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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 5h

The only thing funnier would be if it ends James Franklin’s career.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 6h

As a Northwestern fan I take offense to that. But in this case, it is extremely funny.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 6h

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 6h

Shocked Penn State fan. They are losing to Northwestern.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 10h

I resonate so deeply with this piece—like you, I’m the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and the family archivist. I also was a volunteer docent at the IL Holocaust Museum in college, when the real-life Sam was still speaking to school groups on a regular basis. Thank you for writing it.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING Trump administration asks 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Thursday's order from U.S. District Judge April Perry in Illinois v. Trump.

Perry's order blocked the deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

Motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/0d/8f/b5ed60...

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Some immigrants have tried to self-deport using a Trump-promoted app. Many are still here, despite the government giving them departure dates and promises of safe travel. @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social have a deeply reported, riveting account of people stranded in America.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

I keep thinking about this detail from today’s hearing: Federal judge April Perry said she began getting threats “about 10 minutes” after she was assigned the case seeking to block Trump’s national guard deployment. This is the world we live in now.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

Federal district judge April Perry blocks the Trump admin’s deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois. Says it applies to any troops, not just the Texas NG troops who are already here.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 3d

The entire piece is excellent, and strikes the tone that is so crucial for this moment. But I'm most intrigued by Meredith's question near the middle: "Who is served by pretending we live in an America different from this one?"

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 3d

Baltimore County's Chief of Police is on the county's Brady/Giglio list — a list of officers whose credibility concerns are required to be disclosed to defendants if they're called as a witness in court. No one will say why. Great reporting by @conarck.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns

Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...

www.thebanner.com

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Sophie @sophiavp.bsky.social · 4d

Wild how quickly @danhinkel.bsky.social's article became relevant again.

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 4d

Those 34 years would have been 26 years if the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit had cleared Francisco Benitez instead of denying him in 2015. He's one of at least 21 people the group rejected who were later exonerated. You can read about it in my @injusticewatch.org series Denying Innocence.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

archive.is/0UsqT

Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 5d

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 5d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — So, there are multiple things happening today in Chicago.

• Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours

• Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...

Trump to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops soon, tensions rising in Brighton Park after immigration agents shoot woman • The TRiiBE

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that the Trump administration “intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard” within the coming hours.

thetriibe.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 8d

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime

Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 9d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 11d

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

www.wbez.org

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 11d

Much of this story covers Cook Co. prosecutors' unwillingness to systematically examine the many similar coercion allegations against Det. Brian Forberg & partners.

Of the 24 known people charged or convicted in cases involving a coercion allegation against Forberg et al, every single one is Black

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11d

NEW from @danhinkel.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @boltsmag.org: Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has weakened the office tasked with reviewing innocence claims. In the 10 months since she took office, it has not exonerated a single person. www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

www.injusticewatch.org

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11d

NEW from @danhinkel.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @boltsmag.org: Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has weakened the office tasked with reviewing innocence claims. In the 10 months since she took office, it has not exonerated a single person. www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

www.injusticewatch.org

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 13d

Glad to hear Steve and others arrested were released early this morning. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 14d

Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held, of Unraveled Press, on the evening of Saturday, September 27, outside Broadview Detention Facility while he reported on the ongoing protests.

We urge for his immediate release.

Signed by 10 local nonprofit newsrooms.

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