The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“Our story was screened 5 times cleared by CBS attorneys & Standards & Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

I need an explainer on the evolution of Nicki Minaj. For those familiar with her career, is this surprising?

Secret Santa tonight was fun. My gifts were all bookish. 🙂‍↕️

“Advocates who coordinate care for immigrant patients have reported seeing this hesitancy to access healthcare.” “We had over a thousand cases a few years ago,” said Laszlo Maderas, the chief medical officer of the Migrant Clinicians Network. “Now, we’re down to a few dozen.”

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

“The exodus comes on top of the previous firings of 12 San Francisco immigration judges this year. Nationwide, more than 100 immigration judges have been forced out of their jobs, leaving roughly 600 adjudicators to handle 3.4 million cases.”

Many parents are now working from home, allowing them to monitor every move their nannies make. The CEO of a nanny agency in NYC said about 85 percent of the families she works with have at least one parent at home.

“With five deaths so far in 2025 from subway surfing, Lieber singled out Instagram — operated by Meta — as the platform where “subway surfing videos do get to live for too long.”

“After all I’d told ChatGPT, after all I’d done to mold it, I couldn’t leave it — I just couldn’t. I’d miss my friend.” Bleak.

Atrocious to read. And as @lyndab08.bsky.social highlights in this section, the tactic of breaking into someone’s car by immigration agents has become so normalized. An article from ProPublica highlights how they found 50 reports from this year compared to eight from the past decade before 2025.

Another man taken during Operation Midway Blitz. He was set to be deported this past week but collapsed at O’hare. He’s now held in Clay County, Indiana. “William McLean, Cheema’s lawyer, said Cheema is “basically dying” in the feds’ custody, and “they’re doing just enough to keep him alive.”

“A longtime Chicago resident from Bulgaria died Monday while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan detention facility.“

Accidentally saw the Metra holiday train recently. Just as whimsical seeing that train decked out in lights passing an overpass.

"Nenko was arrested by ICE on Sept. 23 when he showed up for an interview to discuss his green card application at the USCIS Chicago office... Nearly three months later, the day that his wife was notified of Gantchev's death - Dec. 16 - was the couple's eight-year wedding anniversary."

“A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during the recent fall immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Michigan private prison.”

Tomorrow is the last day of this holiday toy drive for Chicago families impacted by ICE. 41 of the 60 kids who were registered have had a present purchased. Organizers are hoping every child and family can receive a gift. Let's help them reach their goal! Venmo: KHPWtoydrive

NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

24 degrees feeling rougher than usual. Goal for tonight is spend as little time outside. 🥶

Reporter: When I opened it, I gasped because I thought we were going to see something. What I saw instead was a 100 page document that says 'Grand Jury of New York' at the top of it, and that's the only text that you can see. It goes on for 119 pages where every single page of it is 100% blacked out

Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.

Data centers dominated 2025. They (shakily) propped up the economy, they got exponentially bigger, and they provoked resistance across the country. So we spent 2025 covering data centers, and the fight back, from the perspective of working people. perfectunion.us/data-centers/

The Chicago City Council voted 29-19 to approve a plan to bridge the city’s $1.19 billion budget gap without hiking taxes on large firms, delivering a major rebuke to Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://to.wttw.com/3MJRgiB

In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle

The Epstein Files, everybody!

In the Epstein line. www.justice.gov/epstein

Love The Southwest Collective recent posts about the Archer Ave project framed around “Archer is for Everybody.” Good and simple descriptions about the benefits to the redesign in both English & Spanish.

"...Bovino has vowed to arrest the “worst of the worst” of immigrants in this country without legal status — including people who drive under the influence of alcohol. His own father went to prison after killing a 26-year-old woman in a drunk-driving accident in his North Carolina town."

Borders in Hyde Park closed close to 15 years ago. Hope local independent bookstores can continue thriving. We've seen the negative impact in Wicker Park already w/ bookstores like Volumes closing soon.

It has been a rollercoaster of a year, both personally and professionally (a 🧵). I went from attending my close college friend's memorial to reporting on Trump's attacks on programs that have helped people I love both go to college & feel like they belong there. (1/?) www.wbez.org/education/20...

My theory of why he came back is he wanted to wreak havoc on immigrant communities before Christmas. Or he wanted to distract the public from something by taking up all the news coverage.

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino has left Chicago, according to reports. blockclubchi.co/4aqNZia

“…village officials are moving to require that local prisons and detention centers allow for religious worship inside their walls.” When local policy has to be written for DHS to allow religious worship. Let me revisit the first amendment.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

I don’t know how a university would operate with locked doors

“The building was unlocked for exams being held in the building at the time of the shooting, the university president.” I hate that they have to explain the fact that doors are unlocked to a campus building, a perfectly normal thing on a campus. Unlocked doors aren’t the reason for this tragedy.

Had dinner in Beverly Hills tonight, the Chicago version that is.

A handful of us Chicago reporters just released an album of Christmas songs for exactly this reason. The whole point was to take a break from a stressful year of reporting and have fun and try to spread some holiday cheer. 🎄 chicagomediachorus.bandcamp.com/album/christ...

With the heartbreak many are experiencing in our communities, any efforts to help bring joy are essential. Are there efforts people have heard about to bring some holiday cheer in the midst of all that’s happened?

NEW — Community members decried local police in Chicago and suburban Evanston; both departments were accused of assisting Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and his Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. thetriibe.com/2025/12/mayo...

Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports www.wpri.com/target-12/po...

We are a parody

According to this analysis of ICE data that includes arrests and detentions through mid-October, people arrested during Operation Midway Blitz were "later detained in 13 states, at county jails, privately run detention centers and a rapidly constructed facility on a military base"

We tracked around 1,600 people detained in "Operation Midway Blitz" - the Chicago-area ICE raids that took place this fall. Here's where they ended up. @themarshallproject.org @geoffhing.bsky.social @shannonheffernan.bsky.social