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Deputy Managing Editor, News @ Chicago Sun-Times
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Minnesota Star Tribune
10 days ago
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
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Lee Bey
10 days ago
Took a break from architecture today to write a column about the Rev Jackson as a presence in pop culture, from Sesame Street to SNL. "The combination of politician and preacher just made him a magnetic force," Charles Whitaker, dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism said.
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Lights, camera, Jackson: Civil Rights leader also became a pop culture presence
Jackson's decades of civil rights efforts and running for president in 1984 and 1988 are his most important and lasting work. But that he did this while also forging a position in the nation's pop cul...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/02/18/lights-camera-jesse-jackson-civil-rights-leader-pop-culture-presence
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Ari Soglin
10 days ago
Today's print Chicago Sun-Times is wrapped with a 20-page special section on the death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Here's where to look for the paper.
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Noah Shachtman
16 days ago
This is really, really dark.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes
The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-accused-of-using-polymarket-to-bet-on-strikes-72d53012?st=WX5EDN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Chris Hayes
17 days ago
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Aaron Rupar
17 days ago
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
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Jon Seidel
17 days ago
Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says
@chicago.suntimes.com
story:
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says
Martinez plans to pursue a Federal Torts Claim Act complaint against Homeland Security and the agent who shot her.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/11/evidence-shows-feds-lied-about-marimar-martinezs-shooting-in-chicago-attorney-says
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Phil Lewis
18 days ago
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Jon Seidel
18 days ago
JUST IN: Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent, expected to file lawsuit and release evidence Wednesday From
@chicago.suntimes.com
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chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent, expected to file lawsuit, release evidence
Body-cam video, text messages and other evidence tied to shooting during Operation Midway Blitz is set for a Wednesday release.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/10/marimar-martinez-the-chicago-woman-shot-by-border-patrol-agent-expected-to-file-lawsuit-release-evidence
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Katie Drummond
18 days ago
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today,
@wired.com
is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/
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Dave Vetter
19 days ago
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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MPR News
19 days ago
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/09/father-of-liam-conejo-ramos-says-he-continues-to-suffer-after-ice-detention-release
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Charlie Savage
19 days ago
Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home A press group says a prosecutor broke ethics rules by not flagging a law that limits searches for reporting materials.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/justice-department-search-washington-post.html
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Cengiz Yar
19 days ago
I hope you spend some time with this story today. It's incredibly important and a small window into what's happening behind the federal government's detention center doors.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children
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Prisonculture
19 days ago
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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Evan Narcisse
21 days ago
Group chats all over the diaspora peeped this immediately. We exist, we remember, and this erasure only highlights the historical shame and complicity.
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Eric Michael Garcia
21 days ago
When I check on the British politics page for
@the-independent.com
, my politics reporter colleagues are all Epstein all the time (as they should be). But in the U.S., the closest thing to accountability is... Bill Clinton testifying before Congress.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/epstein-europe-america-fallout-00769506
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Drew Harwell
22 days ago
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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Brandon Friedman
22 days ago
Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.
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Live updates: White House blames 'staffer' for racist Obamas post shared by Trump
Trump administration live updates: New Jersey's special House primary too close to call
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-nj-mejia-malinowski-elections-iran-dhs-immigration-live-updates-rcna256969
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There's so much going on that's dreadful and important, so I'll submit a small thing that doesn't matter except in the way that good art matters and is essential. I think A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms might be the best Game of Thrones property ever made.
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Mariya Dmytriv-Kapeniak, president of the UCCA’s Illinois chapter, said she was outraged when she learned of the request for a new mural. She said no one contacted Iryna Zarutska’s family before using her photo for the mural.
chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/05/l...
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Local Ukrainian group fighting to keep murals of slain woman out of Chicago
A second mural of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed in August was proposed for the Ukrainian Village. Some Ukrainian immigrants hope to keep it out of their com...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/05/local-ukrainian-group-fighting-to-keep-murals-of-slain-woman-out-of-chicago-iryna-zarutska
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Jon Seidel
22 days ago
DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her From
@chicago.suntimes.com
:
chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
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Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her
U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis pointed out that Martinez is "presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted." Martinez's attorney said the text messages and other evidence ...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/federal-judge-will-let-marimar-martinez-release-text-messages-sent-by-border-patrol-agent-who-shot-her
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The New York Times
22 days ago
President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, the latest in a long pattern by Trump of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others. The White House press secretary dismissed criticism as “fake outrage.”
