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Spiritual director, coordinator of The Welcome Table LGBTQ community, ordinary citizen protesting illegal, unconstitutional, & unethical actions by the Trump administration.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17h
Day 537.7 BallotTrax may be available in your state & county. It’ll tell you when your ballot was received & when it’s been accepted for counting. ballottrax.com
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17h
Day 537.6 The team behind Women In America has created an awesome tool to help us write a letter to one of Cornell’s biggest donors asking him to withhold his donations to them going forward. app.chilli.club/a/659b273f-3...
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chilli | cornell must face consequences
Ask Cornell's donors to redirect their donations
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 18h
Day 537.5 "The Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that 'the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person',[1] & works with determination for its abolition worldwide." - Catechism of the Catholic Church #2267
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 21h
Day 537.4 ICE agents were riding along w police officers as they made routine traffic stops. By the end of the night 5 people had been taken into ICE custody. Enmeshment between ICE & local law enforcement has become common as more localities embrace 287(g) agreements. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 21h
Day 537.3 Last week, the Trump administration confirmed its plans for a major expansion of the ICE detention center in Batavia, New York, — a project that could include tents and/or trailers to house migrant women. investigativepost.org/2026/10/02/i...
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ICE could detain migrants in tents or trailers at upstate NY facility
ICE's planned expansion refers to both a "soft sided" and "hard sided" temporary facility. In other places, that's meant tents or trailers.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 22h
Day 537.2 Jeffrey Jarquín, a former political prisoner who said he was tortured for leading protests against Nicaragua's authoritarian government, was arrested and jailed immediately after he was deported there from the United States last week. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
latimes.com
U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 22h
Day 537 Advocacy for immigrants belongs to every disciple of Jesus and is, “in its truest sense, an act of divine worship,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said in a homily at Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago on October 3. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Cardinal Cupich: Advocacy for immigrants is an act of worship - Vatican News
Celebrating the US city of Chicago’s legacy as a “City of Welcome,” Cardinal Blase Cupich calls on Catholics to recognize Christ in migrants and ...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 536.3 Once a judge orders a detainee removed, there ICE disappears them; there is no way for their loved ones to figure out where they're being held, or whether they've already been put on a plane and deported. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 536.2 Community Strike Readiness is a 90-minute workshop offering practical training for community members who want to be ready when collective action escalates. Offered by Grassroots Democracy: freedomtrainers.net/trainings/
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Trainings - Freedom Trainers
[ Register for trainings | Request a workshop | Watch recorded trainings ] Register for free online trainings Nonviolent Direct Action In moments when institutions feel unresponsive or power is being ...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 536 Delaney Hall strikers are seeking U visas, set aside for victims of crimes who are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation/prosecution bc they can help provide evidence of civil rights abuses in ICE camps. Contact NJ AG and urge her to act: www.njoag.gov/contact/offi...
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Office of Constituent Services - New Jersey Office of Attorney General
State of New Jersey | Department of Law & Public Safety
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Day 535 Rock Heavyweights Unite for Power to the People Festival rock929rocks.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Rock Heavyweights Unite for Power to the People Festival
Tom Morello is bringing together an impressive cross-section of rock royalty, alternative heavyweights and hip-hop legends for the inaugural Power to the People Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3. Curated b...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Day 534.2 The Trump admin is openly defying Congress taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European & Middle Eastern countries hurt by Russia’s war on Ukraine & diverting it to right-wing gov'ts in Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Day 534 ICE's new detention vans have no rules on time limits or meals. Here's what the contracts reveal & which states are getting the new funding. www.latintimes.com/ices-new-det...
latintimes.com
ICE's New Detention Vans Have Reportedly No Rulebook — Here's What the Paperwork Shows
Leaked contracting records show ICE building a van-based detention system with almost no oversight, as billions in new funding land in the very states home to the country's largest Latino populations.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 533.4 Sens Durbin (D-IL) & Padilla (D-CA) have introduced legislation to restrict the warrantless arrest and detention of individuals by ICE. The measure would require a bond hearing within 24 hours of such an arrest and a 60-day review of an individual’s detention. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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MSN
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 533.3 Aurelio’s Debuts Pope Leo Pizza Box To Honor Its Most Famous Customer The suburban pizza chain is honoring Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV with a limited-edition box made for a papal photo op. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/30/a...
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Aurelio’s Debuts Pope Leo Pizza Box To Honor Its Most Famous Customer
The suburban pizza chain is honoring Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV with a limited-edition box made for a papal photo op.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 533.2 Momsrising survey responses will help push back on harmful narratives about moms & shape a nat'l policy agenda w real solutions, such as paid family leave, lower child care costs. Take the survey: action.momsrising.org/survey/famil...
