Brown Illinoisan

The cruelty is astounding and heartbreaking.

Erie Sankofa Village Health Center opens in West Garfield Park • The TRiiBE The new health center is part of the Sankofa Wellness Village and aims to increase the life expectancy of West Garfield Park residents

West Garfield Park residents have a 20-year shorter life expectancy compared to residents who reside in downtown Chicago, the largest life expectancy gap in any major city in the country.

thetriibe.com/2026/02/erie...

Amen. They cringe, we just keep on living. They don’t know they’re getting old too.

Thats some good work

Update: The plaintiff Catholic group in this suit has announced their delegation will be allowed to access the Broadview, IL ICE facility at 3pm today for Ash Wednesday.

The news comes after an organizer said last night they hadn't heard back from DHS re: their court-ordered access to the facility.

Both Conyears-Ervin and Friedman benefited from an unusual arrangement whereby AIPAC held online fundraisers for them without listing the donor pages. Screenshots of these fundraisers are available below. The fundraisers are only accessible with a direct URL, and most of them have been taken down, though they have been archived. (Here’s a Conyears-Ervin fundraiser, and here’s one for Friedman.) The donations are not listed as bundled by AIPAC, but as individual contributions given directly to candidates. It allows AIPAC to coordinate donors to their favorites while keeping its name off campaign finance disclosures. As the Prospect has reported, three of its preferred candidates in Illinois have shared hundreds of prior AIPAC donors: Fine in IL-09, Melissa Bean in IL-08, and Donna Miller in IL-02.

The unlisted fundraising websites refer to the “Pro-Israel Network,” and the pages say they were paid for by “Online Fundraising PAC,” which has only raised $5,000 this election cycle from a single donor, Benjamin Genet, who has previously contributed to AIPAC. AIPAC gave directly to Online Fundraising PAC in 2022 and 2023. The fundraisers do not use ActBlue, the largest fundraising platform for Democratic candidates, but Democracy Engine, which Bloomberg described in 2023 as “offering a workaround” to business and lobbying groups to direct campaign cash. This is technically legal but it tends to obscure who powerful groups have decided on to carry their message in Congress. The Conyears-Ervin spokesperson said that the campaign had no role in organizing the online fundraisers, but as a candidate she has “attended online events organized by supporters.”

Friedman now may leave the race, sources indicate, despite leading in fundraising. Both he and Conyears-Ervin benefited from unlisted fundraising pages that coordinated pro-Israel donors.
Conyears-Ervin paid $30,000 last year to settle city ethics charges. prospect.org/2026/02/10/a...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

We rewatched the halftime show and the closing is so powerful. Bad Bunny’s final messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
“Together, we are America.”

If you liked that Ring commercial finding the doggo:

Now imagine instead of “Milo match” it says your name on a cop’s screen when you walk by.

In ICE’s War, the Public Is Winning After stockpiling 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis, ICE suddenly withdraws

🚨 Munitions inventory leaked to me shows Border Patrol is stockpiling over 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis for crowd control.

Full inventory here:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...

I think don lemon hurt that pastors feelings. And that dude is well connected.

Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.

I know lots of people in your district. Pay to put it on Facebook.. i know giving the zuck money is bad but losing the race is worse!

It’s not even about that. The pastor of that church is well connected with Feds. I wouldn’t be surprised he managed to arrange these arrest of his own accord.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

In Maine:

Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

ICE agent in a private chat with colleagues: "Ten versus one and somehow they couldn’t find a way to subdue the guy...They all carry belts and vests with 9,000 pieces of equipment on them and the best they can do is shoot a guy in the back?”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

Pritzker doesnt ever want to have to much charisma. Hes afraid being an out of shape billionaire with charisma will make him sound to much like trump.

An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

#emergencycitizenship now!
We are the cheap labor the economy demands. We’re supply! Give us the dignity we’ve now earned in sweat, tears, and blood!
#SilverioVillegasGonzalez #rip_alex

Solving 2026 immigration When I first saw tents around Chicago Police stations filled with migrants I was shocked!

#emergencycitizenship now!
We are the cheap labor the economy demands. We’re supply! Give us the dignity we’ve now earned in sweat, tears, and blood!
#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

#emergencycitizenship now!
We are the cheap labor the economy demands. We’re supply! Give us the dignity we’ve now earned in sweat, tears, and blood!
#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

Solving 2026 immigration When I first saw tents around Chicago Police stations filled with migrants I was shocked!

#emergencycitizenship

#emergencycitizenship now

#emergencycitizenship now!

#emergencycitizenship now

#emergencycitizenship

#emergencycitizenship for anyone here 12 months or longer. Felony free. Employed and housed!