In general, "no I don't want anyone looking under the hood" is a really good reason someone should be looking under the hood. Particularly when this has been Boutros' approach from the beginning. He tried to hide the transcripts and then left out entire pages. "Trust me" shouldn't cut it.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 33m ago

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

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Zach D Roberts@zdroberts.bsky.social · 17m ago

Someone took out a flock camera in Norfolk.

“Douglas Lee, 54, is accused of drugging a woman while she was out with friends, taking her to a hotel and sexually assaulting her before leaving her in her car overnight.”

Illinois state trooper accused of drugging, sexually assaulting bartender in Tinley Park

Douglas Lee, 54, was stripped of his police powers and was being held in Cook County Jail after he was charged Saturday with an attack that allegedly happened last year.

chicago.suntimes.com

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 3h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

If this helps: Mendoza endorsed MAGA former Chicago Police lieutenant John Garrido when he ran for judge as a Dem in 2020 after losing two non-partisan races and one as a Republican (he lost this one too.) He’s already endorsed her for mayor this cycle.

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀@bebopott.bsky.social · 20h ago

Just got to this immediately groan worth line, roughly 70% into the interview: Sasha: "How do you identify yourself politically? Do you consider yourself a moderate, a progressive, something else?" Susana Mendoza: "A Chicagoan."

This law firm was just awarded a $150 million/year contract to lead representation of unaccompanied minors through immigration proceedings. Seems really bad!

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 18h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere and wanted to surface it — Cornyn and Tillis both signed off on a letter dated July 15 that urged Blanche to use the DOJ’s might to “stop the abortion industry’s unlawful and unsafe mail-order abortion drug practice.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

If you want to know how Flock got so big so fast in Illinois, look no further than our sitting Attorney General (who refused to comment for this story!):

Eyes on the heartland

A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...

unraveledpress.com

“The police are not investigating it. Ask yourself, why aren't they investigating these things?" I have a guess.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

Expect her minions in DC media and Maine media to dutifully portray this as a bold move when it's the same old story if Thune needed her, he'd have her. See, for example, Brett Kavanaugh Any Hill reporters who uses "🚨 Breaking News" on an expected Collins vote is pretty much on her comms team

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 19h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

“privately” wants this. mm hmm.

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 19h ago

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Don’t miss the last sentence after the highlight and do not invite this person over for dinner.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Arrow go way up because hot takes from the Treasury Secretary. It’s just market fundamentals.

Stocks in Record Territory as Investors Shake Off Worries

The price of oil fell sharply on hopes that talks were progressing on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

nytimes.com

research has actually become a lot harder now that google doesn't really recognize booleans anymore

This is agent #7880, who we've become quite familiar with in immigration court & other videos like this around the Chicago area. He was also the agent giving orders at Broadview on Sept 26 last year, when his agents shot my reporting partner in the face w/a pepperball.

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · yesterday

Yesterday prominent Chicagoland ICE observers shared video online depicting 2 federal agents approaching observers with weapons in hand, threatening arrest. The same video shows an agent using a vehicle to box in the observers' car, and another agent asking why the observers are blocking the road.

Cook County SA Eileen O'Neill Burke's office is moving forward with prosecuting a violence-prevention volunteer who was arrested by CPD after he tried to turn in a gun at a police station. The man spent 7 months in Cook County Jail for his effort; trial begins next week.

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls gun case against Chicago anti-violence volunteer a 'travesty'

Duncan runs Chicago CRED, which works to prevent shootings. He says volunteer Nakia Smith, arrested in a Far South Side police station in 2023, has been "fighting for the good." Smith, a convicted fel...

chicago.suntimes.com

A faith group that hosted a call with Todd Blanche — who assured listeners of his commitment to make Dobbs “permanent in every single state” — insisted it was off-the-record…then posted it on YouTube 🤔

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

politico.com

Many people asked me early on: if ICE seems to just be rounding up random brown people on the street, why are they on a shopping spree for massive amounts of surveillance capabilities. The answer was always for this.

Udi Ofer@uofer.bsky.social · yesterday

Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Google is happy to oblige upgrade: 23lb of copper

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

makes you wonder why some people think we should hire 1000 more cops

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d ago

There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.

oh ffs

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 2d ago

In a letter to Chicago's deputy mayor of labor relations, a union attorney asked the city to “voluntarily recognize” a collective bargaining unit of commanders and deputy chiefs, pointing to an executive order Mayor Johnson signed.

The coupling of contradictory pledges for efficiency + more policing has happened enough times that it’s hard to not simply call this racialized neoliberalism. And its power seems to come from how many people take this as the norm.

Denali@denali.bsky.social · 2d ago

And on public safety, no one who is running for Mayor and talking about the city's fiscal house or using not one more dollar rhetoric should have to talk CPD budget. If they treat fiscal health and cost of policing as two separate issues it's ok to not listen to them about the city's finances.

Busy day for ICE across Chicagoland. Reports of encounters with agents across the heavily Latine Chicago neighborhoods of Hermosa and Austin, and in the suburbs of Wheeling and Naperville. Rapid responders report at least 5 people detained this morning in Naperville; 1 person detained in Austin.

Chicago Mayoral candidates’ position on shotspotter is a good litmus test for who is going to let AI “move fast and break things” at the expense of communities and taxpayers.

That Max Miller video is like a tutorial on “things to look for to spot abusers.”

Max Miller has a documented history of violence against women dating back to high school. Read this article from 2021. web.archive.org/web/20211105...

Groundhog’s Day, but Bill Murray is an insane POTUS and learns no lessons.

Trump climbs down on Iran strikes in expectation of ‘rapidly’ reaching a deal

US president claims delay is also in response to requests from Iran and other countries in the region

theguardian.com

When politicians say they oppose ICE but propose more local police, their objections to ICE are based solely on optics/aesthetics.

Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Alexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.