New overnight: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office says the “Broadview Six” prosecutors have self-reported the events of the tainted prosecution to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility as it argues against a special counsel. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/98/58/82c837...

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The “Broadview Six” are asking a judge to take the extraordinary step of appointing a special counsel to investigate — and possibly prosecute — Justice Department officials in Chicago and Washington D.C. for criminal contempt. NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

have i mentioned chicago is the best city in the world lately

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live · 21h ago

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

I was born a baby, but eventually that changed

Really feels like the public sentiment against Flock just isn't going to reverse course any time soon (*whether that translates into enough cities officially removing them to render their network obsolete is a different story). Every day there's a new headline about vandalism now, lol

FOX 9@fox9mn.bsky.social · 21h ago

Eight Flock cameras stolen throughout Winona have authorities asking the public's help getting them back.

NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks

Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

zeteo.com

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

it really is wild that he accepts that the bar is as low as facilities being "survivable." a higher order of treatment (and again, still a really low bar)-- would be that the conditions protect and reflect the civil rights of incarcerated people.

Stephanie Kollmann@slkollmann.bsky.social · yesterday

I encourage every Illinoisan to read Gov. Pritzker's responses to @shannonheffernan.bsky.social excellent reporting about terrifying prison conditions.

When I become mayor of Chicago, I promise to arrest 1000 more people for "selling ponchos without a permit"

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 23h ago

The arrests were spread evenly across the first three days of the Grant Park festival, and there were slightly fewer than last year.

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

Thinking a lot this morning about why high-ranking cops may be feeling like they don't have enough protection.

CPD leaders knew cop proposed hiring hitman to kill fellow detective, new federal lawsuit alleges

The lawsuit alleges an officer faced years of violent abuse and threats at the hands of another detective while top brass and city officials have refused to investigate or discipline him.

unraveledpress.com

WBEZ@wbez.org · yesterday

A group of high-ranking Chicago police officials are pushing to form their own union, setting up a possible fight with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.

Chicago needs 15 million new cops to fund 15 million new NASCAR races. We're turning Lake Michigan into the first fully aquatic data center. Every kindergarten will be equipped with ToddlerSpotter. It's not ShotSpotter! It's better—SWAT will be alerted every time naptime needs to be enforced

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

‘Hundreds of residents in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right anti-migrant rally, forcing organisers to cancel the event amid heightened tensions following a temporary influx of migrants crossing from Morocco.’ www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Residents of Spain’s Ceuta shut down far-right anti-migrant rally

Hundreds of residents in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right rally.

aljazeera.com

The man's mother says she got a call from her son Friday evening saying he didn’t feel well and that part of his face and his right hand had gone numb. "They were going to do some exams, but they didn’t say when." The next day she got a call from the hospital asking her to identify her son's body.

A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

thecityreporter.nyc

COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

tennesseelookout.com

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

hellgatenyc.com

ICE agents engaged in a high speed chase forced a car containing a mother and child into a ditch with their reckless driving, then handcuffed a U.S. citizen. It's business as usual for the agency in South Texas:

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and…

texasobserver.org

Anybody else losing track of the number of places on fire right now? That's good, right?

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

🇬🇷 Flames flared up again in Greece on Monday, as wildfires that have raged west of Athens for four days remained a threat despite easing winds and the deployment of firefighting aircraft. ➡️ u.afp.com/SHJ9

Alexi Giannoulias doesn't go far enough, under my plan I would make all 2.7 million people in Chicago a cop

Five weeks after 100+ people were killed in a hotel hours after being deported on a GlobalX ICE flight, these ghouls are back at it.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧊✈️ VENEZUELA⛓️🌎 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N278GX) departs Miami, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela (not Spain) 🇻🇪 👉 This is the first ICE flight to Venezuela since a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Caracas on June 24 👀

Hundreds gathered outside Overland City Hall to honor former residents Glendy González de la Cruz and Nixon Perez Paz. The couple was found bound and shot to death in Guatemala weeks after reuniting following his deportation.

Mourners decry Overland couple's killing in Guatemala, call for ICE accountability

“We need pathways to citizenship, but a pathway to better citizenship for us all,” said Yery Castillo, a friend of the late Glendy González de la Cruz. "Citizenship that provides us access to…

stlpr.org

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

minnesotareformer.com

Not sure which hurts worse this morning: the fact that 600+ families just lost their home, or the knowledge that this will only keep happening in a warming world.

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

1,000 cops with "Hired by Alexi Giannoulias" patches on their uniforms. 1,000 SoundThinking microphone poles with "Installed by Alexi Giannoulias" stickers on em

ICE is still kidnapping and killing people.

"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop."

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d ago

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.