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Pentagon Seeks To Explain A Little-Known, Forgotten ‘Forever War’
Pentagon Seeks To Explain A Little-Known, Forgotten ‘Forever War’
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
The US Department of War insisted on Tuesday that it’s not waging a “forever war” in Somalia despite the fact that the Trump administration has shattered the record for annual airstrikes in the country.
Liam Cosgrove, a reporter for ZeroHedge, noted during a Pentagon press briefing on Tuesday that the US has launched 101 airstrikes (now 102) in Somalia and that US troops reportedly conducted a recent ground raid, and asked why the US military is still in the country.
“I can assure you this is an America First Department of War and president, so we aren’t conducting forever wars in Somalia, we aren’t seeking regime change, and we’re not nation building,” Pentagon spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson said in reply.
The Trump administration has dramatically escalated the US war in Somalia, launching more than 10 times the number of airstrikes that the US conducted in 2024, and more than the combined total of airstrikes launched during the 12 years that Presidents Obama and Biden were in office. Despite the unprecedented scale of US strikes, Kingsley described the campaign as “narrowly scoped.”
She told Cosgrove, “I will say that this Department’s narrowly scoped, intelligence-driven, counterintelligence operations in places like Somalia, alongside our partners, allow us to protect the American homeland from terrorist threats and to protect our interests.”
US airstrikes this year have targeted a small ISIS affiliate based in caves in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region and al-Shabaab in southern and central Somalia.
The US has been fighting al-Shabaab since it backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2006, which ousted the Islamic Courts Union, a coalition of Muslim groups that briefly held power in Mogadishu after taking the capital from CIA-backed warlords.
Pentagon asked why the US military is still in Somalia
‘I can assure you this is an America First Department of War and president, so we aren’t conducting forever wars in Somalia, we’re not seeking regime change or nation building’ pic.twitter.com/yrnXb7riSe
— Avinash K S🇮🇳 (@AvinashKS14) December 2, 2025
Al-Shabaab was the radical offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union and claimed its first attack in 2007, which targeted Ethiopian troops occupying Mogadishu.
In 2012, al-Shabaab declared loyalty to al-Qaeda, after years of fighting the US and its proxies. The ISIS affiliate in Somalia first emerged in 2015 as an offshoot of al-Shabaab, and is believed to have only a few hundred members.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 21:45
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-defends-little-known-forgotten-forever-war
Arrestan a un hombre que arrojó bombas molotov contra edificio del ICE en Los Ángeles
LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — Un hombre de 54 años ha sido arrestado bajo sospecha de lanzar bombas molotov contra el Edificio Federal de Los Ángeles, informaron las autoridades el martes. Ninguna persona resultó herida.
Guardias de seguridad escucharon a un hombre que gritaba insultos sobre el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE por sus iniciales en inglés) fuera del edificio el lunes, según un comunicado del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (DHS por sus iniciales en inglés).
Luego lanzó dos bombas incendiarias contra los guardias, aseguró la agencia.
“Afortunadamente, las botellas no estaban encendidas y no se incendiaron, y no hubo heridos ni daños a la propiedad federal”, según el comunicado del DHS.
Agentes del FBI arrestaron a José F. Jovel, un residente de Los Ángeles, afirmó la portavoz Laura Eimiller.
Los fiscales federales presentaron una denuncia penal el martes acusándolo de múltiples cargos de intento de daño doloso a propiedad federal y posesión de un dispositivo destructivo no registrado.
Según una declaración jurada presentada junto a la denuncia, horas antes Jovel le prendió fuego a su apartamento ubicado en el vecindario de Koreatown, en Los Ángeles, después de recibir un aviso de desalojo. Llegó al edificio federal el lunes por la mañana con varias bolsas de compras, de acuerdo con la declaración jurada.
