Jay Young

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

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Judge orders 32 detainees released over ICE consent decree violations, but some have already been deported Two who could be released were among 37 detained during the feds' Sept. 30 raid of an apartment complex at 7500 S. South Shore Drive.

A federal judge ruled from the bench Friday that ICE arrests of 32 people during Operation Midway Blitz violated a consent decree, and that they should be released.

But the @chicago.suntimes.com is told many have already either been released or deported: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pretty good drawing for us.

“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the US in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again & again & again—to force the US govt. to comply with court orders”

*210* violations of court orders in MN alone according to Reagan-appointed judge x.com/rparloff/sta...

Judge Bryan in Minnesota has scheduled a combined contempt hearing in morethan two dozen immigration cases for what he says has been widespread defiance of his orders to ensure released detainees are given their confiscated property. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

Many younger Black men are apathetic about Trump’s policies, survey finds That’s a warning sign for Democrats.

"Forty-two percent of Black men under 50 said Trump’s policies have not made much of a difference. Just 24 percent of Black men over 50 said the same, as did 22 percent Black women over 50 and 30 percent of Black women under 50."
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

"The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the IRS shared with [ICE] in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people Kansas' new anti-transgender law, SB 244, invalidates driver's licenses and birth certificates for over a thousand transgender people.

Outrageous doesn't begin to cover it. What the hell are we doing.
www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

I redacted a bunch of lies Terry Newsome posted to X, as well as him crying about books he wants to ban. The screenshot also shows a video he posted of a student led protest in Downers Grove, Illinois. He calls the protesters anti-law enforcement and at messages a bunch of conservative influencers. In the video you can hear Terry trying to harass teenagers.

Chicago-area Proud Boys, Terry Newsome, showed up in Downers Grove yesterday to harass and intimidate high school students protesting DHS-activity.

Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.

As Pritzker proposes school cell phone ban, some Illinois schools already have limits in place Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing the ban of cell phones during school hours.

Pritzker's decision to announce this proposal at my kid's high school has continued to keep my son and his friends engaged in the political process. They do raise a good point - their classrooms already have "cell phone homes" in place.

abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-...

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for Ruling That Could Gut Election Clout Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that victory may be in jeopardy.

“This matters to real people... If all of those settled understandings about who is responsible to you, who is accountable to you, are thrown into doubt, that’s not good for our democratic system.”
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/26/m...

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted. Florida Republicans want the state to have its own spy squad. Muslims are pretty sure they know who will be targeted.

"Critics... see a civil liberties nightmare in the making that could be used to target Muslims and alleged subversives based solely on their views or opinions, much like the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO program."
theintercept.com/2026/02/26/f...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Surprise, surprise. The propaganda machine appears to operating inside the house. And by "house," I mean the White House.
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Trump’s Favorite Voter-ID Bill Would Probably Backfire Congressional Republicans are trying to pass a strict “election integrity” law that seems almost custom-designed to disenfranchise their own supporters.

"[T]he politics of voter ID have not caught up to its new partisan implications. Making voting more difficult would most likely hurt Republicans’ chances, yet they’re pushing hard to make that happen"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Republicans think they laid an immigration trap ahead of the midterms Republicans still see immigration as a potent political issue, even as polling shows them losing their longtime edge on the topic.

"The moment showed how Republicans still see immigration as a potent political issue, even as polling shows them losing their longtime edge on the topic — and as strategists from both parties say the midterms will hinge on the economy."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

2/26/26☀️ AM: PRESENTED BY IN THIS EDITION Thune declares ‘talking filibuster’ dead Virginia Dems back new map Vault: Bank regulators crash the Senate Stevens rolls out

"Republicans are tearing themselves apart over legislation [the SAVE Act] that has captivated Trump’s base but has almost no chance of becoming law."
punchbowl.news/archive/2262...

How and why the conservative justices differed on tariffs Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]

"It means for this case and all future ones concerning tariffs... the question is one of statutory interpretation: Does federal law provide the president with the authority to impose taxes?"
www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/how-...

Former deputy in Sonya Massey killing serving prison sentence, but where? Article Summary Sean Grayson was convicted in October of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Sangamon

"Corrections officials typically move high-profile inmates, like Grayson, to federal or even out-of-state facilities where media coverage has been less intense"
capitolnewsillinois.com/news/former-...

Illinois legislators introduce bills to regulate pricing based on personal data Article Summary Two bills introduced in the house would require companies to tell consumers when their personal data is used

"Algorithmic pricing is dangerous... because it doesn’t lower prices as it claims to, and instead removes competition by allowing companies to set prices together."
capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinoi...

A city blanketed in fear: Accountability Commission hears shocking testimony about ICE Article Summary JB Pritzker’s Accountability Commission hears stories about fear and intimidation that led to disruption of schools and a

"Health care providers and educators testified that immigrant communities began to avoid hospitals, doctors’ offices and schools out of fear of immigration enforcement activities targeting those institutions."
capitolnewsillinois.com/news/a-city-...

Most teens believe their peers are using AI to cheat in school A Pew survey also found that more than 1 in 10 U.S. teens use AI for emotional support or advice, and that they are more hopeful about the technology than adults.

"Nearly 6 in 10 teens said that students at their school use AI chatbots to cheat on their work at least 'somewhat often.'”
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The SAVE Act will block 69 million married women from voting.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU: