Crowd size growing as more arrive at JFK with signs — "Say it loud, say it clear, Muslims are welcome here!" pic.twitter.com/aVPBSXlohp
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
This is how large the crowd has gotten in the past 30 minutes. Many more rushing out on a long trek to the airport. The day's just begun. pic.twitter.com/hOHh0luTFP
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
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Lawyers are arriving by the dozens to JFK, taking shifts outside of international arrivals. Here's their call to action: pic.twitter.com/p34bTVKCwj
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
Lawyers are rushing to Terminal 7 where they've received word that eleven detainees are being held. Here's the latest: pic.twitter.com/bWghzU808n
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
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Outside of Terminal 4 at JFK, while lawyers fight on the inside, the protests have EXPLODED in size demanding justice for the detained... pic.twitter.com/lKcrBg5IOD
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
Protesters cover the parking decks at JFK as drums beat and protesters chant: "I-L-L-E-G-A-L, this shit is illegal!!" pic.twitter.com/2ayKm7fjPI
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
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.@GovernorVA instructs state's Attorney General "to look at all avenues" to help anybody detained at Dulles under new immigration order. pic.twitter.com/VEbmQT39kV
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 28, 2017
Iraq vet w/ 4 Purple Hearts, drove two hours to Dulles w/ his son.
— Mike Breen (@M_Breen) January 28, 2017
Nobody called him. He just came. Why?
"Not what I fought for." pic.twitter.com/pAe50ugtlI
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Thousands now gathered at JFK's international arrivals gate to protest Trump's executive order — "Build the wall?" "WE'LL TEAR IT DOWN!" pic.twitter.com/3mJZTPt6V6
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
The scene from above as thousands chant and scream, draping banners from above at JFK international arrivals shouting "LET THEM IN!" pic.twitter.com/ugU8zbKYiv
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
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Immigration lawyers start hand-making signs so that the families of detainees can identify them at the terminal. pic.twitter.com/8HO8NLyjVk
— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) January 28, 2017
#breaking the 1st woman who was held has been let through. Crowds chant USA as she's reunited with her family. pic.twitter.com/A7s3SIRK11
— Hannah VanHuss Davis (@hungreehannah) January 28, 2017
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BREAKING: Federal judge grants emergency stay to temporarily allow people who landed in U.S. with valid visa to remain
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2017
Lawyers huddling at Dulles say Fed judge in Va has granted temp retraining order on banning green card holders pic.twitter.com/Mc5nWWWqxf
— Katherine Shaver (@shaverk) January 29, 2017
BREAKING: Second judge issues order banning removal of green card holders being detained at Dulles. Also requires access to lawyers. https://t.co/DPhdkryhiK
— Josh Dorner (@JoshDorner) January 29, 2017
The Obama Diary 
This is such an important home and gathering place for us. My undying gratitude for keeping the lights on, Nerdy:)
Thank you, DF.
xoxox
Thank you, Nerdy. We cannot only “moan and groan” here (because we miss You Know Who so much), but tonight we can celebrate a little with each other. I’m a firm believer in celebrating all victories, no matter how small, and appreciate doing so tonight with you and TODville. Love ya!
AMENNNNNN to the 3rd Power
Hi Nerdy, you have my undying gratitude for doing such a brilliant job with our Diary too. Otter44has asked for a pink hat and wondered if you could send me her email address so I can get in touch with her about where to send it.If that’s possible, thanks very much. Or you could send her mine.
If you guys have a Twitter account or know anyone who does, you can ask them to DM me and I can send them the email addresses. Hope it helps.
Great! I will do that, thanks!
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Look at you with all those zeroes. Ha!
HHahahahaaaaa!!
This is the America I love:) The one with open hearts and open arms. This is the one we fight for. Proud of them. This is Us.
YES!
Remember, the entire world is watching what WE do.
She has told the truth
Thank you President Obama for empowering us with the strength to believe that “We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”
Telllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IT!!!!!!
has to post…..
Teachers Association protested here in Los Angeles against DeVos today!
NW, thank you for posting these! They are so encouraging.
I don’t think he has to ‘stomach’ it; I think he’s perfectly okay with it.
What happens when the one that’s supposed to be in charge is clueless.
When all this gets fixed, and it will, let it be understood by all that Republicans do NOT deserve a seat at the table, or to make any decisions that affect any human beings. EVER. They own this, that brought this wrath down on this country and the world. No mercy on them come election time. VOTE THEM OUT! They can not be trusted!
