"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Za-...

Indiana Senate FTW

Looks like my parents, who have lived in the 1st District for more than 50 years and would have been gerrymandered out of it, are going to get to stay in their district. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/i...

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

What Sen. Bohacek is demonstrating is basic decency. Sad that it even has to be said.

Wife is putting our ornaments on the tree and just put up a Bo ornament (modeled after the Obamas' dog) we bought at the gift shop in the East Wing of the White House in 2016. That gift shop, along with the entire East Wing is now rubble in some golf course. Shit.

What a massive disappointment.

My first piece for the newly-rebranded @msnowreports.bsky.social: RFK Jr.'s changing the CDC's stance on autism and vaccines signifies just another step in the backlash to #Neurodiversity. And it is a disservice to #ActuallyAutistic people. www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...

"Maps based on Trump 2024 baseline numbers might not hold in a difficult midterm because the new districts would have narrower margins and not all Trump’s voters would necessarily turn out in a midterm. 'In fact, I mean, if you really got too cute, you could find yourself at 6-3,' Bray told me."

"If you dig what you do they will never get you down ..." RIP Todd Snider www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTI...

WATCH body cam video of an ICE agent arrested for DUI after his shift at the Broadview facility. He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window. "Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I'm skeptical that they can redraw the maps in such a way to achieve their goals. Indiana's 2nd Cong. Dist. used to be a swing district until they put more Dem voters in the 1st. In trying to steal a district they could weaken others enough to lose GOP seats in what could be a wave election.

In Gary, Indiana this morning— Community members have gathered in protest of ongoing ICE flights. This small, sleepy airport is where many captives from the Chicago area detention center are transported (frequently in the middle of the night) as the next step in the deportation pipeline.

My family was able to visit the Obama White House in 2016. Visitors entered through the East Wing, where I shot this photo out the window from an area that I'm guessing is now torn down. I remember the solemn atmosphere and respect for history throughout the tour. It was a different era.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

Just heard that Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

"Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress has been temporarily interrupted." I guess the Kimmel news hit the Disney Parks.

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

Do you know these signs of a TIA? Why you should get checked out before you have a stroke. https://www.franciscanhealth.org/community/blog/4-things-to-know-about-tias

Some helpful tips for following the awful news out of Minnesota today.

Bears are going to Bears. It never changes.

The authoritarian shit is bad on its own, but let's not lose sight of the fact that this Texas law enforcement officer couldn't keep up with a 61-year-old out for her morning walk. Like the Nazis, these people are evil and pathetic at the same time. Don't miss any chance to mock them as losers.

We’ve said it repeatedly — the Trump assault on the Department of Education is an assault on kids with disabilities. This Ohio district is violating the clear letter of the IDEA but with the Dept of Ed eviscerated and the courts turning a blind eye, parents are on their own.

Absolutely brilliant and spot on.

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

As if the loss of local journalism jobs wasn't horror enough.

C'mon Indiana, you can do this.

Looks like an achilles. That's a heartbreaker. Here's hoping the Pacers can compete without Halliburton.

Lawrence O’Donnell is opening his show with this letter right now.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

US Steel has effectively been nationalized (by the political party supposedly fighting American socialism) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

Very Chicago: The new pope ate at an Aurelio's last summer while visiting his old stomping grounds, an old friend of Robert Prevost tells me.

Great song by an artist that will be missed. Rest in Power, Jill.

Awful, awful news. Jill Sobule was an incredible songwriter and performer. Few could paint a scene more vivid than she could with her words and guitar chords. mailchi.mp/girlieaction...

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

"We were savages living in the ruins of a great civilization of Rockefellers and Carnegies. We would drive through the steel mills and within 20 yards of open blast furnaces ... Those sounds were showing us the way to change the narrative vehicle of modern music." RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu

Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway

It’s rare that a single commercial would prompt me to swear off a particular product, but that anti-newspaper Sling TV commercial is so odious that I’ll never consider using it.

Do not obey in advance. Good on NU.

Don’t let go of the evidence of insider trading, Dems. Push and push and push. Get real answers or implicate the whole GOP by their refusal to provide them.

Lithuanians in Vilnius paid more respects to the 4 American troops who died in Lithuania than Donald Trump…who ran off to go golfing.

An ice pick to the forehead: how does it affect you?

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.