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Chicago ✶ and Berwyn, Illinois. he/him
https://dunlevy.org/john/
“During the evening hours of May 6, 1876, a destructive severe storm caused widespread damage across the then growing city of Chicago.”
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Destructive May 6, 1876, Chicago Storm
https://www.weather.gov/lot/1876_05_06_Chicago_storm
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Walter Olson
about 4 hours ago
People who hold power shouldn’t plaster their names and faces across government buildings and infrastructure. Trump’s moves to do so deserve emphatic public repudiation. [Dan Greenberg]
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America Needs an Edifice Complex Prevention Act
Public service, especially the presidency, shouldn’t be an exercise in self-glorification.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/america-needs-edifice-complex-prevention-act
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
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Thread. I cannot stress enough how difficult it will be to prosecute anyone, let alone everyone, responsible for the horrors we’ve experienced. There will inevitably be shortfalls by any measure of justice, and if you’re not familiar with this work, you should be.
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Clara Jeffery
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"After my story appeared, I heard from people in Patel’s orbit and people he has met at public functions, who told me that it is not unusual for him to travel with a supply of personalized branded bourbon."
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Heather Cherone
1 day ago
BREAKING: A key city panel on Wednesday advanced Mayor Brandon Johnson’s nomination of Anjanette Young, a social worker who was handcuffed while naked during a botched 2019 Chicago Police Department raid, to serve on the city’s police oversight board.
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Key City Panel OKs Nomination of Anjanette Young to Serve on Chicago Police Oversight Board
The City Council’s Police and Fire Committee voted 14-2 to send Anjanette Young’s nomination to serve a four-year term on the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability to the full City...
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/06/key-city-panel-oks-nomination-anjanette-young-serve-chicago-police-oversight-board
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Josh Cowen
1 day ago
If Kash’s drinking wasn’t true what was there to leak?
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Karen Attiah
1 day ago
Corporate journalism was able to exist because it either: 1) aligned with a rich owner’s views 2) Kept advertisers happy So say you want to opt out of that and be fully independent. But then, you become a slave to either your audience’s whims, algorithms, or funders with their own agenda.
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Steven Levy
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In 1981 I went to Atlanta for Rolling Stone to view the amazing phenomenon of a 24-hour cable television news channel, and interviewed the complex dude who started it. RIP Ted Turner.
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“The more stations that are added to the network and the longer the monitoring project runs, the more patterns will become apparent. Birds might be using previously unsuspected corridors, they might be more affected by certain weather conditions than others … ”
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It’s Open Mic Night on Chicago Rooftops, Where Acoustic Devices Will Listen for Migrating Birds
Most birds migrate over Chicago at night. A new network of acoustic monitors is tracking their movements by listening for what can't be seen.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/05/it-s-open-mic-night-chicago-rooftops-where-acoustic-devices-will-listen-migrating-birds
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Patrick Monahan
1 day ago
DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend
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“The answer isn’t a more sophisticated metric. You need to be more deliberate about what you measure and why.” “Article-level metrics will often mislead you.”
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The reader who left your article early might be your most engaged user | Audiencers
Engagement isn’t a single metric to optimize — it reflects different reader needs and moments, where the same behavior can signal success or friction depending on context
https://theaudiencers.com/the-reader-who-left-your-article-early-might-be-your-most-engaged-user/
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dan sinker
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“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents [than] you ever seen before.” The time to get whistles into the hands of your community is right now. We will send you whistles, for free, in quantities of 100-thousands. We do it every day.
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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Nate Pentz
2 days ago
So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.
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shawn
2 days ago
from the jump, we (
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What happened to Silverio Villegas González
An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by witnesses.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/ice-shooting-silverio-villegas-gonzalez-franklin-park/
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑
2 days ago
IL State Police has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González nearly 8 months after he was killed by a federal immigration agent during a traffic stop in Franklin Park toward the start of Operation Midway Blitz. Let's hope State's Atty Burke will finally act.
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Illinois State Police launches investigation into deadly ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González
The probe is the most high-profile independent inquiry that’s been announced in response to Operation Midway Blitz, during which federal agents also shot Marimar Martinez in Brighton Park and routinel...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/05/05/ice-midway-blitz-chicago-trump-silverio-villegas-gonzalez
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Streetsblog Chicago
2 days ago
Cook County Sheriff's Dept. patrolling at Red Line's 63rd Station recently, by Jeff Zoline. He says, "They have mostly been on the Dan Ryan Branch from there south."
@chicagocta.bsky.social
@ctaction.org
@ctasmokers.com
@atalliance.bsky.social
@betterstreetschicago.org
@equiticity.bsky.social
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Kim Lyons
3 days ago
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.”
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
https://share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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The Downballot
3 days ago
In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 days ago
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Jon Seidel
3 days ago
Statement on today's motion from Chris Parente, attorney for Brian Straw:
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Bill Grueskin
3 days ago
Here’s the jaw-dropping story via
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
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Judge mulls contempt over DHS’ ‘patently false’ allegation in deportation case
The Trump administration attacked a judge for releasing an accused murderer, but it withheld existence of the foreign warrant.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/ice-detention-case-contempt-hearing-00905610
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Jill Twiss
3 days ago
Yet again I am pitching the Pet Gala™️
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New York Times Opinion
3 days ago
Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen has been awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in opinion writing, for "an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile."
