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...

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area. Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas. thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

The Promontory, a beloved Hyde Park music venue, is closing at the end of the year. blockclubchi.co/47o9oq6

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Known as a surrogate mother of her community, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy leaves behind a legacy as a fierce advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights.

Even as an appeals court allowed a federal judge to temporarily block the Trump administration from sending 500 National Guard troops into Chicago, teams of masked immigration enforcement agents staged a series of increasingly aggressive raids across the city’s North Side.

NEW: Former Chicago Cop Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Battery of Two Female Colleagues. The cases reveal how the department failed to vigorously investigate such allegations involving police. @mizamudio.bsky.social @invisible.institute

Reporters @mizamudio.bsky.social & Dana Brozost-Kelleher spent months investigating this story: reviewing police records, court filings, and conducting interviews. They found that police officials repeatedly failed to intervene and head off potential harm. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

For more from María Inés Zamudio: @mizamudio.bsky.social For more from Dana Brozost-Kelleher: invisible.institute/dana-brozost... -------------------------------------- Find ProPublica here: @propublica.org Find Invisible Institute here: @invisible.institute

Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct — which includes sexual harassment and unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments — by Chicago police officers, on or off duty.

A team of my colleagues at @invisible.institute have been working hard on this reporting for months, and I’m excited to see it out in the world today. Please read below, and congratulations to @mizamudio.bsky.social and Dana Brozost-Kelleher, among many others, on this story.

NEW and IMPORTANT: Chicago Police Fail to Investigate Officers Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Assault, from our partners at @invisible.institute @mizamudio.bsky.social and Dana Brozost-Kelleher

🚨 The Bukele dictatorship is preparing arrest warrants for my colleagues @elfaro.net, after the outlet exposed details of President Bukele’s secret ties to gangs.

THE entire NIOSH engineering group has been fired among most ALL of NIOSH. It is devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted. See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.