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As of about 7:30 a.m. several, including Democratic contender for the 9th District Bushra Amiwala, were tying hand-written notes of support to the fence.

Amiwala, a member of the Skokie Board of Education, was adding notes when an agent on the roof began firing pepper balls in their direction just before 8 a.m. 

“This absolutely was beyond unprovoked,” Amiwala told the Sun-Times on a phone call as she was leaving the scene. 

Amiwala stressed that the notes of support tied to the fence are a way to show detainees they’re being supported.

“Those notes on the wall sends a signal that they are not alone, and resorting to trivial modes of violence in this way is a huge sign of cowardice and weakness that these ICE agents harbor, and the power trip that these people are on right now.”

Amiwala noted the importance of becoming educated on immigrants’ rights, including the right to remain silent and the right to refuse to sign documentation.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.

In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:

• A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.

• Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.

• A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.

There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.

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An ICE agent violently threw an asylum seeker to the ground in front of her kids at a NYC immigration court. ​"Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too," she said. "I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me."

The US Department of Justice is harassing election officials and using voters as pawns in a relentless effort to spread misinformation about voter fraud. Are we willing to let our personal data be used as a political game by an authoritarian government?

What do clashes like this tell us about the balance between public safety, local autonomy, and executive power in the U.S.?

"In August of 2025, President Trump invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, declaring a ‘public safety emergency’ in Washington, D.C after citing rampant crime. Under this order, he could place the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal control for 30 days. Between August 11 and September 10, over 2,000 National Guard troops were deployed alongside local forces to patrol the streets. During this time, over 40% of the arrests made in D.C. were immigration-related."

Outside a botanical garden gift shop on the northern shore of the most remote place on earth, rests a reproduction of an ancient board game, chiseled into a block of black stone, its 88 rocks and coral bits resting in 88 divots as if waiting for you to play. A plaque with a cursory description of the game offers a declaration that is equal parts humblebrag and dungeon-master riddle:

“It was said that King Kamehameha the Great was an excellent player who was able to beat his opponent in one move.”

This lore drop about the legendary warrior-chief is a withering tease for Kōnane, a once-ubiquitous pastime that was carved into stone slabs across the islands, some of which still protrude from the ground. You can see them if you look closely among the rocks, the shallow fingerprint-sized holes that make up the game board catching the evanescent breeze along the shore.

This is no easy monument. The American conquerors of Hawaii wanted this game banned.

The disappearance of Kōnane was the penalty for the 1893 U.S. government-backed coup to topple Hawaii’s monarch, Queen Liliʻuokalani. The islands’ new self-proclaimed landlords didn’t just seize land and crops, but further sentenced defining Hawaiian customs to purgatory: dance, music, language. In the crusade to strip the islands to the bones of their humanity, the cultural blacklist included Kōnane.

Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”

The review found evidence that Israel was using Microsoft’s cloud storage services to hold surveillance data on Palestinians, according to a company blog post. The data included records of millions of phone calls made daily between Palestinians, confirming reporting this year from The Guardian and the Israeli news site +972.

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The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration’s plans.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) drew a clear line in the sand Wednesday on what a deal to stop a government shutdown must look like, telling reporters he will not accept any type of unwritten agreement.

Why it matters: It's the latest stumbling block in the tense and largely fruitless cross-party posturing over the need to extend federal funding past September.

• Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had initially secured a meeting with President Trump earlier this week, but it was cancelled at the urging of Republican congressional leaders.
• Funding is set to run out at midnight on Sept. 30, at which point most federal agencies will shut down without a spending agreement from Congress.

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