Jay Young
@impactofficer.bsky.social
Senior Director of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for Common Cause. Ultracrepidarian. My views and opinions (particularly on Arsenal Football Club) are my own.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
Don't start with me...
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Don't start with me...
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Felt a little down this morning and then remembered Manchester United lost to a team that was playing with 10 men because someone was sent off for slapping their own teammate and immediately felt better
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Felt a little down this morning and then remembered Manchester United lost to a team that was playing with 10 men because someone was sent off for slapping their own teammate and immediately felt better
Shoutout to good people doing good work.
BREAKING: In a landmark, first-of-its-kind legal decision, a federal district court in New Hampshire ruled against a defendant who orchestrated an AI-powered plot to deceive and intimidate voters before the New Hampshire 2024 presidential primary election. @lwvus.bsky.social
League of Women Voters and Free Speech For People Applaud Judgment for Plaintiffs in New Hampshire Voter Intimidation Lawsuit - Free Speech For People
Concord, NH – On Friday, November 21, 2025 a federal district court in New Hampshire ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a case considered to be the first of its kind in the country, League of Women Voter...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Shoutout to good people doing good work.
"On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider... whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment on an asylum seeker’s claims of persecution when it reviews the individual’s case."
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Supreme Court to consider federal courts’ role in asylum cases
On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider the federal judiciary’s role in asylum cases as it weighs whether a federal court of appeals must defer […]
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider... whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment on an asylum seeker’s claims of persecution when it reviews the individual’s case."
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...
Just a reminder: make sure you know everyone on your Zoom call or Signal chat and have vetted them.
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just a reminder: make sure you know everyone on your Zoom call or Signal chat and have vetted them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"In Illinois, we follow scientific evidence, and the science is clear: Vaccines are safe, effective and save lives."
www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article...
www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article...
State's top doc, others blast change in CDC site linking vaccines to autism
The state's leading health official is blasting changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website that removes statements denying any link between autism and vaccines.
www.myjournalcourier.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"In Illinois, we follow scientific evidence, and the science is clear: Vaccines are safe, effective and save lives."
www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article...
www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article...
"[The ARDC Administrator] concluded that the former speaker deserved to be disbarred for having “committed criminal acts that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer”
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9 months after federal bribery conviction, former Speaker Madigan disbarred
Article Summary Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is no longer a lawyer after the Illinois Supreme Court officially disbarred
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November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"[The ARDC Administrator] concluded that the former speaker deserved to be disbarred for having “committed criminal acts that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer”
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“ICE was just the tip of the iceberg... My ceiling is caving in. This building is being destroyed from the inside out.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/r...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/r...
Raided South Shore Building's Tenants Say They Haven't Received Court-Ordered Help
The remaining tenants have formed a union seeking immediate repairs and $7,500 each so they can move out, claiming the building's new manager has done nothing so far to meet court orders.
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“ICE was just the tip of the iceberg... My ceiling is caving in. This building is being destroyed from the inside out.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/r...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/r...
"The facility has no on-site medical staff, and officers rely on 911 for emergencies"
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What Underwood saw at Broadview
www.politico.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The facility has no on-site medical staff, and officers rely on 911 for emergencies"
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www.politico.com/newsletters/...
"Judiciary officials had asked lawmakers for an additional $142 million for security for lower federal courts, a 19 percent increase."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
As judges face more threats, only the Supreme Court got new security funds
Judiciary officials had asked lawmakers for an additional $142 million for security for lower federal courts, a 19 percent increase.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Judiciary officials had asked lawmakers for an additional $142 million for security for lower federal courts, a 19 percent increase."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“When you focus the agency on immigration enforcement, you necessarily lose the ability to combat more serious threats,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“When you focus the agency on immigration enforcement, you necessarily lose the ability to combat more serious threats,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
"More than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their [DEI] hiring practices."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dozens of US universities at risk of funding cuts over support for DEI
State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and Yale
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"More than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their [DEI] hiring practices."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"[A]nti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations... barely qualify as groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to Americans."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anti-fascist groups named as US terror threats ‘barely exist’, experts say
Designation of groups from Italy, Germany and Greece labelled ‘ridiculous’ as experts say no active threat posed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"[A]nti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations... barely qualify as groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to Americans."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“Mother Fletcher endured more than anyone should, yet she spent her life lighting a path forward with purpose,”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of last survivors of Tulsa race massacre, dies aged 111
Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“Mother Fletcher endured more than anyone should, yet she spent her life lighting a path forward with purpose,”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“It’s horrible for business... It’s horrible for the community. It’s horrible for everyone. We are trying our best.”
borderlessmag.org/2025/11/18/c...
borderlessmag.org/2025/11/18/c...
What Can Chicago’s Small Businesses Do if ICE Is at Their Door? – Resources – Borderless Magazine NFP
What Can Chicago’s Small Businesses Do if ICE Is at Their Door? – Resources – Borderless Magazine NFP
borderlessmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“It’s horrible for business... It’s horrible for the community. It’s horrible for everyone. We are trying our best.”
borderlessmag.org/2025/11/18/c...
borderlessmag.org/2025/11/18/c...
“If you want to produce the deportation numbers that the administration is after, you cannot get to those numbers if you focus solely on deporting people who have serious criminal records... There just aren’t enough people.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“If you want to produce the deportation numbers that the administration is after, you cannot get to those numbers if you focus solely on deporting people who have serious criminal records... There just aren’t enough people.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
“For me, the experience of being a trans migrant is shaped by this tension, between the freedoms I chase and the limits I confront, between the borders that confine me and the borderless kinship I come from.”
19thnews.org/2025/11/hist...
19thnews.org/2025/11/hist...
Immigrating while queer: America has a complex history of exclusion
Approximately 1.3 million LGBTQ+ immigrants live in the United States, but the journey has been difficult for at least 150 years.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“For me, the experience of being a trans migrant is shaped by this tension, between the freedoms I chase and the limits I confront, between the borders that confine me and the borderless kinship I come from.”
19thnews.org/2025/11/hist...
19thnews.org/2025/11/hist...
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"Actions like killing people suspected of trafficking drugs at sea, ordering up investigations of his political opponents and excoriating judges who rule against him, they say, violate both the letter and spirit of America’s founding document."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Actions like killing people suspected of trafficking drugs at sea, ordering up investigations of his political opponents and excoriating judges who rule against him, they say, violate both the letter and spirit of America’s founding document."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
"For the DNC to approve the use of ranked-choice voting in primaries... many states would need to amend their election laws."
Based on what I've seen in Illinois with the pushback from the state party and the Cook County Clerk, this will be a considerable obstacle.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Based on what I've seen in Illinois with the pushback from the state party and the Cook County Clerk, this will be a considerable obstacle.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"For the DNC to approve the use of ranked-choice voting in primaries... many states would need to amend their election laws."
Based on what I've seen in Illinois with the pushback from the state party and the Cook County Clerk, this will be a considerable obstacle.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Based on what I've seen in Illinois with the pushback from the state party and the Cook County Clerk, this will be a considerable obstacle.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
The Department of Justice weighs in in support of the Texas Republican gerrymander, arguing that the respondents failed to meet their burden to provide an alternate map.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Department of Justice weighs in in support of the Texas Republican gerrymander, arguing that the respondents failed to meet their burden to provide an alternate map.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Some 300 Illinois National Guard members have spent more than a month housed not at a federal installation but at a state-owned National Guard training site.
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Illinois National Guard housed at state site as questions about deployment costs grow
www.stripes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Some 300 Illinois National Guard members have spent more than a month housed not at a federal installation but at a state-owned National Guard training site.
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