The Trump administration previously announced plans to require companies to pay $100,000 fees for H-1B visas.

Oak Park is poised to follow in the footsteps of Chicago and Evanston in adopting an ordinance or executive order prohibiting federal agents from using village property to help conduct immigration related law enforcement activity.

Riders may need to find an alternative route around downtown on Saturday, as service along CTA elevated rail lines through the Loop will be halted for the weekend while crews conduct track repairs.

Jeffries: "The reason why they continue to unlawfully block the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva is because they are actively hiding the Epstein files from the American people. And they're protecting someone, clearly -- the wealthy, the well off, the privileged, and the well-connected."

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New York attorney general urges public to report ICE activity after raid targets vendors reut.rs/472ec4o

University of Virginia to roll back DEI programs in deal with White House reut.rs/48JchmC

My kind of town...

When you're a star, they let you do it...

Meanwhile, along with the 40 mil:

He has to raise our taxes...for "reasons"....

This is hell.

We're paying more taxes so he can pretend he did something about international conflict bc he's jealous of Obama. Cool.

The feds driving around and terrorizing our neighborhoods like they're playing Grand Theft Auto is now a daily/regular occurrence and I keep wondering how we're supposed to live like this

He should GET NOTHING. But Trump is Putin's puppet, so...

Tinder's new mandatory Face Check will scan new members’ faces to ensure they don’t match existing profiles. The move comes as romance scams continue to proliferate, with billions lost over the last decade.

The first missed paycheck was an inflection point in previous government shutdowns and TSA workers expect the same this time around.

We are retroactively losing the Civil War, WWII and the Cold War thanks to white identity politics.

If you just imagine the same weird imaginary future Trump does, it all sorta makes a little sense, kinda.

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

Trump is a fat nazi chode dictator wannabe.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

The new f-word and n-word.

It’s wild that our country is in full on collapse right now but most of the media just uses the same formula as usual for describing events

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.

“I have zero tolerance for this type of illegal activity,” Giannoulias said in the video. “We are investigating these allegations as we speak. Flipping license plates or altering them in any way to avoid detection is strictly prohibited in Illinois."

For 46 minutes, I couldn’t reach my father. My first, terrifying thought: what if ICE detained him just because of the color of his skin? Thankfully, my father came home. So many have not. The terror of separation is the reality for too many families in our communities. We must defund ICE.

Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino and federal immigration agents were seen at multiple locations in Little Village Wednesday morning, including along West 26th Street, where at least one person was detained.

The president is just bombing boats in the water arbitrarily because brown people are on them

The White House has provided neither facts nor legal justification for the extrajudicial killings of men on boats in the Caribbean. It is escalating tensions with Venezuela, Colombia, and other countries in the region.

Everyone who carefully constructed obfuscations in politics over the last hundred years must feel like a real dummy. Actually you can call it The Department of Murder. You can post a video of yourself dumping diarrhea on the public. You can go on TV and say "I am stealing from you lol"

Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No

Global warming is pushing the planet to the brink, says UN Secretary General reut.rs/43lFFvy

Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans? “Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.

The Illinois secretary of state’s office is reminding everyone — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — to refrain from swapping or altering state license plates amid concerns of plate tampering.

Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.

In ICE’s expanding Chicago blitz, federal authorities are turning resistance into a crime. blockclubchi.co/42T7o6D

A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

Here are some things to know about legal efforts to block, or deploy, National Guard troops in various cities.

This is a verbatim Nazi argument.

WBEZ/Sun-Times are crowd-sourcing a map of ICE raids. Put aside what they’re doing and to whom and why. The fact that the people of an American city, including the mayor and governor, have to guess where Federal agents are operating, is itself insane. interactive.wbez.org/uploader/en/

US health insurance premiums rose to $27,000 for families in 2025 reut.rs/4ngmkTu

Hungary to start talks on buying nuclear fuel from United States reut.rs/4o6Sz9c

BREAKING: North Carolina GOP passes new Congressional maps redrawn in its favor

Musk, NASA chief Duffy jostle over space agency leadership reut.rs/4ndM2Ip

Weeks after being detained by ICE, a Chicago father is electing to leave the country voluntarily. blockclubchi.co/4o4a4qJ