Thanks @seth-stern.bsky.social for the shout-out on stage before the premiere of the Amy Goodman doc at the Music Box tonight! Entirely unexpected and appreciated 😭

11/ Read our story at www.propublica.org/article/kids... Reported with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social

8/ Another mom in Portland told ProPublica that her 3-year-old daughter screamed and cried one night as tear gas drifted in, holding her face as it burned her eyes. The mom started taking her into the bathroom to hide from the gas.

7/ Two girls, ages 6 and 10, started wearing surgical masks indoors last fall after tear gas seeped into their home. Their mother said the younger girl has gone to urgent care repeatedly for her throat. “It gets to the point she can’t breathe.”

6/ These weapons are especially toxic to children, who breathe more rapidly than adults, pulling in more contaminated air relative to their body weight. There are no studies of long-term effects on kids, but studies on adults show lingering eye issues and respiratory illnesses.

5/ Such scenes of billowing gas and tear-stained faces have prompted some historians to liken the scope and intensity of the agents’ deployment of chemical munitions to brutal crackdowns by Southern law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement.

4/ Another officer fired pepper spray through a car window, hitting a 1-year-old girl in the back seat. A bystander filmed her in tears. DHS called the incident a “hoax.” But, as a local pastor at the scene testified later, “there’s literally video evidence.”

3/ Videos show how immigration agents have used these weapons: at one point, officers hurl tear gas canisters at protesters without apparent provocation. Then, with the street flooded in white smoke, a CBP agent shoots pepper balls before muttering “Fuck yeah,” and “Woo!”

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

The wins don't stop... 28 Greens elected in Lambeth to become the largest party 💚

#FreeThiago #FreeSaif

I wonder if the IDF has a mandatory requirement of killing at least one child a day.

This morning another busy day in Chicagoland for federal immigration agents. Rapid response groups reporting 1 person taken in St. Charles, IL. ICE presence also reported near the Cook County Domestic Violence Court and the Kane County Circuit Clerk's Office.

I left Northern Ireland to come here to play soccer in 1981. It was at the height of the troubles. When I left my mates called me a lucky bastard for getting to go live in America. Last month I was home in Ireland for a wedding. The same people told me how sorry they were for me having to live here.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Today’s ruling is a devastating blow to democracy in Virginia, a blatant rejection of the will of the voters, and a chilling preview of how Republicans will seek to undermine the midterms.

if we do not have accountability we will considerably speed up the process of collapse from within

The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory! Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team. Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried. And we're making hope normal again.

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

U.S. Rep. Juan Castro on the Dilley ICE jail: "When we look back at this era in American history, we will look back in shame of the human rights abuses. Most particularly against children." "The kids, as you can imagine, were distraught. They were sobbing most of the time that we were with them."

Trump administration pardons January 6 pedophiles and neo-nazis but now classifies non-existent Antifa peaceniks and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups. So I am now a terrorist, but the Jan 6 insurrectionist child molesters are not. Got it. www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/p...

Congress is still debating reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law the government has repeatedly abused to spy on Americans without a warrant. If passed without meaningful reforms, all of our rights are in danger. Congress must vote NO.

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

Glad to see this is happening. There was absolutely no reason for CBP to collect DNA from protesters at all, let alone on flimsy charges or no charges at all.

Spain has honoured Francesca Albanese with its Order of Civil Merit. Sánchez called her: "a voice that upholds the conscience of the world"

"A couple was detained together. The husband was in the room while they sexually assaulted his wife.. threatening to rape her.." Kifaya Khraim from the Women's Centre for Legal Aid & Counselling on the systematic sexual abuse & torture of Palestinians in Israeli jails

During Q&A, Vásquez said she wanted to see more "proactive enforcement" of IL court access law, not just inside court but as people are coming and going. She cited the importance of safe parking lots. "It is very clear these ICE agents are, for lack of a better word, stalking residents," she said.

Vásquez also claimed that Cook County sheriff staff at county courthouses ask immigration agents about their purpose when they come to court, and provide them copies of state law protecting court access. But at the moment I can't independently confirm that.

Relatedly, Tsao noted that under CASPA, privilege from civil arrest for those attending state court proceesings extends 1000 feet around state courthouses. The law's text specifies it applies "on any public way within 1,000 feet of the courthouse including a sidewalk, parkway, or street."

1. According to a heartbreaking large new survey, trans youth who desire to obtain hormone therapy and cannot get it face double the suicide attempt risk. Only 10% of trans youth under 18 are on hormone therapy. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-yout...

"Alligator Alcatraz" has become notorious for its horrific conditions and denying people their right to counsel. It’s past time that it was shut down, but these conditions aren't unique to this one facility. People detained there must not be transferred to other abusive ICE facilities.

while STILL bombing Gaza daily. on average, 4 Palestinians have been killed every day since the “ceasefire” was announced. WE pay for it. WE are responsible.

Trisha Teofilo Olave with the National Immigrant Justice Center meanwhile called on Congress to refuse further funding to ICE or CBP via budget reconcilliation. "Today's arrests were carried out with the billions of funds these agencies recieved last year through a similar process," she said.

Flor Diaz with PASO-West Suburban Action Project said in Spanish, and then through a translator in English, that the group received word of ICE agents present at the Cook County court in the suburb of Maywood this a.m. "We immediately mobilized 7 members of our rapid response team."

Diego Morales w/ Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo (PUÑO) described rapid responders' efforts to monitor county courthouses for ICE. He called on more people to get involved in resisting the Trump admin's mass deportation efforts. "You are much more powerful than they want you to believe," he said.

"What we are seeing are federal agents arresting people facing low-level allegations, still cloaked in the presumption of innocence," Pelech said.

Pelech also described an immigration arrest that occurred Tuesday outside the domestic violence court, and an arrest today as a person was leaving the county courthouse on Grand & Central in Chicago. Her understanding is that person was arrested after a misdemeanor case against them was dismissed.

Katie Pelech with the Cook County Public Defender's Office says the office has recorded "at least a dozen people who have been arrested at our courthouses or as they are travelling to or from court" since February. Tsao previously said ICE's courthouse appearances today seemed like an escalation.

County Commissioner Jessica Vásquez says ICE's court appearances today felt like "a coordinated and simultaneous attack on our immigrant communities." "This is a sound of the alarm to our community... ICE is here, they have not left, they are targeting our courthouses, you have rights," she says.

Illinois' Court Access, Safety and Participation Act creates a privilege from civil, i.e. immigration, arrests for those attending state court proceedings. Nevertheless, ICIRR's Fred Tsao says ICE appears to be defying that law. CASPA is also being challenged in federal court.

Happening now: Cook County officials, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and other immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the county's Domestic Violence Court in Chicago, re: federal immigration agents being spotted at 4 separate Cook County courthouses today.

From 1/7/2025 body cam video shared in the story- BP agent: "Tell them to drive their car to the Border Patrol station?" NY cop: "I could. See if that works." BP agent: [laughs]

People have been saying this for weeks but it's no less true: federal immigration agents have continued to abduct people in the Chicago area since the end of Midway Blitz, just with less fanfare. And with spring here we're seeing a marked increase in ICE activity compared to the winter.

Another detention also reported in the Austin neighborhood; an alleged but unconfirmed detention in the suburb of Cicero.

As of 11:30 a.m. today, rapid responders are reporting federal immigration agents present in multiple Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs, including outside the domestic violence court in downtown Chicago. RR groups report 1 detention in Belmont Cragin.

Broadview protesters sue feds over DNA collection after arrests, saying it violates rights @vimiller.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A single strike in April ended a 3 month pause in bombings, targeting a missile launcher in Houthi-controlled Mukayras (~35 miles from the Arabian Sea) on 19 April - the 1st day of US military action in the blockade of Iran's ports. Operations included US helicopters transiting over the Arabian Sea.