NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Vouchers, Funding Cuts, Firings: What You Need to Know About the Impact on Public Schools pfps.org/federal-vouc...

So, who is running against Raoul for Illinois Attorney General in '26?

What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests.

All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

I cannot express enough how this is what has been happening for some time in Broadview. Federal agents assault, shoot chemical munitions at, and arrest protesters completely unprovoked.

And state police are now helping border patrol to combat and arrest protesters.

Great work everyone.

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.

This is how ISPs presence is being justified? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/tyle...

Someone needs to press @govpritzker.illinois.gov about whether he's considered using his emergency powers at any point in this crisis and if not, why. bsky.app/profile/samh...

When a state or local law enforcement official violates your rights, you can sue for money damages. When a federal official violates your rights — you largely cannot, thanks to a quirk of the law and the Supreme Court's decision not to find an inherent cause of action to sue under the Constitution.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

We are going to live in the cultural consequences of 20 years of counterinsurgency warfare and its influence on policing and popular media until a Democratic administration takes seriously its responsibility to defund, abolish, and prosecute.

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

this should be a much bigger story

I’m so relieved to hear Ray Collins is going home. Of the five people charged from Saturday’s protest, Collins was the last to be released from pretrial custody.

As anticipated, a number of IL state troopers are here today assisting Broadview PD/"protecting free speech."

“Alleged Tren de Aragua members have been charged and detained in the city as recently as August. But the Chicago Sun-Times has found little evidence tying them to violence in Chicago.”

“The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but DHS gave no evidence to support the assertion, and authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.”

National parks are providing bare-bones services with skeleton crews on the first day of the federal government’s partial shutdown.

The official White House account is threatening to release daily racist AI videos unless the Dems cave to their demands.

They think it’s ok to make bigoted jokes about leaving millions of Americans without healthcare.

About immigrants.

About their political opponents.

Nothing about this is “ok”

91% of homeland security personnel are exempt from the "shutdown," including most of ICE, Border Patrol, TSA and other agencies:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border...

Illinois law prohibits sheriffs from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement. Some wish they could capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinoi...

IL GOP talking about “keeping communities safe” and then…selling ICE merch.

Hope they’re all getting primaried.

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The very definition of complicity.

Why would they not walk out of the meeting immediately?