🚨 Infant Nidal Abu Rabieh has died in Gaza after Israeli authorities blocked him from traveling abroad for urgent treatment for severe liver enlargement. His death comes amid Israel’s ongoing blockade, which restricts patients from leaving the Strip for lifesaving medical care.
🇸🇩 UN Update Sudan | Jan 26, 2026 Fighting in Sudan’s Kordofan region is driving new displacement and putting civilians at grave risk. More than 1,000 people were displaced from besieged cities in South Kordofan in recent days, with over 65,000 uprooted across Kordofan since October and 6,500 fleeing into South Sudan. Even as aid groups scale up vaccinations, health care, and water services in Darfur, the UN warns that massive needs remain unmet and civilians continue to bear the brunt of the war.
🇸🇩 UN Update Sudan | Jan 26, 2026
Fighting in Sudan’s Kordofan region is driving new displacement and putting civilians at grave risk. More than 1,000 people were displaced from besieged cities in South Kordofan in recent days, with over 65,000 uprooted across Kordofan since Oct. & 6,500 fleeing...
You might think you don't have to worry about voting rights until November, but legislative sessions are starting across the country - and so are attacks on ballot measures.
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It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall.
It's probably not your fault—too much news.
But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.
NEW: Starting today, ICE can continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases. Last year, 404 Media and @freedom.press sued DHS for refusing to share a copy of the agreement, which gives the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.
Now, the agreement has been released:
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Been sitting on this story for a hot minute, waiting for the CTA to get back to me about how much money they got to post those friend ads everywhere.
Well,
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Southeast Side Rapid Response warning of ICE presence in Hammond, Indiana on the morning of 11/18/2025 Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNBy1pjiW_/?img_index=2
Southeast Side Rapid Response warning of ICE presence in Hammond, Indiana on the morning of 11/18/2025 Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNBy1pjiW_/?img_index=2
Elgin Area Rapid Response warning of ICE presence in West Chicago, Illinois on the morning of 11/18/2025 Link: https://www.facebook.com/ElginCoImmigrantRights
The Southeast Side and Elgin Area Rapid Response teams have also reported immigration agent presence this morning in Hammond, Indiana and West Chicago, Illinois respectively.
Northwest Side Rapid Response confirming a detention off Kedzie and Wabansia around 9:45 a.m. on 11/18. Link to page: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNGKdmEeLL/?img_index=2
Northwest Side Rapid Response confirming a detention off Kedzie and Wabansia around 9:45 a.m. on 11/18. Link to page: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNGKdmEeLL/?img_index=2
Greg Bovino may have moved on to Charlotte, but federal immigration agents maintain a presence in the Chicago area.
Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
Lots of questions about living conditions in South Shore following the federal agents militarized raid earlier this week.
This piece provides some historical context and framing around how Venezuelans landed in the predominantly-Black Chicago neighborhood.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/some...
Breaking: One of the Global Sumud Flotilla ships appears to be being boarded live right now by the Israeli military, with passengers raising their hands. Follow our livestream below.
Israeli Channel 13 reports the navy has seized six of the flotilla’s largest vessels.
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Map: 25 States Plus DC Have Taken Actions To Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Access
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Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance.
There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.
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Sorry if thread is broken, it's still chaotic out here. A lot more gas, it's awful, can't see that well.
ICE just tackled and arrested two protesters.
ICE has come into the lot, firing rounds we can't identify.
Just before this, another canister of tear gas.
At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning.
Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off.
A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"
"Such recognition of Palestinian statehood is largely symbolic unless it's paired with halting arms transfers that actually fuels the genocide."
"[A] performance of justice while complicit in violence."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Canada #France #UK #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
Two men with face coverings and gold badges
Earlier this morning around 10:15, ICE agents were spotted near Howard and Greenview in Rogers Park. It doesn't appear they arrested anyone, and they quickly left the area.
"The International Criminal Court on Monday charged former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with the crime against humanity of murder."
"[H]uman rights groups estimate that as many as 30,000 people were extrajudicially murdered" between 2016 and 2022.
#Philippines #Drugs #Policing
The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.
Just posting to point out the first warning in the PepperBall manual is “DANGER: Never aim or shoot at the head, face, eyes, ears, throat, groin or spine. Impact in these areas could result in unintended severe or permanent injury or death.”
Friday, ICE agents shot Rev Black in the head…
