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Elgin cop awaiting disciplinary action for ICE social media post granted a disability pension Jason Lentz, the Elgin police officer awaiting discipline for an inflammatory social media post, receives disability pension.

An Elgin cop who went on Facebook to suggest specific places where federal agents might arrest immigrants was granted a disability pension while city officials were still determining whether he would be fired.

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With everything happening in the world I take comfort in the fact that the woman from Jujuy se burla de la woman from LA, just weeks before she’s set to perform in LA for the first time. 🔥QUE DISPAREN🔥

OOOOOH! Congrats!!

I’ll be moderating a conversation with some really brilliant people tonight in Manhattan. See you there!

Thinking about Jesse Owens.

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Jesse Jackson, in a crowd of delegates, press, and handlers at the Democratic National Convention pit in Denver, Colorado. August 28,2008.

Denver, 2008: Seeing I was lost, Jackson offered me a seat and shared his perspective about what was about to take place. I saved tape from what he said on record, memory from he said off record. Minutes later and just a few yards away, Obama accepted the nomination.

Rest in peace, Jesse Jackson.

This is how the whole thing started.

Cañaverales, or sugar cane plantations, are a symbol of PR. They also dot the tropical Americas: fields of extractive labor for export to the north. Placing a cañaveral in northern Cali, bringing it into a field of extractive play, is absolutely marvelous.

Idk but that doesn’t look Liam Ramos to me.

The whole hemisphere. All the nations he named and more. América. America.

That’s America.

This is family music.

Cañaveral ❤️

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You have one week left to learn Spanish. #dtmf

Some of you don’t know latino men. You have no business acting like an authority on the topic rn.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support

Important: Georgia Fort is President of the Center for Broadcast Journalism and was “one of two journalists in the courtroom when Derek Chauvin was sentenced.”

Her arrest, and the others, are a targeted assault on journalism by a white supremacist hate group that has infiltrated the US government.

Not yet. You can support her work directly through her website.

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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support

GoFundMe for Alex Pretti's family: $1,739,317.

GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557.

GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423.

GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642.

Even in death, some lives are less valued.

JUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence.

“ICE is not a law unto itself.”

In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported. I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal. How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys. Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings. Quick protections worth doing today: - Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile. - Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.” - Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock). - If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text. - Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices. If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

January has been a really long year.

"The Court acknowledges that ordering the head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried an failed."

Part 1 of 2 screenshots reads: "The court's patience is at an end. Accordingly, the Court will order Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of ICE, to appear personally before the Court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt of Court. The Court acknowledges that ordering the..."

Part 2 of 2 screenshot reads "...head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried an failed."

NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt.

"The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Those are small shoes to fill

I know that many people are rightfully shaken by how bad it's getting. I know that many of the same people have failed to recognize how bad things have been. And I do wonder if we're just going to return to the silence of the killings of people who don't matter.