Jovel metió la mano en una de las bolsas y arrojó una bomba molotov a través de una puerta corrediza abierta que estaba marcada como entrada para empleados. Luego lanzó otro dispositivo incendiario a través de la puerta de entrada al edificio, donde una fila de personas esperaba para pasar por los filtros de seguridad.
De momento se desconoce si Jovel cuenta con un abogado. La Oficina de Defensores Públicos Federales no respondió por ahora a una llamada telefónica para consultar si uno de sus abogados lo representa.
Jovel, quien llevaba consigo cuatro cuchillos al momento de su arresto, tiene un “extenso historial criminal”, incluido un cargo de intento de asesinato en 1987, según el comunicado del DHS.
Agentes registraron las bolsas que llevaba Jovel y encontraron un soplete y otras cinco bombas molotov, según la declaración jurada de la denuncia.
Jovel describió sus acciones como “un ataque terrorista” y le dijo a los agentes: “Están separando familias”, afirmó la oficina del fiscal federal.
La fiscalía señaló que se cree que el ataque fue por rechazo a las leyes de inmigración.
De ser declarado culpable, podría enfrentar hasta 20 años en una prisión federal. Se tiene previsto que comparezca el miércoles ante un tribunal federal en Los Ángeles.
La alcaldesa de Los Ángeles, Karen Bass, se expresó alarmada por el incidente.
“Este tipo de comportamiento es absolutamente inconcebible. Gracias a nuestros agentes del LAPD y a nuestros socios de las fuerzas del orden por su intervención y respuesta. Estoy agradecida de que nadie resultó herido”, dijo Bass en un comunicado el martes, refiriéndose por sus iniciales al Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Micah Parsons hace historia en su 1ra temporada con Packers mientras aumentan sus capturas
Por STEVE MEGARGEE
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, EE.UU. (AP) — Micah Parsons ha presionado a los mariscales de campo a un ritmo que rivaliza con el de los mejores de la NFL durante su primera temporada con los Packers.
Ahora sus totales de capturas están comenzando a reflejar eso.
Parsons llega al enfrentamiento del domingo en Green Bay contra los Bears de Chicago (9-3), líderes de la División Norte de la Conferencia Nacional, con seis capturas durante la racha de tres victorias consecutivas de los Packers, lo que eleva su total de la temporada a 12½.
Es el primer jugador con al menos 12 capturas en cada una de sus primeras cinco temporadas desde al menos 1982, cuando la NFL comenzó a llevar esa estadística. Parsons sigue enfocado en alcanzar su próximo hito.
“¿Cómo puedo llegar a seis?” dijo Parsons. “Ésa es la mentalidad. Una vez que haces seis, ¿cómo llegas a siete? ¿Cómo seguimos mejorando? ¿Cómo continúo mejorando? Hay que entender cómo los equipos van a salir y atacarme y cómo digo, ‘No importa’.”
Ese enfoque ha llevado a Parsons a hacer todo lo que imaginaban los Packers (8-3-1) cuando lo consiguieron mediante un canje con Dallas por dos selecciones de primera ronda y el liniero defensivo tres veces Pro Bowl Kenny Clark. Los Packers le dieron a Parsons un contrato de cuatro años por 188 millones, con 136 millones garantizados, convirtiéndolo en el jugador mejor pagado en la historia de la liga, con excepción de los quarterbacks.
Parsons ha respondido molestando a los mariscales de campo sin importar cómo los oponentes intenten contenerlo. Lidera la liga con 70 presiones al mariscal de campo, según NFL Next Gen Stats.
“Es un jugador de fútbol americano especial, muy especial”, dijo el entrenador de los Packers, Matt LaFleur. “No he visto a muchos chicos como él.”
Aunque Parsons ha estado importunando a los mariscales de campo de manera consistente toda la temporada, ello no era necesariamente evidente por sus totales de capturas al principio.
Parsons sumó dos ½ capturas en sus primeros cinco duelos. Tuvo un récord personal de tres capturas en una victoria por 27-23 en Arizona el 19 de octubre. Luego consiguió sólo una en los siguientes tres duelos de Green Bay.
