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Matt Krupnick

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Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social · Jun 3

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students.

My latest for ProPublica:

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 3

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

www.propublica.org

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

That was the first postseason series in history to end on a walkoff error.

What a crushing way for any team to end a season.

Bill Buckner might come to mind, but that was only Game 6.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

if you're a national outlet zooming in to cover immigration raids in chicago and you're only in broadview or elwood you're doing it wrong, just saying

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 3d

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social · 5d

I'm furious and flummoxed.

Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social · 5d

Bringing in your worst reliever in a save situation??

Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social · 5d

Dave Roberts: not a good manager

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5d

why is Blake treinen in this game

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d

This is in Broadview, not Chicago

Broadview, again, is a *western* suburb of Chicago

You are spreading misinformation and making my already incredibly hard job even harder if you don't get this right

I'm going to die on this hill

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 6d

DODGERS!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 9d

Director of the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness ⬇️

Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 10d

ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants.

So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/b...

Bronzeville Homeless Shelter Residents 'Traumatized' After Feds Chase, Arrest 4 People

The federal agents arrived in unmarked minivans and detained four people outside a shelter run by a local church's charity Wednesday.

blockclubchicago.org

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Matt Krupnick @mattkrupnick.bsky.social · 12d

Worst. Job. Ever.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Mayonnaise is perhaps the most polarizing condiment humanity has yet to whip up. But love it or hate it, it’s an undeniable culinary marvel. We tested 25 jars of mayonnaise to find the best. nyti.ms/3VEdQuh

Small containers of different kinds of mayonnaise. Headline: The Best Mayonnaise

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: The Chicago Headline Club — the local chapter of the @spj-posts.bsky.social — has released a statement condemning ICE attacks on reporters.

In recent days, ICE has shot journalists in the face with pepper balls, assaulted journalists, and detained a reporter in Chicago.

Attacks and targeting of journalists by ICE must stop immediately!

The Board of Directors of the Chicago Headline Club condemns the targeting

of journalists, reporters and photographers covering protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agencies.

The Headline Club is calling for ICE, Customs and Border Protection and others

assigned to Operation Midway Blitz to stop this practice immediately. The Headline Club is aware of incidents of journalists being shot intentionally with bean

bags, chemical munitions and at least one working journalist being taken into custody on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025.

Journalists have a constitutionally-protected right to cover stories as afforded by the

First Amendment. No federal or state agency should interfere with that right either by

threats or action taken against working journalists.

The Headline Club demands that Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Board Patrol Commander of Operations At Large Gregory Bovino take immediate action to ensure journalists are not targeted by officers of ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.

Respectfully,

The Chicago Headline Club Board of Directors

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 13d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13d

ICE admits it’s doing racial profiling in downtown Chicago: “Then obviously the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look, how do they look compare to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...