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This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Update: Sarah Afzal, sister of the missing citzen Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, tells me there will be a press conference tomorrow morning at the Broadview facility at 10 a.m.
yeah so it sure sounds like the u.s. government is disappearing people including us citizens from o’hare
United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.
Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.
Haiti TPS is safe for now.
Jennifer Hudson sings 'A Change Is Gonna Come' at Rev. Jesse Jackson funeral in Chicago
Mississippi has the highest Black population share of any state but there have only ever been four Black justices in the state’s history, and none of them have ever served at the same time. A judge recently took issue with the state’s “bleak” history.
From my cold, dead hands.
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
The city’s influential economic development organization, World Business Chicago, said the time has come for this town’s next really big thing, and on Thursday, the group announced a design competition in hopes of finding it.
“Democracy allows people the freedom to make stupid decisions, so long as they make them collectively. But a system that allows a country to be dragged into war at the whims of a single person is not much of a democracy at all.”
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Breaking: Rep. Tony Gonzales drops reelection bid amid pressure over affair scandal.
I thought they had a bureau in Atlanta for a long time. Are they opening a new location? Just trying to get up to speed
“When you think about it, we weren’t trying to make history or trying to rewrite history. We were responding to the problems of the particular time.”
What a life! Rest in power.
Fabulous read on a great local politician
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.
Trying to kill Luke Skywalker…
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The annual Selma Bridge Crossing celebration is this weekend.
imagine being a history buff and getting this random tattoo on your chest that you look at every day in the mirror and then when you watch history documentaries for the next 20 years you never notice that all the nazi uniforms had your chest tattoo on their hats?
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
These models — a worker-owned coop, a for-profit outlet that’s part of a national network, and a powerhouse nonprofit — reflect the patchwork range of news orgs attempting to take up the mantle of local coverage when metro dailies buckle. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...
Affleck/Damon ‘28 Electoral College sweep
Moral of the story? Congressional oversight matters. Congress should do it more.
Talk about a brain drain.
95k is a lot!
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But he told me the air in D.C. must be a little rarified when I asked him about closing Chicago schools (during a talk in D.C. about education). 🤔
“What has David Ellison and Larry Ellison promised Donald Trump with regard to what they’re going to do with CNN?” said one former executive. “Before you even get through the hurdles of doing this, that’s the overriding question. Are they going to fire anchors Trump doesn’t like?” There is also apprehension at CBS News, where David Ellison installed Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief in October, with a mandate to have network’s coverage appeal to the political center.
What's this nonsense about BW being hired to move CBS to the center?! CBS was already a middle of the road news outlet. Weiss was hired to make it more Trump friendly (especially while the Ellison's worked on their expansion plans!) & that's exactly what she's done. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
