Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, a U.S. citizen from Skokie, spent nearly 30 hours in custody by federal immigration officials after she was detained at O’Hare Airport last week. She was later released out of a facility in Wisconsin. Naqvi's sister called the experience "terrifying."

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept.com

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

It’s been more than a year since the Chicago Sun-Times started tracking the monthly price of 35 common grocery items at Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Target and Walmart. The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.

Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! #AquariusSeason ✨✨

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Chicago taxpayers should pay $16.6 million to a man who spent 13 years in prison after he was framed by disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara for a 1991 murder, city lawyers recommended. (via @heathercherone.bsky.social)

Amores, happy #BenitoBowl! I’m so ready to shake my ass and release bad energy.

Took a data deep dive on Chicago area suburbs, where social services infrastructure sometimes don't keep up with how quickly the population is diversifying racially but also economically and culturally. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

The rapid erasure of race coverage & beats focused on inequities at a time where this coverage is needed more than ever, reflects not just a deep retrenchment & reversal of promises made by newsrooms. It also reflects a deep disconnect between journalism and communities long excluded from coverage.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Incredible interview by @wbez.org’s @adrianacardmag.bsky.social with Marimar Martinez — who was shot, charged, vindicated in Trump’s deportation blitz in Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Albeiro Ropero Remolina, who has epilepsy, was detained alongside his wife while he was warming up the car to take her to work on Dec. 29. A team of federal immigration officers swarmed their vehicle and took them into custody. On Monday night, his wife drove to Indiana to reunite with him.

FULL STORY: The order directs members of the Chicago Police Department to document actions by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and attempt to identify those responsible for suspected misconduct or criminal violations. @wttw.bsky.social

Reporting is not a crime!

Reporting is not a crime.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Gov. Tim Walz posted to social media that he spoke to the White House after the shooting, and that “Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Last July, we published a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories.

As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

#ICYMI: She was deported to Mexico. He’s in detention. Now this Chicago couple has to figure out what’s next. Alexa Ramírez came to Chicago with big plans for the future. As she readjusts to life in Mexico, she + husband are working out how to rebuild their life together www.wbez.org/immigration/...

How much has Operation Midway Blitz cost the federal government so far? The Trump administration isn't saying, so for the @chicagotribune.com I came up with a rough -- but conservative -- estimate of $59 million and counting. Check out more at this gift link www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...

“The word ‘doctor’ had a price. We’re now paying this price.” Gaza doctor and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, has been in an Israeli prison for a year after being detained without charge or trial. Watch the film: aje.news/DrAbuSafia

The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Earlier this year, our team compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories. https://propub.li/492QTqQ

“The problem is the system itself,” said Jorge Mújica, an organizer with Arise Chicago who has advocated for workers’ rights for more than 50 years. “The state has created a system that’s not user-friendly.” (with @crainschicago.bsky.social)

There’s something really healing about running in the cold and singing along to Rage Against the Machine.

A new investigation I reported w/ Max Blaisdell shows how immigrants seeking legal help are being targeted by scams. During a time when people are desperate for work permits, green cards, or asylum, notarios & impostors can exploit that fear. Via @southsideweekly.bsky.social @typeinvestigations.org

Officer Krystal Rivera's family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in the back in Chatham on June 5.

As of December 1, officials across the U.S. have executed 44 people in 11 states. Malcolm Gladwell and @lilianasegura.bsky.social unpacked America's appetite for vengeance on The Intercept Briefing. Listen on Spotify: interc.pt/4rXqUdh Apple: interc.pt/48mAPBb Elsewhere: interc.pt/3Ki5nei

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

Chicago Police promoted 2 officers after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. @invinst + @propublica report: blockclubchi.co/3KsPstG

We spent 2 days at El Refugio, a hospitality house near one of the largest immigration detention center in the U.S. Families visiting detained people can go to the house to eat a meal or spend the night. Here's what we learned from people passing through. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...

My latest investigation for @invisible.institute @propublica.org @chicago.suntimes.com

Demonstrators gathered last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of Shutdown Charlotte, a mass mobilization for immigrant rights. https://capitalbnews.org/trump-national-guard-city-updates/

This investigation was co-produced by @blockclubchi.bsky.social , Cicero Independiente, the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, @invisible.institute, @southsideweekly.bsky.social, and @thetriibe.com. thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...

Children as young as 13 have been held in near-total isolation for days and even weeks at a time, without schooling, fresh air, or basic human contact. Experts say that kind of social deprivation is a “well-recognized” trigger for psychiatric consequences like depression, anxiety and psychosis.

Chicago’s faith leaders are speaking out on immigration enforcement after ICE agents shot a Chicago pastor seven times with pepper balls outside the Broadview detention center. Here’s where four of Chicago’s faith leaders stand on the issue: https://to.wttw.com/4ntPoXV

What an inspiring group of students!

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time. This is life inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care. Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park. His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...