Morgan Elise J
@morganelisej.thetriibe.com
Filmmaker, Force of Nature
Co-founder of thetriibe.com.
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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
The cold is seeping through the walls in Chicago 😫
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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.
But he wants to control all levels of government, Federal, State & Local governments.
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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.
But he wants to control all levels of government, Federal, State & Local governments.
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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
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.
WHAT?!
Lawsuit filed by family of Krystal Rivera, shot to death by her partner Carlos Baker over the summer, alleges Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase. #chicago @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social
Family of Chicago Cop Killed in Botched Chase Sues Chicago Police Department and Partner Who Shot Her
Officer Krystal Rivera's family says in the wrongful death suit that Officer Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he shot her in the back in Chath...
illinoisanswers.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
WHAT?!
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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."
Border Patrol agent from Pingree Grove accused of sexual assaults, robbery in federal indictment
Border Patrol agent from Pingree Grove accused of sexual assaults, robbery in federal indictment
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent from Pingree Grove is accused of sexual assault and robbery dating back to 2022 in a federal indictment released Tuesday.
www.dailyherald.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"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."
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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
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Hey, Chicago. Read this piece by @romej.thetriibe.com, if you wanna smile 🐻⬇️
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A winning Chicago Bears season is driving crowds and dollars to this South Side Black-owned lounge • The TRiiBE
Even after falling to Green Bay, The Family Den Lounge buzzed with optimism, music and decades of tradition as Bears fans embrace a season that finally feels different.
thetriibe.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Hey, Chicago. Read this piece by @romej.thetriibe.com, if you wanna smile 🐻⬇️
thetriibe.com/2025/12/a-wi...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/a-wi...
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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...
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
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...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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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
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.
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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
Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics
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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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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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...
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'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...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/prot...
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
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We do this every 3-6 months…
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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...
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
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...
www.madelab.org/programs/soc...
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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...
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
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...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
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
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...
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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
“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.”
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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...
“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
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...
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
I want better for us 💔
Loop shootings leave 14-year-old boy dead and several wounded, including 7 shot outside Chicago Theatre. Obviously this is unacceptable. Tragic and disturbing.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/f...
Loop shootings leave 14-year-old boy dead and several wounded, including 7 shot outside Chicago Theatre
As many as seven people were shot outside the Chicago Theatre in the Loop late Friday, Chicago police said. An hour later and a few blocks south, a second shooting left a 14-year-old boy dead.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I want better for us 💔
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OK, this is kinda nuts
NEW — One political ad caused a stir in Chicago this week for what some saw as a characterization of Ald. Andre Vasquez as a puppet of President Donald J. Trump.
The TRiiBE spoke with the Atlanta-based group behind the ad.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
The TRiiBE spoke with the Atlanta-based group behind the ad.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
An out-of-state campaign just entered Chicago's budget battle • The TRiiBE
The point of Black Voters Matter Fund’s local ad campaign is to help residents connect the dots between the ways billionaires influence federal policy and the trickle-down effect on local government, ...
thetriibe.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
OK, this is kinda nuts
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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
A program allowing Chicago police officers to file charges in low-level gun crimes without first getting approval from a prosecutor will be expanded across the city, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke announced on Friday.
Cook County State's Attorney expands program allowing CPD officers to directly file felony gun charges
A program allowing Chicago police officers to file charges in low-level gun crimes without first getting approval from a prosecutor will be expanded across the city, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke announced on Friday.
www.cbsnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Every day we get a comment from someone demanding the SA "prosecute ICE" and we once again invite you to Just Google Her
If you are following Chicago’s budget battle, read this immediately. Reporting by our EIC @tiffany.thetriibe.com
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
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An out-of-state campaign just entered Chicago's budget battle • The TRiiBE
The point of Black Voters Matter Fund’s local ad campaign is to help residents connect the dots between the ways billionaires influence federal policy and the trickle-down effect on local government, ...
thetriibe.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If you are following Chicago’s budget battle, read this immediately. Reporting by our EIC @tiffany.thetriibe.com
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
Chicago organizers get another win. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Chicago organizers get another win. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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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 say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.
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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...
thetriibe.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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