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DOJ demands Illinois hand over complete voter database, including sensitive redacted information
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/illinois/doj-demands-illinois-hand-over-complete-voter-database-including-sensitive-redacted-information/

Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois (WLS/ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7th-circuit-court-appeals-judges-deny-trump-administration-appeal-national-guard-ruling-illinois/18020390/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p162#a251016p162

The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here: https://

Chicago is in Cook County and now courts are safer.
"Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court."
"...bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and entryways."

Cook County judge's order bars ICE from arresting people at court in Chicago area
Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court. The county includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months. Detaining residents outside courthouses has been a common tactic for federal agents, who have been stationed outside county courthouses for weeks, making arrests and drawing crowds of protesters. The order, which takes effect Wednesday, bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while goin…

LensPlus: A High Space-bandwidth Optical Imaging Technique
Neha Goswami (Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA), Mark A. Anastasio (Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12454

LensPlus: A High Space-bandwidth Optical Imaging Technique
The space-bandwidth product (SBP) imposes a fundamental limitation in achieving high-resolution and large field-of-view image acquisitions simultaneously. High-NA objectives provide fine structural detail at the cost of reduced spatial coverage and slower scanning as compared to a low-NA objective, while low-NA objectives offer wide fields of view but compromised resolution. Here, we introduce LensPlus, a deep learning-based framework that enhances the SBP of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) wi…

Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0434221/illinois-bans-ai-therapy-joins-two-other-states-in-regulating-chatbots

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

Appeals Court Maintains Block on Trump’s Troop Deployment to Illinois - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/appeals-trump-national-guard-troops-illinois.html

Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/illinois-judge-trump-chicago-protesters
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p63#a251016p63

"Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
The agrivoltaics practice of raising sheep under solar panels is a win-win for Illinois farmers — but first the market for lamb meat needs to grow.

Officials including
US Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.),
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
—all Democrats—have condemned the deployment.
”No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate,” Pritzker said in a statement ahead of the deployment.
“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois Nat…

'Illegal... Unconstitutional... Dangerous... Wrong': Texas National Guard Troops Invade Illinois | Common Dreams
"Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting," vowed Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association says he has resigned after his board told him to pull out of a lawsuit supporting Chicago-area journalists (Mary Randolph/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

For the "your phone isn't listening to you [eyeroll]" crowd
Buddy of mine stopped by just now to drop off some footage, and showed me videos of an event he attended at the Rialto Theatre in Joliet where they inducted Disturbed into the Illinois rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. Richard Marx performed, and his wife, Daisy Fuentes, was a presenter.
I opened up threads and I see this:

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning AI use for providing mental health services, while allowing its use in admin roles (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/illinois-bans-ai-mental-health-services/

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.

Democrats Lay Out 'Damning' Examples of ICE's Tactics in Chicago (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/democrats/judiciary-democrats-ice-chicago-illinois-tactics-immigration-police-brutality
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p151#a251016p151

Crazy things are happening in the US, the country is sliding towards autocracy/fascism.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/04/trump-national-guard-illinois-00594266

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

The national guard troops Donald Trump sent to Illinois can remain in the state and under federal control
but can’t be deployed, an appeals court ruled on Saturday.
The appeals court granted a pause in the case until it can hear further arguments.
The decision to prevent the troops from protecting federal property or going on patrol comes after federal judge April Perry ruled on Thursday to temporarily block the national guard deployment for at least two weeks,
findin…

2025 NFL, CFB Odds: Best Bets for Giants-Commanders, Illinois-Duke https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-college-football-odds-best-bets-giants-commanders-illinois-duke

(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://

FOIA docs: Illinois news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving a combined $4M in 2025 state tax credits under a new law for employing local journalists (John Volk/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.e…

Illinois Newsrooms Receive $4 Million from State
Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law designed to encourage the retention and hiring of journalists, according to documents released this week.

Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy
https://jessica.substack.com/p/illinois-woman-denied-treatment-for

Illinois judge denies Paxton's request to help arrest Texas Democrats (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5451206-illinois-judge-ken-paxton-texas-democrats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p94#a250813p94

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
In a statement over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said 400 Texas troops were ordered to deploy to Illinois and other states,
calling the move an “invasion.”

