Breaking the timeline for something that just happened: A dust storm/haboob envelops the Chicago skyline and lakefront, May 16, 2025. Taken from Hollywood Beach. #chicago #photography #ilwx #wx
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I have to hold my wife back from doing more than this gesture when we walk past this monstrosity in our neighborhood. I do worry on the day she might walk past it alone. #Photography #Chicago
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ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump
Good morning. Spring springs on. #Photography #Today #Spring #Chicago
There’s a protest outside of #immigration court in #Chicago today, supporting #RamonMoralesReyes, a #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin man who snatched by #ICE & accused of writing a letter threatening #Trump.
There's just one problem: the letter was fake.
Another man is now accused of forging it an effort to get Reyes — who could testify against him in a criminal case — deported.
Yet Reyes is still facing deportation.
#law #DHS #idiocracy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-threat-letter-charges-ramon-morales-reyes-f90472f31a2209741ebf3866d2f6cef2
Instead of monitoring the events in #losangeles and #chicago, #Trump went to the UFC event.
His core cult of white male Incels gave him a standing ovation.
Tomorrow,he'll be playing golf and kibitzing at Camp David. And probably showing up at LIV Golf in Virginia. So he can get on TV.
And he'll show up in LA next week to diss Democrats and minorities for the rebellion.
Quick photo-op so he can hog up the TV spotlight.
About 150 Chicago schools sit half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity.
The city “doesn’t seem to be having an honest conversation about the challenges it’s facing,” one school finance expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-enrollment-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
BTW there is another low-key protest happening in #Chicago today. if you’re #catholic, you can call it the #NoKings but the King of kings protest, featuring #PopeSouthSide
“Pope Leo to deliver 1st address to US audience in video message in Chicago”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/pope-leo-deliver-1st-address-us-audience-video/story?id=122794475
no, i don’t think it’s a coincidence #PopeLeo chose today for his address. this is counterprogramming. Prevost is notoriously anti #MAGA ; ie: he supports L.A.’s cardinal call for clergy to protect migrants from #ICE
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Housing #Environment #Pollution #Discrimination #Racism
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