1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage. Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M

A longtime snitch with an armed robbery conviction told the government that a construction worker with no sheet is a high-ranking Latin King trying to kill Greg Bovino. The “case” fell at trial but the government is trying to deport the man anyway. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/24/m...

I don’t think you should be able to win sudden death OT off a field goal

BREAKING: Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say

Two people are hospitalized after being shot by federal agents, Portland police said. The FBI said US Customs and Border Protection agents were involved. https://cnn.it/3LCb6fq

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Read LOCAL news if you want the truth about what’s happening on the ground where DHS/Border Patrol/ICE goes

“Abolish ICE” gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest. A story of our times, by @aliceyin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/a...

well this story certainly made me cry

Pope Leo XIV’s historic rise forges special Vatican connections for Chicago. Really an exceptional read from @angieleventis.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/25/p...

Just a reminder that we saw this coming. As I wrote in early November: “It’s a sign, court observers say, that the conservative majority on the court appears split on how to handle the case. Otherwise, the justices would have acted already.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/s...

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

it’s a special type of journalism innovation to get millions of people to watch a TV segment except it’s not on your network and you get no advertising dollars and everyone thinks you’re a joke.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

The Streisand effect is underway.

Unreal.

The gift-giving mission was coined Operation Midway Bliss as a way to reclaim the name from the federal government’s Operation Midway Blitz, which wreaked havoc on the city’s immigrant community.

For six glorious hours, I watched first my Iowa Hawkeyes crush Nebraska, then my Chicago Bears best the Eagles in back-to-back football games. I’m exhilarated and bewildered. Marking this once-in-a-lifetime moment as a Hawkeye and Bears fan.

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

Díaz, a US citizen, told agents they could check his ID and Social Security card that he’s carried in his wallet since hearing about immigration raids in LA earlier this year. After about five minutes, he said an agent put the cards back in his wallet and threw it on the ground and walked away.

A judge is scheduled to visit the controversial and secret ICE processing center in Broadview Thursday. Here's what it looked like in 2009.

Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.

Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Just another day working as a journalist in Chicago under Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Photo by @mandophotos.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

Story has been updated. The infant was exposed to pepper spray. Not tear gas. "The man, the woman, and a few others conferred frantically to figure out who had a driver’s license before they got into a New Life Centers van to go to the hospital."

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government. Developing story in Little Village. Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground

“If Donald Trump thinks that he could come in here and send his police force to hold us down, he’s wrong,” he said. “The whistles are everywhere … this is what we do. The best thing we do in Chicago is organize. So good luck.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

"These journalists have been out on the front lines, doing outstanding work under incredibly difficult circumstances,” Executive Editor Mitch Pugh said. “Regardless of what happens on social media, I know I'm grateful for their poise and professionalism, and I think their work speaks for itself."

Trump launched Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago in honor of a young suburban woman who was killed by a man accused of driving drunk while being in the country without the legal paperwork. Last month, one of his ICE agents working Midway Blitz was charged with drunken driving.

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Working in the news business these days. #breakingnews #everythingisbad www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRXqTPP/

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Chicago: this is the guy, police say, who allegedly spray painted swastikas and ICE rules on buildings in Little Village.

A rash of vandalism has shaken communities across Chicago, and while residents have mustered support for their affected neighbors, the vandalism reflects a concerning rise in hateful ideologies, experts and advocates said.

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

People are complicated, part 2. Arpineh Masihi is a devout supporter of President Donald Trump – even now that she's locked up as an illegal immigrant. "I will support him until the day I die. He's making America great again."

The presence of federal agents at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Humboldt Park on Tuesday set off a chain reaction of fear in a community already on edge. But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the officers weren’t there for immigration enforcement.

Immigrants in Chicago say they will celebrate this Independence Day not because of the Trump administration, but in spite of it. “I’m proud for the country and people who have the protests,” said one. “That is the real democratic voice.”

These are two very similar stories of Mississippi families torn apart by ICE. But Kerlin Moreno-Orellana's story has gotten way less attention on social media than Kasper Eriksen's did, and thus his family's GoFundMe is getting WAY less support. It's a big disparity.

ICE took her mother in Chicago. Now a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or a legal path to reunite in Honduras. A story about the children left behind by deportations—and the lack of infrastructure to care for them in the U.S or for reunification. My latest w/ @nellsalzman.bsky.social