Danielle Ruffatto

Super important. For anyone using the image of ICE agents cosplaying the military as an indication of the situation on the ground, CPD just showed up dressed like they're doing crowd control at a festival.

This exchange is everything

If anything good can come from my arrest, I hope it's that more people demand the shutdown of the Broadview ICE facility, where humans are treated like poorly kept animals. Stop the deportations. Demand the truth about Silverio's death at ICE's hands.

Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

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Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

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This is not okay.

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:

1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.

2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.

3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

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Among other things, he still is confusing mental health facilities with the process of seeking asylum.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Sharing for posterity.

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You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

This is insane. THEY ARE HIS OWN WORDS. Presumably he would be proud of them — he certainly was never shy about saying them himself. But I suppose sharing them now might be quite inconvenient for those currently celebrating him, and posthumously rebranding him as “someone who did politics right.”

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Heads up, Chicagoland—

Early reports of feds* spotted in the Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero. Shared ~54min ago.

This is their MO: meeting up early to brief in parking lot somewhere and then heading out for the day for their targets.

We went from one of the original sponsors of VAWA to this.

In Chicago, we do not submit Trump is trying to intimidate a city that refuses to be intimidated

Re-upping my latest Stop the Presses newsletter in light of Trump’s insane threat today to wage war on Chicago.

...and that comment was thrown out in a debate about education.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Things People are Begging for:
1. Cheaper groceries
2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts
3. Release of the Epstein Files

Things People are NOT begging for:
1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities

Dear @govpritzker.illinois.gov,

Please, do the all caps trolling of Donald next? 🙏

You have My permission to keep the gag going.

Oh! She looks very comfy now.

Who is Loaf?!

Reminder: You only get the shrimp superpowers if you are bitten *by* the radioactive shrimp, not if you eat them.

The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.

Annual reminder:

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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Trump doesn’t sound like a guy who is NOT in the Epstein files.

Every single House Republicans just voted for the continued cover up.

The Democrats voted to release the files.

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'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'