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CAN mobilizes people of faith and faith communities throughout the DC metro area to advocate and organize for rights of immigrants.

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Toby /𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝔀𝓷 @tobyhark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Toby /𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝔀𝓷 @tobyhark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Congregation Action Network @congregationactionnet.org · 24/09/2026
We fight on. Pastor Molis remains detained. DHS denied his green card application, and another deportation flight to Haiti is scheduled, tomorrow. Before he can be put on that plane: ➡️ Explain the denial, Stay his removal during legal review, Release him #BringMolisHome wearecasa.org/free-pastor-...
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Toby /𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝔀𝓷 @tobyhark.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“They didn’t want them notifying loved ones," said a detainee's wife. Detainees at an ICE facility in Mississippi reportedly got “sick from a gas leak, complaining of headaches and other medical symptoms.” At the same time, a power outage left them without A/C for two days in 100-degree heat.
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ICE Refused to Give Detainees Medical Treatment After Gas Leak
Detainees at a federal immigration camp in Mississippi were also forced to stand outside in extreme heat during the leak.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Brittany Ramirez Corona, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen, was detained by federal immigration agents after arriving at an enforcement operation involving her husband. She repeatedly told agents, “I’m a U.S. citizen,” but she said that the agents questioned the identification, calling it “fake.”
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U.S. citizen claims wrongful detention during ICE operation in Norfolk
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — An 18-year-old Norfolk woman says she was detained by federal immigration agents Friday morning after arriving at the scene of an immigration enforcement operation invol…
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Shomari Stone @shomaristone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
JUST IN : A woman’s dramatic interaction with ICE agents in Northern Virginia is going viral. It’s raising a lot of questions. An agent is seen on video pointing a gun at the woman’s face. @Fox5dc Homa Bash spoke with the woman and is live in Falls Church with the video and details.
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Congregation Action Network @congregationactionnet.org · 11/08/2026
🌟 Óscar Romero Bajo las Estrellas! Join us Aug. 15 at 6:30 PM at Lamont Plaza, DC for a FREE night of films, community & vendors honoring San Óscar Romero. 🎬 Bring your family & your own chairs! 🪑 ¡Todos son bienvenidos!
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump’s deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...
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Trump's deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says
A report released Wednesday by the immigration advocacy group America's Voice argues President Trump's immigration policies are hurting the economy.
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National Immigration Project @nipnlg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A federal judge has found DHS in civil contempt, ruling that the government repeatedly removed young asylum seekers it was legally barred from deporting, including in cases where the government’s files expressly reflected a restriction against deportation. Press release: nipnlg.org/news/press-r...
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American Immigration Council @immcouncil.org · 04/08/2026
Another tragic death in ICE custody. The U.S. immigration detention system has been plagued by inhumane conditions for decades. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo's family deserves answers and accountability. We need an immigration system grounded in humanity, not detention at any cost.
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Immigrant held at New Jersey ICE facility dies, officials say | CNN
A Salvadoran man being held at a controversial immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has died, federal officials said Monday, marking the latest death of an immigrant in ICE custody.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@mariocarrillo.bsky.social: “One of the things that we've seen from this admin. is an intent to completely dismantle asylum, both from preventing new asylum seekers from entering the country to make their case heard, but also from instilling fear in those asylum seekers who are in the country now"
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Bellaire student's ICE arrest sparks fear in Houston's Russian community
Since the Russia-Ukraine War began, thousands have sought refuge in the United States. Some fear their status may be revoked.
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brittnymejia.bsky.social @brittnymejia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Federal prosecutors are moving to drop the case against David Huerta, a California labor leader who was arrested during the first day of a series of immigration raids that the Trump administration carried out in the region last summer. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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A year after California labor leader arrested at immigration protest, feds move to drop case
The government on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the case against David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California. Huerta hailed the move as a victory.
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brittnymejia.bsky.social @brittnymejia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a Monday night court filing www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Immigration agents used slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske @mollyhf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Such an interesting story told in an engaging multimedia way: ICE Killed Him. A.I. Helped Turn Him Into a Folk Ballad, Fast. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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ICE Killed Him. A.I. Helped Turn Him Into a Folk Ballad, Fast.
Artificial Intelligence is helping people write corridos within hours, accelerating a century-old tradition of memorializing tragedy through song.
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Vanessa Cardenas @vcardenas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
While ICE agents shoot fathers on their way to work and this administration guts its own oversight, Senator @cortezmasto.senate.gov is advancing common-sense solutions that aim to help build an immigration system that actually works.
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Americans Reject the Deadly Toll and Deliberate Chaos of ICE Violence - America's Voice
New Legislation Offers a Common-Sense Way Forward to Reform Immigration  Washington, DC – Today, America’s Voice endorsed U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) Fairness for Immigrant Families A...
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Michael Ettllnger @mettlinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Fact Sheet on Immigration Policies and Prices, July 2026
Trump immigration policies are driving up prices for consumers
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's time to #EndtheICETax Trump ran on a promise to bring costs down for working families. Instead, he's pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into masked agents raiding workplaces and tearing families and communities apart. This only hurts our communities – and our wallets.
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It’s Time to End the ICE Tax
New report explains how mass deportation is driving up prices for American consumers.
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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ICE has done more damage, caused more harm to this country, in under two years, than the immigrants they claim to be going after. It's an excuse for a private militia. They're criminals, murderers and terrorists. Every elected official will be held accountable for allowing this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/08/2026
An ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has landed in Yaoundé, Cameroon. This is almost certainly the fifth third-country removal to Cameroon. Migrants onboard were shackled for at least 17 hours.
An FR24 map showing N588TN landing in Yaoundé
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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
❌ 🆘 A group of females went to the Capitol and brought pictures of all the people that have lost their lives by the hands of #ÏCE. They were immediately put in handcuffs and arrested even though they were there being peaceful exercising their second amendment right to free speech.‼️
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
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MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE
Debora Kapisha, a medical-surgical nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland, was detained on July 30 at Logan Airport, according to the nurses union.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This has been ICE’s playbook. They threatened the Ithaca sheriff with criminal charges in early 2025 and of course nothing came of it because it was legally flimsy at best, we reported at the time: boltsmag.org/new-york-she...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2026
The tragedy traces back to an ICE stop and deportation of Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz. A year later, amid acute struggle, his wife, Glendy, decided to "self-deport." Weeks after reuniting, the couple was found dead in a field. “If my brother hadn’t been deported…Both of them might still be alive.”
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She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.
A St. Louis mother took her three daughters to reunite with her deported husband in Guatemala. Neighbors found the couple bound and shot in a sugarcane field.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Edwin López-Cornejo’s attorney Ingrid Echeverria filed a habeas petition on July 24, referencing the various medications he was taking for epilepsy and blood pressure as justifications to have him released and prevent his transfer to another facility." "López-Cornejo died just over a week later"
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ICE Detainee Died Days After Lawyer Raised Medical Concerns
Edwin López-Cornejo’s family and lawyer allege that he was medically neglected at Delaney Hall.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We refuse to let these deaths become just another headline. They are not isolated tragedies but the predictable result of a mass deportation agenda that values cruelty over human life. We demand justice for those we’ve lost and for the loved ones left behind.
Since the start of 2026, at least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Geraldo Lunas Campos
Jan. 3, 2026

Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
Jan. 5, 2026

Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz
Jan. 6, 2026

Parady La
Jan. 9, 2026

Victor Manuel Díaz
Jan. 14, 2026

Heber Sánchez Domínguez
Jan. 14, 2026

Lorth Sim
Feb. 16, 2026

Jairo García-Hernández
Feb. 16, 2026

Alberto Gutiérrez-Reyes
Feb. 27, 2026

Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi
Mar. 1, 2026

Emmanuel Cleeford Damas
Mar. 2, 2026

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal
Mar. 14, 2026

Royer Pérez-Jiménez
Mar. 16, 2026

José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
Mar. 25, 2026

Tuan Van Bui
Apr. 1, 2026

Alejandro Cabrera Clemente
Apr. 11, 2026

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
Apr. 12, 2026

Denny Adán González
Apr. 28, 2026

Mamuka Artmeladze
Jun. 4, 2026

Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez
Jun. 19, 2026

Adrian Andreas Florian
Jun. 24, 2026

Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva
Jul. 13, 2026

Priciliano Trejo
Jul. 24, 2026

Edwin Jovanny Lopez-Cornejo
Aug. 1, 2026

We honor and remember them.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Last night we remembered Julian Bailey, killed by U.S. Marshals in February. Tonight together with @familiesnotfedsdc.bsky.social @congregationactionnet.org @50501dc.bsky.social @waba.org and JVP-DC we will remember Nolberto Meza, killed by U.S. Park Police in June. 6 PM: freedcproject.org/nolberto
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Congregation Action Network @congregationactionnet.org · 07/08/2026
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Austin Kocher (@austinkocher)
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. h...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 #ShutDownDilley Children do not belong in detention. They belong with their families, in their communities, and free.
Kids don't belong in prison

Free the children now
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
New court filings detail immigration agents in Los Angeles referring to potential targets using racial slurs.
Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory” stops in the Central District of California.
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling.

