Dave Byrnes

Hospitals.

‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out’: Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security Noem’s ouster was celebrated by local officials and activists, who said good riddance to the woman who oversaw unprecedented immigration raids in the Chicago area.

"Spreading of lies"
"An incompetent leader"
"She will not be missed in Chicago."
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out"
Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/t...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East ‘wars.’” Via @ahjohnson.bsky.social www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Horrific. Unforgiveable.

Free Estefany Rodriguez.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

U.S. Sen. Klobuchar: Around 180 federal agents are in Minnesota, contradicting Noem's claim U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters about her reaction to Noem leaving the post.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says federal immigration agents are at or near their original footprint of 180 agents in Minnesota, contradicting a claim from the departing Homeland Security Secretary.

She said border chief Tom Homan called the senator to clarify Noem’s estimation was incorrect.

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

JUST IN: The 7th Circuit has vacated District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order in the case that led to use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents in Chicago, calling it "constitutionally suspect."
It essentially treats the ruling as if it never existed, rather than just a dismissal.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Cop: protester ratio here is about 5:1 (some bike squads out of frame). All activists have been doing is chanting and drumming.

Outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago this afternoon, security guards are maneuvering some barricades around a small group of anti-war protesters to box them in and away from commuters going into Ogilvie.

Statement from Christopher Parente, attorney for Chicago's Marimar Martinez:

"Everyone involved in the spreading of lies about Marimar Martinez is out of their job. Now it is time for the FBI to do their job and investigate."

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“.. White House officials have already discussed names of potential replacements for Noem, including Republican Sens. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma and Steve Daines of Montana, according to two of the people familiar ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

This is such a dogshit thing to say but notice how much of a coward he is to immediately go oh gosh oh golly when the reporter asks what he means by that. Can’t even have the courage of his dirtbag convictions, an insult to all men who wear shorts and hoodies in the winter. We reject him.

A couple weeks later we found out they flagged my wife. She wasn't in Broadview, has never had an "encounter" with CBP/ICE, and she never received a letter or email about it.

She only found out when she flew next and TSA told her that her TSA Pre & Global Entry were no longer valid.

Dear STEPHEN HELD: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously found you eligible for the TSA PreCheck™ Application program on 12/21/2020. As an individual previously found eligible for the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program, you are subject to recurrent checks against various databases, including law enforcement, immigration, regulatory violation, and intelligence databases for continued eligibility. TSA has made a preliminary determination that you may no longer be eligible to participate in the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program because you committed certain violations of security related regulations, described below in greater detail. As a result, TSA has preliminarily revoked your eligibility for the program. RESULTS OF TSA'S ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION: Pursuant to TSA PreCheck™ eligibility requirements, applicants may be ineligible to participate due to disqualifying criminal offenses and other factors, which includes determinations that an applicant does not pose a sufficiently low risk to transportation security. TSA considers your conduct on or about September 27, 2025, in Terrace, Illinois, involving Assault on Certain Officers or Employees under U.S. Code 18 USC 111, to be inconsistent with expedited screening eligibility, which is reserved for persons known to pose a low risk to transportation security. This determination is distinct from any criminal or civil enforcement proceedings which may be brought against you in conjunction with this incident. You have not yet been disqualified from participation in the TSA PreCheck ™ Application Program. This letter is an ineligibility determination that notifies you of the preliminary decision made by TSA. You may inform TSA in writing of your intent to correct any information you believe is inaccurate. TSA must receive your request to correct any information you believe to be inaccurate within 60 calendar days of the date of this letter. If you wish to correct this information, you must provide any…

Shortly after the TSA letter, I received an email that my Global Entry was also revoked.

Keep in mind, I was arrested for no reason. No charges were filed.

TSA's letter incorrectly claims that I was involved in an "assault," in a nonexistent place called "Terrace, Illinois."

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.

New filing:

Attorneys representing a class of people suing over conditions at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, can't depose Shawn Byers, deputy ICE field director in Chicago, for 7 hours ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing.

They can depose Ray Hernandez, another ICE official, for 7 hours.

Earlier today, at the discovery hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Laura McNally that the email alludes to, McNally chided the attorneys for sending emails without filing notice on the court docket (not document, sorry for that typo in the original post).

