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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 1d

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The "roundtable" at the White House during which gov't claimed that the "problem" was those who oppose fascism and compared us to those who opposed Hitler. They compared themselves to Hitler and his Nazis. And WE who are protesting this are the problem. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 1d

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 1d

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Chicago Pastor Shot by ICE speaks to CNN in first TV interview: ‘We could hear them laughing.’ | CNN

Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while pra...

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 2d

Day 213.2
"..instability in Chicago has been caused by the admin’s surge of fed agents into the city, where they shot & killed..Silverio Villegas González; raided & ransacked an apt bldg..shot an unarmed woman..info has showed the fed agents were the aggressors in each situation." HCR 10/8/25

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 2d

Day 213
"On Tues night, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled that ICE agents have been violating a 2022 consent decree banning warrantless arrests unless agents have probable cause to believe someone is in the United States unlawfully and is a flight risk." blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/1...

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 2d

Day 212.2
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to lay out President Trump’s plan to convert the United States from a representative democracy into an authoritarian state.

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Murphy Floor Speech on Trump's Authoritarian Takeover

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 3d

Day 212
Am Fed of Teachers & Am Assoc of Univ Profs Petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr... "..Trump compact would make awards based on ideological fealty..weaponizing [tax $] to undermine research & speech the current admin doesn’t like..The Trump compact is ..unconstitutional." See Tim Snyder

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 4d

Day 211
Video: "José Sánchez, pres/CEO of Humbolt Park Health, & City Council Alderperson Jessie Fuentes describing an attempt by ICE to arrest a patient in the hospital’s ER." abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
Thank: Alderperson Jessie Fuentes, [email protected]; 773-395-0143 or Mr. Sanchez.

Chicago alderperson says federal agents handcuffed her at Humboldt Park medical facility

A Chicago alderperson said federal agents handcuffed her while she was questioning them at a medical center Friday. Also, video showed tear gas being deploy in Logan Square, and Governor JB Pritzker i...

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 5d

Day 210
"Blocked from deploying OR Nat'l Guard troops in Portland, the admin..deployed 300 CA Nat'l Guard troops..Newsom:'The Trump Admin is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself..ignoring court orders & treating judges..as political opponents.'" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 5, 2025

On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 6d

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“The great question to us is whether we are still capable of being truly shocked – or whether we will continue to see thousands of things that we know should not be and must not be and yet remain hardened to them.” Fr. Alfred Delp, SJ
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/10/05/h...

How Are We To Live By Faith In Such a Trying Time as Ours? - New Ways Ministry

Faith is not passive resignation, nor is it submission to injustice.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 6d

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 7d

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14-year veteran of the Natl Guard Palecek..criticized fed agents..“ICE has no regard for any human life..these are not trained professionals. As a military member, I can tell you the way they are handling weapons is reckless and dangerous.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/thoughts-on-...

Thoughts on an Uncivil War

An Army Called ICE Is Already Waging a Domestic War (This is a series of short essay-reports, beginning with the worst – ICE and attacks on immigrants and ending with the best – what we can do and a ...

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 7d

Day 207.2
Last week Judge Wm E. Smith decided in favor of 20 states suing the fed gov't, ruling that they can't make access to emergency funding conditional on a state complying w the gov't’s immigration policies.
Thnx:
Judge Wm Smith
Federal Bldg/Courthouse
1 Exchange Terrace
Providence, RI 02903

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 8d

Day 207
"The kids was crying. People was screaming..they..had [kids] zip tied to each other..One [agent] literally laughed..He said, ‘f*ck them kids.’”
An eyewitness:“We’re being invaded by our own military.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-2-...
Patrol training today 5-7pm Casa DuPage

Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Ted! I need a refresher on Spanish days of the week.😂

Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 8d

March is Saturday, not tomorrow!

Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 8d

Day 206.2
March in solidarity with people targeted solely bc of their skin color by ICE bounty hunters. Tomorrow morning, 9am in West Chicago. Resist the masked intimidation and violence w a peaceful and confident show of community. People will save the people.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 9d

Day 206
"A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager w personal & professional ties to the [US] Treasury Secretary."
No healthcare or groceries for ordinary US people; here's where our tax money is going under Trump.
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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire

A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 9d

Day 205.4
Finally a sane voice calling out what we ALL know: Trump is cognitively, ethically unfit to govern. He has done what we all should do - call for Trump's removal under the 25th Amendment.
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Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 10d

Day 205.3
TONITE 8:30pm est: Indivisible, Move on, Working Families, etc...mass call to organize a response to the gov't shutdown.

Don't forget to call and thank your Dem senators for holding the line, and to tell Repub senators you hold them accountable for the shutdown.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 10d

Day 205.2
Fellow Catholics: take the Cabrini pledge beginning with "To affirm, in word & deed, the inherent dignity of every person, regardless of immigration status or country of origin, seeing each as a child of God before all else..." Spread this to your parish/family.
www.usccb.org/cabrinipledge

The Cabrini Pledge

Resources to inform your pledge and further action:Catholic Social Teaching

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 10d

Day 205
DC Cardinal McElroy "we are confronting..as a nation &..Church an unprecedented assault upon millions of immigrant..families..Our 1st obligation..is to embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic & compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply.." adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 10d

Day 204.3
Stand Up for Science gives Quack-O-Grams to Congress members from their constituents who want them to Impeach the Quack (RFK)!
Send a rubber duck to your reps! www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams

QUACK-O-GRAMS Impeach and Remove Bobby Jr — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Ordinary Citizen Protesting @thewelcometable.bsky.social · 11d

Day 204.2
AZ state Rep John Gilette (R)"called for the execution of Dem U.S. Rep Pramila Jayapal for..advocating for peaceful protest..'Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the Am gov't are tried convicted & hanged..it [violence] will continue." newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed

As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.

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