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Trump Shares Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
The White House press secretary dismissed criticism of the clip’s racist content, shared by the president’s Truth Social account, as “fake outrage.”
https://nyti.ms/3Max6hS
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nitasha tiku
24 days ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
@washingtonpost.com
. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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Chicago Sun-Times
25 days ago
In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Marimar Martinez discussed her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.
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The tuna melt doesn't even crack the top five. Bacon, egg and cheese. Chopped cheese. Reuben. Lox bagel. Fucking pastrami on rye! Are you dumb?
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Drew Harwell
25 days ago
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Chicago Sun-Times
25 days ago
Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman who survived being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, spoke with the Sun-Times and WBEZ about her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/03/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-speaks-out-after-good-pretti-deaths-i-am-their-voice?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicago.suntimes.com&mrfcid=202602036981f7d557014d709400fbcf
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Gregory Pratt
27 days ago
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/university-news/student-organizations/2026/02/01/illini-republicans-ice-minnesota/
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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere
29 days ago
PHOTOS: Hundreds rallied, then marched in The Loop, demanding the abolition of Immigrations Custom Enforcement and a general strike, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026 | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
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Sherrilyn Ifill
29 days ago
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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"Theater," as in theater of war? In an American city? That's certainly clarifying if Homan meant it that way.
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Good to see
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chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
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Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most
Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/01/28/ice-raids-government-crackdowns-news-paywall-free-immigrants-low-income-first-amendment-john-cusack
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Kolina Koltai
about 1 month ago
Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
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Violet Miller
about 1 month ago
Last night was Chicago's PIT count, a census of houselessness on a single day. But it isn't always accurate — which can impact funding. "While it shows the trend, the numbers are not 100% accurate... It’s tough when you have to utilize those to determine what money is coming into your community."
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Officials, volunteers conduct census of Chicagoans experiencing homelessness as dangerous wind chills arrive
The annual "point-in-time" count determines how federal funds are distributed and can influence local policy, though it has caught flak nationwide from advocates who say it isn’t accurate.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/01/22/officials-volunteers-conduct-census-of-chicagoans-experiencing-homelessness-as-dangerous-wind-chills-arrive
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Nathan K. Hensley
about 1 month ago
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
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Matt Moore
about 1 month ago
Good morning, Chicago. I've got a new
@chicago.suntimes.com
news roundup for you on this extremely cold Friday morning. 🥶 Today's lead: Bison herd leads charge to restore Prairie State Plus: Another Midway Blitz loss in court, arctic chill arrives and more.
chicago.suntimes.com/2026/01/23/k...
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Bison herd leads charge to restore Prairie State
Plus: Another Midway Blitz loss in court, arctic chill arrives and more
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/01/23/kane-county-midway-blitz-bovino-winter-weather
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Good morning. It's me, your friendly neighborhood editor. It's cold out. If people need help staying warm, help them.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
about 1 month ago
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Phil Lewis
about 1 month ago
The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin
www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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kate conger
about 1 month ago
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.fE7g.RA-YkJHe58eC&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Chicago Sun-Times
about 1 month ago
Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.
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'Sinners' makes history, setting Oscars nomination record
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2026/01/22/sinners-makes-history-setting-oscars-nomination-record?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicago.suntimes.com&mrfcid=20260122697233598b5293559dc47f6b
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan
about 1 month ago
DHS blames Minnesota family driving home from kids’ athletic event for their family (including 6-month old baby) being tear-gassed, then deletes tweet.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
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2 children, including infant, hospitalized after federal agents deployed tear gas in Minneapolis
Follow for live updates on President Donald Trump’s administration, including unrest in Minnesota over ICE operations.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-news-01-16-26?post-id=cmkhhqzc700003b6qmyr3huy0
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The NewsGuild-CWA
about 1 month ago
On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge. He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
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Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
https://newsguild.org/guild-member-detained-by-ice-in-minnesota/
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Dan Mihalopoulos
about 1 month ago
The feds have filed 31 criminal cases — not counting immigration-related offenses — stemming from Operation Midway Blitz. Zero convictions so far. Charges have been dropped in 14 cases already. And they’re having trouble keeping this case intact
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Bovino murder-for-hire case on thin ice after judge bars gang evidence from trial
Juan Espinoza Martinez was once accused by prosecutors of being a ranking member of the Latin Kings. But without evidence to prove it, the judge won't let the feds even offer evidence of his "affinity...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/15/federal-judge-bars-gang-evidence-from-bovino-murder-for-hire-trial
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