Twin Ports Rapid Response

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets (Gift Article) As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

"With the Border Patrol marching through Chicago and the National Guard patrolling Memphis, the variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand."
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US bishops issue rare statement opposing ‘indiscriminate’ mass deportations

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RAPID RESONSE RECAP:
With only 22 hours lead time, over 1000 dedicated protestors gathered at the Bishop Henry Whipple building, forcing Kristi Noem's motorcade to sneak in the back just before 4pm, and speed off shortly after 5pm.

Once again, as with Vance and Hegseth, Minnesota shows up.

An estimated 1,500 people showed up at the Whipple Building today for a rapid response protest of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s visit to Mpls. Thanks to everyone who showed up to give her a “warm” MN welcome! No more Minnesota nice, we don’t want your fascist I.C.E!

@mn50501.bsky.social

1000+ patriotic Minnesotans gathered at the Bishop Henry Whipple building (AKA ICE HQ) in Minneapolis to tell Kristi Noem to go home. She cowardly snuck in the back door and sped away about an hour later.

Resource Guide & Community Response For No Kings Day — No Kings A practical guide for activists and community organizers participating in No Kings Day. Learn how to prepare for protests, know your rights, stay safe, and organize effective community responses groun...

Know your Rights Resource Guide —

www.nokings.org/kyr

YouTube video by Indivisible Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings

"Whatever the moment requires, we’ll adapt. Because authoritarianism doesn’t stand alone — it survives on silence, complicity, and cash flow. The No Kings Alliance is simple: make it impossible for anyone — in power, in profit, or in denial — to quietly capitulate."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXX...

Protesters gathered in Manhattan on October 21 following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country" This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

"The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS.

We are in this together.

And it is up to us to be the leaders we need to save our country and our democracy."

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cleve-jones-...

Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...

After the largest protest in US history
What comes next? Join the conversation Oct 21
#nokings

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

'No Kings' organizers project a massive turnout for this weekend's protests Organizers say they expect millions of Americans will march this weekend against the policies of the Trump administration. The protests come amid National Guard deployments in several cities.

"Organizers of the "No Kings" protests are projecting that millions of Americans will demonstrate against the policies of the Trump administration on Saturday, amid ongoing ICE arrests and the deployment of National Guard troops to several Democratic-run cities..."
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

Pope Leo Declares Whose Side He’s On—and It’s Not JD Vance’s Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation focuses on loving the poor. Conservative American Catholics are sure to lose their minds over it.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’ At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden

"Queer and trans immigrants at a detention facility in south Louisiana have alleged that they faced sexual harassment and abuse, medical neglect and coerced labor by staff at the facility..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15 I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 7:00 PM ET
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Tuesday, October 14, 6:30–8:00pm ET
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Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act isn’t new, but it’s getting louder and from all directions!

We had years of warnings.
He told us what he’d do. Project 2025 laid it out, but too many shrugged.

How much is “enough” for everyone to start getting loud with one voice before it’s too late?

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs order prohibiting use of city property for immigration enforcement Johnson's executive order prohibits ICE and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration enforcement, and provides protection for private property refusing access to those age...

ICE doesn't care what the law is...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

One Million Rising: What's Next? · One Million Rising This call is for anyone and everyone who took part in the One Million Rising trainings and gatherings over the summer and early fall - please join us for a follow-up call to wrap up the 1MR series and...

"This call is for anyone and everyone who took part in the One Million Rising trainings and gatherings over the summer and early fall" - moving on to: Form a Courage Collective
www.mobilize.us/onemillionri...

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested Friday after fleeing ...

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

"Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Military lawyers called up to relieve a shortfall in immigration judges The move comes after the Justice Department last week made changes to who could qualify as a temporary immigration judge —effectively lowering the requirements and removing the need to have prior immi...

"Immigration judges are the only ones who can revoke someone's green card or issue a final order of removal for people who have been in the country for more than two years and are in the process of being deported."
www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g...

Calling People of Faith The Time to Act is Now

"fascists can hijack broken faith, but they cannot withstand a healthy faith. They can exploit spiritual crises, but they crumble before spiritual power."
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/calling-pe...

Blue graphic with text "Join an ACLU Action Call Our experts discuss the fight ahead and how you can join Thursday, September 25 at 8pm ET" The ACU People Power logo is in the lower left corner.

The time to be loud is now. Be part of our ongoing monthly calls for ACLU activists and join us on Thursday, September 25 at 8pm ET.

I Stand With Korean Immigrants, Not Trump I Stand With Korean Immigrants, Not Trump” exposes ICE abuses and Trump’s cruel immigration agenda, highlighting mass raids, airport detentions, and the weaponization of shame. The essay calls out Tru...

ordered by 34-time convicted felon Donald Trump: "ICE agents stormed Georgia's Hyundai EV battery site ... 475 workers were detained—over 300 of them South Korean nationals who had come here to build the green energy infrastructure"

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