the story the NYT has written, of course, is instead part of the proof that this effort succeeded spectacularly. a woman grotesquely violated every standard of journalistic ethics and was handsomely rewarded in spite of--or because of-- it

This is great, but remember you—possibly literally you, Dear Reader—have to vet your local candidates or you’re going to elect Fettermans or worse. You can’t count on parties, other candidates, or media to do it. If someone seems too good to be true, it may be because they are full of shit.

I do not like thinking about how vulnerable the U.S. now is to genuine terrorism thanks to this fucking clown show

Cook County deputies, Illinois State Police, and Broadview police just arrested at least 8 to 10 people, including several faith leaders. State police in riot gear now arriving.

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

If one subscribes to the theory that much of what the admin does is intended to push boundaries (in this case, literally) to test resistance and the law, suddenly Charlotte makes a lot more sense.

Charlotte is not even within the 100-mile “border zone” that CBP claims to have jurisdiction over.

As expected, the Justice Department tonight has appealed the order from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings that aims to release hundreds of detainees who were arrested by ICE. The feds are also seeking a stay.

“A Border Patrol agent who was held up as a symbol of the impunity that critics say pervades the federal government’s immigration crackdown has died of an overdose.”

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has confirmed on the docket that the site visit at the ICE holding facility in Broadview went forward today. But there wasn't much for the public to see. @vimiller.bsky.social reports that attorneys were seen walking out, chatting and leaving.

They’ve said the same thing about ICE/CBP arrests, which have been proven to be lies. No reason to believe this is any different.

Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

A Chicago attorney filed for a preliminary injunction challenging Broadview's protest restrictions near an ICE facility, arguing time limits violate First Amendment rights for working people.

The same folks denying thousands of people due process before their lives are changed forever ask for almost two months to get their own ducks in a row (judge said no).

Ellis says she plans to release her opinion in a week. She says she'd want the government to prioritize anything it cites (including video) and have it "reviewed by the following Monday so we can get it unsealed."

Now in the courtroom of District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago for the start of a scheduled status hearing in the class action accusing federal immigration agents of abusing press, clergy and the public in the Chicago area. Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.

How convenient

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

“an estimated 60% of those who have been arrested under Operation Midway Blitz have been removed from the U.S. Plaintiffs assert that many class members are choosing to voluntarily depart to escape the unsafe and unsanitary conditions that they have been subjected to while in ICE detention.”

Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

"Despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path" CPD is out here actively trying to help them and they still said fuck it, we just really need to throw this gas or Mr. Bovino won't play rock paper scissors with us tonight

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

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.

Unemployment getting the same treatment as Covid deaths.

some great news despite the fact that she never should've been abducted in the first place—and the people who did it won't face any repercussions

New: Diana Santillana Galeano, whom federal immigration agents dragged out of a Rayito del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last week, has been released from federal custody, the law firm HSPRD announced Thursday. The release states she will meet with Rayito del Sol parents on Friday.

You look for cracks everywhere to exploit against fascists. Period. I think some people seem confused about the state of things in this country.

Very on brand tbh.

now can we shut down Trump’s masked gangs disappearing people.

I’m still not clear — where have these emails been this whole time? Who had access to them? Why are they being released just now?

And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...

i feel like there’s going to be a slew of important people tomorrow and in the weeks to come claiming to have had a damascene experience in the midst of all this… and i think it’s good to establish up front and right away that all of those people are huge fucking liars.

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time. for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

absolutely cannot be stressed enough how incompetent and stupid these goons are. add the hundreds of detainees being released in Chicago today (& prolly more to come) because these morons were too dumb to think for a minute about what they were doing. self-defeating stupidity all the way down

I mean Megyn Kelly seems like exactly the right spokesperson for the ACTUALLY IT’S EPHEBOPHILIA movement. Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

read the story bc the whole thing is nuts but this is 👀

Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I think I now have a much better understanding of why these dorks are so impressed by ChatGPT.

Do people remember that this same NYT reporter solicited a $30,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein for a Montessori school and then got pushed out of the Times by Ellen Pollock shortly after? And he refused to share Epstein's contact info with another NYT reporter assigned to do the piece about him.

CPD’s gang database rears its head again. “Chicago’s sanctuary rules barred most data sharing with immigration officers, but a carve-out at the time for ‘known gang members’ left open a back door. Over the course of a decade, immigration officers tapped into the database more than 32,000 times.”

This is absolutely the tactic. So many arrests were just someone taking a step over a line, or not knowing new rules the cops just made up, or at curfew, cops targeting protesters who were mouthy earlier in the day. Or no apparent reason at all. Prosecutors really should drop all of these.

"We are seeing the Trump administration violate the constitution and violate our human rights," Sharp said. "These criminal charges will not silence us from speaking out against this injustice."

Honestly just absurd charges. Absolute worst case here, they joined dozens of other people in making a car drive slower than it might have done otherwise. Meanwhile, our entire federal government is run like a cartel.

Outside Chicago's federal courthouse, a small rally is still underway in response to the arraignment hearing today for the "Broadview Six." One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.

😐