"Multiple witnesses reported on July 9 that 'an unmarked black, extended-cab truck taking part in ICE enforcement actions' had rammed into the rear of a civilian vehicle and trapped it near the intersection of Cass and Arch streets in Joliet."

Bad news roundup from the last 24 hours: - ICE will deny bond to captured immigrants and cage them in prisons and jails until they’re deported - IRS is building a database with taxpayer data for ICE - ICE prosecutors are withholding their names in immigration court Fascism debate is over it’s here

sign of a healthy democracy: masked, anonymous secret police working with anonymous government attorneys to disappear people

every single Dem who acts like broad public opposition to immigration is just an immutable fact of life is committing an act of gross moral and political malpractice.

Dangling the threat of arresting the opposition-party mayor of a major city because she asked ICE etc. to stop a photo-op of paramilitary police storming a park, where the worst thing was a soccer game. Now yelling abt protecting gangs. No longer "if you saw this in another country." We're them.

Join us online tonight at 7pm to hear from @injusticewatch.org. Reporters Emeline Posner and @cb-312.bsky.social will discuss their joint investigation with the Investigative Project on Race and Equity into property tax foreclosures. Find full details here: chihacknight.org/events/2025/...

NEW: In first public account, Kilmar Abrego Garcia details weeks in Salvadoran prison CECOT. Says he was subjected to 'severe beatings,' psychological torture & soiled himself. Also says jailers confirmed his tattoos have no gang meaning. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

"The family of a man [Cory Ulmer] who died in Cook County Jail last year after he was beaten by guards is suing Sheriff Tom Dart alleging civil rights violations and demanding punitive damages." "An additional 30 county employees are named defendants." #Illinois #USA #Incarceration

A 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first ICE detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported. Experts warn there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration’s “mass deportation” push across the US. ca.news.yahoo.com/ticking-time...

It turns out that running on a platform that addresses the out-of-control cost of housing is a winning idea. High housing costs are not only the biggest driver of homelessness, but they are also the biggest strain on most people's budgets. Pay attention, Dems.

Fewer than 1 in 10 of over 185k immigrants booked into ICE custody since October were convicted of serious crimes such as murder, assault, robbery, or rape. Over 75% had no criminal convictions other than immigration or traffic-related offenses. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

NEW: The Trump administration is using a method to remove asylum seekers from the country that is likely unlawful and is doing so by evading judicial review, according to an Arizona federal judge www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

I've been writing about CPD tactical teams for over a year now because of the terror they inflict upon Chicago's south and west sides. The way these agents jumped out of their cars at people—same cop behavior. Sending these teams deeper into urban communities will get people killed.

"The Beat's analysis covered tens of thousands of misdemeanor and felony drug arrest records obtained from the Baltimore Police Department." "[N]early all people arrested and charged with drug crimes in Baltimore are Black." #Maryland #USA #Policing #Drugs

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

in this week’s make it make sense: 👉 a dispatch from chicago’s immigration court, where masked federal agents have been disappearing immigrants & targeting protesters 👉 the illinois secretary of state hits local cops for “illegally” using license plate readers (via @juggaloreporter.bsky.social)

28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

A day after Dem officials were denied access to another ICE facility in Chicago, they gave a guided tour to House Speaker Mike Johnson plus favored media.

Mind-blowing from @writeralejandra.bsky.social: tenants in substandard apts assert their legal rights, landlord retaliates, tenants sue over retaliation, landlord files evictions anyway. Then, to drop the evictions, landlord requires tenants to sign NDAs. www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts...

"Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers." "23 percent increase in the number of unhoused children under the age of 3 since 2021." #USA #Housing

We’ve seen multiple ICE detentions from Chicago’s immigration court, some that happened in front of attorneys. Every time we’ve heard attorneys ask for an administrative warrant, ICE had none, or refused to show it. If attorneys pressed more, they were threatened with arrest or removed from court.

Protesters are back this morning outside 55 E Monroe in Chicago, blocking the garage entrance & exits used by ICE to access immigration court. For weeks now, agents have been arresting immigrants showing up for their hearings. Last week, protesters’ presence shut down court twice.

