"And while medications and therapy are important tools, Fabiano says exercise is recognized as a preferred treatment for depression." @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

"But there is another price to pay, which cannot be measured in dollars and cents: the cost of intellectual stagnation." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/11/o...

"Federal agents often used violent and unlawful tactics during the operations, advocates and lawyers said." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

"According to the Higher Education Research Institute, in 2024, 84% of students in its survey of freshmen at four-year bachelor’s degree-granting universities had A averages in high school." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/05/o...

The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking. n.pr/4skk4yB

"The chain is based in the Philippines, which developed a taste for burgers and fried chicken during its years as a U.S. colony, and has since made the foods its own." @theatlantic.com @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"While much attention has been given to the broad legal challenges to the deployment . . . more attention should be directed to the legal vulnerability of these underprepared federal agents now patrolling our cities and towns." @chicago.suntimes.com.web.brid.gy chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"Seduced by social-science rationalism, moral relativism, or political partisanship, people had trouble thinking clearly about what separates a morally healthy society from a morally unhealthy one." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"No one is more skeptical of the accommodations system than the academics who study it." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"In reality, though, the Northwestern bargain endangers academic freedom and institutional autonomy, subjecting the university to ongoing federal control." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"'For what appears to be the first time in Apple's nearly fifty-year history, Apple removed a U.S.-based app in response to the U.S. government's demands,' according to the suit." @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...

"The things I find disturbing, revolting and utterly disqualifying are inexplicably the same exact things that a not small number of Americans find appealing. Racism, incompetence, corruption, to name a few." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"Indeed, not only is singing a deeply ingrained human cultural activity, research increasingly shows how good it is for us." @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/we-are-hardw...

"These videos, which falsely portrayed Ramaphosa as corrupt and incompetent, were not harmless political theater. They were an assault on truth and an affront to a nation that has stood as a beacon of democratic progress on the continent." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"Sheridan’s run-in with Bovino is one of several occasions in which the Border Patrol boss appears to have invented facts, rearranged chronologies or distorted what happened. A string of similar cases has been dismissed. . . ." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

"One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance practice, likely without their full knowledge of what they're really signing up for." @eff.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"The decision to protect neo-Nazis and pedophiles, just because it might benefit Trump in some way, is a precipice I never thought I’d see so-called conservatives walk up to. And yet, here they are, giddily leaping off of it." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"A federal judge has ordered over 400 people detained by immigration agents to be released by Friday as part of an ongoing lawsuit that accused agents of violating a consent decree governing warrantless immigration arrests." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b... "It appeared to be a photo shoot for the latest photo op from the agency, which has repeatedly used photos and videos of agents posing in Chicago on social media." @blockclubchi.bsky.social

"How can a nation full of the descendants of immigrants, on land stolen by foreign colonizers, be so opposed to the arrival of people seeking the same things their ancestors did years ago?" @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"For those of us who love Chicago, this isn’t the middle or end of our resistance story. We’re just getting started." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...

"The challenge we face is to move from being passive users of AI to engaged citizens who can verify AI responses that, as a common expression goes, are 'frequently wrong but never in doubt.'" @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/o...

"The modern Republican Party was always an uneasy marriage between business interests . . . and the racist Dixiecrats and religious traditionalists who wanted to get rid of equal rights for racial minorities and women." @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

"The Democrats’ message to Americans must be clear: They did this to you. We tried our best to protect you from this obscene attack on the health care system, but they wouldn’t even talk to us. There is nothing more we can do." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/o...

"It is not just a policy failure — it’s a moral one. Denying food assistance to millions of Americans in the dead of winter, during a time of economic uncertainty, is unconscionable." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"You might think that an attack of this magnitude would cause the American left to make a full-throated defense of free and open expression. But you’d be wrong." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/o...

"There has to be a moratorium on these kinds of un-American tactics and there has to be one now. This . . . is outrage over kids seeing things that are impossible to forget. And over American kids suddenly having a parent swept away." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/e...

"The United States hasn’t seen anything resembling a general strike since the 1940s, and a few key legal changes have been made since then." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/28/m...

The right-wing's attempts to label peaceful protesters as violent extremists is a classic authoritarian strategy to justify crackdowns: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the historic No Kings Day of peaceful protest – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF #NoKings

Faculty leaders call the decision "voluntary capitulation" to the #Trump administration: “UIC’s mission is to increase access at the highest levels of excellence and this, to me, sends a message that essentially says, 'We don’t actually care about access.'" Read more: www.wbez.org/education/20...

"People are searching for grown-ups willing to step up and lead on both sides, but especially on the left." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/s...

"The idea that leaders must attract voters with reasoned arguments to win power and must concede power when their opponents win has been the central premise of American government since 1800." @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-19...

No Kings Chicago

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

"What occurred on Chicago’s streets . . . was emblematic not only of the deep fissures in America over the Vietnam War but of the willingness of a police state, which included the National Guard, to silence dissent in America." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"Trump’s assumption of power over the government’s purse is a profound attack on the principles on which the Founders justified independence from King George III in 1776." @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16...

"Loomer, the far-right activist, has also taken credit for prompting Apple and Google to remove two popular ICE-sighting apps — ICEBlock and Red Dot — from their app stores." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"The danger is that we will drift — disoriented, unmoored, bewildered — into the iron cage of tyranny." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/o...

"There was no conceivable legal authority for these killings. We are not at war with drug traffickers. The 'war on drugs' is a metaphor, not a legal term of art that authorizes killing the 'enemy.'" @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"The deeper problem is cultural, not legal. Free speech hasn’t disappeared — it has been privatized. Americans remain free to say almost anything, but our livelihoods now depend on how the internet reacts." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/o...

"Neutrality is being weaponized as part of a larger attack on critical thinking and social emotional learning. Ultimately, it is nothing more than a smokescreen for state-sanctioned indoctrination." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"This is not a minor theological disagreement. It is a clash over the moral compass of the church in a time of political extremism and rising violence." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"While researching this polarization, I have found recurring themes of segregation and both the dehumanization and disproportionate fear of people with opposing views among liberals and conservatives alike." @theconversation.com theconversation.com/moral-panics...

"This approach recognizes that democratic citizenship requires intellectual courage: the willingness to encounter perspectives that challenge our assumptions and grapple with evidence that complicates simple stories." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/o...

"The trend from small to large, from observation to causation is often true in science, no matter if the topic is autism, allergies, Alzheimer’s or anything else." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

President Donald Trump told about 800 of the country’s top military officials that he’s using “dangerous cities as training grounds” for the military and will be going into Chicago “very soon.”

In a blistering decision, a Reagan-appointed judge says the Trump administration has trampled First Amendment rights by targeting students protesting Israel's actions in Gaza.

Column by Theresa Vargas: Spanglish is often described in the context of bilingualism. A dual ability. Two gifts. But that’s not what it was for my siblings and me. We spoke one language that was a patchwork of two. There’s a difference.

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Rather than engaging in the hard work of negotiation, Trump appears to want to use the government for his own ends." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-... @hcrichardson.bsky.social