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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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"after a coal-processing facility near Pittsburgh shut down. the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, they found that emergency department visits for respiratory issues dropped by about 20 percent in the month following the shutdown…"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

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A look at the "absolute devastation" in western Alaska today reminds us that climate change will continue to inflict suffering on the people who are least responsible for it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

"burgers and chips, fresh meat and eggs..."

So.... How long before the birds figure this one out? I am thinking maybe weeks, not months?

Nature gets hungry, and I have witnessed seagulls throw down for one French fry.

news.sky.com/story/food-d...

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

To be clear, I'm not saying that you personally are framing it that way. I'm saying that this framing is loose in media and the culture in general and I am sad about that.

I haven't read it (yet), but definitely appreciate your reporting. The thing is how do we reject the Left/Right "angle" or playing into that division. I don't like that framing. My care for creation & immigrants makes me an ultra-conservative "Bible-believer." Why? Bc I follow what the Bible says.

While it is a primarily symbolic designation that does not require schools and government offices to close, families in the diaspora say recognizing it signifies that South Asians belong in the American mainstream.
religionnews.com/2025/10/10/t...

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season.

Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...