The Trump administration…

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
The arrival of Texas National Guard troops came ahead of a Thursday hearing in Illinois’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from deploying into the state.

Illinois Restores Protections For Press Targeted With Frivolous Lawsuits https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/

Illinois lawmakers demand answers in Ice killing: ‘A traffic violation should never amount to a death sentence’ | Chicago | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/illinois-traffic-stop-ice-killing

Illinois Judge Rules Against Arresting Quorum-Breaking Texas Lawmakers (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/illinois-judge-rules-against-arresting-quorum-breaking-texas-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p93#a250813p93

Scouting Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza: What did 2026 NFL Draft prospect show vs. Illinois? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652054/2025/09/23/nfl-draft-2026-fernando-mendoza-film-illinois/

VoltanaLLM: Feedback-Driven Frequency Control and State-Space Routing for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving
Jiahuan Yu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Aryan Taneja (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Junfeng Lin (Tsinghua University), Minjia Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04827

VoltanaLLM: Feedback-Driven Frequency Control and State-Space Routing for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving
Modern Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems increasingly support interactive applications, like real-time chat assistants, code generation tools, and agentic workflows. However, the soaring energy cost of LLM inference presents a growing challenge for sustainable and cost-effective deployment. This paper introduces VoltanaLLM, a system for SLO-aware, energy-efficient LLM serving, built from a control theory perspective. VoltanaLLM co-designs frequency scaling and request routing in emergi…

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 **Illinois Judge Rules Against Arresting Quorum-Breaking Texas Lawmakers** - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/illinois-judge-rules-against-arresting-quorum-breaking-texas-lawmakers/

Illinois lawmakers demand answers in Ice killing: 'A traffic violation should never amount to a death sentence' (Siri Chilukuri/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/illinois-traffic-stop-ice-killing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p63#a250913p63

I wonder, could Pritzker or Newsom counter this federalization of the state national guards by dissolving their state guards?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/04/trump-national-guard-illinois-00594266

Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts.
Roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting
Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts. The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Former Attorney General Eric Holder joins MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the move.

Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape (Devi Shastri/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-therapy-ban-illinois-therabo…

States struggle with AI therapy app rules amid mental health needs
As mental health chatbots driven by artificial intelligence proliferate, a small number of states are trying to regulate them. Laws in Illinois, Nevada and Utah are among the first in the nation to put limits on or ban therapy chatbots. But app creators, policymakers and mental health advocates say it is just a start and federal regulation would be ideal. App makers worry the patchwork of laws could stifle innovation needed due to a nationwide shortage of human therapists. They also note that m…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

County judge in Chicago area bars ICE from arresting people at court (Christine Fernando/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-ice-immigration-court-arresting-a1d9641502d6a97db077c973ec93a6e7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p140#a251015p140

On the Cryptographic Futility of Non-Collapsing Measurements
Alper Cakan (Carnegie Mellon University), Dakshita Khurana (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NTT Research), Tomoyuki Morimae (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University), Yuki Shirakawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University), Kabir Tomer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Takashi Yamakawa (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories)

On the Cryptographic Futility of Non-Collapsing Measurements
We investigate quantum analogues of collision resistance and obtain separations between quantum ``one-way'' and ``collision-resistant'' primitives. 1. Our first result studies one-wayness versus collision-resistance defined over quantum circuits that output classical strings. We show that there is a classical oracle $\mathcal{O}$ relative to which (sub-exponentially secure) indistinguishability obfuscation and one-way permutations exist even against adversaries that make quantum queries to a …

Outside of inaugurations or other specific special events, I don’t think guard has ever been deputized before.
“Republican Gov. [of TN] Bill Lee, who supports the effort, has said the [National Guard] troops will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to ‘play a critical support role’ for local law enforcement, though that role hasn’t been precisely defined yet.”

