What data and analysis says on the head tax: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

NEW in Bolts: Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.

You may want to check out this piece from The Triibe: thetriibe.com/2025/07/crit...

CTA Study Could Yield Bus Lanes, Improvements On Major Streets Like Cottage Grove, 55th blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/11/c...

"About three-quarters of the products we checked were offered at different prices to different customers...and price variations for the same products ranged from as little as 7 cents to $2.56 per item." www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

Maternity Care Is Lacking On The South Side. Kennedy-King's Midwife Program Aims To Change That blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/10/m...

Well well well

You know what, the only reason people are confused/alarmed/overhyped about what kind of technology LLMs are is because we’ve reduced the notion of intelligence to language.

Safe Passage is such a vital program and makes students and communities feel safe. When I walk home, I feel safe seeing the parents standing on the corners. So many ripple effects of federal immigration raids. The people employed to protect students don't feel protected themselves while in public.

Chicago Police Department promoted 2 cops after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Remember shame? The world was better with it.

Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics

Remember: government can respond to your needs and pain if it wants to (read: if politically expedient) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Delivery Robots Take Over Chicago Sidewalks, Sparking Debate And A Petition To Hit 'Pause' blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/08/d...

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things: 1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum. 2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

This is one of the examples I will forever cite as proof generation wars are stupid. Because if you are old enough to remember Jim Baker you know exactly how this movie ends

Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it. So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid

"Is now," lol www.businessinsider.com/getting-hot-...

wapo.st/3MbB09O Please compare across apps!!

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

Be advised, Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/28/c...

A book I'll be checking out for sure goodauthority.org/news/how-joy...

Just stop with the balloon releases already!!!! This is what hapoens when you do dumb shit like that. These DO NOT fall apart, they sit down way down here and pollute. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

Chicago is a model of resistance for cities battling federal immigration enforcement operations. Check out how from @thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/11/chic...

RealPage Agrees to Settle Federal Rent-Collusion Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...

Program that allows police to directly file some gun charges to expand citywide www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/f...

Pritzker pleads for federal flood disaster aid after summer storms chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

just circling back on 1964 America's priorities

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

Three-generation West Side family fights to overcome Chicago’s vast life expectancy gap www.wbez.org/health-medic...

This is the type of unserious behavior that people have no time for...if they hear about it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

There are solid lessons here citythatworks.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Speaker Johnson hasn't seen the posts, probably

Wow. Everything is awful! The Dart Center is, or I guess WAS, so important for journalists who cover and experience trauma in their work. Columbia, what a sad, sad demise.

Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Mayor Johnson instructs Chicago residents to ‘call their alders’ after finance committee rejects budget proposal thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...

400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...