A Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff’s office, his lawyers said. nyti.ms/4tKTI8c

Mona Charen: How Corrupt is Trump? Here are the numbers. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrup...

"The bridge is named after Gordie Howe, the Canadian hockey legend who ... often went 'elbows up' on opponents. The phrase has become a rallying cry for Canadians opposing aggressive actions by the United States in Mr. Trump’s second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Your @apstylebook.com tip for the day: rebut, refute Rebut means to argue to the contrary: He rebutted his opponent's statement. Refute connotes success in argument and almost always implies an editorial judgment. Instead, use deny, dispute, rebut or respond to.

@drjudymelinek.bsky.social Have you seen anything about who is doing the autopsy for Renee Good? It would seem an independent examination would be crucial for the integrity of the investigation, right?

A South Side company has proposed dozens of affordable apartments for the one-time home of Mount Carmel HS's sister school in Woodlawn. blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/05/o...

Your @apstylebook.com tip for the day: "Do not use _on_ before a date or day of the week when its absence would not lead to confusion, except at the beginning of a sentence."

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Nearly 2 million Illinoisans will be cut off from food stamps next month if the federal government remains shut down, threatening “a vital lifeline to nutrition,” the Illinois Department of Human Services announced this week.

I am legit curious to see if lawyers for Illinois and Chicago include this in their response to the Trump administration’s request for an immediate order from the Supreme Court to allow the president to deploy National Guard into Chicago

Chicago's No Kings protest brings thousands Downtown for rally, march blockclubchi.co/3WJ4cXA

Only way to know real distance: put starting point street intersection into Google Maps, then map each turn for the 22 block route, to the end point. I don't know the exact route or I would do so. And not trying to be a buzzkill about distance here, but the Grid is in my mind pretty intensely.

Once again, @ltaford.bsky.social has inspired me to remind everyone to *ahem* change their ways and stop casually using the word "reform" to describe proposed changes in the law. ericzorn.substack.com/i/164744845/...

I’m back from vacation, and put together the past few days’ strong images from our @blockclubchi.bsky.social team. GALLERY: Two Weeks In Photos: Chicagoans Stand Up To ICE, Johnson's New Budget And Much More blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/t...

I'm now working as a part-time editor for @blockclubchi.bsky.social. Follow for updates on the No Kings rally in Chicago.

Chicago's No Kings protest: Everything you need to know blockclubchi.co/47lIXAm

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The @blockclubchi.bsky.social newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago. If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website: callforvideos.formstack.com/forms/chicag...

Full filing here: Waiting for a kind, generous person to upload the rest from Pacer. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70533...

He was taken from Los Angeles, to Phoenix, then Colorado, and ended up in El Paso, TX. There officers told them it didn't matter if they signed deportation papers, they were being deported anyway. In a 3 min phone call he told his partner to say goodbye to his children for him

In a habeas corpus suit against DHS, Lionel Flores was arrested at his ISAP check-in. When he ask ICE agents why he was being arrested they, said "judges orders don't matter, only the President." After telling them he had a lawyer, they replied "that doesn't matter either."

@chicagocta.bsky.social So this account doesn't do any real-time alerts and you did away with doing that on Twitter? Too bad.

Trump doesn't have the resources to deport everyone he wants to deport. So his goal is "self-deportation," making people "so scared... they will choose to leave." @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social is all over this story. Check out his newsletter in @thebulwark.bsky.social. lnk.thebulwark.com/40ds72I

Ok, this is odd. I don't think this could possibly be an original Italian brand. Time to poke around and see.

Madame DeFayke, Hoofist. Illustration from the Road to Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum

The Syrian regime collapsed slowly -- and then suddenly www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Friends of the Parks takes aim at South Works quantum plan (gift link to Crain’s Chicago Business article) www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/fri...

If this site allows me to find news stories and opinions and cute cat photos without having to scroll through 5 million AI-generated schlock pictures a day, it will have done its job.

Global infant mortality rate, with and without vaccines, 1974-2024, via Our World in Data Data. Source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved child survival: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. ourworldindata.org/grapher/infa...

A collection of covers from Bloomington, Illinois, for #ManholeCoverMonday @rogersparkman.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @emb-cit.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @chouinardphoto.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social