Las capturas han llegado en racimos últimamente. Aportó 1½ contra los Giants de Nueva York, dos contra Minnesota y 2½ en Detroit.
Parsons ocupa el tercer lugar en la liga en capturas, detrás de Myles Garrett de Cleveland (19) y Brian Burns de los Giants (13). Ya tiene el total de capturas en una sola temporada más alto para cualquier jugador de los Packers desde que Za’Darius Smith también tuvo 12½ en 2020. Tim Harris tiene el récord de los Packers en una sola temporada con 19½ capturas en 1989.
Medirse contra los mejores jugadores impulsa a Parsons, quien odia perder.
“Solía luchar y siempre terminaba llorando cuando perdía estos combates de lucha”, dijo Parsons. “Mi papá decía: ‘Está bien. Vas a tener otro combate.’ Y yo decía: ‘No, no está bien, papá. No entiendes.’ Trabajamos muy duro. Tenemos metas y sueños. Si voy a este torneo de lucha, quiero ser el número uno. No quiero ser el tercer lugar en el podio. Quiero sonreír y mirar hacia abajo al resto.”
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“Power Up America” Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers
“Power Up America” Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers
We’ve already pointed out that money isn’t the problem in America’s unprecedented data center construction buildout. Big Tech’s AI capex splurge is effectively endless thanks to “circle-jerk” vendor-financing schemes, and land is plentiful.
The real bottleneck? First, it was power – or rather, the lack of it – as the grid struggles to hook up hyperscalers sprinting toward ever larger and more power-hungry AI server racks.
True.
That is why Bitcoin is based on energy: you can issue fake fiat currency, and every government in history has done so, but it is impossible to fake energy.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2025
Beyond a power grid already stretched thin due to limited capacity, the Trump administration is now scrambling to fix this with an accelerated nuclear push before the 2030s. We’ve identified another problem that central bankers can’t print their way out of: skilled labor. And no, we’re not talking about the need for cheap, unskilled migrant labor. We’re talking about a highly skilled workforce required to build, run, and maintain data centers, as well as expand the power grid and operate nuclear power plants.
Wow:
“In 2025-28, we project ~57 gigawatts (GW) of US data center power demand, and we quantify available power capacity to serve this demand as: near-term grid access of ~12-15 GW, plus ~6 GW of data centers under construction, resulting in a ~36 GW shortfall of US power… pic.twitter.com/4PArdYY9qO
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 16, 2024
In early October, Goldman noted that data center buildouts will require an additional 300,000 workers across manufacturing, construction, and operations to meet power demand by the end of the decade.
And then there is the issue of where the US gets 300,000 engineers to build all this missing power supply by 2030 https://t.co/a18crhqZ4v pic.twitter.com/tinW8SHDwM
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 14, 2025
Now, Goldman analysts led by Carly Davenport are telling clients that the power industry will need over 500,000 new workers by 2030 to meet the surging electricity demand from data centers and the broader economy-wide electrification push.
Davenport explained:
“The US power industry is poised to require >500,000 new workers by 2030 or a significant acceleration in labor productivity. This growth enters a labor force already facing strain from aging and a limited pipeline of skilled labor. Labor-demand challenges to meet levels of US power-demand growth not seen since the 1990s are rising amid the Demographic Dilemma — a shrinking productive labor pool tasked to support an aging population — which raises the risk of G7 labor-force strains. This is elevating investor/corporate debates on industry execution and whether/when rising power, equipment, and labor costs could constrain growth.”
Generational growth to achieve 2.6% CAGR in electricity demand through 2030 could require ~510,000 US power and grid jobs (a 28% increase versus the 2023 US energy workforce).
“We estimate the need for ~300,000 incremental jobs across manufacturing, construction, and operations/maintenance (Exhibit 10)…
…plus an additional 207,000 across US transmission and distribution (Exhibit 11).“
What’s critical to understand is that the trillions in investment flooding into the economy through the 2030s will require far more than steel, concrete, silicon chips, and copper wire. They will demand a massive expansion of highly skilled workers.
