Father says feds sprayed his family, 1-year-old, with a chemical agent in Cicero Video appeared to show a family getting sprayed with a chemical agent in Cicero on Saturday amid clashes with federal officials.

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This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

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#BREAKING: As many as 10 Democratic senators are expected to vote for a bill to reopen the government as soon as Sunday evening or early Monday morning, as a group of moderate Democrats, and even some liberals, are ready to end the 40-day shutdown.

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

The wrong people were sent to CECOT.

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Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism The unrelenting diet of chaotic, contradictory headlines that Americans face today echoes an antidemocratic playbook from the past.

Constant, conflicting and false information from the White House causes the public to see truth as relative and dismiss those who disagree as untruthful. It's a tactic with historical ties to 1930s Nazi Germany and modern extremist movements, according to a journalism scholar.
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“Let them eat nothing”

Greg Bovino's CBP troops in action in Chicago.

USDA says states must 'undo' efforts to disburse full November SNAP benefits The latest guidance from the Trump administration comes after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked a judge's decision that ordered immediate payouts.

In a reversal, the USDA now tells states that issued full SNAP benefits they should "immediately undo" distributions or potentially face future cuts.

In a chaotic kidnapping raid yesterday, ICE in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood shot a chemical munition into a family’s moving car. The shrapnel from the pepper ball/spray hit a baby. (11/8/2025)

Robert Reich Is Your Grocery Store Ripping You Off?

Inflation is on the rise — particularly at the grocery store.

One big reason why?

Minimal competition opens the door to maximal price-gouging — and the opportunity to pull shady tricks like this. https://youtu.be/ad5GfgrPkYo?si=iDRiVN9_TsjGsD9k

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

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Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment

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Hundreds of ICE detainees in Nevada could get bond hearings under lawsuit A federal judge in Nevada could soon decide whether two men — Victor Jacobo-Ramirez and Edgar Guevara-Alcantar, both denied bail under new immigration detention rules — could be the first of hundreds ...

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UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! Read the first amendment!

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 ...

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Can Chicago businesses refuse to let in ICE? The answer is complex. blockclubchi.co/3WDnyO2

Attendance has dropped at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement.

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Chicago laundromats targeted by immigration agents are struggling with low sales and fearful employees. blockclubchi.co/3JOIsH0

Judge should put him in jail.

NEW: Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tells agents in LA, "It’s our f–king city" in newly released video. blockclubchi.co/4oU0lTF

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190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

190. SNAP WTF?
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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

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The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

good, smart, and long overdue look at Common Crawl:

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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
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