What are journalists dealing with on the front lines covering DHS and ICE? @attorneynora.bsky.social @writeralejandra.bsky.social @plasticjesusart.bsky.social @mvtopic.bsky.social and I had a lot of ground to cover in this 1-hour panel hosted by @exposedbycmd.bsky.social and @acslaw.bsky.social!

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

I forget to come on here sometimes. Too much social and too little time to manage it all. But hey! And hi!

When the French-accented Vietnamese and Thai restaurant Thithi’s opened in Evergreen Park 10 years ago, it brought upscale dining and a classy martini bar to an area sorely in need of both. Here's why @adriennewrites.bsky.social thinks you should check it out:

Wow!!!

Someone's curly haired puppy ran to my son while we were at Nike downtown, and I spent the rest of our shopping trip trying to find the owner. That dog didn't want to leave us.

The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday gave the first approval for a multimillion-dollar expansion of XS Tennis Village-in Washington Park.

More than 200 gather in downtown Rockford for 'Good Trouble Lives On' protest

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.

My former coworker is EIC of TexasMonthly. His Senior Editor was asleep in the family river house when floods came and ripped the house on stilts off its foundation. This story is one of the saddest, most beautiful pieces of writing I have ever read. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Sinners at home isn't as beautiful as it was on the big screen. There was something abt the lighting at the theater that was lost in my home viewing. Anyone else notice this? Those gorgeous, golden flecked skintones seemed... flat at home. I guess I just gotta go see more movies AT the movies!

This is important stuff.

REVIEW: “The Bear” is back for Season 4 A digital clock has been placed in the kitchen to count down the minutes over the next two months and if the restaurant’s finances don’t improve by the time it reaches zero, The Bear will close for good. Will the restaurant live to cook another day?

Got hit with my first $88 tariff on a $60 item delivered by UPS. Ups asked me for a check. Ha. I don't have any right now. I have tried really hard not to order things that are tariffed and hubby thought this was from Denmark. Guess not. The box said China.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has announced a $4.8 million settlement with Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, resolving environmental violations related to the building’s cooling system, which uses water drawn from the Chicago River. news.wttw.com/2025/05/22/t...

arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake

Oh, Microsoft Teams is haunted? That's nice. What do you know about the Jabberwocky Entity

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com

Chicago celebrates the new Pope. Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago. There's no truth to the rumor that the cardinals in the conclave subscribed to the Chicago practice of "vote early and vote often".

Hahahahahahaha. T shirt. Ordered!

Chicago always stay front and center. He was born here.

The Chicago Beyhive is buzzing. I'm excited for next week!

word of mouth on this movie is insane, i think

The role of Tony Soprano came down to three actors. Inside an HBO conference room, ‘The Sopranos’ creator David Chase needed convincing.

The sentencing hearing for Robert Crimo III, 24, is scheduled to begin at the Lake County Courthouse more than a month after he abruptly pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding 48 others during the 2022 Highland Park parade festivities.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “We are going to change the law to prohibit foreign governments from carrying out political and ideological propaganda in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

Update! Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course! This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure. It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity. karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...

So THIS is why they told me I couldn't leave my kids in Minecraft and cross the hall to watch Sinners! They had all these signs up, telling us to "not DAMAGE the theatre."

Interesting.

The TRiiBE spoke to several of Lil Durk’s friends, collaborators, and fans to unpack why Durk's music and community legacy remain important to Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...

Fabulous @awmuseum.bsky.social event tonight at the Chicago Public Library with @nkjemisin.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, @nghivo.bsky.social, Matthew Kirby and @michitrota.bsky.social moderating! So many incredibly well-thought out responses on the fly to BIG questions. 😊❤️

The ones who stay and fight--- the whole crowd murmured when NK brought it up. It's a real insider crowd... quoting Leguin and such. These are my people! The 12 year old inside of me is squealing with delight.

Matthew Kirby, who writes assassin's creed books and games says "don't be a tourist." I think i just heard him (basically) say he has a sensitivity and culture reader/friend (?) He said "we all have blind spots and biases.. to make sure I'm not leaving things unquestioned that should be."

I really love seeing a panel that is truly diverse. Like for real. the convo moved from exocitism to being othered. Being othered is a very real concern. Everyone is nodding their head in agreement. Adding various cultures to sff "de-exocitizes" us all, says @nkjemisin.bsky.social #booksky

We are at the Harold Washington library in Chicago with the @awmuseum.bsky.social for a discussion on writers and religion creation in sci fi and fantasy.

@nnedi.bsky.social Said she doesn't quite make things up regarding spirituality. She discussed referencing Nigerian cosmology and spirituality. "I want to see them honored." Whew.

They are starting off with the basics of world building... how do you create a religion? [@awmuseum.bsky.social put together a dream event!] @nkjemisin.bsky.social "for me it depends on whether I'm writing a setting" that is religious or a setting where religion is a core tenant of the story.

I'm here right now! Excited to hear the convo

Bring back vowels. The all consonant thing is cute for a little while, but for press release subject lines? I need the vowels please.

I use subtitles on yellowjackets otherwise I would not have heard 90% of it. Meanwhile I never had to subtitle GoT or WestWorld.

I'm really curious why freight TRAINS have gotten longer in Chicago then. We are stopped routinely 2x a day by 2-5 mile trains. That length is illegal in the city. We don't have over passes or under passes. It's all flat by the tracks. Are they not using truckers anymore and opting for trains???

RFK Jr.’s lies about autism are disgraceful — and I won't share them to spread misinformation. He consistently undermines public health and reinforces dangerous myths. In Illinois, we stand with those with autism, and I’ll keep fighting for inclusion, science, and the truth.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

There's been a LOT of disinformation put out about Mr. Abrego Garcia, so much that it's been difficult for me to keep up. I found this article by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social really helpful in sorting through the bullshit. www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

Interesting. This impacts you if you pay late.

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The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote. (via @19thnews.org)