They hoisted the Russian flag up on the admin building, just clean up the rest at this point

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Not sure they claim every street, but yeah basically. Seems like Russia / DPR now control the vast majority, lots of footage of dead Azov nazis in the tower blocks they'd apparently retreated back to and been firing from for the last 24hrs or so. Chechen forces apparently mopping up odd Azov members trying to escape or cut off on the other side of the industrial area on the other edge of the city. Russian / DPR forces have also been raising flags over government buildings apparently.

Flag on the Cityhall , and the Remains are Divided in 2 Pockets it seems / Hear .. So Oldschool Taken (Flag on Cityhall)

Thank Allah for the Chechen liberators

Thank the DPR militiamen

really grinds my gears to call it deportation, like russia wants them to settle in the urals or something

For those accusations, they mostly seem to have started from nationalist writers at the Kyiv Independent and spread from there.

In general I'm just trying to aggregate what seems likely from multiple sources, all the usual Western sources, pro-Ukrainian Twitter (which is most of it at this point), and varying degrees of pro-Russian accounts mostly on Telegram like InterSlava, MangoPress, Russians With Attitude podcast and some accounts that nuked by Twitter.

I try to take it all with a pinch of salt and I find the rah-rah nationalism on both sides a bit gross, but it's the best we're gonna get in knowing what's actually going amidst the fog of war.

Exactly. Even if I didn't have any Russian connection I wouldn't want to stay in a captured city that potentially might suffer a counter attack by Nazi zealots where a good chunk of it is rubble anyway. I'd head away from the front lines and at this point that means going deeper into Russian held territory rather than trying to outrun the front to the West.

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They’ve been giving out hundreds of thousands of tons of it.

For the reasons Riley said below and because despite it being the home of Azov, Mariupol has lots of Russian speaking and ethnic Russian people. Lots of people have family and friends in Russia or the other parts of the East that Russia is trying to unite/give independence. Regardless of any other objectives (toppling the Zelensky gov, demilitarisation of Ukraine etc) if they don't achieve that they know people in those regions and at home will see it as a failure.

why would Russia give humanitarian aid? They’re another country motivated by profit, I’m confused

Pre-populated cities are generally more exploitable than empty wastelands. It takes time and money to bring in people to do labor.