Good morning from Chicago’s Loop, where Marimar Martinez and her attorneys are holding a press conference to announce a civil lawsuit stemming from her shooting by a Border Patrol agent in October. They have some of the agent’s texts blown up on posters

“Segregation are the external forces, policies and practices that enforce the segregation of Black folks. Congregation is what we have done and built in that space.” blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/05/h...

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.

ICYMI: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution laid off staff last night

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

“How does this substitute ordinance make our community safer? It doesn’t. It ignores the real root causes of safety. We need investments in systems of care." thetriibe.com/2026/02/orga...

When I spoke to Sakiyama in October about his case, he said the Border Patrol agents who detained him didn't seem like they were from Chicagoland. A probable cause statement for Sakiyama's arrest named an agent Saul Rivas, from El Centro Sector in California, plus agents "R. Inglet and J. Parker."

Marimar Martinez will speak today at a forum organzied by Dem CT Sen. Richard Blumenthal & Dem CA Rep. Robert Garcia, on the "violent tactics and disproportionate use of force" by DHS agents. The event begins 3 pm ET, 2 pm CST, and will be livestreamed on Facebook. More info here:

Earlier today, Mayor Johnson signed the “ICE On Notice," executive order which he says will lay the groundwork to prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents for criminal misconduct. thetriibe.com/2026/01/mayo...

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

NEW — Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home in 2024, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Grayson had worked for six different LE agencies in Illinois over four years despite a history of misconduct. thetriibe.com/2026/01/ex-c...

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE. First no funding. Impeach Noem. Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN. Demand that Miller resign. Don’t let up.

NEW FROM OUR PUBLISHER: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s "Abolish Trump's ICE" language is a “bad apples” argument dressed in a trenchcoat. Read more of this analysis in our RESHAPE newsletter ⬇️ thetriibe.com/reshape/lang...

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

HAPPENING NOW — Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes is sponsoring an amendment to the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance that clarifies the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s powers and designates the oversight agency to investigate police violations of the ordinance. thetriibe.com/2026/01/how-...

Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, a key player in Trump's immigration crackdown, is expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow, sources tell CNN. https://cnn.it/3LPyM04

Evening all, Thank you to everyone who followed along with my coverage of this demonstration in Chicago today. I love this work, but as an indie journo, for the moment, I'm pretty reliant on community support to do it. Your support helps me to keep on reporting.

Beloved Minnesota, we don't want to leave you. But we have to return to Chicago for at least a few days to wrap up some reporting. We need to purchase new safety gear and replenish funds. If you'd like to support our frontline and investigative work (we love monthly pledges!)—here's how to do that:

You apologize in the wall street journal, you not talking to Black people as a group. Hell your IG has 19m followers. That's 5x the circulation of the WSJ, if you were really trying to reach us. Kanye not getting me riled up. Fuck out my face goofy.

UPDATE — Minneapolis officials say federal agent fatally shot a 37-year-old man, who was a Minneapolis resident. “How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” Mayor Jacob Frey said. thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...

They aren’t inefficient. They are terrorizing and killing people with the maximum amount of terrorist spectacle that they want and intend.

At 26th and Nicolett in Minneapolis this morning— Feds have just shot another person in the streets. Furious community members are gathering. State police and conservation cops here in front of ~50 federal agents.

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

NEW — As the Trump administration continues its onslaught of federal immigration occupations actions across the U.S., Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sánchez disagrees with giving Chicago police more power to potentially arrest youth through a stricter curfew policy. thetriibe.com/2026/01/city...

NEW — The Chicago City Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a revised curfew ordinance. If approved by a majority of alders, it would allow Chicago police to declare temporary, four-hour curfews with 12 hours’ notice anywhere in the city. thetriibe.com/2026/01/chic...

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

"internal bleeding"

Today, Gov. Pritzker signed the Clean Slate Act into law. The legislation will streamline expungement and record sealing statewide, helping millions of Illinois residents hindered by past arrest and conviction records. thetriibe.com/2026/01/gov-...

Chicago is a sports town. We’ve made bold statements before, but there’s something special about this Chicago Bears team. So much so, there are people saying that a Bears Super Bowl win will close the hellscape timeline that opened with the 2016 Cubs World Series win. thetriibe.com/2026/01/cale...

So ~1 week after they killed Renee Good, ICE chased a man, shot and injured him reportedly through the door of a home, then blanketed a majority Black neighborhood in a tremendous amount of chemical weapons and flash grenades in the middle of the night. That's where we're at.

Today, the city launched the first of its kind women focused community entry support center for women returning home from incarceration. thetriibe.com/2026/01/chic...

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

A good report from @tonia.thetriibe.com at @thetriibe.com on efforts to keep voter data from nefarious actors (aka Trump admin) Illinois voting rights groups file motion to protect voter data from Trump’s DOJ thetriibe.com/2026/01/illi...

NEW — On Monday, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the City of Chicago filed a joint lawsuit over the Trump administration’s “organized bombardment” on the state and city during its so-called Operation Midway Blitz. thetriibe.com/2026/01/illi...

Field Museum post-game

Unbelievable 😩

In Minneapolis this afternoon— Hundreds are streaming across the snow and ice into Powderhorn Park for a rally and march demanding ICE leave Minnesota. It is bitterly cold. There are hardcore Midwesterners out here making their way in with trekking poles.

NEW — “She’s one of the first introductions for me... seeing radical Black women not just take up space, but [be] the guiding factor in what politics looks like and what movement looked like." We lost Assata Shakur in 2025. Freedom fighters reflect on her legacy. thetriibe.com/2025/12/assa...

I think Weiss’ entire excuse for shelving the CECOT episode was bullshit, but I also think it’s incredibly disturbing to suggest trying to “both sides” the crimes against humanity happening inside a concentration camp

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

@corli.thetriibe.com has worked diligently covering the budget season. Read her latest about lessons learned by local organizers who were pushing alders to tax the rich during this budget cycle. thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...