it's just one of those regular 13 inning games

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

I lived a short walk from here for seven of the ten years I lived in Logan

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What kind of headline is this?? Journalists cannot ethically cover the administration's abnormal actions as "normal" just because they're writing a story about the US Government doing Official US Government Things. This headline is fit for a routine speech. It was not a routine speech at all.

This from an administration that is very, very aggressive to people living on the street and opposed to evidence-based housing practices.

Can't wait for the stern rebuke from Democrats this afternoon.

Who knew bleach could be so versatile!!

Hey, photography friends, this could be a good place to throw a few bucks to a fellow photographer.

some of my most serious journalism to date www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Just so everyone is aware, this 50 percent number is an absolute lie. If it were true, we'd know that. There's no way we wouldn't know that. It's not even the kind of information that could be revealed because we've been here the whole time seeing it not be true. But it will be believed.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

I mostly talk journalism/serious shit here, but I am really stoked to share that my band was included in @pastemagazine.bsky.social's Best New Songs this week. Thanks to @yogurttowne.bsky.social for the overwhelmingly kind words. I'm ecstatic!! www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-n...

I am so tired of dating shows. Entertainment should be based on obstacle courses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqY...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

U.S. intelligence has removed "T" from "LGBT" in their reports - including those intended to warn of threats to the community. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...

Horrifying, insane scoop from @vivmccall.bsky.social . Five beatings of trans women have occurred in Seattle so far this year. The suspects have all been men. In at least one case, random men—strangers—have joined in on the attacks. Depraved shit. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

It's been a bad day! For now I'll just say I can't think of a worse time to have fewer reporters and editors on the job and that I'm very glad to have a union on our side.

your grandchild: so what saved the republic you: well...let's just call them friends of mickey :)

Going to take a wild stab and say this is bad news.

Seattle Children's is eliminating 5 percent of its staff (155 filled roles, 350 open ones) over Trump's Medicaid cuts. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Tammany Hall is now a Petco

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism’ in the United States.” The study was on live on the website until at least Sept 12 according to Wayback.

In a recording of a recent virtual meeting obtained by The Stranger, Council President Sara Nelson laid out a plan to keep her seat, part of which was to "bump up my sort of anti-Trump rhetoric, or acknowledge that we're under attack, or whatever." Inspiring. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

They're looking at you to keep you safe, even if research shows it won't keep you safe. More on a vibes-based conservative council here. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle City Council voted to expand police surveillance in Seattle, despite two and a half hours of public comment opposing it. CMs Rinck and Strauss voted against the two ordinances. Solomon, Hollingsworth, Kettle, Nelson, Rivera, Saka and Juarez vote for them. Story TK.

Kettle: The Real Time Crime Center, Seattle CCTV, repped Seattle values in the Seattle way. They're not standard bills, they're "definitely not red state, red county bills." Public comment had little to do with red states. It was the federal government. You know, the one that runs ICE?

At the Seattle City Council meeting rn: public commenters don't want the Council to expand a police surveillance program. Why? Surveillance doesn't work and it's risky. Especially now, as the federal government can use this tech to target immigrants, trans people, and women seeking abortions (1/?)

looks like another great day of having solved the free speech problem on campus

Had a very cool afternoon talk with Dr. Cornel West. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Still took a day to react to a bare-knuckled threat to its bedrock principle! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

NEW - Here's my update on the Texas bathroom bill, which goes to Gov. Greg Abbot for signing. It applies to publicly owned facilities - universities, schools, courthouses, the DMV, stuff like that. The bill, once signed, goes into effect on December 3rd, by my math: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Unconditional support for gun rights, right? Right? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

The news I was waiting to hear: "By late Wednesday afternoon, however, several Washington insurance companies — including Premera Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente and Regence BlueShield — had affirmed their commitment to covering updated COVID vaccines for all patients, regardless of federal changes."

Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.

The average Atlantic article lately is like “We All Know George Bush Was a Great President, but We Should Laud His Painting, Too”

Credit to Vivian on breaking this: bsky.app/profile/vivm...

This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

What universe is this magazine living in

There's a nude-in at Denny Blaine Park today (with this weather, it may be a bit nippy). www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

This story RIPS. The “god is a furry” photo with the caption “new information about god. The interview with the reverend who thinks Feucht’s music sucks. The counterprotest by someone who calls themself Wario Kazoo Savage. I am locked tf in

One: Wario Kazooman Savage is a city treasure Two: Rev. Segou is the real deal Three: THIS is the journalism we’re starving for

“Nationally, clowns have an impressive track record against Nazis. They work because Nazis are stupid (see The Producers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Nazis)…”

"I want to be clear. Feucht’s music blows absolute ass. Not because it’s Christian rock, or worship music (I’m Catholic, I fuck heavy with hymns). Great religious music is everywhere. It’s in gospel, in soul, in blues." This piece is fantastic.

Notice the lyrics about nothing in the world standing in the way of God's people. Right. These people are not standing in his way at all, and even from this that's clear.