Trump on Wednesday said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.
The officials said they would not be deterred.
The Republican president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up
— a break from longtime norms as the Justice Depar…

Trump says Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed
President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city. The Republican president made the comment in a social media post Wednesday. It's the latest example of his calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker “should be in jail for fa…

Event Horizon Telescope Pattern Speeds in the Visibility Domain
Nicholas S. Conroy, Michi Baub\"ock, Vedant Dhruv, Daeyoung Lee, Chi-kwan Chan, Abhishek V. Joshi, Ben Prather, Charles F. Gammie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08848

Event Horizon Telescope Pattern Speeds in the Visibility Domain
The Event Horizon Telescope is preparing to produce time sequences of black hole images, or movies. In anticipation, we developed an autocorrelation technique to measure apparent rotational motion using the image-domain pattern speed $Ω_p$. Here, we extend this technique to the visibility domain and introduce the visibility amplitude pattern speed $Ω_{\mathrm{VA}}$. We show that in the Illinois v3 library of EHT source models, $Ω_{\mathrm{VA}}$ depends on the source inclination, black hole m…

Illinois lawmakers vote to limit carbon sequestration near major aquifer, prioritizing protection of drinking water source. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Illinois Lawmakers Vote to Limit Carbon Sequestration Near a Major Aquifer - Inside Climate News
A bill passed by the Illinois legislature could slow the growth of carbon sequestration proposals—and proposals, in particular, for projects located near an aquifer that is the sole source of drinking water in some communities.   If Gov. JB Pritzker signs the law, hundreds of thousands of residents in central Illinois who rely on the Mahomet […]

So mobilizing Texas National Guard for use in Chicago and Portland, while there is no reason according to judges, against the will of those states, is an invasion i think?#Texas #Illinois #Oregon

Eight local newspapers in Wyoming will keep publishing after three newspaper executives reached a deal to buy them from Illinois-based News Media Corporation (Rebecca Huntington/WyoFile)
https://wyofile.com/longtime-wyoming-newspaper-execut…

Longtime Wyoming newspaper executives to buy, reopen eight shuttered newspapers
Overjoyed newsroom staff in communities across Wyoming are back on the job with pay after corporate closure laid off 30 employees.

ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Chicago -- because she didn’t “look” American to them.
Maria Greeley, 44, was on her way home from a double shift at her job earlier this month when she was
surrounded, seized, and zip-tied
by three ICE masked agents without cause or warning
and interrogated for an hour.
ICE concluded she was an undocumented immigrant
because she didn’t “look like a Greeley".
Greeley, who was born in Illinois,
is …

ICE Detains U.S. Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look” American
She even had her U.S. passport on her.

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois (Mark Berman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-national-guard-illinois/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p54#a251011p54

Outside my doctor's office in Lincoln Square
#chicago #fascism #ICE @…

If Texas guardsman enter Illinois without IL authorization, & so are not legally a military force to the state of Illinois, & if they emerge from Great Lakes base carrying a gun that’s properly of the TX NG’s arsenal, do they both break law by not being licensed in IL to carry a firearm arm _&_ is the firearm itself contraband to & in state of IL, so could guardsman be charged, as any civilian would be, both w/some sort of illegal possession of a firearm arm _&_ possessio…

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/10/07/national-guard-deployment-illinois-pritzker-trump-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p128#a251007p128

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t pulling punches.
He called Donald Trump a “cheater”
and blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a “joke”
for their bizarre attempts to redistrict Texas in a way that would unfairly give Republicans more seats in Congress
as the GOP tries to stave off a blue wave in the 2026 midterm elections.

Pritzker: Trump Is ‘Cheating Americans Out of Their Votes’ With Gerrymandering Plans
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said attempts to gerrymander Texas by redrawing districts before the next Census will deny Americans their rights.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Trump over GOP redistricting efforts (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-blasts-texas-gov-greg-abbott-trump-gop-redist-rcna224081
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p67#a250810p67

'Illegal... Unconstitutional... Dangerous... Wrong': Texas National Guard Troops Invade Illinois | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas-national-guard-illinois

Sean Payton reflects on 'friend, confidant' Mike Shanahan after passing Broncos legend on all-time wins list

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sea…

A federal judge in Illinois temporarily blocks federal officers from using riot control weapons or other force against members of the press and others (Alex Woodward/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a

