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Day #61 I’m keeping vigil for Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s due process rights. And all others in similar circumstances. I wish the media would do the same. @CNN @nbcnews.com @pbsnews.org

This is a moment for moral moment for faith communities to step up and speak up! @jvp.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @catholic4choice.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Day #60: Homeland Security continues arresting law abiding US residents across the country, and still NO DUE PROCESS FOR DEPORTED RESIDENTS! SPEAK UP!!! @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @pbsnews.org @stephencolbert.bsky.social @thedailyshow.com @60minutes.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @nilc.org @aila.org

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

These people are *following the rules*.

Day #59. The inhumanity of the Trump administration takes my breath away. @msnbc.com

Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8 "...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present..of any kind whatever, from any King, Price, or foreign State."

Just in time for Mother’s Day, too. Don’t let them do this “quietly” www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

Republicans in Congress have abdicated their authority to hold President Trump to account. Time to vote EVERY Republican out of office. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

@cnn.com Is it really that difficult to point out blatant lies and disinformation? It’s the least you owe to your viewers. Or can anyone come on the airwaves and spew lies on a news program intended to inform the public? If so, you’re in the entertainment business; not journalism.

#58 Kilmer should be home honoring his wife and mother. The administration admits his detention was a mistake, and SCOTUS told him to return this US lawful resident. @nilc.org @vanhollen.senate.gov @cnn.com The media can do a better job of standing up for democracy.

I get it. We’re sick of this administration, and we have a long road ahead. We must take a breath. Stay non-violent or stay home and recharge until you can commit to non violence. We don’t win if we become like our opposition.

Day 57: The lawlessness of this administration, to send a US resident to a foreign torture prison without due process is unacceptable. They admitted to an 'administrative error' and SCOTUS ordered him to be returned to US. @aclu.org @immigcoalition.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov

Go back with an even larger coalition this time! @lwvus.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

Do something about this. Go back with a bigger team next week. Clergy, people, lawyers, senators, @whipkclark.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @aclu.org

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

Also, we need a law that requires law enforcement to be barred from masking their faces. WTF is that about?

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Hope you are all paying attention. This state we’re in does not seem sustainable to me.

@indivisible.org @booker.senate.gov

On my way to join the protests at ICE's Newark detention facility, where Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody. He must be released.

NEW: Chaos at the ICE detention centre in New Jersey. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been arrested by the DOJ after Members of Congress (apparently being shoved by agents) attempted to include him on a visit. Baraka has opposed the facility, saying it opened without permits. (🎥 News 12 New Jersey)

Another court ruling for democracy!

Day #56: "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." Amendment V of the US Constitution. SPEAK UP! @ncronline.bsky.social @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social

Day #55 - Wondering if Pope Leo will influence Americans understanding of the plight of immigrants in the US and around the world. @ncronline.bsky.social @catholic4choice.bsky.social

@catholic4choice.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

Day #54: Trump is not following SCOTUS order to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return home. How much more evidence that we are in a Constitutional crisis do you need? Networks should have a "Days Detained Without Due Process" calculator on the nightly news. @msnbc.com @cnn.com @cbsnews.com

@leahgreenberg.bsky.social We’re talking about dolls instead of gutting healthcare and cutting back on social security services which are the immediate threats at the moment.

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Today is National Nurses Day! It's also a good day to call your Member of Congress to urge them to vote NO on Medicaid cuts which would leave up to 83 Million Americans without health care, and further decimate our national healthcare system and labor force. @indivisible.org

Day #53: Kilmar is not the only one who was sent to a foreign torture prison in El Salvador, without due process. Every person in the US, regardless of citizenship status, is entitled to due process. @msnbc.com @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social @cnn.com @cbsnews.com @pbsnews.org @nbcnews.com

@indivisible.org

Day #52: When @kristenwelker.bsky.social asked Trump if he agreed that every person in the US is entitled to due process he said he didn't know because he's not a lawyer. He took an Oath to the Constitution and the Supreme Court ruled that he violated Garcia's due process. @nbcnews.com

NEW: @documentedny.bsky.social reports on yet ANOTHER case of a young man with no criminal record in any country who Trump imprisoned without trial or due process in El Salvador on March 15 — Ángel, an UberEats driver living with his childhood best friend in the Bronx when he was arrested.

Day 51: Wondering when faith communities will use their soft power and moral leadership to educate, advocate, and inspire their followers to stand up for the human rights of US residents being imprisoned without due process. @ncronline.bsky.social

This is a violation of the Constitution. Article 1 Section 9 gives Congress the sole power of the purse Article II Section 3 requires the Executive to follow the laws It is beyond time for the House of Representatives to invoke Article 1. Section 2.

On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/ #WeFeedYou

Today is Day #50. He is entitled to due process. The government can’t just put you in prison without due process. Don’t turn away. This IS your issue.

@ncronline.bsky.social @catholic4choice.bsky.social

So this is what happens when the church stays silent on the moral degradation of the office of the president.

AOC: Trump said they were only going to go after the “criminals” however their position is that everyone undocumented is a criminal.… On top of that, they’re not even just going after undocumented people, they are making people undocumented by revoking legal status.

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