This is one of the most gobsmacking stories on this regime we've had yet - and that's saying a lot.
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
NO KINGS DAY
UPDATE 03/29/2026:
Seeing a lot of these kinds of stories. Indivisible says there were estimated one million more people than the last protest, making this one the largest protest in history.
I have also seen anecdotal reports that more people who have never protested before have joined.
UPDATE 03/31/2026: Fox News headline
Friday, March 13, 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Take THAT, asshat
I hope he sports a black eye that he has to explain for two weeks.
Maybe if he hadn't been so intent on keeping his red cap he might have been able to defend himself better from those girls. LOL.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
The case of Don Lemon's illegal, unjustified arrest
Like other arrests of journalists and protesters, they have to know their success is unlikely. They're doing this to intimidate others who might want to stand up to them.
UPDATE 02/03/2026:
Far afield of "we don't talk about ongoing cases." Of course, they'll still use that excuse when it's some case that's bad for them.
Veteran who protested ICE has been arrested
Perhaps because a video of him explaining why he was protesting went viral.
They'll release him because he's not guilty of anything illegal. They count on fear to silence other people. That's why they're also taking pictures of protesters and telling them they're going in a database.
Nazis.
UPDATE 02/02/2026: As expected...
The goal is to harrass and intimidate. They never intended to keep him.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Friday, January 23, 2026
Clergy organizing in Minneapolis - and being arrested
Today is the date of the hastily called national support for Minneapolis under seige of Trump's Gestapo.
The clergy showed up.
Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region.
The faith leaders, who are in Minneapolis as part of a larger convening focused on religious pushback to ICE, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active during an ongoing campaign known as Operation Metro Surge. The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.
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Rev. Hierald E. Osorto, a local ELCA pastor who serves a majority immigrant congregation [...] noted that immigrant communities like his are also heavily active in pushing back against ICE, even if much of it is less public.
“For more than a year we have prepared for this moment,” he said. “Our families drew up paperwork — delegation of parental authority forms — so that if they were put in detention, their children would not be alone. We found people lawyers, so they could navigate the legal system where no one else is looking out for them.”
He added: “We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.”
Religion News
Trump losing in court
Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally approved the deportation of five student activists last year after receiving memos largely describing their participation in pro-Palestinian protests and their writings about the war in Gaza, according to internal government documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday.
The documents reveal new details about how the Trump administration decided to target the activists, who were all foreign students visible in campus protests. They had been in the United States legally but were arrested and threatened with deportation last spring.
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Judge William G. Young, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled last year that the Trump administration had illegally targeted the students for deportation based on their speech — in particular their opposition to the Israeli government and its military operations in Gaza.
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[The documents] also show that officials privately anticipated the possibility that the deportations might not hold up in court because much of the conduct highlighted could be seen as protected speech.
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In one set of documents with the referrals, officials acknowledged that almost no grounds existed for deporting the students other than a rarely used 1952 law that says the secretary of state may deem noncitizens deportable for reasons related to foreign policy.
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In justifying the attempt to deport the students, Mr. Rubio and other administration officials repeatedly asserted that they had supported terrorist organizations.
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The students have denied that charge. They sued over their arrests, and judges last year ordered each of them released, citing concerns that their arrests had been based on protected speech.
The case before Judge Young, brought by two national academic organizations, argued more broadly that the arrests had chilled academic speech on the nation’s college campuses. Judge Young agreed, describing the behavior of Mr. Rubio and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to “pick off” a few students with an eye to “violating” the free speech rights of thousands of noncitizen scholars.
NYT
Thursday, January 22, 2026
National anti-ICE rallies - January 23
UPDATE 01/23/2026:
Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region.
The faith leaders, who are in Minneapolis as part of a larger convening focused on religious pushback to ICE, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active during an ongoing campaign known as Operation Metro Surge. The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.
[...]
Rev. Hierald E. Osorto, a local ELCA pastor who serves a majority immigrant congregation [...] noted that immigrant communities like his are also heavily active in pushing back against ICE, even if much of it is less public.
“For more than a year we have prepared for this moment,” he said. “Our families drew up paperwork — delegation of parental authority forms — so that if they were put in detention, their children would not be alone. We found people lawyers, so they could navigate the legal system where no one else is looking out for them.”
He added: “We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.”
Religion News
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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