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"Even Olympic athletes spoke up against the Administration's policies this week ("I feel heartbroken about what's happening in the United States," said freestyle skier Chris Lillis at an Olympics press conference. 'I think as a country we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights.' So did a lot of other people. There's just so much going on, some of it encouraging."

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Solnit offers a roundup of accounts of resistance, including the following from Will McGrath:

"What they don’t often tell you is how beautiful the resistance can be. In the evening, on the day that Alex Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse, was shot to death by federal agents in front of Glam Doll Donuts, my wife and I drove through Minneapolis."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/minneapolis-ice-resistance-minivans.html

Opinion | How We Resist ICE: Car Pools

In Minneapolis, people ignore the cold to defend their neighbors from ICE.

The New York Times

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"There were candlelight vigils on nearly every corner we passed, some corners with four or five people cupping tiny flames, some corners with 50 neighbors milling about, communing, singing, stoking a firepit hauled to the sidewalk, lighting up the little Weber grill, just hanging out in the frozen dark."

The gift article from Solnit doesn't open for me: I used archive.ph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoU9Img_B40&ref=meditationsinanemergency.com

Solnit also points to what Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the NYC prayer breakfast last Sunday:

"Today, my friends, I want to reflect on [Deuteronomy 10:17-18], loving the stranger. Across this country, day after day, we bear witness to cruelty that staggers the conscience. People ripped from their cars, guns drawn against the unarmed, families torn apart, lives shattered, quietly, swiftly, brutally."

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Welcome The Stranger

YouTube

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"If these are not attacks upon the stranger among us, what is? ...And they would succeed, were it not for the many among us who have not only read the Scripture, but who live the Scripture, those who refuse to abandon the stranger."

And she points to this statement issued by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, reported by Camillo Barone:

https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-warn-ice-mega-detention-plan-moral-inflection-point-america?ref=meditationsinanemergency.com

US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America

The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American."

National Catholic Reporter

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"'The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American,' said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration."