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President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data — including the immigration status — on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.

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Illinois’ property tax sale system has been called the “most abusive” in the nation by experts. Why is that? Senior reporter Carlos Ballesteros breaks it down.

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The Windy City Times told LGBTQ+ stories when no one else would. 40 years later, they’re still at it. blockclubchi.co/4jPhuei

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ICE agents are making arrests inside Chicago's immigration court hallways again this morning. Reportedly three people detained so far after exiting their hearings.

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NLG Chicago had Legal Observers present at all three anti-ICE and pro-immigrant protests today in Chicago. Our Mass Defense Committee is tracking an estimated 15 arrested people & working with jail support to ensure they’re safely released.

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What a disturbingly intricate scam: Immigrants end up paying thousands of dollars and attending fake virtual immigration hearings over many months—all the while jeopardizing their real immigration cases by missing the real hearings.

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wow, this is really good mapping www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/c...

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Communications lost with Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen after Israeli navy tells it to change course – live

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Trump's new travel ban is expected to separate families and disproportionately impact people fleeing humanitarian crises. Targeting vulnerable communities under the guise of 'law and order' is not national security- it's profiling. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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you can't tell at first because this is written in the exonerative tense, but she was shot by another police officer

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When Illinois lawmakers met at the end of last month, they had the opportunity to pass reforms to the property tax sale and foreclosure process. However, negotiations stalled in the days leading up to the May 31 deadline. @raceandequityproject.org buff.ly/t6tskIo

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The FAIR Act has passed through both chambers of the state legislature! Illinois will launch a statewide office of public defense in 2027! This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...

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People from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are affected. My cousin just texted me that our family members who arrived through the CHNV program are scrambling to figure out what this means for them

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We're live on r/chicago with an AMA about our recent investigation of the property tax foreclosure system. Have questions for senior reporter Carlos Ballesteros or Emeline Posner from @raceandequityproject.org? Ask away: buff.ly/UOhRVxZ

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a tale in two parts

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📻 Tune in to WBEZ's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons TODAY at noon to hear senior reporter Carlos Ballesteros and the Investigative Project's Emeline Posner discuss how Illinois seniors are losing homes and equity to property tax foreclosure. Listen on WBEZ 91.5 FM: www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

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Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

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One of the most fun interviews I’ve ever been part of was with Walter King Jr. (aka the Spellbinder), an illusionist Ari Mejía and I interviewed last year for a story about the history of Chicago’s magic scene 🕊️ www.wbez.org/curious-city...

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I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

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Children and elderly are dying from starvation in Gaza, says health minister

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Cuban rapper Eliéxer Márquez Duany — aka El Funky — has less than 30 days to leave the U.S. or face deportation and likely imprisonment. But like a vast majority of Cubans living in the U.S., he fully supports Trump.

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Congratulations, @writeralejandra.bsky.social!! 👏🏼

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Help us mail a resource guide to more than 800 seniors whose tax liens were sold last year — putting them at risk of losing their homes. It will cost $2.50 in printing and postage for each person we write to. www.injusticewatch.org/donate/

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At Chicago’s immigration court. Just witnessed masked ICE agents seize two men immediately after DHS dismissed their cases and motioned for expedited removal. Unfortunately, recording is prohibited & ICE had security threaten to call “federal police” when they thought maybe that happened.

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really enjoyed learning about data rescue efforts from this episode open.spotify.com/episode/3Yuj...

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question for video editors of bluesky: i shot footage in c-log 3 and color graded manually in premiere (did not use a LUT). after exporting and opening the video in quicktime, though, it looks washed out and desaturated. what am i doing wrong? 🤔

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With everything going on, I wanted to something that felt more useful than just writing a story, so the good folks at @theappeal.org and I put together this legal resource guide for trans folks and those who love us. There are sections for trans people, parents and doctors. Please read and share!

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NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute

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“it would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits” www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

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1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid! A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors." Subscribe to support my journalism.

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I wrote about why "loving" public libraries is not nearly enough: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

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👀 Now that you're reading the Sunday issue of the Chicago Sun-Times, turn to page 10 to read the latest investigation by @injusticewatch.org and @raceandequityproject.org

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64 pages of ai slop branded as sun-times content, no mention of hearst or king features anywhere. to “supplement” a newspaper that lost around 1 out of every 5 staff members to buyouts earlier this year. full of stock images from unsplash. depressing.

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fitting i guess that the ai sludge writer has an origin story involving realistic historical fiction

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Powerful reporting by @cb-312.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org and Emeline Posner of @raceandequityproject.org. Some Cook County residents are losing their homes over an original tax debt as low as $110. Investors flip the homes for huge profits. The original homeowners are left with nothing.

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Sorry to the Sun-Times newsletter editors who have to deal with it, but the typo in this morning’s edition did get a laugh from me

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