Right now, there is a terrible oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs – a widening gap highlighted in a recent Goldman note by analyst Evan Tylenda.
Our advice for young people struggling to find a real job: ditch the useless gender-studies degree and learn a trade that’s becoming increasingly valuable to “Powering America.” For college students who haven’t been brainwashed by Marxism and wokism, aim for fields that will actually matter, such as engineering, energy systems, and nuclear science – all of which will be in red-hot demand in the 2030s.
The labor market is shifting fast. It’s time to move with it and choose a career that won’t be automated into oblivion anytime soon.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 21:20
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/power-america-needs-500000-highly-skilled-workers
Big catches. Big plays. Just another day at state office for Providence’s Xavier Coleman. ‘Kudos to my team.’
NORMAL — As a freshman in 2022, Xavier Coleman was called up to Providence’s varsity roster for the postseason and stood on the sidelines for the Class 4A state championship game.
Since then, Coleman has been determined to bring the Celtics back to state. The senior receiver did that this fall as one of the leaders of a young team.
“It meant everything just to be here with these guys,” Coleman said. “After being here my freshman year, it felt like, ‘OK, let’s go get the job done.’”
Coleman did his best to push Providence over the top Tuesday night.
He hauled in four catches for 107 yards and a touchdown, but the Celtics came up just short in the final seconds, losing 39-35 to Wheaton St. Francis in the Class 5A championship game at Illinois State’s Hancock Stadium.
Broden Mackert ran for 126 yards and a TD on 17 carries for Providence (10-4). Dominic Vita ran for two TDs and threw for another, while Lamar Winfield piled up 3 1/2 tackles for loss and a sack.
Providence’s Xavier Coleman (2) avoids a tackle on the sideline against Wheaton St. Francis in the Class 5A state championship game at Hancock Stadium in Normal on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
A fifth TD run of the game by senior quarterback Brock Phillip, a 1-yarder on fourth down with 11 seconds left, lifted the Spartans (11-3) to the second state title in program history.
Providence also lost 44-20 to Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin in 2022.
“It’s how the game goes,” Coleman said. “Even if it’s a loss, I’m glad to do it with this group of guys.”
The decisive score for Wheaton St. Francis came two plays after a controversial second down as Phillip, under pressure, appeared to toss the ball underhanded into the end zone, stopping the clock on an incomplete pass with the Spartans out of timeouts.
Providence’s Xavier Coleman (2) looks for a hole in the defense against Wheaton St. Francis during the Class 5A state championship game at Hancock Stadium in Normal on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
The referees threw a flag, apparently for intentional grounding, then picked it up.
Providence coach Tyler Plantz thought the call should have gone a different way.
“I didn’t have a great angle of it, but from everything I saw, it looked like he fumbled the ball into the end zone which would have made it a touchback,” Plantz said. “Otherwise, they had no timeouts and he was inside the pocket. So, one of the two.
“Either intentional grounding or a touchback is what I thought.”
Providence’s Dominic Vita (8) throws a TD pass against Wheaton St. Francis during the Class 5A state championship game at Hancock Stadium in Normal on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Before that finish, Coleman made several big plays to put the Celtics in position to win.
He had a 46-yard catch on Providence’s first possession of the game to set up Mackert’s TD run. Coleman then hauled in a 21-yard TD pass from Vita to give the Celtics a 14-7 lead.
Coleman, who also ran three times for 21 yards, capped his big performance with a 38-yard catch that set up Vita’s 1-yard TD run for a 35-32 lead with 6:16 to go.
“It’s not all about me,” Coleman said. “The guys up front, the quarterback, running backs and everyone else paved the way for me to have those opportunities to make those plays.
“Kudos to my team.”
The Celtics could not quite hold on to that lead, but they certainly fought to the end to cap a major turnaround season after missing the playoffs with a 4-5 record in 2024.