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Liz Tamny
3 days ago
more on
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Julie K. Brown
A special citation is awarded to Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women, the justice syst...
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/julie-k-brown
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Chicago Tribune
3 days ago
The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.
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Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/04/pulitzer-prize-chicago-tribune-wins/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicagotribune.com&mrfcid=2026050469f8f392bd8c06724627846e
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Leor Galil
6 days ago
Shoegaze is everywhere, especially in the midwest. I reached out to more than a dozen musicians and experts to talk all things midwest shoegaze for my newest Reader feature.
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How does our shoegaze grow? - Chicago Reader
As this noisy rock subgenre has surged in popularity, young midwestern artists—Sunshy, Griefeater, Interlay—have played a key role in its evolution.
https://chicagoreader.com/music/music-feature/shoegaze-midwest-slide-away-sunshy-lovesliescrushing-cloakroom-griefeater-interlay/
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Dan Kennedy
3 days ago
It's not just nostalgia: How print enhances advertising and visibility for local-news projects. New at Media Nation.
#journalism
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It’s not just nostalgia: How print enhances advertising and visibility for local-news projects
Last Thursday I had an opportunity to take part in a panel on the state of community journalism. I was struck by the nostalgia for print expressed by two editors who are many decades younger than I…
https://dankennedy.net/2026/05/04/its-not-just-nostalgia-how-print-enhances-advertising-and-visibility-for-local-news-projects/
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 days ago
Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?
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Last night’s palindromic
#SquareApp
check-in number 26,362 found me … in the East Village: MTA Subway - 2nd Ave (F) in New York City
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MTA Subway - 2nd Ave (F)
Metro Station in New York, NY
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Jonathan Ladd
5 days ago
Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.
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Kevin Elliott
5 days ago
Very clear lede here, doesn't mince words or euphemize, and thereby helps us see how far down the democratic backslide we've already gone:
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Marc Elias
6 days ago
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women and Louisiana voters, my law firm has sued Governor Jeff Landry (R) and Secretary of State Nancy Landry (R), challenging the state’s decision to suspend the 2026 congressional primary elections.
www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...
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🚨 National Council of Jewish Women v. Landry
Learn more.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisiana-congressional-primary-elections-suspension-challenge-ncjw/
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Texas Observer
7 days ago
Update: Meenu Batra was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on April 30. A federal judge in Brownsville mandated her release that same day through a temporary restraining order, writing that her detention likely violated her constitutional right to due process.
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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.
https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
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Cristian Farias
6 days ago
Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority:
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Erin Kissane
7 days ago
as an avid reader of corrections, I am unlikely to recover from “sits peeing down”
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Dave Byrnes
7 days ago
A key finding from the report: "Officials from ICE, CBP, DHS, and the White House routinely lied to the public about the motivations and outcomes of Operation Midway Blitz and concealed and distorted key facts about events involving federal immigration agents."
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Adrienne LaFrance
8 days ago
I wrote for The Atlantic about political violence and the rise of what I’m calling Blood Populism. Americans need to look beyond reflexive partisanship to understand the scope and scale of this problem.
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This Gen Xer will in fact be indulging in the “great tonic” offered by this show next weekend as I continue, hopefully, to “Stay alive and stay weird.”
#afghanwhigs
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The Afghan Whigs celebrate 40 years ahead of a new album - Chicago Reader
Founded in 1986 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Afghan Whigs have walked a long, rambling road with many detours and potholes—and the occasional dramatic crash.
https://chicagoreader.com/music/concert-preview/afghan-whigs-metro/
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Jay Willis
8 days ago
What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.
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SCOTUSblog
7 days ago
Late-night update to Amy's Louisiana v. Callais analysis: the court has been asked on its interim docket to make its decision final immediately, which would give Louisiana more time to potentially adopt a new map.
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In major Voting Rights Act case, Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional rac…
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/in-major-voting-rights-act-case-supreme-court-strikes-down-redistricting-map-challenged-as-racia/
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Disappointing result. Even on a chilly Wednesday night though, still nice to be back at the Gee[km].
#cf97
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“The court directly struck down Louisiana’s current map … With a May 16 primary looming — and early voting set to begin this weekend — drawing new congressional boundaries would require a breakneck timetable and perhaps new election dates.”
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How the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Could Affect the Midterms and Beyond
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court-voting-rights-midterms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.c_iS.ulR4uHFxRAwD&smid=bs-share
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“Its complex ownership history meant that the manuscript had been regarded as lost by Bede scholars since 1975 and no one realised it contained a copy of Caedmon’s Hymn until the National Central Library of Rome digitised the manuscript.”
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New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by Trinity researchers in Rome
Old fashioned sleuthing and the help of modern technology leads to discovery of manuscript with poem composed by a farm labourer 1,300 years ago.
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
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