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Morgan Elise J
@morganelisej.thetriibe.com
Filmmaker, Force of Nature
Co-founder of thetriibe.com.
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Hey BlueSky! I’m a filmmaker and co-founder of @thetriibe.com, a Black-owned publication based in Chicago. We’re building trust, community and civic engagement on here.
The cold is seeping through the walls in Chicago 😫
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The Convicted FElon is now saying that he pardoned Tina Peters, even though he doesn't have any power over state convictions.
But he wants to control all levels of government, Federal, State & Local governments.
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
WHAT?!
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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"According to the indictment, Uribe sexually assaulted and robbed two women while working in his capacity as a federal agent. One incident took place in Schaumburg, while another took place in Naperville."
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:

www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Mayor has budgeted $5 million for a ShotSpotter replacement for CPD.

You really could not have a clearer illustration of the choices between community resources vs state surveillance, and so far, as usual, the choice is state surveillance.
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.

Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“We're going to protest her, because she has to go. It’s the same way that organizations came together, community and family came together to raise awareness about [former Cook County State’s Attorney] Anita Alvarez.”

thetriibe.com/2025/12/prot...
Protestors disrupt Cook County State’s Attorney O’Neill Burke during anniversary speech • The TRiiBE
“We're going to protest her, because she has to go,” Chicago organizer Jasmine Smith said about Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.
thetriibe.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We do this every 3-6 months…
Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it.

So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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NEW — West Side native Robert Townsend is returning home to Chicago this weekend to host a two-day film festival.

The celebration includes a bid whist tournament. Townsend will hit the table with his friend Jackie Taylor, founder/CEO of the Black Ensemble Theater.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/robe...
Robert Townsend’s pop-up film festival celebrates Black art, Chicago roots, and giving back • The TRiiBE
Robert Townsend returns to Chicago for a two-day pop-up film festival, turning his legacy of Black storytelling into a weekend of celebration, culture and support for West Side organizations.
thetriibe.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Excited to release my project from my year as a visiting scholar at BKC Harvard! This report and the accompanying podcast asks: how can communities come together on social media platforms, and what barriers stand in the way of solidarity?
www.madelab.org/programs/soc...
Social Media & Tech Solidarity Workshop at Harvard University — Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab
www.madelab.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.

Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Some of y’all were confused when progressive alders were being targeted for not supporting the Protect Chicago budget. An alternative budget crafted by oppositional alders raises our garbage collection fees & puts slot machines at O’hare to replace the head tax: chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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“With his garden, he showcases the resilience of our people in a society whose goal has always been to stifle [Black] progression. If you ask him why he decided to start the garden, he’d tell you because he wanted to watch things grow.”
ESSAY | How my great-grandfather’s garden out South has fed my family for generations • The TRiiBE
With a green oasis in the backyard of his Auburn Gresham two-flat, Pops is what most would define as an urban farmer.
thetriibe.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there.

“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”

thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...
thetriibe.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I want better for us 💔
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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OK, this is kinda nuts
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Every day we get a comment from someone demanding the SA "prosecute ICE" and we once again invite you to Just Google Her
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Please do submit a comment if you live in Illinois. This is a practice that causes active harm to inmates, separates them even more from external support systems, and even makes it harder for U.S. attorneys to communicate with incarcerated clients
NEW — Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies.

Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...
Criminal justice advocates are urging Illinois residents to ‘say no’ to mail scanning in Illinois prisons • The TRiiBE
Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies. Criminal justice a...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM