In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women

calls to abolish ice didn't start when trump got elected in 2024 or even in 2016. ice has operated the detention center in broadview, illinois, for ~20 years. the chicago field office, which covers six states, surveilled 20,000 people on electronic monitors as of sept 2024.

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

#PPOD: When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the surface. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured these dust avalanches on the slopes the night before Christmas in 2023. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS 🧪

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

Same guy has a WSJ column which he has occasionally used to criticize me, personally I always find out via the hate mail that starts rolling in

Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest. ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...

///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.

For years I've reported on the tech and tools that bounty hunters have access to. I think people would be shocked it is often essentially what cops can have too, w/ less accountability - license plate reader databases - credit header data - smartphone location data www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

We were looking north-northwest but they appeared to stretch over a good part of the sky. 🔭 🧪

Look at this fucking coward pointing a gun at someone just for witnessing this

Hardly a day goes by now without seeing video/photos of federal agents in Chicago casually pointing actual firearms or pepper ball dispensers right at people's heads. They've already killed one person and injured another by gunfire. We are on the verge of another tragedy without real intervention.

CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area. This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

NOW: U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino agrees to meet with a federal judge every evening until a preliminary injunction hearing, which is set for 11/5.

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club. Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter. Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Credit for breaking this story here goes to @unraveledpress.com; last night they posted out Sakiyama's Facebook statement about his detainment. bsky.app/profile/unra...

Rapid response now reporting ICE took two people from Bolingbrook this morning: instagram.com/p/DP_0sVNCdTn/

In the speech Trump complains that whoever is making the signs isn't making them "in the basement out of love" but actually they're being made in Portland's volunteer-run nonprofit print studio Flight 64!

This is a tweet by the assistant secretary of DHS. Constant reposting about the tribune and Laura’s reporting.

The DHS Twitter has been tagging and calling out a local journalist writing on immigration in Chicago. Local journalists covering what’s happening need continual support especially as they write these important stories.

well this looks like a banger: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency" www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

Steve is fine/uninjured. Some neck pain from being tackled. His biggest concern while in custody was what was happening to people outside the facility since he couldn't hear any of the munitions from inside. In typical Steve fashion, he also made a number of new friends while detained.

ALL EYES ON CHICAGO: not only is ICE kidnapping our neighbors they are targeting the journalists documenting it! this is an emergency and we demand the immediate release of @peoplesfabric.com and *everyone* detained at Broadview!!! HANDS OFF OUR PEOPLE

They're grabbing journalists in Chicago tonight. @peoplesfabric.com is half of @unraveledpress.com. The work they do is critical and unparalleled. He needs to be released immediately.

NLG attorneys on site here have asked repeatedly to speak with protesters they're representing inside. No progress at this time. Messages being passed from ICE agent through fence supposedly to some kind of supervisors inside.

Release Steve Held and release all those detained for protesting. Where is our governor? where are our senators? members of congress? state senators? If they can't be here by the people's side then they should quit their jobs.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

Per witness, Steve was filming an arrest when feds knocked a group of people backwards and grabbed him. She says it appeared targeted to her since he had been filming CBP interaction with the protester from start to finish.

@unraveledpress.com wrote this yesterday after one of their journalists got popped in the face by a pepper ball. tonight, federal agents detained the other journalist while he was doing his job.

every organizer in chicago rn

The focus on the Broadview ICE "processing" facility worries me-- while I completely understand the emotional urge to protest there, and I broadly support closing every form of detention facility, I don't think people are thinking strategically about our ability to keep our neighbors free

i wrote the 🧵 below after talking with the good folks at @lataco.bsky.social here’s that conversation ⬇️ i appreciate y’all, @unraveledpress.com and @chicagoreader.com lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

A reminder that what we need is an end to the genocide, not the hollow gesture of recognizing a state that doesn't exist. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250921-amn...

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Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

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Seems like misdirection is kind of their whole thing, fam. Very odd scoop from a very odd source. Even if it turns out to be true— 1) ICE moving detainees somewhere potentially more isolated/difficult to get to isn't a win & 2) The facility isn't "closing," just temporarily diverting operations

one poorly-sourced Huff Po article does not mean ICE is "evacuating" the Broadview facility. It's Huff Po, FFS please season your news with at least one grain of salt?