Vita, a sophomore, gained some major big-game experience he hopes will help him in the future.
“We’re definitely going to use this as a flame going into next season,” Vita said.
Providence’s Xavier Coleman (2) celebrates a TD reception against Wheaton St. Francis during the Class 5A state championship game at Hancock Stadium in Normal on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
The Celtics started 11 underclassmen, so senior offensive lineman Bryce Tencza is confident that big things are ahead for the program.
“Without a doubt,” Tencza said. “We built it all this offseason. They’re going to build it stronger for next season. I know that. They know what to do. They’ve got it.”
And if this season was just the start, it sure was a fine one.
“It’s the brotherhood we built from the offseason, into the summer, all year,” Coleman said. “The blood, sweat and tears that we put into it each other.
“That was the glue that kept us together for 15 weeks. It was great.”
Contractor killed by freight train while removing snow from Naperville train platform
A contractor removing snow from a Naperville train station was killed when a freight train struck the snow-removal equipment that the man was operating, according to city officials.
Naperville police and fire officials responded to the station at 105 E. 4th Ave. on Monday evening, following the collision, according to a statement from City Manager Doug Krieger.
Authorities determined that the contractor was operating the snow removal equipment on the station’s south platform when an eastbound freight train struck the device.
The contactor, whose identity wasn’t released, died from his injuries. “This is a profound tragedy, and on behalf of the City of Naperville, I extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends,” Krieger said in a statement.
“Our employees and contractors deliver vital services to the community daily, and their safety is of paramount importance to us. The loss of life in this manner is heartbreaking.”
The station where the collision occurred serves Metra’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains, as well as Amtrak routes. Metra police were handling the investigation, according to Krieger.
Why Healthcare Is In A Death Spiral: Follow The Money
Why Healthcare Is In A Death Spiral: Follow The Money
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
If each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death spiral that will surprise everyone but insiders who grasp the system’s unsustainability.
To help us outsiders understand the death spiral, I asked a senior MD to guide us through “follow the money.”
Trump Blasts “Big, Fat, Rich Insurance Companies” As Lawmakers Propose Ways To ‘Fix’ Obamacare.
Since this is the issue of the day and it falls within my expertise, here are some thoughts.
Executive Summary
Multiple conditions are aligning for a broad re-alignment of medical care delivery in the US, resulting in the development of a two-tiered delivery model: high-quality, efficient, innovating cash-pay for those who can pay and low-quality, wait-rationed care delivery for those who can’t.
If you can’t afford it, don’t get sick.
Health systems make their money through inflated commercial real estate (CRE), sale of patient health information (PHI), consolidation of supply chains, and kickbacks in exchange for redirecting federal dollars. Absent a tiny sliver of procedures, the delivery of healthcare itself is a loss leader. It is a requirement for entry, not a source of value. As such, care delivery managed to prevent loss, not promote innovation.
Most health system CEOs are financial engineers, not care delivery specialists, and compare the size of their real estate management infrastructure with their care delivery management infrastructure; the former is always much more robust than the latter.
Insurers have become utilities, administering government payment programs. Their ability to bear risk as a business model was discarded with the ACA; they no longer have the infrastructure or talent to do so. You might as well ask them to make shoes.
This monoculture, the corruption of monopoly and finally the response to the pandemic has crippled both.
Health systems faced a profound interruption in throughput which they dealt with by tapping reserves, inflating CRE further, pushing the boundaries of PHI sales, increasing their kickback programs, and, most importantly, becoming fully dependent on the now ending government bailouts.
Further consolidation and partnering with private money is their only path forward. Recent experience teaches that the private money will cut the delivery of healthcare to the bare minimum needed to maximize the other sources of value. A whole lot of administrators and c-suiters are also going to lose their jobs.
