Two bald eagle chicks have been spotted in nests on the South Side this spring. They are believed to be the first eaglets born in the city in more than a century. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/06/b...

new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act - Chicago Reader

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s rising again.

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The Illinois Attorney General’s office suggested a $4.1M decrease to PG’s proposed $202M hike — pointing to $97.2M in “unsupported and unexplained” costs for its pipe retirement program. "[The rate hike request] appears to contain data that is contradictory, incomplete, and otherwise unreliable.”

Illinois attorney general pushes for rate cut as Peoples Gas seeks $202 million hike

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul instead suggested a $4.1 million rate decrease, citing “unsubstantiated” charges, including at least $97.2 million in “unsupported and unexplained” cost increases...

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If our votes didn't matter, greedy billionaires wouldn't be spending millions to suppress them. They see our power. They see our solidarity. We’re uniting across all races to deliver for working families. We won't back down, no matter what #SCOTUS decides.

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory

“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.

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Voting is a right, not a privilege. We will continue fighting for and building back the most hard-won protections to our democracy, no matter what the courts say. 📸 Will Martinez

Sen. Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined his Republican colleagues in voting to sink a Democrat-led bid to stop Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold.

Fetterman Joins GOP in Defeating Senate Democrats’ Attempt to Block War on Cuba

Congress has repeatedly failed to curb Trump’s ability to wage war and to rein in his boat bombing spree.

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“You said, ‘We will give them no quarter, no mercy.’ An order for no quarter, or no survivors, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. You understand, that’s murder. Do you stand by that statement?” Rep. Seth Moulton asked.

“That’s Murder”: Democrat Grills Hegseth on Order to Commit War Crimes

Hegseth pledged that the military is showing “no quarter” to its enemies. Experts say that’s a war crime.

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BREAKING: The House of Representatives reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another 3 years. The government regularly abuses this law to spy on Americans without a warrant. Despite bipartisan outrage, it now goes to the Senate.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.

Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an ICE facility, began a hunger strike on April 20 in an attempt to assert their rights to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.

Hundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan Prison

Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.

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May Day Strong Shoots for National Solidarity on International Workers’ Day

May Day Strong Shoots for National Solidarity on International Workers’ Day - UNICORN RIOT

Will the broad coalition of unions, nonprofits and activist groups make a long-term impact?

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The Voting Rights Act has been essential to protecting everyone’s freedom to vote. By destroying a key provision of the VRA that ensured Black voters were fairly represented, the Supreme Court today betrayed the legacy of the civil rights movement. We won’t stop fighting.

⚡️Get trained for the struggles ahead! Our most recent training has been rescheduled for this Sunday at 3pm! ECPS & THE REFERENDUM FOR COMMUNITY POWER OVER POLICING: Help strengthen the civilian powers for police accountability in our city! visit caarpr.org/trainings

BREAKING: The Senate narrowly advanced a plan to add up to an extra $140 billion to ICE and CBP's record high budget. This is the first step by Congress to give another blank check to these out-of-control agencies without any strings attached, all while cutting benefits for our communities.

NEW: In the middle of the night, the House tried to pass a bill that would have given President Trump and Stephen Miller the power to spy on Americans without a warrant for years to come. It failed due to pressure from the public — but they plan to vote again in just 2 weeks.

ICE says 81% arrested in Operation Midway Blitz had no convictions, falsely asserts no citizens arrested NEW from @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

ICE says 81% arrested in Operation Midway Blitz had no convictions, falsely asserts no citizens arrested

Todd Lyons, who on Thursday resigned from his position as acting director of ICE, also claimed in the letter to the Illinois congressional delegation that no U.S. citizens were arrested by federal imm...

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This May 1st, a nationwide, No Work, No School, No Shopping! This country is being taken over by billionaires, so we have to speak their language...$$$ money! JOIN US IN UNION PARK AT 1PM Not in Chicago? Check out MayDayStrong.org #maydaystrong #chicago #usa #event #workersoverbillionaires

Federal prosecutors in Chicago tonight are asking U.S. District Judge April Perry to reject arguments from the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" that their conspiracy charge should be dismissed on First Amendment grounds:

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Remaining ‘Broadview Six’ defendants want conspiracy charge tossed, argue protesting isn’t a crime From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

A federal judge has found that an interim Department of Defense policy — which replaced a similar policy that sought to restrict journalists’ access to Pentagon sources earlier this year — violates First Amendment press freedoms and is therefore unlawful and unenforceable.

Judge Strikes Down Updated Policy Restricting Journalists’ Access to Pentagon

The policy sought to revoke journalists’ access to the inside of the Pentagon building.

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NEW: We’re joined by 75 organizations in calling on Meta to cancel plans to install facial recognition technology on their “smart” glasses. This tech would allow anyone who wears the glasses to identify and spy on those around them. Meta must stop this all-out assault on our privacy and safety.

NEW, from @domguan.bsky.social— Chicagoland joined other cities for a "Fuck ICE" day of protest at the Broadview ICE facility on Saturday. Activists said the cheeky theme was designed to help build community outside the building where they have faced constant police violence and arrests:

Protesters mock ICE, Broadview police at dildo day of action outside detention center

The spectacle saw hundreds of phallic items, big and small, flood the designated free speech zone—a small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trump’s mass d...

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Organizations that provide counseling services for troops are reporting growing numbers of calls. “It’s all people who don’t want to take part in killing in a war that they don’t believe in, and this war has made them realize that they can’t take part in any kind of U.S. military action ever again.”

Trump’s Extreme Use of Military Is Stirring a Crisis of Conscience Among Troops

US soldiers have a rich history of questioning the wars they’re told to wage abroad.

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Chicago has turned all public school IDs into library cards to boost student access. buff.ly/ipZr7kg

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

If we had continued on with Obamas investments in solar ,wind, clean energy and electric cars the straight of Hormuz could have gone and fucked itself by now.

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to. Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CNN follows SF Chronicle's reporting on Swalwell with their own exclusive:

Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...

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