No rubber bullets, no body slamming and no attacking journalists: Judge lays down rules for Trump’s federal agents in Chicago
Judges across US consider lawsuits to block National Guard from supporting Homeland Security in Dem-led states and cities

Illinois sues the Trump administration over National Guard deployment to Chicago
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/illinois-sues-trump-administration-national-guard-deployment-chicago-rcna235900

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

Man, I'm a sucker for history but this was *fascinating*.
It's shocking how far things fall in America from their apogee. This is close to Gary, Indiana which at one point was the world's biggest manufacturing hub, and now has literal trees growing out of the gorgeous old buildings.
Next time I'm passing that way I'm gonna see if I can find this.

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-calls-for-jailing-of-chicago-mayor-and-illinois-governor-03d2f173
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p40#a251008p40

Judge refuses to block Trump’s deployment of national guard to Illinois | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/trump-administration-illinois-national-guard

Wyoming newspaper owners and staffers are scrambling to save local papers, after Illinois-based News Media Corporation announced their immediate closure (WyoFile)
https://wyofile.com/wyoming-newspaper-owners-staffers-race-to-rescue-community-news/

Wyoming newspaper owners, staffers race to rescue community news
A deal is in the works to keep news online and in print in Wheatland, Torrington and Lusk as communities chip in to support newsroom staff fired without notice. (Lisa Phelps)

I am wondering when the moment will arrive that state police forces in states like Illinois will clash with ICE or is that unthinkable? Shouldn't the police protect the people against masked men doing illegal actions?
#trump #ice

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march' (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-national-guard-headed-illinois-gov-pritzker-calls/story?id=126283676
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p127#a251007p127

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

ICE raids in Chicago could start as early as Friday, but are expected to begin Saturday, Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker warned. 
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon for access to Naval Station Great Lakes
- the largest military base in Illinois
- to base an operation, The Washington Post reported. 
The request said that around 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles would utilize the base. 
National Guard troops could also be sent in t…

Trump readies SIEGE of Chicago as feds prepare for massive immigration raid in showdown with crime-plagued city
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is gearing up for a massive immigration raid of Chicago - the city President Donald Trump said he'd selected for the next federal military takeover.

Pritzker: Trump To Federalize Illinois National Guard - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/pritzker-trump-to-federalize-illinois-national-guard/

Illinois governor defends Texas Democrats' actions
https://thehill.com/homenews/5434627-redistricting-battle-texas-illinois/

The leader of a major press association resigned after his board opposed a lawsuit defending journalists' rights (Mary Randolph/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/illinois-press-association-don-craven-resigns-lawsuit-journalist-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p110#a251009p110

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters.
The Thursday ruling comes as ICE and the National Guard tear through the streets of Chicago,
shooting at and arresting journalists, protesters, and immigrants alike.
Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee overseeing this case,
has suspended federal agents from
“using riot control weapons,”
…

Judge Orders ICE to Stop Injuring Journalists Reporting on Them
A federal judge has ordered all of Trump’s agents to stop using violence against journalists and protesters.

Trump just called for the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to be thrown in prison.
And when Mike Johnson was asked about Trump’s call for their jailing, the speaker evaded and dodged.
It’s becoming jarringly clear that there’s very little in the way of defenses standing in the way of Trump’s escalating authoritarianism.
And yet, at the same time, there is resistance developinginside places like DOJ.
And that matters, even if it doesn’t seem like it at…

Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks
As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistance.

Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard, Pritzker says (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/04/trump-national-guard-illinois-00594266
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p46#a251004p46

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Facing lawsuit, Illinois county removes Ten Commandments monument from courthouse
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/facing-lawsuit-illinois-county-removes

Trump Authorizes Sending National Guard to Illinois (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-authorizes-sending-national-guard-to-illinois-fb9f06e4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p75#a251004p75

The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades (John McCormick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pritzker-illinois-governor-relationship-9db5ab09
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p160#a251008p160

Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-calls-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-be-jailed-2025-10-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p45#a251008p45

Pritzker on GOP’s FBI arrest threats: ‘Texas law does not apply’ in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5445467-pritzker-criticizes-trump-redistricting/

This week, Illinois Governor
JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago.
Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant, active threat to his Illinois constituents
—he called them “my people”
—and vowed to use every ounce of his power to protect them from harm by the President of the United States.
The move’s resonance showed that governors who creatively resist Trump’s malevolent despotism
will be se…

Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-democrats-head-illinois-deny-republicans-quorum-redistricting-rcna222743
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p63#a250803p63

Illinois to Bondi: Sanctuary status stands firm - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387

Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he won't seek reelection after 15 terms in Congress (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-congress-danny-davis-retirement-ffa46610771abb6e29273e8f07e8300b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p69#a250731p69

On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker gave an extraordinary press conference.
Together with the mayor of Chicago and the president of the Cook County board of commissioners,
the governor announced that Donald Trump is hatching plans for what can only be described as the prospective invasion of his sovereign state.
And not just by federal troops, but by units of the Texas National Guard.
The governor’s move was triggered by Trump’s declaration hours earlier that he …

Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying (Caroline Linton/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-democrats-bomb-threat-evacuated-illinois-hotel-quorum-break/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p63#a250806p63

Buried within 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2),
an otherwise mundane statute about the normal functioning of the National Guard system is a broad catch-all:
“Support of operations or missions undertaken by the member’s unit at the request of the President or Secretary of Defense.”
Not order, or command, or after going through the process of federalizing them.
But merely at the “request” for participation of state troops who remain under state, not federal, command.

Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union
If it goes forward, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis

Trump plans to deploy National Guard in Illinois, governor says (Thomas Peipert/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-trump-national-guard-acbf033191926157c5771825470eb2f8
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p57#a251004p57

Beto O'Rourke's political group is a top funder for Texas Democrats' exodus to block GOP congressional map (Owen Dahlkamp/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/05/texas-democrats-quorum-break-beto-orourke-illinois-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p9#a250806p9

• Governor JB Pritzker # @GovPritzker
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States.
No officials from the federal government called me directly ...
Governor Gavin Newsom &
@CAgovernor
👉 This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.
America is on the brink of martial law.
🔸Do not be silent.…

Illinois judge blocks federal authorities from using force against Chicago journalists (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/chicago-journalists-ice-lawsuit-00600209
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p139#a251009p139

Judge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday,
then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,”
telling Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct contravention” of her order.
The blizzard of moves by the Trump administration,
from Texas to California, Illinois to Oregon,

Judge Blocks National Guard Deployment in Oregon as Trump Expands His Targets
A federal judge in Oregon accused the administration of circumventing her order, even as the president turned to Texas for troops aimed at Chicago and other cities.

Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritkzer's speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago - CBS Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-governor-jb-pritkzer-speech-news-conference-full-text-trump/

Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/09/trump-portland-chicago-national-guard-appeal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p134#a251009p134

Increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensionsin the nation’s third-largest city.
“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN.
“They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”
U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained
in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounter…

Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city. That includes storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept and deploying chemical agents near a public school. About 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and c…

176. Illinois v. Texas (Steve Vladeck/One First)
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/176-illinois-v-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p126#a250902p126

Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5434627-redistricting-battle-texas-illinois/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p2#a250804p2

Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago over 'sanctuary city' policies (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/25/judge-dismisses-doj-illinois-chicago-immigration-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p109#a250725p109

Transcript: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 31, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-democrat-face-the-nation-transcript-08-31-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p60#a250831p60

ICE Launches Operation Midway Blitz in Honor of Katie Abraham to Target Criminal Illegal Aliens Terrorizing Americans in Sanctuary Illinois (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/08/ice-launches-operation-midway-blitz-honor-katie-abraham-target-criminal-illegal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p87#a250908p87

Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Durbin Debate (Valentina di Donato/The Daily Register)
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cardinal-cupich-s-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p171#a250930p171

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says Trump is set to federalize the state's National Guard (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/chicago-national-guard-trump-deployment-portland-rcna235625
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p63#a251004p63

Judge throws out Trump's lawsuit against Illinois over sanctuary policies (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/illinois-sanctuary-immigration-ruling-00477916
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p110#a250725p110