Matt Krupnick
@mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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Journalist, Chicago resident and occasional TV extra. Signal: Krupnick.76
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"You're not going to hold me accountable, I'll tell you that." That's what a Chicago court clerk told me when I asked why eviction records were so incomplete. Court employees stopped responding to me, and the records I received had thousands of glaring omissions.
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Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022
Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, including addresses.
https://bit.ly/chicagoevictions
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Radley Balko
8 days ago
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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They're everywhere! My dog goes nuts for them.
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EdSource Guild
10 days ago
🚨 EDSOURCE GUILD IS ON STRIKE! 🚨 Today—Thursday, May 14—EdSource Guild is on a one-day work stoppage due to the unilateral changes to our insurance and the lack of progress on key contract issues. PLEASE DO NOT CROSS OUR PICKET LINE AND VISIT
@edsource.org
TODAY!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Eviction Lab
15 days ago
“Court’s records are missing addresses for nearly 10,000 of the cases filed between April 2022 and September 2025... which makes a thorough look at eviction trends all but impossible.” By
@mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022
Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, including addresses.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/05/cook-county-landlords-have-filed-for-more-than-40000-evictions-since-2022/
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"You're not going to hold me accountable, I'll tell you that." That's what a Chicago court clerk told me when I asked why eviction records were so incomplete. Court employees stopped responding to me, and the records I received had thousands of glaring omissions.
bit.ly/chicagoevict...
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Cook County Landlords Have Filed For More Than 40,000 Evictions Since 2022
Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, including addresses.
https://bit.ly/chicagoevictions
18 days ago
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Gregory Pratt
19 days ago
Today is a special day for the
@chicagotribune.com
But I also want to say how much I admire our city’s entire journalism community. Block Club in particular did fantastic work. So did our pals at the Sun-Times/WBEZ. Support local journalism, always
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Keith Boykin
22 days ago
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.
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Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
Louisiana Republicans have eliminated the office an exoneree was set to take after being overwhelmingly elected to the New Orleans-based seat. Republican Gov.
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-criminal-clerk-calvin-duncan-exonerated-6a48a3d1ca81c91d42dc122dbed77f29
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I covered his trial. Craziest experience of my life.
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21 days ago
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Philip Bump
29 days ago
It's fake.
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Tim Carvell
29 days ago
The thing about the WHCD is, do you have any idea how nice it is not to go to something? And to have the excuse that you're doing it on principle? My god, take the win.
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Lisa Pickoff-White
about 1 month ago
Good book on it
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Beautiful day in the Wrigley bleachers
about 1 month ago
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Christina Samuels
about 1 month ago
This timing is perfect but sad: Hampshire College announced that this would be its last year. My colleague Jon Marcus just wrote about tiny Sterling College in Vermont, which is also closing at the end of this semester:
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As one Vermont college finishes its last semester, a new projection shows that 442 more are at similar risk
A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or hav...
https://hechingerreport.org/more-than-a-quarter-of-private-colleges-are-at-risk-of-closing-new-projection-shows/
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The Long Beach Airport terminal has more birds than any forest I've been in.
about 1 month ago
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Robert Faturechi
about 1 month ago
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception...
www.propublica.org/article/impe...
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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...
https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter
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Tyler King
about 1 month ago
This is also a fake image. The details of the capsule are entirely wrong.
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daniel sieradski
about 2 months ago
real heads know
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. 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.”
www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Awful to kick off the season with that nonsense.
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about 2 months ago
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Bryce Covert
about 2 months 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 he’s 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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about 2 months ago
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.” (via
@barchart.com
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Melody Joy Kramer
2 months ago
How you can verify that someone is a
@propublica.org
reporter.
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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.
2 months ago
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
2 months 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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2 months ago
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CREW
2 months ago
Trump has filed to trademark America’s 250th anniversary celebration with his name—opening the door for Trump and his family to personally profit off a national holiday.
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Trump Organization wants to trademark president’s name with America’s 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
3 months 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 “Sonny” 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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Radley Balko
3 months ago
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, 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
3 months 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
3 months 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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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — 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
3 months 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
4 months ago
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
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Jeff Bezos’ 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
4 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
4 months ago
U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s 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 reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s 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
4 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
4 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
4 months ago
ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s 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
4 months ago
We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez 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 men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
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John Schwartz
4 months ago
The
@nytimes.com
getting it right.
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Peter Sagal
4 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 葉清霖
4 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
4 months ago
Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram
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Erica Meltzer
4 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
4 months ago
intimidation
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins
4 months ago
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
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The New York Times
4 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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5 months ago
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shauna
5 months ago
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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