Grogu to the polls

Rip the goat

“Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both.”

Can’t believe the White Sox had an emo night and didn’t let me throw out a first pitch smh

I hope they also have a spirited discussion about the hit fx television show the bear

Well damn!

Var Lawrence, who wrote this piece below for Hell World about being locked down in a nursing home in NYC during the peak of Covid has passed away. Chip in a few bucks for his funeral if you can. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-v...

The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the @nymag.com story today washingtonpost.com/technology/2... nymag.com/intelligence...

I don’t know, this creature could be quirkier

LEOR ONCE AGAIN IS HERE FOR ME

Looks nice in print

Hasn’t Paste been sitting on Daytrotter for close to a decade? Why relaunch it now in… New York?

Evening

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Lotta music news this week: -Nico Segal, Shawnee Dez, Zion Ali, and more perform at the Save Our SNAP Block Party -Chicago punk supergroup NIXD celebrate their new LP at Public Works Gallery -FyeNixx plays a vintage shop -new music from Plant Matter, Adamn Killa, and Sex Gun (w/ Kai of Sharp Pins)

Been looking forward to this launch

Hell yeah! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra on the Tito’s Handmade Vodka stage at Lollapalooza” is, uh, a new one

Well, Friday was my last day at Polygon after a seven-year run. Wish I was surprised about being laid off, but with the current state of the media and economy, this has felt inevitable for a long time. So if you know anyone who needs a diligent deep-dive editor or writer, I'm on the market.

if you’re a hidden gem posting on ig do you get any engagement?

Love those free range roller rinks with a retro arcade that's two NBA jams and a pac man

Verhoeven, scrolling aimlessly on his phone, comes across this story, opens up a little notebook that says “film ideas,” and crosses off “doomed characters erect false idol of despot.”

[bravely] im a midwest emo

next saturday! come talk about the quantum campus with us and your neighbors and eat free pastries and drink free coffee

why strain your eyes reading tiny words on a screen? pick up a free copy of the reader and spend some time this weekend with @djbyrnes1.bsky.social’s deep dive into eileen o’neill burke’s … complicated relationship with the pretrial fairness act.

why read a navel-gazey hamfisted jacobin essay that misreads the recent cultural legacy of rock when you can read a more intensely reported essay about a rock subgenre with “gaze” in its name

I wrote about Armlock for the Reader

Check out @imleor.bsky.social’s Reader piece as well! chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Oh hell yes!

The deluge of AI-generated music on streaming platforms continues. Took a look at one band's efforts to curb bootleg AI remixes of its work: www.wired.com/story/this-r...

It’s absolute horses out there innit, blimey

Definitely yes

My shoegaze deep dive is also in this issue

thank you tv guide

Dang, this place makes a great Detroit-style pizza

new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

once the hit fx television show the bear is over what is the one pop culture product affiliated with Chicago that every local outlet will relentlessly report on like it’s an election

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

cool

You’re telling me Matt Taibbi got… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) … owned?

it's leor time mfs!!!

I interviewed @fire-toolz.bsky.social!!

[lcd soundsystem voice] i was there when broken social scene’s “lover’s spit” soundtracked an ad for valtrex

nobody tell jonathan about the bean

roses are red the passage of time you cannot allay

i’ve once again lost the pulitzer for best bit reporting

so youre telling me there’s an opening on kid cudi’s tour

That’s right!!

new: we've heard a lot about the quantum computing campus in south chicago. but who exactly is involved? and what exactly are these organizations planning to do? @chicagoreader.com contributor grey lucas answers those questions and more in this comprehensive guide: chicagoreader.com/news/explain...