11,000 kids. That’s ProPublica’s count of how many children—U.S.-born citizens—have seen their parents arrested and detained in the first seven months of Donald Trump’s second term.
■ That’s an average of more than 50 kids a day separated from a parent.
■ Trump’s deporting moms of citizen children at four times the rate under the Biden administration.
■ Rachel Maddow last night shared new details of Delta Airlines’ complicity in the deporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos from Minneapolis to the Dilley, Texas, concentration camp.
■ Listen here.
■ Add Bruce Springsteen to the roster of those performing at Saturday’s No Kings rally in St. Paul.
‘Trump needs to call off his thugs.’ Add retiring Chicago U.S. Rep. Chuy García to the roster of those opposing the deployment of immigration agents at the nation’s airports …
■ … including O’Hare.
■ Trump’s notion of ICEing airports may have started with a conservative radio caller, “Linda from Arizona.”
■ On the table in the Senate: A deal to fund Homeland Security but not ICE.
■ Want to help Chicago’s unpaid TSA workers? Here’s how.
■ Benighted Sen. Markwayne Mullin is the nation’s new Homeland Security secretary.
■ The Onion offers a snarky profile of Mullin.
‘We already know enough to be very concerned.’ With details still emerging, columnist James Fallows analyzes Sunday’s deadly collision at New York’s LaGuardia airport.
■ Air traffic audio reveals a separate emergency on a different plane unfolding simultaneously.
■ Former Illinois U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger: “The LaGuardia crash will be blamed on one controller. That’s not the whole story: 3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar is still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.”
‘The Trump administration needs to stop politicizing heinous tragedies.’ Gov. Pritzker’s spokesperson condemns the president for using the killing of a Loyola University student on Chicago’s lakefront to bolster his immigration policies.
■ Trump on social media early today: “Democrats are desperate to keep illegals, no matter how bad or dangerous they may be, in the Country.”
■ A Tribune editorial: “Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her.”
■ Columnist Eric Zorn: “Trump has changed how I feel about celebrating the deaths of political foes.”
Mail-in voting limits? Hearing arguments that included a swipe at Chicago, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed inclined to side with the Trump administration against a Mississippi law allowing a five-day grace period for ballots delivered after Election Day.
■ Guess who voted by mail in Florida yesterday, even as he pushed Congress to limit that option?
Congrats, Naperville. Community ratings site Niche puts the town atop its list of Best Cities to Live in America.
■ See where your town ranks here.
Not so independent. The Tribune reports that the primary funding organization behind two ostensibly independent super PACs that spent heavily on Chicago-area congressional races was secretly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
■ British police were seeking three suspects in an arson attack on a Jewish charity’s ambulances.
‘The war in Iran is not going well.’ Popular Information: Trump’s offensive is unraveling.
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter asks of Pentagon restrictions on journalists: “What is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth so afraid of?”
■ On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart brutally deconstructed Trump’s nonsensical statements on the conflict …
■ … including that one about a 15-point agreement—where the first three points are identical.
■ See it here.
■ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich: “TACO Donny tries to TACO his way out of war by announcing imaginary peace talks.”
■ The Onion: “Trump Demands Allies Do Their Fair Share To Fuck Up The World.”
The Worsties. Stop the Presses columnist Mark Jacob bestows his dubious achievement awards on the news media’s 25 worst people.
■ Poynter’s Tom Jones: As Trump hit a new rhetorical low, the usual suspects in the media stayed quiet or defended him.
■ Dan Froomkin at Press Watch: Quoting Trump as if he were reliable constitutes journalistic malpractice.
■ The Trib’s Robert Channick (gift link): NBC 5 Chicago, Telemundo Chicago and the national NBC News Chicago Bureau have downsized from five floors of NBC Tower into one 70,000-square-foot space on a single floor.
Missing link found. A gift link in yesterday’s Chicago Public Square to a New York Times story about Kristi Noem pal Corey Lewandowski’s exploits inside Homeland Security was wrong. Here’s the right one.
■ Mike Braden made this edition better.