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WHAT MOMS REALLY NEED
We’re doing a survey to hear more about what’s happening across the country during this affordability crisis so that we can better push toward real solutions to make it easier for parents to raise kid...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 533 Push major corps like Amazon, JPMorgan, Target, Delta to commit to publicly opposing attempts to prevent the counting of votes & seating of duly elected candidates. Toolkits: linktr.ee/mdsweekofact... Tonite: Organize Businesses to Topple the Corp Pillar www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
mobilize.us
How We Organize Businesses to Topple the Corporate Pillar · May Day Strong
Small businesses have a vital role to play in this moment: to protect their workers and our communities. They are woven into the neighborhoods where our members live, work, and shop, and their voices ...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.7 On Friday the admin announced it is refusing to spend..1 billion Congress appropriated for programs that help the American people, which the GAO says is illegal. Saturday Trump used taxpayer $ for his own vanity ads. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Analysis: Trump stirs new storm by posing as strongman in taxpayer-funded video | CNN Politics
It’s Donald Trump as he wants America to see him.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.6 “No child should be expected to face our immigration system alone.” www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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One child facing immigration court alone is too many
The church's preferential option for the poor and vulnerable implores each of us to pay particular attention to people with the least influence over the very institutions that shape their lives.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.5 Bishop Seitz: "Jesus says, 'Let the children come to me' He does not add 'unless their parents are undocumented'..We need to open our schools & parish halls to frightened families, to stand beside them in courtrooms & detention center[s]" www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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The children on the border are speaking. Are we listening?
When Jesus says, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them," he attaches no condition. He does not add "unless their parents are undocumented," or "provided they were born to citizens."
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.4 Cardinal McElroy: Americans can no longer 'pass on by,' ignoring how US is treating immigrants "We must seek to convert our political representatives from tolerating this evil or replace them" www.ncronline.org/news/mcelroy...
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McElroy: Americans can no longer 'pass on by,' ignoring how US is treating immigrants
Americans need to take action to support immigrants who are in this country without documents and are suffering under the government's mass deportation policy, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy sa...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.3 Data center boom/Catholic concerns "Companies should bear more of the costs associated w expanding the electricity infrastructure necessary to serve them. 'They need to..pay for the full upgrade of the grid..That should not be spread across citizens.'" www.ncronline.org/news/data-ce...
ncronline.org
Data center boom puts water, power costs and Catholic concerns on the ballot
As the artificial intelligence boom drives a rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, server facilities are becoming an increasingly visible issue in the 2026 midterm elections.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531.2 400 cities/towns have canceled Flock contracts. Join the fight! noalprs.com/election-too... sassisouth.org/projects/ven... act.aclu.org/a/2026-septe...
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ACLU People Power September Action Call: Get the Flock Out
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 531 Wilber was delivering for DoorDash, was shot by ICE & detained; the 2nd driver victimized by ICE (another driver was murdered). The company has said nothing. Tell them what you think of their silence. CEO tony.xu@doordash.com COO prabir.adarkar@doordash.com Help Wilber www.paypal.com/donate
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 530 Must watch... youtu.be/ayWiE_gL9mU
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Day 527 CA Rep sheriff took 650,000+ ballots..CA Sup Crt ordered him to return them “Allowing law enforcemt unfettered access to ballots..the ability to handle & count them in secret, based on unregulated protocols..creates substantial risk to election integrity” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry
Court says Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and seizure of ballots ‘creates substantial risk to election integrity’
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Day 526.6 Trump is coming to Medinah golf course; come protest this weekend!
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day 526.5 Webinar 9/29: Experts will examine how the mass deportation campaign in the US is affecting children/families & discuss ways the Catholic community can accompany & support those facing separation. Speaker Michael Pham, Bishop of San Diego cmsny.org/event/wdmr-2...
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The Impact of Mass Deportations on Children and Families - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)
Join us on September 29, 2026, from 1:00–2:00 pm ET, for this webinar presented by the Catholic Immigrant Prophetic Action Project (Catholic IMMpact) in observance of the World Day of Migrants and Ref...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day 526.4 The Trump admin has proposed a change to the U.S. census that would not count people who do not have legal immigration status and expand the types of data the gov't collects about race/ethnicity. Millions of U.S. residents would be left off the IL census. www.msn.com/en-us/genera...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day 526.3 Trump expelling asylum seekers to corrupt countries who send them back into danger “..diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Appeals court says Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy is unlawful
The decision marks a major setback for the administration, which has removed tens of thousands of unauthorized immigrants to countries where they are not citizens.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day 526.2 150 Catholic priests & friars, a bishop & nuns from around the world marched to the Vatican to call for an end to the "genocide" in Gaza. The protesters carried a banner bearing the names of 300 children who died during Israel’s war in Gaza. www.ncronline.org/news/priests...
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Priests, nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world marched to the Vatican and prayed Tuesday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica to call for an end to what they called the 'gen...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Day 526 Millionaire Gov of IL reminds Trump that IL hasn't forgotten Midway Blitz. ICE perpetrators will be prosecuted, law upheld. youtube.com/shorts/Tdp6o...
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The Governor Coming After Trump
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 525.4 A 36-year-old immigrant from Costa Rica died last week in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the Winnfield Correctional Center in LA, according to ICE. Marchena is the 55th person to die in ICE custody during the second Trump admin. abcnews.com/US/costa-ric...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 525.3 www.ncronline.org/news/calif-c...
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Calif. Catholics, local police show solidarity with immigrants in Fatima processions
Nearly 1,000 Catholics processed behind a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and a banner that read, "Pray the Rosary, Walk in Faith, Protect our Families," to show support for immigrants in San Jose, Calif...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 525.2 “..the UN was created as an act of defiance. The defiance of people who refuse to surrender the future to fear..against the self-defeating notion that might makes right..of countries that know our futures are bound together..The defiance of hope.” gadebate.un.org/sites/defaul...
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António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) at meeting entitled "The Road Ahead: One Year After the New York Declaration"
Remarks at high-level meeting on the two-state solution entitled "The Road Ahead: One Year After the New York Declaration" by United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 525 A traveling bookmobile with printed copies of the Epstein files looks to keep the alleged sex trafficker’s crimes and association with Trump in the public consciousness. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/22/t...
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'Trump-Epstein Bookmobile' Coming To Andersonville Wednesday With President Set To Visit Area
A traveling bookmobile with printed copies of the Epstein files looks to keep the alleged sex trafficker's crimes and association with Trump in the public consciousness.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day 524.2 Amina Seck was supposed to be travelling with her teammates at Kentucky State, but instead, the NCAA basketball player has spent weeks in immigration custody. sports.yahoo.com/articles/def...
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Defense Attorney Issues Statement After NCAA Player With ACL Injury Is Detained by ICE
Amina Seck was supposed to be travelling with her teammates at Kentucky State, but instead, the NCAA basketball player has spent weeks in immigration custody. Now, her attorney has raised questions ab...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day 524 ICE agent shoots and wounds Venezuelan man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE agent shoots and wounds Venezuelan man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas
Anti-ICE protesters gather and demand transparency at site where 28-year-old was shot in torso
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Day 523 www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
cbsnews.com
Senior Israeli official calls for killing of "30 to 40" people in Gaza every night: "They're not even people"
Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people."
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Day 522.3 James Talarico says he “wish[es] the government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men trying to work clip” www.instagram.com/reels/DdZpKG...
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The Bulwark on Instagram: "James Talarico: "I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m.""
3,147 likes, 55 comments - bulwarkonline on September 17, 2026: "James Talarico: "I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m."".
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Day 522.2 New tool from 5 Calls: 5calls.org/midterms One action per week up until the election that will take you 5 minutes or less to complete. 5calls.org/midterms/
5calls.org
5 Minute Midterms ⭑ 5 Calls
Five minutes a week. Protect your vote.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Day 522 A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that DHS may no longer issue a "warning notice" — threatening prosecution against a U.S. citizen — for criticizing ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICE
David Streever was issued a ‘warning notice’ after sending an email critical of ICE to the agency’s director in January
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Day 521.6 Hackers ripped down a Flock camera, made a copy of the data in it, revealing how exactly the cameras track the movements of both vehicles & people. www.wired.com/story/hacker...
wired.com
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Day 521.5 Martin was taken by ICE in Feb, led the Delaney Hall hunger/labor strike, & is now in solitary at Elizabeth Det Center, his health sharply deteriorating. Write him in Spanish: Martin Alonso Soto Hernandez A-245761808 Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility 625 Evans St Elizabeth, NJ 01201
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Comments can be made here: www.niaid.nih.gov/about/niaid-...
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Public Hearing of NIAID Proposed Reorganization
BackgroundThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports biomedical research to better understand, treat, and...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Day 521.4 Trump admin is quietly dismantling the division of the NIH which runs fed research on infectious & immune diseases, giving the public just 5 days notice. The comment window opened 9/9 & closes this Fri. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Outrage greets NIH pact that could funnel biodefense research funds to Pentagon
NIH director defends interagency plan as “100% aligned with our public health mission”
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Day 521.2 This year judges have ruled that the Trump admin has deported 170+ people in violation of court orders, in defiance of legally mandated due process protections, or to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture & persecution. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Illegal deportations spike under Trump's ICE push
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Day 521 "Delays and redactions [of gov't documents] pile on to the many other intentional ways immigrants are being deprived of due process in immigration court" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Day 520.4 9/17 at 8pm ET: Election Protection 101 training to learn how you to defend the vote via local polling place election protection, how to spot potential voter suppression issues & what to do when you see them. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
mobilize.us
No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 101 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this call to learn how you can take action wherever you are to protect our elections this fall. We’ll cover how to get out the vote, the importance of voting early, pol...
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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Day 520.3 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night rejected the Trump administration’s effort to implement new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot restrictions for the midterm elections, keeping in place a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking the new USPS rule. www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
lawdork.com
Breaking: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin’s request to enforce new USPS mail ballot restrictions
The brief order denying DOJ’s request for a stay of a lower court order blocking the rule only prompted noted dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito.
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