I know she's just kind of saying whatever, but it's on-brand for Bari Weiss to review a damning story about the US sending people to a concentration camp and respond "we can't air this, have you even asked Tom Homan if he feels bad about any of it yet?" Perfect readout of who she sees, and doesn't.

congrats to CBS

Most of this is must be “how to maintain an X account despite your growing reservations about the platform” and then one page about how to delete your X account and join Bluesky

Evil Puddle mentioned

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

“Voice like a warm porchlight left on for wanderers who kissed goodbye too soon or stayed too long” is aspirational

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

has anyone made a “top ten Damián Antón Ojeda albums of 2025” listicle

It’s probably nothing

pretty big publishing week for me, so here's a Saturday round up mini thread:

Last Week in End Times Cinema

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

Tomorrow is the last day of this holiday toy drive for Chicago families impacted by ICE. 41 of the 60 kids who were registered have had a present purchased. Organizers are hoping every child and family can receive a gift. Let's help them reach their goal! Venmo: KHPWtoydrive

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Mama mia!

Some news about my place of employment! chicagoreader.com/columns-opin...

Real “writing my name on another family’s holiday card” energy

A writer publishing under the byline “Earnest Graham” fabricated a restaurant to ask food influencers about how much they charge for posts they purport to be honest reviews. Twenty-four influencers took the bait. thehunger.substack.com/p/eat-pay-love

Oy vey

BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson formally re-introduces his revised plan for a corporate head tax, which would tax firms with more than 500 employees $33 per month per employee. @wttw.bsky.social

I wrote about Transitions, a weeklong dance festival that presents 70ish acts across several different venues beginning the day after Xmas

That’s right

I have no vested interest in where the Chicago Bears may move to next, but when it comes to what happens to Soldier Field I have a lot of ideas. For instance, imagine turning it into the city’s largest Small Cheval

that’s the stuff

anyone else been recently followed by seemingly thousands of bot celeb accounts?

ice's phoenix field office special response team at the tpusa convention

Jesus, Send The Meteor.

A deep dive on the gutting of Video Data Bank, a crucial archive established 50 years ago that’s helped distribute works from obscure video arts figures and more well-known luminaries (including Jem Cohen)

Democrats should have never prevented Tim Walz from calling these people "weirdos" incessantly.

Huge night: my kid ate matzoh ball soup for the first time. Oh, I saw Cameron Winter too.

I also like to make up weird strawman claims and then refute them with a simple “but he’s not.”

lol. lamo even

I enjoy local album of the year roundups like this. I like a lot of these albums, but this particular roundup as an AOTY list feels like it’s broadcast from a different dimension

greg bovino and a caravan of roughly 10 border patrol suvs are back to terrorize cicero. they continue to return to the same places again and again. reports of abductions at the home depot. one at the bp station. a return to the walmart parking lot they kidnapped someone at yesterday.

After raiding shopping plazas in Cicero and Bedford Park this morning, a caravan of Border Patrol agents swung north toward Edgewater. Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.

Here’s the last Gossip Wolf of 2025, and it’s all about the upcoming DeffJam honoring Ryan Deffet, which will feature performances by Finom’s Sima Cunningham, V.V. Lightbody, the duo version of Ratboys, and more!

Great guide for how city alders have responded to ICE

should’ve been on more AOTY lists

if dude steps foot in Chicago be sure to boo him like he’s Greg Bovino

So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again. It's going on a week now. Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.

[to the tune of pink pony club] glenn danzig’s fridge

love to go to the convenience store in search of processed junk wearing a too-large camo vest that makes me look like a toddler playing Rambo dress up, this is what makes a real man yes please throw in a bottle of Mountain Dew code red but is there a bathroom nearby I need to tinkle

Yeesh www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

One of Uptown's last single-room occupancy buildings, the Northmere, closed on Friday, leaving many tenants scrambling to find new housing. After the building failed 13 inspections in the past few years, a judge ordered residents to vacate, with tenants being given $2,500 for relocation expenses.

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

to think it could’ve made a really great Small Cheval

Looks nice in print

NEW from me: the cook county sheriff's office missed a state-mandated deadline to report that, from april 2024-march 2025, it owned and used 10 surveillance drones. it's the second time in as many years that a chicago-area police agency has violated illinois’ drone surveillance law.