Jessica Kant

Literally never

Journalism needs a new style guide for these times. As a start: if the basic material facts of the situation don’t align whatsoever with the official claim, you don’t have to repeat that claim. You are not mandated to cover the lies meant to obscure the facts, only the facts themselves.

Go on and ask what happens if you protest outside of designated, officially approved free speech times

WHEREAS, DHS and ICE's reportedly poor treatment of those processed at the BPF has, predictably, sparked protests; and WHEREAS, due to the recent escalation of violence by ICE at the BPF, including, but not limited to, needlessly deploying tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets at individuals and reporters, thereby injuring Village residents, Village police officers, and Village firefighters (as well as damaging Village property in the process), I find that it is in the best interests of the Village and its residents to temporarily place time restrictions on protests at the BPF in order to protect the Village's well-being; NOW, THEREFORE, by the powers vested in me as the President of the Village of Broadview, and pursuant to Title 1, Chapter 5 of the Village of Broadview Code of Ordinances ("the "Village Code") and any other approved ordinances or laws of the Village of Broadview and the State of Illinois, I hereby order the following: SECTION 1: Effective immediately this 6' day of October, 2025, the Village is setting the hours that people can protest or gather at the ICE Processing Facility located at 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, Illinois and the designated protest area of 2000 South 25th Avenue, Broadview Illinois as 9:00 am to 6:00 pm CST; however, said order may be rescinded should I deem the restriction no longer necessary in order to protect the health, welfare, and safety of the residents of the Village.

File this under that unique brand of cooperation framed as opposition that’s been so in vogue among elected officials this year.

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Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.

Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and Velázquez.

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.

A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.

We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

In the first Trump administration, it was images of kids in cages that pulled people out of their stupor and into the streets— I pray this has the same effect. Kids have to be a line in the sand.

Woke up last night over and over thinking about this. Remembering the first time as a baby social worker that a middle schooler told me about watching his cousin get arrested by ICE and how his world broke. These kids will never forget the feel of those ties, or trust freely, or feel half as safe.

I’ve historically supported Pritzker for appearing to meet the moment, but right now his troopers look no different from their counterparts in reddest Texas. Until this changes, all we’ve seen only amounts to so many words on a screen.

Badge is Illinois state police. These men theoretically are answerable to Pritzker.

Law enforcement detains a protester near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Back in Chicago. The last time I remember seeing this many helicopters flying overhead I was in Kabul

I understand people are burnt out, but the fact that Broadview isn’t trending, even with the horrific raids in the news last night, is disturbing.

Right now protestors are speaking up for the disappeared as Noem holds a press conference on the roof.

Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/o4YzPpm...

Are you high? They just cut your funding and you’re still doing their PR?

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said.

Speechless.

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

In any other context, imagine hearing about an adult zip tying children to each other. No really, what would you call that?

The Hatch Act was a good idea, actually.

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Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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And that bubble is about to burst like the 2008 housing market. Frankly, it can’t come soon enough as data centers swallow our planet whole, and gas turbines to power Grok and Meta choke cities to death.

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

Agreed, they’re trying so hard to push this AI frame and there may be some machine learning involved but that’s not what readers will take away from it, and it’s clear the goal is to sell “AI methods”

What’s so much cooler is what this incredible historian accomplished— such a better story

Here to say that since the ICE crackdown, we've seen fewer immigrants in the hospital and have had them leave, even critically ill ones who would die without treatment, due to the fear of being detained and deported.

Please let’s not get so wrapped up in “debunking” that we legitimize scarcity mythology. We don’t lack resources. We have terrible national priorities and we lack equitable wealth distribution, that’s a completely different problem.

It’s true despite GOP claims that undocumented people already aren’t eligible for public plans and neither party is trying to change that. But we should? It’s gross to accept that most of our taxes can and will be used to drop bombs yet also insist we can’t possibly cover medicine for our neighbors.

End the silence about the War on Halloween.

I actually think amphetamines might be safer than some of the wild shit you can buy as a “pre workout” that makes your skin feel like it’s going to melt off your body and form a separate lifeform

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article excerpt. The highlighted section reads: “And the diagnostic expansion has now become a flashpoint in a long-running debate over how autism should [be] defined, one that has divided parents and activists, ignited social media battles and grown fiercer with Mr. Kennedy’s laser focus on autism.” The surrounding unhighlighted text discusses the rise in autism diagnoses, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements calling it an “epidemic,” and his controversial remarks about autistic children.

This is basically line for line the exact same thing she said about gender dysphoria in trans youth right down to the divide between parents and activists along with social media battles.

There are many great explainers on the diagnostic changes that have led to a shift in population estimates, but this article isn’t it. This over and again subtly reinforces that there is an urgent issue the administration wants to address, and totally elides the clear eugenicist worldview behind it.