After the ACA, the Insurer’s only cash cow was the immensely overfunded and fraud-filled Value-Based Care (VBC) Medicare and Medicaid programs such as Medicare Advantage. The fraud is now being criminally prosecuted, the overpayments are gone, and the cost of care delayed during the pandemic and which the insurers now bear are being realized manifold.
Insurers simply have no path forward other than as payment administrators. Look for massive consolidation, starting with the individual Blues. The government has been resistant, but now it’s a choice of merger or bankruptcy. In 2028 probably only Coventry, United, and Centene will be left standing, no more blues.
The ACA itself is in a death spiral. Envisioned as a universal mandatory risk pool, so many exceptions have been made that only the sickest and those who have no choice get their care there, the former being subsidized by the latter, the government, and ever dwindling coverage. The pandemic subsidies masked it and without them the coverage is non-sensical. Non-participation will be its end.
In addition, government medical care programs have long been subsidized by suppressing payment for the resources used to obtain care delivery; clinicians, labor, administration, and even bedpans. Real wages for even the highest paying doctors working within the system haven’t increased since 2010, nursing wages have gone up only because so many have become free-lancing agency workers. I got offered a locums position for $145/hour, the same as I was offered 8 years ago.
All those resources are now worth more outside the system than inside. Thus, those resources are migrating to the cash-pay market. Used to be the huge government market and dependable payments was enough to overcome the difference in value between the two markets, cash vs third party. No longer.
The legacy costs, management/leadership expertise and business models of current Fee For Service (FFS) health systems preclude all but the most highly branded health systems from competing in the cash-pay model.
Access to the cash-pay market will vary based on jurisdiction: it’s illegal in some states, hamstrung by others, free in still more.
Look for policy to evolve into a high-dollar, deductible, roll-over Health Savings Account (HSA) with income-based subsidies paired with a government subsidized catastrophic care program. At least until the young and disaffected elect a socialist.
A $2,000 direct payment to beneficiaries such as being currently contemplated is completely ineffectual, especially since it has to be borrowed and will just increase inflation that much further.
True reform must include:
1.Invalidation of state and federal laws which restrict cash-pay.
2. Prohibition of not-for-profit (NFP) / Religious organizations from third-party payment programs. The competitive advantage of the tax-free business model and the inherent corruption it has engendered render their participation not in the public interest.
3. Removal of restrictions on clinician ownership in healthcare delivery.
4. Renewed criminal anti-trust enforcement in medical care delivery.
Others can be added, but if each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
No improvement will occur.
It’s not payments which need reform, it’s delivery.
And a lot of folks’ paychecks depend on obfuscating that fact.
Thank you, senior MD for the guided tour of healthcare’s financial death spiral. I have long stated that healthcare in its current extractive-cartel form will bankrupt the nation all by itself:
Why America’s Healthcare (Sickcare) System Is Broken and Unfixable (July 16, 2014)
Sickcare Will Bankrupt the Nation (March 21, 2011)
My questions:
1. Is any of this financial plumbing actually private insurance, or is it all just sluicing government funding through a profitable skimming operation?
2. How can a ‘healthcare’ system that refuses to connect digital derangement, ultra-processed diet and poor fitness to ‘health’ possibly generate ‘health’ as an output?
These questions are taboo because the answers would implode the entire system.
Medicare costs: parabolic:
Medicaid costs: parabolic:
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Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 20:55
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/why-healthcare-death-spiral-follow-money
First, ICE raided their Chicago apartment building. Now, they’re being forced to vacate it.
On a freezing Tuesday morning after Chicago’s snowiest November day on record, residents of a building that made international headlines after a federal immigration raid earlier this year decried a recent court-ordered mandate to vacate their homes at 7500 South Shore Drive.
The five-story apartment building with its decrepit infrastructure and scarce electricity was the site of a late-night raid in September that was among the most infamous moments in President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Now its residents, who last month formed the South Shore Tenants Union, face the possibility of being thrown out of their homes within days.
