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Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night in Gaza City.

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Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.? Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook

Trump’s assault on the news media is not creative. It’s straight out of the dictator playbook. It’s why the U.S. has slipped into the “problematic” category in the World Press Freedom Index.
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Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Anas al-Sharif was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had raised concerns about being killed has died in an Israeli airstrike. Anas al-Sharif, known for documenting the release of hostages and for removing his body armour after a ceasefire, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City along with three colleagues. Continue reading...

Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

LAPD attacked journalists again last night

Did Your State Pass Immigration Laws in 2025? See in Our Tool. State lawmakers, inspired by Trump, have passed dozens of anti-immigration bills this year.

State lawmakers, inspired by Trump, have passed dozens of anti-immigration bills this year: 37 states enacted over 100 immigration-related laws, according to our new data analysis.

Find out if your state was one of them with our new tool.

Beyond parody.

Trump dismisses General Iron, aldermanic housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’ HUD will stop monitoring a civil rights agreement over the General Iron matter and dropped a case alleging City Council members blocked affordable housing using ‘aldermanic prerogative’ veto power.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump reverses two big federal discrimination cases in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

New from 404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's are sharing data from hundreds of AI cameras with cops. Records show a cop in Texas for example is able to search Flock cameras at Lowe's across the country. These stores are "contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet" www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

'I just wanted to see a change,' Chicago youth reflect on their experience as  peacekeepers • The TRiiBE Dozens of youth peacekeepers completed a Peacekeeper training this summer. They marked its end with a graduation and hip-hop celebration.

I've been following GoodKids MadCity's Peacekeeper initiative for the last year. This summer, the program expanded to include 200 positions. Last week, they hosted a graduation celebration for participants who completed the six-week program.

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Matthew 6:5 is pretty clear on this one

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

🚨SCOOP:
A "select" number of FEMA probationary employees have been involuntarily reassigned to ICE, effective immediately, to "assist with hiring and vetting." If the employees don't report to ICE within seven days, they are threatened with termination.
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First images of ICE migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.

Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

This is excellent reporting and a great example of why The Triibe is so vital to the Chicago news landscape

This morning in Donald Trump’s America I spent $49 on one bag of groceries, and it was mostly produce

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

This is so depressing.

NYT Sunday: Here's why Mayor Adams' petition-signatures scandal is bad for Mamdani

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone.

Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW visual investigation:

ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside

There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces

We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records

Insiders told us this used to be rare

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I got harassment—including death threats—for weeks after reporting on Abbasi, who gleefully retweeted all of it, encouraging his followers to pile on.

He came in dead last in his police district council race, and finance records indicate his election business has dried up since.

Here's the Tribune's great write-up of the Sandberg Game

An ICE agent caught on video saying "We're going to have to shoot some of them" as he brutalizes an american citizen for being latino.

YouTube video by Chicago Cubs The Sandberg Game | The Signature Game of Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg's Career

RIP Ryno 💙

In CA, Access to Top Surgery is Vanishing. One Surgeon Calls it a “Tactical Retreat.” — Assigned As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.

Clinics across the country are ending or limiting gender-affirming care.

Today, Assigned has two stories from opposite sides of the country on the crisis in trans youth care.

First, Kaiser Permanente is ending surgical care through age 19. One surgeon told our reporter it was a "tactical retreat."

Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative

The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario."

The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"