i love it when east coast journalists visit www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Meze Table has found a home in Bridgeport after years of selling at pop-ups and markets. blockclubchi.co/4sGGUPX

Amazing quote and new vocal stim unlocked: "It’s a bunch of bitches up in here." (gift link)

These food delivery robots have individual "names" and I'm curious about the decision-making that led to giving THIS robot — the one taking the blame for smashing through the glass walls of Chicago bus stops — an Arabic name, Nasir, as opposed to something more generically white guy like Bob or Pete

Absolute perfection. A+ four stars 10/10 100%. Peak duckling. What an incredible baby bird season it's been. Onto month 2! 🪶 🐣

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.

A police watchdog is hosting a public hearing Thursday with the city’s top cop to discuss the department’s interactions with immigration agents — but he refused to participate if it featured legal, police reform and immigration experts, records show. blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/01/t...

I still remember the first time I noticed that Chicago parking ticket writers are employees of the Department of Revenue 💡💰

Things women used as weapons in 1900 as recorded in police court records. I can write the scenarios for some of these. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois • Sun, Sep 16, 1900Page 49

I missed this when it happened but it's a very cool opportunity for news orgs to think about next time they have a story that will have a lot of social media buzz... November elections if not before graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2...

When Oz says “things your family used to do for you” he’s talking about unpaid, undervalued, mostly female labor back in a time when fewer women had to work outside the home, and families were also much bigger. It’s misogynistic as hell, and ignores today’s economic realities.

Hosting a Table Talk at #ONA26: “Standing in the Gap: Why Journalism Doesn't Reach People.” Come chat from now to 11 a.m.!

I know this is totally anecdotal, but has anyone else in Chicago noticed a huge uptick in parking enforcement since roughly December? I swear I see ticketers on my Bridgeport block weekly now after almost never seeing them for seven years prior.

My latest for @americantheatre.org magazine is a powerful interview with new Golden Thread Productions Artistic Director Nabra Nelson! Here's a theatre company and leader to watch. www.americantheatre.org/2026/03/23/g...

Literally this: 1 billion dollars, conservatively invested to produce 4% interest a year, generates $100,000 per DAY in interest alone. 100Grand every day towards harassment and abuse, without touching the capital. She has 1.2 billion, so the other 20K/day in interest pays for life expenses.

JK is already a literal billionaire, and you need to understand the sheer scope of what that means and the very real influence that status affords her. She does not need more money, more publicity, more viewership. It’s so easy to withhold a personal contribution to that.

This is a newer one but I laugh every time I read the headline.

trans women have been trying for years to explain that the anti-abortion and anti-trans movements are ultimately the same movement and these bastards just come out and say it

Just a reminder that this account just makes things up and presents them as news. It's lib fan fiction. Nothing from the Halfway Post is real. They pretend it's satire, but what is this even satirizing? What's the commentary? What's the joke?

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After all, shoveling snow is one of those “unalienable Rights” the founders cared so much about.

Mayor Johnson says he is discouraged by this vote, slamming "the self-proclaimed Democrats" who voted for the roll back. "It's shameful," Johnson says. "We will continue to stand with working people," Johnson says, promising to use "every single tool available to me" to stop it from taking effect.

I got to test out a 1-day version of this training a couple years ago and it was EXCELLENT.

Applications are now open for our yearlong Investigative Editor Training Program, which aims to broaden the ranks of investigative editors. Interested? Deadline to apply: March 30, 9 a.m. ET. grnh.se/73hiazh06us

Oh. "Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S."

Did you #CheckYourJudges and now you want to know what happened in the judicial races? @injusticewatch.org is the only news organization with Cook County judicial election results. Follow live here: 2026primary.injusticewatch.org/results

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

Raja charging $13 for a Diet Coke tracks

Hegseth is supposed to be talking about war, but he focuses on rewriting the media's headlines. And he makes it clear that the Trump regime expects sweetheart treatment from an Ellison-owned CNN: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."

Sometimes long reads don't necessarily flow like a downhill ski run but the reporting is so compelling and eye-opening that you keep reading. This is one of those pieces. Holy shit. It will be interesting to see what kind of traction this gets in the news cycle.

Wind gusts are 50-60mph in the Chicago area this morning. A high wind warning has been issued. Waukegan has a 7am wind gust of 64mph and O'Hare has a 49mph wind gust. Aurora 56mph.

Really love this feature by fall 2025 @citybureau.bsky.social fellow Amari Davis. Too many Black elders were casualties of two global public health crises spanning 50 years: the AIDS epidemic and COVID-19. Here's how Black Chicagoans are building those intergenerational relationships back up.

REALLY excited about this project. We're teaming up with Documenters sites across the country — Detroit! Newark! Rural communities in Seattle and Washington! — to illustrate how federal cuts are affecting your local communities. Share what you're seeing here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

holy shit

Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Join us today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mouse Arts and Letters Club (555 W 31st St) in Bridgeport. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary!

Alec Baldwin really branching out lately.

seems fine and not Parks and Recs vibes at all. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/19/c...

Sure, in a space ship maybe.

If this proves true and clergy are allowed inside the Broadview facility regularly to provide pastoral care and Communion, that would be a huge shift. Note: clergy access at Broadview has indeed been the subject of a lawsuit, as well as several protests — including one with dozens of arrests.

The biggest barriers to solving the climate crisis are political, not technological. We don't need an AI to help us because we already know what we need to do. We just lack the political will to do it. (And one of those things we need to do is turn off AI data centers that run on fossil fuels.)

The photo gallery at the top of the story is fun (intrepid Tribune photographer Josh Bland went all over town photographing examples) and I gotta say the table at Potbelly’s on State St. (a tip from Robert) made me laugh www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/c...

Inspired by a delightful back-and-forth on here recently between @robertloerzel.bsky.social & @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social sharing photos of the Chicago Municipal Device, I thought it’d be fun to write about what the hell it even is and why you can spot it all over town once you look for it Gift 🔗

Support the staffers who were laid off today

White Sox promo schedule release day is practically an annual holiday in my household.

Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Thread. @cengizyar.com is part of the visuals team at @propublica.org, doing important reporting work on the ground.