Acquittals, dismissals, and grand juries that won't indict: In the Chicago area and elsewhere in the country, federal prosecutions have repeatedly fallen apart against those opposed to the Trump admin's mass deportation campaigns.
My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social:
When you watched WWII movies, did you identify with the SS officers?
If not, you are NOT like Greg Bovino, shown here in the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago.
Chicago's musical response - the Blues of course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4v...
The Justice Department has aggressively prosecuted those who protest its mass deportation campaigns, but many of those prosecutions have fallen apart.
chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...
There will be more of these cases. A Chicago fire fighter told me "These 'agents' just want to make their daily quotas and head to a bar or dispensary." I believe he has sat at the bar with several in the past few weeks.
Feels like 1940 here.
I exist because of this fact. My father took many German surrenders in 1944-45.
Thanks David French.
"because of our humanity and decency, Germans surrendered when they would have fought. The contrast with the brutality of the Soviets saved American lives."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Guillermo Diaz-Torres told police he couldn't account for the 90-minute period after his shift ended at the controversial ICE processing facility in Broadview and when the crash occurred, per the repo...