“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.” This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social

Illinois’ property tax sale system has been called the “most abusive” in the nation by experts. Why is that? Senior reporter Carlos Ballesteros breaks it down.

Important piece from @writeralejandra.bsky.social about the challenges Chicago tenants face in court when asserting their rights 👇🏼

Happening now: a small group of protesters are once again blocking ICE agents' vans outside immigration court in Chicago. Masked agents with handcuffs are threatening activists with arrest and intimidating photographers. Situation is tense, we'll update as we can.

NEW: Illinois’ property tax foreclosure process strips generational wealth from Cook County residents — disproportionately impacting Black senior homeowners. Read our latest investigation with @raceandequityproject.org 🏠

Powerful reporting by @cb-312.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org and Emeline Posner of @raceandequityproject.org. Some Cook County residents are losing their homes over an original tax debt as low as $110. Investors flip the homes for huge profits. The original homeowners are left with nothing.

Very excited to take the next step in this--grateful to be able to keep working on it at Impact for Equity, and to DOH, Center for Public Enterprise, ILGND, and everyone who's contributed to this www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/19/g...

complicity is not the right word for this behavior. *Lockland and Evendale police welcome neo-Nazis, give them tour of possible targets*

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Free Palestine

The phrase in the headline is in quotes because this is what he told children he was, for them.

Of course this doesn’t apply to the thousands of police departments that receive billions in hands out and weapons of war from the feds. We live in the worst timeline

Reporters could ask CPD, ISP, and the Sheriff whether information in their databases (and from ALPRs, cameras, etc.) is accessible, including at "fusion centers" and via "task forces," by "federal partners [of ICE] including the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the US Marshals"

The threat of mass deportations under a second Trump administration has made many people forgo the essentials — work, school and medical care. W/ @taliasoglin.bsky.social @angieleventis.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/26/t...

How to say "ethnic cleansing" in NYT-speak

Journalists like to say democracy dies in darkness. And that is true. But what if it can also die under the heat of blaring stage lights?

There are so many @injusticewatch.org stories that would not have been possible without the incredible work of Forest and the DataMade team. I’m excited to continue working with Hannah and Derek and to watch what @bunkum.us does with his immense talents and generosity of spirit moving forward.

More great work for transparency by @cb-312.bsky.social @injusticewatch.org and the Topic FOIA Team at @loevy.com

This guy was living in a $27,500 a month apartment in the same building as Taylor Swift, and he now lives on Central Park, and is out on the street complaining about congestion pricing.

networking appliances give corporations the opportunity to continue charging you to use devices you already paid for. that’s why every new pitch for this sounds more absurd than the last. they’re not trying to fulfill a need, they’re trying to invent one.

The government knows this and has done numerous studies on it & has also for decades been aware that violent far-right groups have explicitly encouraged members to join the services for training & later to embed themselves in law enforcement

again going to my bench of favorite complaints: it is weird how openly predatory US culture is and it would be good to have a government that feels some semblance of responsibility for people's wellbeing

For the procrastinators among you, there’s still 4 days left to apply to be @injusticewatch.org’s senior reporter covering immigration! Come work with an amazing team and help us hold the courts accountable. www.injusticewatch.org/about/jobs/s...

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This person is going to hell

Important from Sen Chris Murphy: He says Dems are not functioning as an effective opposition to Trump's accelerating authoritarianism right now, and that this is dangerously complacent. I pushed him on this, and we had a long exchange. In these four screen caps: newrepublic.com/article/1895...

The debunked medical "diagnosis" of "excited delirium" is still invoked in Indiana courts, including in the recent trial of two Indianapolis officers for their killing of Herman Whitfield III — which ended in an acquittal. New from @farrahsoa.bsky.social:

The county board held a hearing yesterday into the spike in deaths at the Cook County Jail last year. But the person who is responsible for the jail — Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart — didn't show, sending other top officials in his place. By @cb-312.bsky.social: www.injusticewatch.org/project/jail...