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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4h

oh my god noooooo

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5h

One of the truly great things is how much student newsrooms have stepped up to meet the moment of the last few years

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6h

Absolutely. Before they were in the city in any major way they hit Waukegan and Joliet in the same day and I figured it was the same reason.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 10h

One guy scooped a spent can up in a baseball hat — said he teaches high school science and planned to use it in a lesson.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8h

can not underscore enough how much this is just a random neighborhood

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 10h

Chaos at 105th Street and Avenue N. A couple bricks and possibly an egg got thrown at a squad of federal agents who were standing in the intersection. Two cars — a white SUV and a red one — got trucked out after a chase and a crash, per neighbors. At least three detained from this confrontation.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

just gonna leave this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

I mean right now their mission requirement is chilling in some temporary barracks south of Joliet so, seems like fitness isn't much of an issue. But also, lol.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 10h

The Texas National Guard sent home seven soldiers whose fitness levels seemingly “did not meet mission requirements” for their deployment to Illinois, a Texas Military Department spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The decision comes after some soldiers were ridiculed on social media.

7 Texas National Guard members in Illinois replaced for ‘not meeting mission standards’ when it came to physical fitness

The Texas National Guard removed seven soldiers from Illinois amid questions about their physical fitness. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called it a return to “standards.”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

yes there are certainly better options but this platform is absolutely not one of them

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

this would be a terrible platform for what they used FB for. there's no privacy settings, everything posted is entirely public, and there's no ability to create a group?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

why would you post this?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

everything is shit but a basic, black-and-white brother laser printer will stand by you forever.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 12h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

100% yes.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

old enough to remember when these same people made a WHOLE HUGE THING about government censoring social media

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13h

this is I think the fourth or fifth time they've gassed a neighborhood, not counting the neighborhood around Broadview

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h

A confrontation between community members and militarized federal agents appears to be unfolding on Chicago's southeast side, near the intersection of E. 105th St and S. Ave. N.

Details still emerging. From what I've seen federal agents have deployed at least one can of some kind of gas.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15h

The absence of street vendors (and really, just...people) in my neighborhood is so haunting I don't really have words for it.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

holy cow that's incredible Clara!! in 2025? Amazing!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

absolutely wild.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Lololol

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

I definitely don't, but don't tell.

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