jack daniels can be classified as either bourbon or whiskey, since bourbon and whiskey are simply different names for identical products

my sort of underbaked take is i liked the dilbert comic strip as a kid because its depiction of a banal and arbitrary work environment where nonsensical top-down policies dictated my life resonated much more with my experience of school than my life later in the work force

mina's a really good reporter

While homicides and most violent crime decreased in Chicago in 2025...domestic violence climbed. Domestic fatal shootings specifically rose by 50%. Martina Mosby was one of 63 people killed in a domestic violence homicide last year. ✍️ @minabloom.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/13/c...

Powerful, important reporting by @minabloom.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/13/c...

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

Thank you, Mr Lastname. @pksmid.bsky.social and the team are working on a Say More pod! Meantime … here’s our version of Sandburg’s “Chicago” … which I was very happy to be part of: www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

@maryldixon.bsky.social @wbez.org thank you for an excellent episode of Say More this morning. I cried at the reading of Sandburg. Maybe you'll consider releasing the show as a regular podcast? Would love to be able to catch the shows I miss.

This reminds me of when a Chicago police academy instructor shot an unarmed teen. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

More than 100 people are at the Little Village arch for a vigil in honor of Renee Nicole Good. They’re saying they plan to march down 26th.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

University of Chicago professor Robert Pape, an international security affairs and political violence expert, shared four key takeaways in conversation with WBEZ's Sasha-Ann Simons on 'In the Loop' Monday.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

great flick. joan chen introduced it at the roxie showing

The nonprofit owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ paid its outgoing CEO more than $900,000 in 2024, new tax filings show, as it engaged in staff cuts and other measures to deal with declining revenue.

Working feverishly on my Fave Jazz of 2025 list to get it out the door tomorrow. It's a great day to sign up for my little newsletter if you haven't yet. 🙃 motherslug.substack.com

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

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

I'm begging you CBS, there's still time to salvage this mistake. I will greenlight good projects (El Salvador prison exposes) and kill bad projects (town hall snooezefests featuring nobodies). I have good instincts and editorial judgement

A #BorderPatrol agent’s camera captures a detainee’s lament: ‘We don’t have the opportunity that you have.’ More than 40 hours of bodycam footage offers a new lens into #Chicago clashes between #immigration agents and the public. @wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com www.wbez.org/public-safet...

I’ve dropped my Top 10 Best Movies of 2025. Here’s 10-6. Check out the top 5 on Substack open.substack.com/pub/bpopetv/...

Illinois lawmakers and reform advocates are calling for stronger oversight of the state’s new prison health care provider following a Sun-Times report.

Agents with Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino shouted at a SE Asian woman walking outside Costco in Mt. Prospect, IL today. The woman said in a flawless Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Your Friday morning news roundup from your friends at @chicago.suntimes.com ☕ Today's lead story: Who's Gregory Bovino? Our cross-country investigation Read more — and sign up to get this newsletter in your inbox — here: chicago.suntimes.com/morning-edit...

Deep dive by WBEZ’s Dan Mihalopoulos and the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lauren FitzPatrick into the background of Greg Bovino, the face of the immigration crackdown who is described by one critic as “the Liberace of the Border Patrol.” @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social

when trump's senility finally gets too big to ignore, all the political reporters who are covering up for him now will laugh and say "everybody knew"

The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5. tinyurl.com/5krk79br

“I resent Spotify for monopolizing how people imagine you can experience music.” Alongside Sam Cantor of Minor Moon, Reader senior staff writer @imleor.bsky.social spoke to Sasha-Ann Simons on @wbez.org's In the Loop about Chicago musicians and listeners leaving Spotify.

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

My latest investigation for @invisible.institute @propublica.org @chicago.suntimes.com

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A WBEZ analysis finds student attendance briefly plummets following intense moments of immigration enforcement, but overall rates similar to last year. Some credit “magic school buses” and other efforts that supported frightened parents and helped children get to school. www.wbez.org/education/20...

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Today’s focus @wbez.org — @pksmid.bsky.social and I challenge you to pay a compliment to another generation. What do you appreciate about your elders/youngers?

maybe i am going insane

Gonna need my fellow millennials to listen and call in. Always felt like a modification of the Winston Churchill quote -- Millennial is the worst generation, except for all the other ones. 10am central time on @wbez.org -- 866-915-9239

Hi, I’m an elder Gen X - and this week on Say More @wbez.org — Millennial @pksmid.bsky.social and I are talking about our generations. Where do you fall? Does your generation fit you? What are your beefs or compliments for Boomers, X, Millennials, Zoomers and … Alpha?

BREAKING: Chicago police officers will be allowed to file felony gun charges without first getting approval from a prosecutor throughout the city, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke announced Friday. @wttw.bsky.social

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.

Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc. To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy. tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55

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Two Chicago police officers who started a drunken daytime brawl at a Wrigleyville pizza restaurant in 2019 reached settlement agreements with the city that allowed them to keep their jobs after each served a one-year suspension. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/2...