Partial image text: By way of brief background, plaintiffs filed a motion for expedited discovery, set forth in Exhibit A, on October 30, 2025, so that the “court can have a fuller record in adjudicating the forthcoming motion for a preliminary injunction.” Dkt. 15, p. 1. The discovery requested was limited to September 8, 2025, to the present and included an inspection of the Broadview Service Staging Area by plaintiffs’ corrections expert, three depositions limited to three hours each, and 12 document production requests. Dkt. 15-1. The motion was “granted limited as stated on the record.” Dkt. 45. Since that time, what was supposed to have been limited preliminary injunction hearing discovery limited to a two-month period has somehow expanded exponentially into what has become class action discovery on the merits dating back to January 1, 2025, on an expedited basis that has proven to be challenging to keep up with, to say the least. The defendants maintain that the expansion of discovery beyond what was sought in Exhibit A is improper as beyond the scope of the approved expedited discovery and not proportionate to the needs of the preliminary injunction hearing set for April 21-22, 2026, particularly now that defendants have been barred from contesting “Plaintiffs’ witnesses’ descriptions of what the video footage [not produced] would have shown.” Dkt. 188. Without waiving these objections, this takes us to plaintiffs’ eighth set of expedited discovery requests, which are attached for easy reference. On February 6, 2026, plaintiffs issued subpoenas to several federal employees seeking deposition testimony and records. We promptly objected to the requests for records because the records belong to the government, not the employees, and plaintiffs failed to comply with the Department of Homeland Security’s Touhy regulations. In response, plaintiffs withdrew the request for

Image text: records directed to the federal employees and, on February 9, 2026, issued a “DRAFT” of plaintiffs’ eighth set of discovery requests seeking voluminous records dating back to January 1, 2025, three business days prior to the depositions of Yalisa Riley (set for March 16, 2026), Keith Taylor (set for March 11, 2026), Shawn Byers (set for March 20, 2026), Ray Hernandez (set for March 17, 2026), Jonathan Bugayong (set for March 13, 2026), Esteban Rivas (set for March 10, 2026), and Commander of U.S. Public Health Services James P. Chaney (DHS has not been able to get a hold of him) “as well as any other Deponents designated as witnesses in this action.” On February 18, 2026, the defendants agreed to search the emails of the individuals set to be deposed but objected to the scope of the requests and indicated that it would propose search terms and a limited timeframe. Defense counsel emphasized that the eighth set of requests are so extremely broad that DHS might struggle to fashion a query that catches all responsive emails.

Image text: The undersigned counsel was advised by agency counsel of the following on March 3, 2026, at 9:15 p.m.: Search Terms for emails, teams and phone (all applied for each deponent) from June 24, 2025, to February 18, 2026 1. legal call W/5 (“hold room” OR Broadview) 2. ((call* OR phone*) W/5 (attorney* OR counsel* OR client* OR legal* OR lawyer* OR speak* OR talk* OR communicat* OR demand*)) W/10 (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR escalat* OR problem* OR complian* OR noncomplian*) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview) 3. medical* W/10 (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR escalat* OR problem* OR complian* OR noncomplian*) AND "hold room” 4. (email* OR visit* OR access*) W/5 (attorney* OR atty* OR counsel* OR lawyer*) W/10 (deny OR refuse* OR restrict* OR delay*) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview) 5. (bedding OR sleeping OR mat OR mats OR blanket* OR cloth*) W/10 (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR deny OR insufficient OR unavailable) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview) 6. clean* AND (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR escalat* OR problem* OR complian* OR noncomplian*) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview) 7. hygien* W/10 (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR escalat* OR problem* OR complian* OR noncomplian*) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview) 8. Broadview W/10 (plan OR intend OR expect* OR schedule* OR project* OR forecast* OR anticipat* OR strateg*) AND (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR delay* OR overcrowd* OR capacity) 9. (food OR water OR meal* OR drink* OR nutrition* OR beverage*) W/10 (issue OR concern* OR complain* OR escalat* OR problem* OR complian* OR noncomplian*) AND (“hold room” OR Broadview)

Technical difficulties posting image text from the document, apologies.

New: U.S. attorneys in Chicago have publicly filed an email that was sent to a lawyer representing a class of people suing over conditions at the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

It details individuals slated for deposition, and records search terms, applied to the deponents, from 6/24/25 - 2/18/26.

Deposition issues aside. A few moments of discussion on how to handle other discovery issues, and then the hearing concludes.

I'll be keeping an eye out for subsequent filings from Judge McNally.

A plaintiff atty agrees he doesn't want to sit through ten hours of deposition in one day either.

"There's consensus in the courtroom," McNally jokes.