The Circuit Court of Cook County granted an order on Nov. 24 from Wells Fargo Bank to have residents at 7500 S. Shore Drive to vacate by Dec. 5 for those with valid leases and all other occupants were instructed to leave by Dec. 12 of this year.
The South Shore Tenants Union, supported by the Metropolitan Tenants Organization and Southside Together, said they were blindsided by the court order, which was granted without tenant input and leaves members “scrambling to find housing in bitterly cold weather.”
“This is my community and I should not be forced out especially at a time like this when it’s literally freezing outside,” said Travaris Ivy.
The two-year resident said he saw the note ordering residents to vacate posted on the wall the day before Thanksgiving.
Workers from DAWGS Vacant Property Security bring metal sheets to board up windows while a 7500 South Shore Tenants Union news conference takes place in front of the apartment building in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Ivy’s apartment had no electricity since around mid-November and the food in his fridge was rotting, he told the Tribune.
“We still don’t got no heat, no electricity, my light is out, I have to stay with relatives just because it’s too cold for me to stay here,” Ivy said at the news conference.
Ivy said he had not been offered any relocation assistance to date.
The union is asking for $7,500 in relocation assistance provided 30 days before the scheduled moveout and paid by the building’s management firm Friedman Communities, the city of Chicago, Cook County or the state of Illinois.
The union also asked Friedman Communities to take immediate steps to repair the building’s heat, electricity, elevator and sewage, among other maintenance, as well as hire 24-hour security.
According to the union, the building has 37 known occupants and several wheelchair users are unable to move since the elevators don’t work.
“Whether the judge thinks the building is safe or not, it’s less safe for people to be homeless in the snow on the holidays,” said Jonah Karsh, a housing organizer.
Friedman Communities was recently appointed manager of the apartment building, after a legal dispute between lender Wells Fargo and Trinity Flood, the owner of the building property, and the city had proposed a moveout by Dec. 12, according to earlier Tribune reporting.
A cat sits on a chair in an open apartment unit with garbage on the floor in the 7500 S. South Shore Drive apartment building in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
A note posted on the building wall stated that representatives from Friedman Real Estate Management would be at the property answering questions and providing additional moveout and relocation support between Dec. 1 and Dec. 5.
Asked about the tenants’ demands Tuesday, Mayor Brandon Johnson said his administration “has been working with these tenants for some time.” He added that the city would find “dignified housing” for residents using Chicago Housing Authority vouchers and keep residents safe before the moveout.
“My administration is working overtime with the organizers of these tenants to ensure that they have a place of comfort and a place that they can afford and feel good about,” he said.
Johnson did not take a clear stance on the Dec. 12 deadline. Instead, he promised to “work with expediency” to relocate residents.
“If there’s an opportunity to work with the court to provide maximum time for comfort and placement, of course, we’ll explore that,” he said.
Inside the 130-unit apartment building a dog and a cat roamed the complex moving through half open doors and pools of water on the hallway floors. These same floors were trampled by immigration agents on Sept. 30 when the South Shore apartment building became the center of a militarized raid that left many residents traumatized.
That day, agents smashed windows, broke down doors and zip-tied the hands of residents in a controversial middle-of-the night operation. The federal government said it was searching for Tren de Aragua gang members.
DAWGS Vacant Property Security doors lean against the hallway wall in standing water on the first floor of the 7500 S. South Shore Drive apartment building in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
A federal judge has ordered the release of at least six Venezuelans arrested that night amid allegations that their detainment violated a consent degree limiting warrantless detainments. Those six individuals have little to no criminal history and no apparent ties to any gang. They remain in custody pending the federal government’s appeal.
The Tribune reported exclusively in October that no public criminal charges have been filed against anyone in connection with the raid.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday called the building’s raid “abominable” but said supporting the tenants was a city issue, as opposed to a state one.
“This is a local endeavor that has obviously state importance and national importance in some ways, and so we’ll continue to monitor that and be responsive to the city as it needs assistance in helping those tenants,” Pritzker said. “The tenants of that building are deserving of attention for the concerns that they have.”
