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Firthermor @firthermor.bsky.social · 16h

“Police in Chicago also routinely arrest people for the singular charge of resisting arrest—a phenomenon experts say is concerning, and could mean the problem is far more expansive than the settlement data indicate.”

"What was the person resisting if there's no underlying charge?" said Samuel Walker, a professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska and a national expert in police accountability. "That's just a gigantic red flag that the officer probably used force and is using this resisting arrest charge to provide cover or an explanation."

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 18h

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve seen some accuse those who protested for a ceasefire as being disingenuous by not celebrating this one so for @forward.com I wrote about the difference between relief and joy and what the ceasefire can’t do

forward.com/opinion/7754...

I know exactly why leftists aren't celebrating this ceasefire

Why not celebrate the ceasefire? Because, while it's a relief, it won't undo all the suffering and death of the past two years.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 20h

There’s also this gross misogyny from when he was HC at Vanderbilt www.cbsnews.com/news/vanderb...

Vanderbilt coach apologizes for saying he only hires assistants with attractive wives

Commodores football coach James Franklin sorry for saying he only hires assistant coaches if they have attractive wives

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 20h

I had no idea Seinfeld’s kid worked there, but it’s perhaps the least surprising thing.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23h

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 1d

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing funnier would be if it ends James Franklin’s career.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

As a Northwestern fan I take offense to that. But in this case, it is extremely funny.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d

Shocked Penn State fan. They are losing to Northwestern.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

I resonate so deeply with this piece—like you, I’m the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and the family archivist. I also was a volunteer docent at the IL Holocaust Museum in college, when the real-life Sam was still speaking to school groups on a regular basis. Thank you for writing it.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

#BREAKING Trump administration asks 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Thursday's order from U.S. District Judge April Perry in Illinois v. Trump.

Perry's order blocked the deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

Motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/0d/8f/b5ed60...

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Some immigrants have tried to self-deport using a Trump-promoted app. Many are still here, despite the government giving them departure dates and promises of safe travel. @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social have a deeply reported, riveting account of people stranded in America.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 4d

I keep thinking about this detail from today’s hearing: Federal judge April Perry said she began getting threats “about 10 minutes” after she was assigned the case seeking to block Trump’s national guard deployment. This is the world we live in now.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 4d

Federal district judge April Perry blocks the Trump admin’s deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois. Says it applies to any troops, not just the Texas NG troops who are already here.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 6d

The entire piece is excellent, and strikes the tone that is so crucial for this moment. But I'm most intrigued by Meredith's question near the middle: "Who is served by pretending we live in an America different from this one?"

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 6d

Baltimore County's Chief of Police is on the county's Brady/Giglio list — a list of officers whose credibility concerns are required to be disclosed to defendants if they're called as a witness in court. No one will say why. Great reporting by @conarck.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns

Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...

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Sophie @sophiavp.bsky.social · 6d

Wild how quickly @danhinkel.bsky.social's article became relevant again.

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 6d

Those 34 years would have been 26 years if the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit had cleared Francisco Benitez instead of denying him in 2015. He's one of at least 21 people the group rejected who were later exonerated. You can read about it in my @injusticewatch.org series Denying Innocence.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

archive.is/0UsqT

Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 7d

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 7d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 9d

NEW — So, there are multiple things happening today in Chicago.

• Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours

• Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman.

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Trump to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops soon, tensions rising in Brighton Park after immigration agents shoot woman • The TRiiBE

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that the Trump administration “intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard” within the coming hours.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10d

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime

Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

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