or create your own!

Why/ How: unidos-mn.org/thefourth/

Toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MN Target workers protest
prospect.org/2026/02/04/t...
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Day 325
KC Catholics Terry & Ryan Anderson got $80 mil in bonds/tax breaks to build a warehouse & hope to sell it to the gov't as an ICE det center for 10k people. They are major donors at Visitation Parish, Brookside, KS.

Email them at: www.platformv.com/contact
www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care?
Two Kansas City brothers are big Catholic donors. But now that they're also making a vast ICE detention facility possible, will the institutions they support look away?
www.ncronline.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Day 324.6
"Although the Constitution gives control of elections exclusively to the states, at a bill signing in the Oval Office today, Trump doubled down on his call for Republicans to “nationalize” elections." abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

THWART THE THEFT: IMPEACH BEFORE MIDTERMS!
abcnews.go.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Day 324.5
Didn't the gov't just arrest people protesting in a church?

But it's ok to send an armed militia into one...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
Community devastated after congregant arrested during immigration raid on L.A. church grounds
A San Fernando Valley community is outraged and devastated after federal immigration agents forced their way onto the grounds of a church during a food giveaway and arrested a man who church offici…
ktla.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Day 324.4
MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
People are fighting back; we can join them!
susanrogan.substack.com/p/were-letti...
couriernewsroom.com/news/map-ice...
MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.
couriernewsroom.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Day 324.3
No Profits For Locking Up Our Neighbors, Tax the Detention Camp Operators!
Send to Reps/Governor: resist.bot/petitions/PB...

"CA..has introduced..legislation..[to] impose a 50% tax on profits from private ICE det centers & redirect the $ to immigr serv." www.newsweek.com/ice-bill-tax...
No Profits For Locking Up Our Neighbors, Tax the Detention Camp Operators
Text SIGN PBYCBG to 50409 to send this to your officials.
resist.bot
February 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Day 324
"As the son of a cop who took a costly stand, I can say to ICE agents: You can say no."
www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

We can ALL say NO!

Say NO now, every way you can, starting with NO to Trump rigging the midterms by IMPEACHING him NOW!
THWART the THEFT!
ROUTE the RIG!
Impeach!
As the son of a cop who took a costly stand, I can say to ICE agents: You can say no.
My father was a New York police officer. When he was ordered to raid gay bars and arrest patrons, he decided he could not do it.
www.americamagazine.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM