It’s worth noting that San Francisco PD tried to do things the nice way, but he evaded service; so no one but himself to blame. Also, that investigators take on the character of the lawyers they associate with and PDs are *scrappy*.

Public defense investigators are the best. I may be biased. But I'm not. We rock.

Watch the video! Public defense investigators get shit done.

Most counties in IL do not provide public defenders with investigators despite national professional standards requiring them Hopefully things will be changing soon with the passage of the FAIR Act and they, too, can be Legends

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office later confirmed that the man was one of its investigators and had lawfully served Altman "Altman was subpoenaed as a potential witness in a pending criminal case” after several prior attempts to reach him at OpenAI’s HQ and through its online portal

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if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

Personally, I wouldn't put out a press release calling Judge Gettleman an "activist judge" but then I'm not the kind of skilled professional who works for the US Department of Homeland Security

> Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering establishing a new call center, in part to make it easier for them to track immigrant children with the help of local and state law enforcement. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ca...

So many moving parts with SNAP benefits right now so I wanted to slow things down and remind folks that food insecurity is here, and so is the mom guilt. My latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/11/snap...

I don’t know, man. Why are we baking this into legal practice like we’ve established it’s better than the world we have now

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

"Kelly Shue of the Yale School of Management, one of the new paper’s authors, says they are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans."

I've never been a Catholic but I'm still so much better at it than Douthat I'd absolutely ruin his workplace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_o...

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

remember: they will not even let Illinois' two SENATORS in to witness what they are doing inside. it's the blackest of black sites in an evil regime of ethnic cleansing

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

This further shows how federal agents in nhoods like Little Village don’t just come and go. They stay, walk around, assert their presence throughout all public space (and private ones too), intimidate people, snatch ppl. An invasion of Little Village and the SW Side.

In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there. It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it. buttondown.com/camrodriguez...

I know IL privacy types had previously not jumped to give Clearview a pic for the purposes of removal What do you think now? The same or have you also changed your calculations?

Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

They counted on making Chicago mad and provoking violence but what they did instead was viscerally disgust any human with even the slightest sense of morality and it’s not gonna go the way they want

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

WATCH body cam video of an ICE agent arrested for DUI after his shift at the Broadview facility. He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window. "Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...

there are six stories above the fold, four about mamdani and socialism, one about fly fishing with dick cheney, and one by a republican donor about his massive gift to the university of austin

right now on their homepage there are 17 headlines about mamdani and DSA (some repeated two or three times) and zero on NJ, VA or CA. entirely a blog about elite anxiety

The people of Florida* deserve better than leprosy, measles, polio, and other formerly-eradicaded diseases yet he personally ensured the state would be run by merciless freaks (*And then the rest of the USA and then the rest of the world, obvs)

Really? He should pop on out to Aurora.

Federal agents stop destroying "evidence" challenge: impossible

They brought the ATF in that evening to try to manufacture a narrative about violent rioters. What they found was plywood shields, a handful of lawful gun owners in the crowd, and a couple of legal-to-purchase across-state-lines smoke bombs in someone's backpack.

Remember seeing and remarking on the fact that some of these were already in the trash the night of 9/27 as jail support waited on detainees. And no, they didn't have nails protruding from them, lol

This is interesting, and I haven't seen it reported before: federal agents organized into targeting teams and quick-response teams to provide security. An agent testified to this in court today, in a hearing for the arrest outside the Laugh Factory #chicago

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Here’s a photo my friend Dominic Guanzon took of me just after I had been tear-gassed at Broadview on September 26. There was a 15 to 20 second period that day where I truly thought that I was going to suffocate and die.

Hewson can be heard saying something on the video. Loevy: "It sure sounds like 'hit 'em'." Hewson: "No, I was saying 'get 'em'."

The police are defunding Chicago.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

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Just so Chicago knows, CPD and several alders are pinning their out of control overtime costs on protests. One alder said if we want to save money people should stop protesting.

Loevy: "Tear gas is a serious weapon, would you agree?" Hewson: "No."