Matt Krupnick
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Journalist, Chicago resident and occasional TV extra.
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Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:
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daniel sieradski
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real heads know
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
Four-byline alert: đš â.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.â
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Awful to kick off the season with that nonsense.
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Bryce Covert
9 days ago
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days.
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now heâs in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-detainment-harmed-immigrants-with-chronic-health-problems/601588583?utm_source=gift
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Scared the crap out of my pets!
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Carl Quintanilla
13 days ago
â.. Google Searches for âHelp With Mortgageâ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.â (via
@barchart.com
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Melody Joy Kramer
16 days ago
How you can verify that someone is a
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Just a quick reminder that we should never normalize a public agency refusing to answer questions about public business. Keep an eye on this space for my upcoming story on a Chicago agency that has done just that.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
17 days ago
Man, fuck these guys. Absolute babies. The US team was a stain on what was otherwise a sublime baseball tournament.
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Dave was such an Oakland legend.
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CREW
24 days ago
Trump has filed to trademark Americaâs 250th anniversary celebration with his nameâopening the door for Trump and his family to personally profit off a national holiday.
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Trump Organization wants to trademark presidentâs name with Americaâs 250th birthday
Designs for potential logos submitted to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office find President Donald Trump seeking to put himself front and center of summer anniversary celebrations
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trademarks-250th-birthday-celebrations-b2934874.html
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Carolyn Fiddler
27 days ago
A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate
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Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone
Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles âSonnyâ Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-set-execute-man-not-kill-anyone-rcna262113
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Matthew Eadie
29 days ago
Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston
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Radley Balko
30 days ago
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheâs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. Theyâve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrĂguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany RodrĂguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/journalist-estefanty-rodriguez-ice-detention-colombia/
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Marisa Kabas
30 days ago
i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me
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Assigned Media
about 1 month ago
This story, from
@natezuke.bsky.social
, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
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Sheâd Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. â Assigned
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change
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Justin Baragona
about 1 month ago
Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.
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Susan Rinkunas
about 2 months ago
"Those who were laid off include Caroline OâDonovan, the Postâs beat reporter covering Amazon"
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Jeff Bezosâ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-amazon-beat-reporter-1236651840/
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Ben Mullin
about 2 months ago
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Charlie Savage
2 months ago
U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporterâs Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporterâs devices, an unsealed filing shows.
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U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporterâs Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/doj-press-law-warrant-application-washington-post-journalist.html
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Curt Hogg
2 months ago
From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
2 months ago
One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:
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Ali Winston
2 months ago
ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the areaâs African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
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unraveled
2 months ago
We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed GonzĂ lez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these menâplease text us on Signal at unraveled.66
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John Schwartz
2 months ago
The
@nytimes.com
getting it right.
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Peter Sagal
2 months ago
I've said this before, but as bad as things are, this is the sort of thing that most journalists I know got into the business to cover. I am not surprised that we are seeing them rise to the occasion.
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Alex Ip èæž é
2 months ago
INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X)
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The Onion
3 months ago
Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram
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Erica Meltzer
3 months ago
Oglala Lakota president Frank Star Comes Out said when the tribe requested more information, leaders were told the tribe would need to enter into an immigration agreement with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
https://ictnews.org/news/north-central-bureau/four-oglala-detainees-located-three-still-in-ice-custody/
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Lora Kolodny
3 months ago
intimidation
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins
3 months ago
"âThey specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.â Lugert-Thom responded, âI donât know anything about thatâ & she said they then asked, âWell, what about the Asian families?â" "âI was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.â"
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The New York Times
3 months ago
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
https://nyti.ms/4aREYyI
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Sheeeeeeeeeeit
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3 months ago
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shauna
3 months ago
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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I can report that every single Albuquerque resident is coughing up a lung.
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The year is 2167. We have cured cancer and stopped using fossil fuels. But we are no closer to figuring out how to print over Wi-Fi.
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I'm also hearing through the grapevine that she fired a bunch of people today.
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No winter is complete without a visit to the Dodger House in my hometown.
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404 Media
3 months ago
Are big newsrooms getting better at crediting independent journalists?
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
compares notes with
@marisakabas.bsky.social
, founder of
thehandbasket.co
, on landing huge scoops as indie journalists and dealing with mainstream media. Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e73s...
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Rural Indexing Project
4 months ago
Redacted Fayette, AL
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James Downie
4 months ago
For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary."
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tinybaby
6 months ago
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
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Eric Umansky
4 months ago
She was first in her family to go to college. Sheâd been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U8.BrhZ.kslb8yjM23eh&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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WildDogz
4 months ago
@nhlwild.bsky.social
Ojibwe language broadcast of Wild game Nov 28
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Interesting take for a Prius driver.
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In a city full of cool people, Dilla might be at the top of the list.
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Juliet Turner
5 months ago
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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T. Christian Miller
5 months ago
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the governmentâs claims. đ§”
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