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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 12h

New game. Sitting on my porch counting the helicopters.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"Chicago taxpayers have spent $187.5 million since 2019 to resolve 87 lawsuits involving people who were injured or on behalf of those killed during police pursuits"

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 1d

Taxpayers should pay $7.5 million to the family of a Chicago pastor and her husband, who were struck and killed by a driver being chased by Chicago police, city lawyers recommended.

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Pay Family of Couple Killed by Driver Being Chased by Police $7.5M, City Lawyers Recommend

Nine cases alleging Chicagoans were hit or killed during a police chase that violated department policy cost taxpayers more than $75 million to resolve between Jan. 1 and July 31, according to WTTW Ne...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"JB Pritzker, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom of California... have threatened to leave the once-chummy National Governors Association, a group formed more than 100 years ago and dedicated to finding areas of bipartisan agreement even in fractious political times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

“We must do everything in our power to ensure our courts stand as institutions of justice where all residents can expect fair and just treatment that respects their rights.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Preckwinkle calls on chief judge to ban ICE arrests at Cook County courthouses

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joined a petition filed last week by the Cook County Public Defender's office and legal aid groups asking Chief Judge Timothy Evans to prohibit immigration...

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

“While recognizing that appropriate policies are necessary to keep communities safe, I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable,”
chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

Pope meets with Chicago union leaders, urges migrant welcome as crackdown underway in hometown

Pope Leo XIV urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants as the national immigration crackdown continues.

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"[N]early nine months after the new school board was sworn in, the mayor has not yet established the noncitizen advisory board. State law does not specify a deadline for creating the board or how many people the mayor should choose."
www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

Chicago’s mayor must create a noncitizen advisory board for CPS. Where is it?

Illinois state law requires Chicago’s mayor to create a noncitizen advisory board and doesn’t establish a deadline to do so. But amid more aggressive immigration activity in Chicago, school advocates ...

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s terrible. It’s traumatic,” she said. “Those screams are what haunt me at night.”
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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

“This week alone, we’ve seen a doubling of the abortion cases that we usually receive from Wisconsin,”
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois CEO on the Future of Reproductive Care Amid Federal Threats

Illinois health care providers are bracing for more patients after Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin paused abortions last week. Local organizations like Planned Parenthood of Illinois have said they an...

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he court concludes that because the persistent protests are a direct response to the defendants’ ongoing operations, there is no reason to believe that they will end and that the fence will be voluntarily removed any time soon.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/j...

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he state of Illinois already has bad budget news.

It expects a $267 million deficit for the fiscal year that ends June 30, in large part because of tax cuts passed by Congress."
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/ill...

Illinois says it's already facing a $267 million budget shortfall

Federal tax cuts are trickling down to the state level.

www.chicagobusiness.com

Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has become the first US university to formally turn down a Trump administration proposal that would overhaul university policies in return for preferential access to federal funding."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

MIT rejects White House proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding

Other universities still mulling proposal while MIT’s president said it would compromise academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 1d

"[O]ne of the federal judiciary’s more whimsical outputs of late: a 38-page district court opinion declaring that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is, legally speaking, too good and cool to allow Drake to sue him for it."
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Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Basketball Superfan and Team Chaplain, Dies at 106 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Basketball Superfan and Team Chaplain, Dies at 106

www.nytimes.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests.

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Some of the key elements:

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,
' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order.
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as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively
reasonable opportunity to report and observe;

b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place
that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6,
2023), Sections III.F and XII.E;
С.
For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command
given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity;
d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others;

To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under
this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography
equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not
requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium
to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press.

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear.

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in peace

Northwest Herald - Shaw Local @northwestherald.bsky.social · 2d

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school’s fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school’s fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

Protesters reusing a Lori Lightfoot campaign sign to write on the back of. Lightfoot has also been advising the Mayor of Broadview.

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