Night all. Be safe and take care of one another. #Lockhimup
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/01/28/dear-world-from-america/
A couple of photos from DFW tonight–amazing for North TX!
Remember what Obama showed us
Nerdy, thank you so much for keeping this place open. Coming here has saved my sanity this last week. But I will sleep well tonight knowing that we helped make DT’s first two weekends in the WH miserable!
Likewise, NW, a real sanctuary of sanity and good will here. Although the #Resistance is bringing many many people of good will together.
PROTEST: BALTIMORE at 5pm Sunday: https://www.facebook.com/events/464883900566685/ …
I’m so impressed and awed by this outpouring of support and caring. We are truly each other’s keeper. Thanks ACLU for your hard work on behalf of humanity. Thanks Nerdy, for honoring this sentiment in a thread. “We will Prevail.”
HI All
To echo the thanks of the group, a link to this page will go in the next team email, I will ask folks to read and retweet all the tweets at the top. 2K on the list. This site is very important. Let us know what we can do to keep you guys sane so you can sustain it.
Many thanks
I spent most of my career in federal courts around the country and do not EVER recall a court holding a hearing at midnight! YES WE CAN!
Yes. We. Can!
Yay!
Malignant narcissism, right here is the archetype.
“Be vigilant, don’t be afraid.”
~ President Obama
January, 2017
Apparently there’s a commercial telling people that Trump is under attack and to call this number to support him This is just unbelievable.
Good night TOD folks! So interesting to see the outpouring of love across the country. Surely this is PBO’s greatest legacy. thanks Nerdy as always.
❤🙏🏻🌹🗝🖖🏼
I ❤ Rep. John Lewis
Hope he lives forever!
Goodnight TOD ….
Goodnight Nerdy, Chips, TODville, that judge that signed the temporary stay who’s now invited for Thanksgiving, and all the ships at sea!
LOL, nite L’OB ❤
I’ll bring the pie!
Hoping for that! ❤
THIS IS America-at those airports
And it makes me proud that we are at those airports – protesting and protecting
It was great to see the two bestest tennis players in history make history within a day after each other.
Go Serena and Fedex.
Congrats on Fedex.
Nadal lost a 5 set match. 😦
OH, WOW!!!! Speak up, world! We are listening.
Good morning everyone. So proud of of my countrymen/women. Yes We Can. Yes We Will.
ALL the rot needs to go! If its not clear by now…this entire election, its outcome and these illegal actions from this WH were orchestrated from the beginning. Clear as day.
Looks to me that they’re setting the stage for Marshall Law. Threatening to send troops to Chicago black neighborhoods, threatening sanctuary cities, detaining visa/green card holders, etc. OMFG!
I put NOTHING past them. Nothing! Fucking children of the corn standing there….
DF, I woke up this morn, w/ that thought red-flagging my mind. Then read the post downthread about DT already filing for his 2020 candidacy, which could affect PACs ability to setup opposition ones. Need to educate myself on that angle. If so, it’s Diabolical Bannon in action. We need to be vigilant on all, they will throw all kinds of shiny distractions.
Thank you so much, NW, and TODers for keeping this page going strong and providing info, updates and resistance. We are in for a long fight and the community, caring and information here is extremely important. Yes we must!!!
Process that. Short answer…NEVER!
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/13/12901950/terrorism-immigrants-clothes
You’re more likely to be killed by your own clothes than by an immigrant terrorist
The odds of being killed by a refugee terrorist? One in 3.6 billion.
American Commando Killed in Yemen in Trumps First Counterterror Operation
By ERIC SCHMITTJAN. 29, 2017
WASHINGTON One American commando was killed and three others injured in a fierce firefight overnight with Qaeda militants in central Yemen, a senior American official said Sunday morning. The raid was the first counterterrorism operation approved by President Trump since he took office nine days ago.
Commandos flying in Osprey aircraft carried out the surprise dawn attack in Bayda Province in a ground raid that lasted just under an hour. The target was a building or series of buildings that contained information that counterterrorism officials had deemed valuable enough to warrant a ground operation rather than an airstrike, the American official said.
Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of the Pentagons Central Command, said in a statement: We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our elite service members. The sacrifices are very profound in our fight against terrorists who threaten innocent peoples across the globe.
A military aircraft assisting in the operation crash-landed nearby, leaving a fourth commando injured, the statement said. That aircraft, identified by a senior American official as an Osprey, was unable to fly after the landing and was destroyed by American airstrikes.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/middleeast/american-commando-killed-in-yemen-in-trumps-first-counterterror-operation.html?emc=edit_na_20170129&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57435284&ref=headline&_r=0
Really?????????
