The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me. The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran. www.kenklippenstein.com/publish/post...

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I hadn't heard of Canada joining the opposition to Israel's E1 settlement expansion before watching this episode!

🚨 “ICE IS SHOOTING!” 🚨 Absolute chaos outside Delaney Hall ICE prison on Day 8 of the hunger/labor strike as ICE fires projectiles from one side while state police escalate from the other. @jordanchariton.bsky.social is LIVE on the ground as officers move in. WATCH LIVE ⬇️

Who's defending direct democracy this month, and where is it under attack? Our May dispatch of The Fight for Direct Democracy is here with answers.

Do you know Liz and Ines Soto, or any of the Prairieland defendants? Have they positively impacted your life? If so, please write a character letter on their behalf.

In the past two years, at least nine states have considered 12 different bills aimed at curbing local control of data centers & AI, ray levy uyeda reports. “It’s a coordinated effort by special interests to try to stop any local regulation of AI.”

NEW: Cook County judge rejects push to appoint special prosecutor to probe Chicago area deportation blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"In Gaza today, resistance does not always appear in the form of protests or slogans. Sometimes it is quieter." "A student reviewing notes by the light of a phone. A group of students sharing a fragile internet connection to submit an assignment." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Genocide

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Why does disability policy matter? Medicaid is the program that pays for the home care services that allow disabled people — kids, adults, seniors — to live in their own homes, with their families, instead of being locked up in institutions. RFK Jr's attacks on home care are incredibly unpopular

new: an effort to phase out chicago's subminimum wage was a done deal—until, one day, it wasn't. @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social sifted through two city council votes, a mayoral veto, a seemingly failed end run to the state capitol, and a whole lotta back-and-forth to separate fact from fiction.

The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.

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Horrible news. Three years ago I wrote about how the EPA was considering tighter standards on ethylene oxide, and how communities were anxious to see a rule that would actually protect them. Of course, medtech companies pushed back at the time and now it looks like they're getting their way.

Ypsilanti Township in Michigan is attempting to cut off the flow of water to a planned data center that would power a new generation of nuclear weapons research. www.404media.co/community-vo...

As public institutions collapse under the weight of widespread destruction in Gaza, essential services have shifted into private hands. Families find themselves forced to pay for once publicly provided services—like education & electricity—at prices far beyond their means, reports Hassan Abo Qamar.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

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🚨 Infant Nidal Abu Rabieh has died in Gaza after Israeli authorities blocked him from traveling abroad for urgent treatment for severe liver enlargement. His death comes amid Israel’s ongoing blockade, which restricts patients from leaving the Strip for lifesaving medical care.

🇸🇩 UN Update Sudan | Jan 26, 2026 Fighting in Sudan’s Kordofan region is driving new displacement and putting civilians at grave risk. More than 1,000 people were displaced from besieged cities in South Kordofan in recent days, with over 65,000 uprooted across Kordofan since Oct. & 6,500 fleeing...

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You might think you don't have to worry about voting rights until November, but legislative sessions are starting across the country - and so are attacks on ballot measures. Learn more about our work to protect direct democracy at thefairnessproject.org

It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.

NEW: Starting today, ICE can continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases. Last year, 404 Media and @freedom.press sued DHS for refusing to share a copy of the agreement, which gives the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE. Now, the agreement has been released:

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Been sitting on this story for a hot minute, waiting for the CTA to get back to me about how much money they got to post those friend ads everywhere. Well,

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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

The Southeast Side and Elgin Area Rapid Response teams have also reported immigration agent presence this morning in Hammond, Indiana and West Chicago, Illinois respectively.

Greg Bovino may have moved on to Charlotte, but federal immigration agents maintain a presence in the Chicago area. Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.

Some context that I think gets lost by calling people here "protesters." Strictly true that they were protesting. But this was neighborhood. Almost all of it was people who came out of their houses and pleaded to stop using gas because there were kids in houses/yards in the blocks off Kedzie.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Lots of questions about living conditions in South Shore following the federal agents militarized raid earlier this week. This piece provides some historical context and framing around how Venezuelans landed in the predominantly-Black Chicago neighborhood. thetriibe.com/2025/04/some...

Breaking: One of the Global Sumud Flotilla ships appears to be being boarded live right now by the Israeli military, with passengers raising their hands. Follow our livestream below. Israeli Channel 13 reports the navy has seized six of the flotilla’s largest vessels.

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UPDATE: 25 states plus DC have taken actions to protect COVID-19 vaccine access. Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance. There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.

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Sorry if thread is broken, it's still chaotic out here. A lot more gas, it's awful, can't see that well. ICE just tackled and arrested two protesters.

ICE has come into the lot, firing rounds we can't identify. Just before this, another canister of tear gas.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

"Such recognition of Palestinian statehood is largely symbolic unless it's paired with halting arms transfers that actually fuels the genocide." "[A] performance of justice while complicit in violence." #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Canada #France #UK #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

Earlier this morning around 10:15, ICE agents were spotted near Howard and Greenview in Rogers Park. It doesn't appear they arrested anyone, and they quickly left the area.

"The International Criminal Court on Monday charged former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with the crime against humanity of murder." "[H]uman rights groups estimate that as many as 30,000 people were extrajudicially murdered" between 2016 and 2022. #Philippines #Drugs #Policing

Sudan: RSF Drone Strike Kills at Least 85 People in Darfur

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

Just posting to point out the first warning in the PepperBall manual is “DANGER: Never aim or shoot at the head, face, eyes, ears, throat, groin or spine. Impact in these areas could result in unintended severe or permanent injury or death.” Friday, ICE agents shot Rev Black in the head…