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New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

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A month ago I watched witness video of ICE agents tearing a man out of a car in Chicago. There was a child in the back seat and the woman in the passenger seat was crying and praying to God for mercy

Small menus create hard men Hard men create big menus Big menus create weak men Weak men create small menus

The Union Station Sbarro is good, actually

And I've been hearing about a possible death in Arizona's Eloy Detention Center. Working now for details.

The Alex Pretti Memorial, October 2026 chaddavis.photography/memorial-whe...

🧊😵 The death at Otay Mesa would bring the known number of deaths this year in ICE custody to 30. In 2025, a total of 33 people died in ICE custody, the highest number on record.

Catch us tomorrow:

For anyone in the Windy City, I’ll be speaking about my recent story on the involvement of Chicagoland cops with the Minnesota 15 prosecution tomorrow evening www.wired.com/story/chicag...

Alex Pretti’s family holding their first news conference addressing the media this morning. It’s been 9 months since their son was disarmed before being shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis. No one has been held responsible.

An FBI agent killed a man in one of Chicago's Latine neighborhoods yesterday afternoon. Few details available yet:

One of the many products we have available to us today where your initial instinct that "this is fake and a scam and I refuse to take it seriously" is the correct thought.

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Back in June, Cook County Sheriff deputy Gigliotti dapped up an ICE agent after an arrest in a suburban courthouse, prompting an investigation by the sheriff's professional review office. Sheriff spox says the ICE agent is an ex-CCSO employee and Gigliotti was "simply greeting a former colleague."

next Wednesday has been DELETED from the calendar. plan accordingly

There was nearly a mass shooting at the well known Sri Venkateswara Swami temple in Aurora last weekend. The 19-year-old who planned it had a rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammo and was literally on the property, then his gun malfunctioned and he went home. He told a coworker, who called the cops.

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.

The distance between Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis office and Renee Good’s memorial is less than a 20 minute walk. It’s about a 40 minute walk to Alex Pretti’s memorial. (George Floyd Square, is, incidentally, about a 10 minute walk.)

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

So, if you're feeling tired, burnt out, or discouraged, do what you've gotta do. Tend your wounds. Hug your cat. Watch some bad TV. Don't argue in circles with strangers on social media. Don't tell everyone they're doomed. The world does not need your particular spin on giving up.

A child was in the car when ICE recently shot a man in NYC. To give you a bigger picture of how immigration enforcement is affecting New York children, our story released yesterday showed how ICE arrests of children TRIPLED in NY state in 2026. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...

Things are fine

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

BP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas.

i resent how there's a stable of a couple dozen dudes whose whole thing is 'has a racist blog' & they regularly get mainstream newspaper and magazine profiles. i have trouble keeping track of them all, i'm like 'what did he do again' & check his wikipedia & it's ah, has a racist blog, that's all

Seen in Wicker Park

Protest continues in Lochiel, at the Tierra Libre tree sit resisting border wall construction. One person has locked down and border patrol is attempting to remove them. See a live feed here: instagram.com/tierralibre_noborders/

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

Former Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.

Rockford city govt. is claiming they "had no prior notice of [ICE's] arrival or further communication or contact with ICE."

The few residents that were allowed to speak at the Marana Council meeting tonight criticized town officials for their lack of action and failure to address the concerns about the ICE camp and the open intention to fill it over capacity — some estimates reaching over DOUBLE the originally 550 limit.

ICE was also seen today across Chicago's SW side. Local rapid responders report at least 1 detainment near 56th & Sawyer. ICE was also seen by the Cook County courthouse in Maywood, IL.

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I bulldozed a 200 year old tree today.