Hell yeah @gillianbrockell.com

Your next great music festival trip might be in Asia. With rising costs in the West, events like Tomorrowland and EDC are reinventing the festival experience for growing audiences in Thailand, South Korea and beyond.

Other than like Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe, I’m not sure there is a more distinctive contributor to Chicago architecture than Schlitz.

(also go read Danielle's piece)

A little Chicago Pope light for tonight's White Sox-Mariners game Rate Field

I’ll be on @wbez’s In the Loop with @sashaannsimons.bsky.social to talk about a new documentary I helped to produce with filmmaker Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven. Tune in 91.5 FM

“I’ve worked on Wall Street. I’ve worked in the government. I’ve worked at a nonprofit trying to pass tougher rules on banks and Big Tech. I joke that I’ve cased the joint, and now I’m ready for the heist—except it’s not a heist, because it’s our money. They stole it first.“

There's no shortage of horrors in this country right now, but here's something hopeful: tenants in two Montana trailer parks just voted to authorize the first rent strike there in nearly 50 years, following steep rent hikes. People are organizing, fighting back.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Mr. Kastanes built a community around nostalgia for the Chicago places and things people grew up with but can no longer find. A wake will be held Thursday from 3 to 8 p.m. at Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home in Palos Hills.

Big court date for the InfoWars takeover tomorrow. Cross fingers, knock on wood, send one up. We're hoping our agreement with the families and receiver is greenlit by the judge, despite Alex's hate campaign against them all. If we win, expect an Emergency Broadcast. Stay tuned, and wish us luck.

It’s unusual for the government to prosecute a charity that doesn’t receive federal funds. It’s even more unusual for that to happen without citing specific donor complaints. It’s unlikely that a conviction could be obtained without additional evidence that the money went for criminal activities.

The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dalí, 1931, 📸 by David Ramos

healthy society: www.404media.co/forbes-predi...

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is hosting its sixth annual Missing Persons Day event from 10 am to 2 pm Saturday at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, 2121 W. Harrison St. The event aims to connect people with resources to locate missing loved ones.

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

Frank Rich, 2007, on the White House correspondents' dinner: "Washington wisdom had it that Stephen Colbert bombed because he was rude to the president. "His real sin was to be rude to the capital press corps, whom he caricatured as stenographers." www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/o...

Several Chicago theaters have cut ties with the Jeff Awards organization after it honored a local director accused of abuse. blockclubchi.co/4vjHDsD

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

As legal battles continue to unfold, the outcome may ultimately hinge not just on the courts but on how much the public is willing to accept religion’s role in public education. @nadrakn.bsky.social reports.

The mundane, everyday errands people were walking around doing right before a driver kills them are so relatable to New Yorkers. Any moment could be your last, thanks to a culture of reckless driving where pedestrians are obstacles hindering drivers’ ability to speed.

When cars kill, it's just the cost of doing business. When e-bikes get popular, suddenly we need strict ordinances to stop "accidents".

Beautiful cherry blossom Sunday sunrise The blossoms are still at peak bloom and the scenes at the Tidal Basin Sunday morning were spectacular. Thanks to Kari Jaksa and Mandy Murphy for sharing these captures with us.

For 20 years, Steve Fullerton has polished and buffed the footwear of famous Chicagoans and faithful regulars from his bench in the Cook County Building.

The Pentagon, for the first time in decades, has no plans to release a much-anticipated review of its troop placement abroad — a move that snubs lawmakers and U.S. allies, who use the analysis to determine budgets and discern American military policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

For Playboy, I spoke to adult content creators about the hours of labor their subscribers *don’t* see. “The amount of times I have people in my comments being like, ‘Get a real job!’ and like, I probably pay way more to the IRS than you do!” - @siridahl.bsky.social www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.

Hi. Stop doomscrolling. You need energy for even more challenging things tomorrow. Charge your phone away from your bed. Max loves you. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

Tomorrow, the Washington Post Tech Guild enters effects and decisional bargaining over the company’s illegal attempted layoffs of 76 of our colleagues. Our goal is to secure the best possible deal for our members: both those who want to stay and those who choose to leave.

On tomorrow’s Say More, @maryldixon.bsky.social and I will have @mdoukmas.bsky.social on to talk about Injustice Watch’s judicial voting guide. And then, I’m 40 now and I need some advice. So call with wisdom at 10 on @wbez.org

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

everything is operations management

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

I keep thinking about how working class people will suffer so much if the price of gas spikes and the government continues to spend $1B/day on international conflict (plus ICE's budget for immigration raids) instead of education, research, international aid, clean energy, and healthcare

Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

What steps will the White House take to sell an unpopular war in Iran to the American people? Well, here's one answer: A social media video that literally likens the war to a video game by mixing "Call of Duty" game footage with clips of American missile strikes.

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

Everything is perfect, no notes

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

Bruce Campbell announces he has a type of cancer that's "treatable" not "curable"

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.