As news breaks in Minneapolis, we’re uplifting this story by our friends @unraveledpress.com during the Chicago surge. Agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father in Sept —and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by witness videos. unraveledpress.com/what-happene...

"act of domestic terrorism" The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

An ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis is not the first time federal agents involved in immigration have shot a person this year. Here are two shootings, including another fatal one, during the recent Chicago blitz.

inSANE Facebook Marketplace pull this morning

Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.

Via Reuters: TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT

This appears to be the first time in recent memory that Chicago Public Schools has tried to track down the source of a leak, and one of the inquiries is targeting board members.

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Most of my work at Gannett was wiped out, and I'm pissed about all of it, but this was a piece of history and we owed it to the public to continue that work.

For years, @usatoday.com maintained a database of every Jan. 6 defendant and their case status, but it's gone now. Call it Hanlon's Memory Hole, when something disappears not because of malice but just because a company no longer cares.

tying my shoe in a locker room. foot propped up on the locker. other foot socked and on the concrete floor. leaned forward to tie shoe, slipped on floor, head slammed into locker. instant concussion lol

At no point in the last 150 years have fewer than one in ten Chicagoans been foreign-born. We've been a city of immigrants from the very beginning.

i am only on day five of this year of foias. a tiny voice in the back of my head just whispered "you should rig something with appscript" as i opened another google doc. send help

beat back the Sunday Scaries with a stick by reading about some records requests that won't even be processed for another 12-24 hours! 🤪 today's request: filing to see who's blocked on official mayoral social accounts. (is your mayor listed? statistically, maybe!) buttondown.com/foiaday/arch...

idk what is going on right now (assuming very legit crash outs about any number of things) but i did just pub a newsletter with a vine meme right at the top. that's the fun thing about this. i am ungovernable and able to do low-stakes things like put emoji in the copy buttondown.com/foiaday/arch...

request number three of foiaday asks a very fun question: what happens when you mix policing with ai chatbots? buttondown.com/foiaday/arch...

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

did not expect the Neil Patrick Harris Netflix game show to actually be a Coinbase commercial

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

Thinking about when in a sit-down I showed DePaul University's president evidence of discrimination by university admin, plus decades of school-sponsored blackface minstrelsy, and he 1. said he was saddened, then 2. ran to the library and asked to see "the box I looked at" (I had a big boy cart lol)

for the friday mid-morning crowd: like comment and subscribe! buttondown.com/foiaday/

ahhh, just what everyone loves to hear at the start of a new year from a journalist: i started a newsletter. ✨ so: i'm going to file a foia every day in 2026. i'm starting off with one that was my VERY FIRST FOIA REQUEST EVER (!!!!11!1!!1!!). i'll send an update tomorrow on it with juicy deets. :-)

welcome to foiaday, a newsletter + records request project from @camrodriguez.bsky.social! i'm going to file a foia every day in 2026, and write up deets about how it goes. sign up in order to get updates, tips, tricks, inspo, all that jazz: buttondown.com/foiaday/arch...

well, 2016 was a hard year, but we made it through. hopefully 2016 will be better.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

I ate all 12... 13... 14... okay, 20 grapes to pack in as much luck and success and happiness and prosperity as possible (and the dog got none, though he got many kisses)

it’s from the kirkland region of france

Thank fucking christ, we did it

To our @freep.com subscribers, thank you. 🙏🏽 Your support makes it possible to tell real, human stories rooted in our communities. I’m grateful to carry that work into the new year and continue documenting the people and places that make Michigan what it is. 💙

In Michigan, Pinter’s Flowerland still does, growing thousands of poinsettias each year through patience, precision, and yearlong hard work. I spent a day with Tim Pinter inside the family greenhouse, watching that care up close. Here are a few moments from my time at Pinter’s Flowerland.

As the holiday season comes to a close, noche buenas, known to many as poinsettias, quietly make their way into offices, hospitals, churches, and homes, a familiar color that many of us take for granted. What most people don’t see is the care it takes to grow them. Not many nurseries do anymore.

having a sick of being sick moment. got a heated blanket for Christmas and promptly flexed my biceps and said "time to bring out the big guns"

wait, this is so fun

treating a 13 minute news clip like it's moonshine brewed in billy bob's backhouse in 1927

congrats to CBS

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

A completely drunk ass game and vv drunk ending but guess who TF is in playoffs?!?!?!??!

holy smokes

This Bears team is DIFFERENT and on Monday Kevin Warren will announce they are exploring options for a new stadium in Bettendorf, Iowa

if i say we left the game early before they recovered the onside... so what!! so what!!

the pride and joy of Illinois (for now)

oh jesus what the hell

Here are image quilts of all of the PDFs from today's DOJ Epstein document dump. Four volumes, 8,408 pages of photos, receipts, and documents. 10,000 foot view of some dark, disturbing content.

I see BlueSky’s learning about the joys of the Freedom of Information Act.

I actually thought this was a joke but there is actually a Ticketmaster-esque queue

things that are on bit.ly/31-days-of-foia (the advent calendar) that you might not know you can request: > data that powers a viz or dashboard > social media direct messages (including deleted ones!) > google/outlook calendars > media guidance sent to employees about the media > slack channel names

some days, you are right on the money with the advent calendar. other days you forget and then you get to eat three pieces of chocolate. so. FOIA ADVENT ADHERENTS! A good batch of prompts are now up on the calendar, including some (late!) ones from this weekend! bit.ly/31-days-of-f...

FULL STORY: CPD officials failed to document more than half of all reprimands of officers and more than a third of all suspensions between 2016 and 2021, according to an audit released Tuesday by the city’s watchdog. @wttw.bsky.social