Amid the snow on Tuesday, shivering unionizers and residents, some wrapped in blankets, interrupted each other and chanted “That ain’t right!” in show of support. Meanwhile, a truck with the logo Dawgs Vacant Property Security, a firm that provides door and window guards for vacant property, unloaded what appeared to be a white board and took it into the building.
Resident Samantha Stamps cries during a news conference with the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union in front of the apartment building in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Resident Samantha Stamps wept.
“I have never been through nothing like this in my life,” Stamps said between tears.
“This is bad,” she said. “I can’t even have my grandkids over and they was here with me every weekend.”
Chicago Tribune’s Olivia Olander and Jake Sheridan contributed.
EEUU jugará contra Bélgica, Portugal y Alemania en amistosos antes del Mundial
FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, EE.UU. (AP) — La selección de Estados Unidos jugará contra Bélgica, Portugal y Alemania en sus últimos cuatro partidos amistosos antes de la Copa del Mundo.
El equipo, situado en la 14ta posición del ranking de la FIFA, se enfrentará a Bélgica, que es octava, el 28 de marzo y se medirá a Portugal, que figura sexto, tres días después. Ambos partidos se llevarán a cabo en Atlanta, informó el martes la Federación de Fútbol de Estados Unidos.
El astro de Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo, podría jugar en Estados Unidos por primera vez desde el 2 de agosto de 2014, cuando estaba con el Real Madrid y participó en un amistoso de pretemporada contra el Manchester United en Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Después de que el seleccionador argentino de Estados Unidos Mauricio Pochettino anuncie su lista para la Copa del Mundo, los estadounidenses jugarán contra un equipo aún por determinar el 31 de mayo en Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, y se enfrentarán a Alemania, que ocupa el noveno puesto del escalafón, el 6 de junio en Chicago.
Estados Unidos abrirá la Copa del Mundo el 12 de junio en Inglewood, California, y jugará en Seattle siete días después. Cerrará la fase de grupos el 25 de junio en Inglewood.
Los oponentes se determinarán en el sorteo del viernes, que también influye en qué equipo enfrentará Estados Unidos en el amistoso de Charlotte.
Estados Unidos está invicto en cinco amistosos, incluyendo cuatro victorias.
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U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission
U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission
A Boeing E-6B Mercury operated by the U.S. Navy, one of the service’s airborne nuclear command posts commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” disappeared from civilian flight-tracking platforms Friday morning while operating over the Atlantic Ocean, according to tracking data, the Daily Mail reports.
The aircraft, using callsign AFD FE2, was last observed on ADS-B Exchange and similar services around 8:30 a.m. EST approximately 60 miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The plane had departed Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, on a standard southeast track over Chesapeake Bay before its transponder was deactivated.
During TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) missions, the E-6B typically enters restricted warning areas, deploys a miles-long trailing-wire antenna, and flies extended racetrack patterns to relay secure communications to U.S. ballistic-missile submarines and other strategic assets, Key Aero reports.
The E-6B fleet also performs the Airborne National Command Post “Looking Glass” mission, equipped with the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) capable of transmitting launch orders to silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles if ground command centers are destroyed. An E-6B conducted an ALCS simulated ICBM launch exercise as recently as April.
The Navy and U.S. Strategic Command have not commented on Friday’s flight.
In August, another E-6B was recently forward-deployed to Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland for what the service claimed was routine operations, including exercises with nuclear submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific. However, aviation analysts, including Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, described the E-6B aircraft’s flight near Greenland as unusual. Historical E-6B forward operating locations have included Guam, Norway, Germany, Spain, and the U.K., according to Newsweek.
“Naval Strategic Forces conduct global operations in coordination with combatant commands, services, and allies and partner nations, even in the High North,” Commander Jason Fischer, a spokesman for U.S. Submarine Forces, told Newsweek.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/02/2025 – 20:30
