John Dunlevy

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

“Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills … said that he was ‘trying to figure out’ in discussions with Mayor Katrina Thompson and an attorney if a federal agency could legally ban religious gatherings on land owned by the village.”

Remember, we’ve got two SNAP
cases working their way through the courts - Judge McConnell’s ruling in RI and Judge Talwani’s in MA.

Both district courts roll up to the First Circuit, which is overseen by Justice Jackson.

Same shot about an hour later

Remember, historically judges will almost always take gov't claims at face value. It's an astounding fact that judges are now increasingly realizing that this administration just flat out lies to them constantly. And it's good to see them calling it out (in this case with a Trump-appointed judge).

Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions The visit has been tentatively planned for Thursday morning, and details will be sorted out early next week.

Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Approves Pardon for Ex-Officer Convicted in a Chinese Government Plot

“The former officer, Michael McMahon, of Mahwah, N.J., was convicted by a jury in 2023 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and interstate stalking, as well as conspiracy.”

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NYT reporter: Sure did boss, real fuckin psychosexual just like you asked.
Editor: what

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About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

Jesus

This is where Greg Bovino was when he was too busy to show up in federal court today. 🧵

Whenever I can, I go to Broadview ICE, where BP and ICE agents are coming in and out, and I hold a sign that says ICE IS EVIL, and I say those words. Because this is evil. It's just evil.

The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement. Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.

Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.

www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Good news for Kash Patel: “‘Nashville International Airport is not among the airports affected by the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to reduce air traffic by 10% across high-volume markets,’ a BNA spokesperson said in a statement.”
www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Afternoon! I've been reporting a lot these past few weeks on the Trump admin's assault on Chicago rolling from the streets into the courts.

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preliminary injunction – #250 in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-12173) – CourtListener.com PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ORDER. Signed by the Honorable Sara L. Ellis on 11/6/2025:Emailed notice(rj, ) (Entered: 11/06/2025)

Here’s Judge Ellis’s Preliminary TRO, following the hearing of the last 3 days:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

My favorite comment on the FT story

Other attorneys who spoke at the presser wished to remind the public that they can visit tinyurl.com/chicagotro to report when federal immigration agents in Chicagoland potentially violate District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against abuse of press, protestors and religious practitioners.

Trumpist socialism is a decidedly less democratic socialism.

"The decision not to use those funds to fully fund SNAP benefits was arbitrary and capricious. The USDA arbitrarily and capriciously created this problem by deciding not to use the full Sec. 32 funds. They can't now claim they didn't have time to make partial payments."

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

McConnell: whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Says plaintiffs filed their motions days ago - either fix the administrative problem so SNAP gets in people's hands immediately, or go the Sec. 32 route and pay the full benefits.

"Clearly, the gov't didn't read the order in its plain language."

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."

This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Now that you mention Fogle, I'm a bit surprised he hasn't been pardoned and brought into the administration …