Deirdre

This is just awful. WGN is a staple. I grew up watching it every morning and every evening with my mom and dad. Dean Richards is a GEM! His food segments were unmatched. 😭

Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data CPD has been under federal court oversight for nearly seven years as part of an effort to stop officers from routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights by overhauling the wa...

The number of excessive force allegations filed against Chicago Police Department officers rose 46% between 2022 and 2025, according to new data from the agency charged with investigating serious police misconduct. @wttw.bsky.social

Chicago Police Department’s Compliance With Consent Decree ‘Too Slow’: Federal Judge “I share your impatience,” U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer said. “I do recognize it is too slow.”

NEW: City officials’ efforts to comply with the federal court order requiring the Chicago Police Department to stop routinely violating Black and Latino Chicagoans’ constitutional rights are “too slow,” the federal judge overseeing the reform effort said Saturday. @wttw.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share our candidates for IL’s March 17 Primaries! We have a slate of #ProgressiveChampions: Karina Villa, Delia Ramirez, Graciela Guzman, Miguel Alvelo-Rivera, Sarah Burt, and Jessica Vasquez.

If you want to do more than vote, canvass with us! www.workingfamilies33.org/events

Make it make sense. Why would Tabares support it in Committee? What are we missing? Snakes.

No Evidence CPD Provided Required Update on System That Would Flag Officers With Multiple Complaints CPD is required to implement the system under the terms of the consent decree, the federal court order designed to compel the department to change the way it trains, supervises and disciplines officer...

NEW: There is no evidence that Chicago police brass updated the mayor and 3 City Council committee chairs about efforts to craft a system designed to alert officials about which officers have been the subject of repeated police misconduct allegations, as required by city law. @wttw.bsky.social

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Border Goon Kicked Out of Las Vegas Bar to ‘Maintain' Safety Bottled Blonde ejected Gregory Bovino to keep things “safe and orderly” days after Trump dumped him from Minneapolis for the same reason.

Gregory Bovino got kicked out of Bottled Blonde in Las Vegas by people who surely hate Ma and Pa America
www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...

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White former downstate cop gets 20-year sentence for murdering Sonya Massey

A white former sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield area home was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, marking a capstone in a racially charged case of police brutality that drew national headlines.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

@ramirez.house.gov this energy… thank you!

They've advanced on the barricades.

After tackling a protester for an arrest—gas.

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

SEEING IS BELIEVING

DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.

📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.

DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring.

We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.

It’s time to start melting ICE.

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

City Paid $26.5M in Overtime to Ineligible Employees: Watchdog “The city’s finances are, needless to say, in an extremely precarious place, and we can ill-afford mistakes which run well into the eight figures,” Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said

BREAKING: Chicago paid $26.5 million to more than 1,000 employees for working extra hours between 2020 and 2024, even though they were not eligible for overtime pay, according to a report released Wednesday by the city’s watchdog. @wttw.bsky.social

Back from morning break in the ongoing murder solicitation trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez, whom feds accuse of placing a hit on Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.

The feds' first witness, Adrian Jimenez, is still on the stand.

Last time the Bears faced the Rams in the playoffs was the NFC Championship on January 12, 1986. Bears won 24-0 to move on to the Super Bowl.

Three more CPD employees, including a sergeant, face firing for PPP loan fraud

Three more Chicago Police Department employees, including a sergeant, face firing for fraudulently obtaining federal Paycheck Protection loans during the pandemic.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Home Alone 3 looks awful