After a June raid at Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan.” A text chain revealed an agent referring to “tonks everywhere selling food” — using a word reportedly derived from the sound an agent’s utility flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head. In a video, an agent said, “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.”
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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Questions about the DHS' rush to hire and deploy thousands of new ICE officers to carry out Trump's immigration crackdown have come into stark focus after recent fatal shootings and continued examples of aggressive behavior from agents. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump border czar Tom Homan says ICE is reviewing officer’s vetting after fatal Maine shooting
After an ICE officer alleged to have a violent history fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the agency is also mandating body cameras for all vehicle stops.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New: The Trump admin subjected at least one person on hunger strike in immigrant detention to forcible medical treatment. A document from the ICE Health Service Corps confirms the first case of forced treatment since Trump's second term. w/ José Olivares
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Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention, document reveals
ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today, we endorse Senator @cortezmasto.senate.gov's Fairness for Immigrant Families Act. This bill would give long-term undocumented immigrants with family ties and no criminal records a path to legal status, protect families from indiscriminate enforcement, and force ICE to answer to Congress.
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Chef Rocky @chefrocky413.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Monty Boa @montyboa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
What happens if it's impossible to carry out 2,000 arrests every single day while complying with the law? Which comes first? The quota? Or the law? www.cascadia-journal.com/ice-ramps-up...
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ICE ramps up kidnappings in Puget Sound region
According to the New York Times, the White House has directed ICE to meet a daily national quota of 2,000 arrests, and the Puget Sound region is seeing a surge in kidnappings of immigrants in the past...
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"“A masked agent in an unmarked car killed Lorenzo in his own neighborhood where he lived for 35 years working and raising a family...This is what unaccountable, unrepentant, unconstitutional enforcement looks like.”
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's last words were "me están matando"—they are killing me.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/07/2026
NEW: None of the officers at the scene where a man was fatally shot by ICE in Houston were wearing body cameras, according to two DHS officials and a source familiar with the investigation.
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ICE officers involved in fatal Houston shooting were not wearing bodycams
The lack of ICE officers wearing bodycams could hinder the DHS Inspector General’s review of the incident.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Me están matando." ("They’re killing me.”) Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in the U.S. building homes, raising a family, and contributing to his community. Now, his family is demanding answers after ICE shot and killed him on his way to work. ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social
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ICE Has Again Taken The Life Of One Of Us
When will enough be enough?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Water demands nothing. It asks us to be honest; to listen to what arises; to trust the current when life shifts its shape. Water reminds us that healing is not always loud. Sometimes it is the slow return of feeling. The quiet cleansing. The deep breath after weeping.
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Forest Rain
ALT: Forest Rain
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The element of water tells us: Flow when you can. Rest when you must. And never forget that even the softest thing can reshape stone.
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River Stone in Flowing Water
ALT: River Stone in Flowing Water
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 09/07/2026
🚨Tomorrow 🚨 Join us as we say NO to a concentration camp in Williamsport, in Washington County, in Maryland, or anywhere. 📍 Artizan St. & Potomac St., Williamsport 🕢 Friday, July 10 • 7:30–9:00 a.m. 🌧 Rain or shine Bring a friend. Bring a sign. Everyone is welcome.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fascism is harder to pull off when everyone is running around with little video cameras in their pockets, and can easily share the footage of bad deeds with the world. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...
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New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage
ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.
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Congregation Action Network @congregationactionnet.org · 10/07/2026
🦋 Congratulations to Monarch: A Mexican American Musical on its Off-Broadway run in NYC! Inspired in part by the witness of Congregation Action Network, this powerful story celebrates family, migration, hope, and resilience. 🎟️ www.monarchthemusical.com/buy-tickets
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
new from @tusk81.bsky.social: “May Americans honor the courage & vision of those who came before them by strengthening their communities, respecting their differences & working together toward a more perfect union.” Pope Leo's message is a reminder that welcoming immigrants is part of who we are.
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Pope Leo Marks America 250 By Reminding Us We Are A Nation Of Immigrants
“In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong have helped to shape the nation’s character," the pontiff said in his July 4 letter.
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