Yeah, then someone tell them. As Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown makes itself increasingly felt across the Chicago area, USA Today “Trump Connect” reporter—yeah, that’s now a job—Kinsey Crowley offers a guide to your rights for interacting with ICE agents.
■ Reporter Aaron Parnas: “ICE is ramping up surveillance of your social media accounts.”
■ The American Civil Liberties Union tonight hosts its online monthly “People Power Action Call,” detailing “concrete actions you can take to defend rights where you live.” Sign up here.
■ Veteran local TV news executive Jennifer Schulze: “Journalists and citizens … documenting the ICE overreach … could help hold federal agents accountable in court.”
■ An Illinois state rep’s catching right-wing fire for an email sharing details about ICE vehicles.
■ A Chicago magazine photo gallery: “Scenes from the Occupation.”
■ WBEZ and the Sun-Times want your photos of ICE in action.
‘Someone was abducted by ICE on the very street I live on.’ An Oak Park resident describes what happened outside an elementary school during yesterday’s morning drop-off time.
■ Video shows the night manager of Chicago’s Laugh Factory comedy club getting taken down by ICE.
■ Columnist Neil Steinberg: “ICE is … hassling Americans for taking videos in a Sam’s Club parking lot.”
■ At Chicago Public Square’s email deadline, Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino had a date with a federal judge downtown to answer for his troops’ actions here.
■ The suburb of Broadview, home to the Chicago area’s ICE processing facility, is getting sued over its restrictions on protest there.
■ Axios Chicago rounds up what some suburbs are doing to shield immigrant workers.
■ 404 Media: ICE is using a Milwaukee university building as a deportation office and the university says it can’t do anything about it.
■ Mayor Johnson’s standing by his call for a nationwide general strike.
‘A tsunami of hungry people.’ The AP reports that, ahead of a government shutdown food aid pause, charities around the country are bracing for a run on the food banks.
■ Feeding America will let you find your local food bank and make a donation here.
■ Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers picketed outside board headquarters yesterday, protesting wages so low that they say they can hardly feed their own families.
■ Sympathetic Chicagoans are taking extraordinary action to patronize restaurants in neighborhoods chilled by ICE.
Texas vs. Tylenol. The state’s attorney general is suing Johnson & Johnson—alleging it failed to warn pregnant women of the product’s links to autism …
■ … assertions that have been widely debunked.
■ Abortion, Every Day: “Yelp is taking on crisis pregnancy centers—good.”
■ NewsGuard: Regardless of what chuckleheads Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say, Jews and Chinese people also get COVID.
‘Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy.’ That’s The Daily Beast headline atop an account of what The New Republic calls a “bonkers rant” yesterday.
■ Press Watch columnist Mark Jacob: Trump’s benefitting from mainstream media’s “failure to focus on his broken brain.”
■ The Onion: “Trump Accused Of Using Makeup To Conceal Ventilator.”
‘Prone to … high-profile gaffes.’ Beware Elon Musk’s bent answer to the human-curated Wikipedia: An artificial intelligence-fueled, reactionary Grokipedia …
■ … whose entry on Musk, Time reports … um … leaves some stuff out.
■ As it ramps up spending on AI, Amazon is cutting about 14,000 jobs.
■ Popular Information calls the roll of corporations that—including Amazon—pledged after the Capitol riots of 2021 not to support candidates who sought to overturn legitimate election results—but that now “are funneling millions into one of Trump’s pet projects … to stay in his good graces.”
■ The Guardian: Trump says tech chiefs persuaded him to call off a troop “surge” to San Francisco.
‘Power to do almost anything.’ Axios’ Mike Allen: With neither the Supreme Court nor Congress showing much interest in limiting Trump, “the only real limit on Trump appears to be Trump himself.”
■ The Atlantic (gift link): “Trump’s plan to subvert the midterms is already under way.”
■ Gary Legum at Wonkette: House Speaker “Mike Johnson is unaware of the Earth being cast into total darkness. Hey, he’s been busy.”
■ The Onion: “Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life.”
‘Growing older in an AI world.’ Journalist’s Toolbox creator Mike Reilley reflects on that service’s 30th anniversary …
■ … coincidentally, just days ahead of his interactive deep dive into the world of AI tools and fact-check tech this Monday for Chicago Public Square readers. Sign up free here.
■ Columnist Eric Zorn spotlights an embarrassing AI-driven typo in The Wall Street Journal.
Thanks. Mike Braden made this edition better.