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-travel-bans-department-of-homeland-security-vows-enforce-court-order-a7551601.html
Donald Trump’s travel bans will continue to be enforced by the The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite a New York judge placing a temporary stay on it being executed.
Judge Ann Donnelly ruled the bans on refugees and people from seven majority-Muslim countries, were unconstitutional.
But the DHS said it would “continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the American people.”
It said:“President Trump’s Executive Orders remain in place – prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the US government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety.”
White House officials also insisted there was nothing in the court order which impeded the executive order and it remained in full effect.
Regardless of their legal status in the US, citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen have now been barred from entering the country even if they have the correct documentation.
Islam is the predominant religion in those countries and the order has been widely regarded as an implementation of the ban on Muslims which Mr Trump called for during his electoral campaign, although the President denied this.
Morning all.
If true, this is very important to know. Hopefully it can be circulated and sent to people like Joy Reid, Rachael Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell etc to check out and publicize.
******MUST READ AND SHARE******* Need more proof that this is orchestrated? They have a plan
This thread encapsulates the week. That would be WEEK ONE.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/29/1626704/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Callous-cruel-and-cowardly
Here’s the thing. The Rule of Law means nothing to them…this is what we fail to wrap our heads around at our peril….they will continue to do what ever they WANT to do until they are removed. This was planned by Russia/Trump/Trumpcronies.
From the piece:
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely.
But the order is illegal. More than 50 years ago, Congress outlawed such discrimination against immigrants based on national origin.
MORE evil manipulation:
Everyone, SHOW UP
This guy and Bannon and Kushner are now running our country:
Good Morning….TOD FAm…GM NW…..
my greatest fear this morning is that the Immigration officials would not honor the court decree…and that the detainees would be moved and that we would not be able to track their whereabouts…
afew GOP congress folks have spoken out against the Muslim ban…but not enough
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Good Morning Everybody.
That’s my President. Right there. Open and engaged. Compassionate and understanding. I miss him
We keep trying to rationalize the irrational. They have an agenda to carry out. Nothing they do will make sense to people with logic and reason. THEY ARE INSANE!
Check out her TL. She is going off on this madness. Thank God the good people of Obama admin are speaking up.
Handy dandy chart here
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/2017/01/this-is-who-we-are-now.html
DRAG HIM
Since he supports the wall tell him to pay for it, instead of making Mexico pay for it. What don’t Netanyahu give Trump the 40 billion.
You don’t say..
Yes.
Merkel says fight against terrorism no excuse for U.S. entry ban. http://reut.rs/2kH8SJN
The ride-sharing company Lyft has pledged to donate a million dollars to the ACLU in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
In a letter emailed to customers early Sunday morning, Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green announced their decision to donate money to help “defend our constitution.”
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“Banning people of a particular faith or creed, race or identity, sexuality or ethnicity, from entering the U.S. is antithetical to both Lyft’s and our nation’s core values,” the co-founders wrote.
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Lyft’s rival Uber also announced that it will help compensate its drivers who might be stranded overseas due to the travel ban.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316729-lyft-will-donate-1-million-to-aclu-after-trump-immigration-ban
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To me, Silent mean you support it but don’t want to say anything right now.
or it means they’re cowards and want to see the way the wind blows….
Thanked Senator Flake last night…Fired off an angry email to McCain after I saw this. Cowards and enablers.
ABC News @ABC 15 minutes ago
Sen. McConnell opposed to lifting sanctions against Russia: “If anything we ought to be looking at increasing them,” he tells @MarthaRaddatz
I am so thankful for this place, and the hope and will expressed here. The demonstrations last night were a balm, particularly because they were not organized by any group, but were spontaneous. However, never in my 77 years did I think I would experience a week like this past one, and a day and night like yesterday. I am stunned and heartbroken. So glad I get to go to church today where, I know, I will be encouraged, and positive actions will be suggested.
Good morning you wonderful people….
Disagree with Hillary, but at least you would have had someone in office with some dam sense.
bbl …. take care friends …
Amen Bobfr.
You’d go over your 140 characters listing all the people that need to be thrown out on their asses…way more than you could list:)
I wonder what those who wasted their vote for someone else, or those who didn’t vote are thinking right now.
I hope they’re thinking “What the hell have I done!!!!”
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/01/29/this-is-who-we-must-always-be/