Julia Haslanger
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📰 Fan of newsrooms + data 📈 🏙️ Based in Chicago 🧀 Cheesehead
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, in her November 20 opinion in a case over the federal government’s treatment of protesters and press in Illinois, warned us — warned America — that Wednesday was coming. My overnight report at Law Dork:
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An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/ice-agent-killed-renee-nicole-good-ellis-opinion
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Eliot Higgins
4 days ago
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Marisa Kabas
5 days ago
This part has really stuck with me:
www.thehandbasket.co/p/kavanaugh-...
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Rob Tornoe
5 days ago
I spoke to the owner of a Trump Store in the Philly suburbs who is closing up shop due to declining sales.
www.inquirer.com/business/tru...
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‘It’s time’: Trump Store in Bucks County closing due to declining sales
Mike Domanico's store thrived during the Biden administration, but Trump's return to the White House has been bad for business.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/trump-store-bensalem-bucks-county-closing-20260106.html
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randy r. potts
5 days ago
as a teacher who did this with HS Seniors in Dallas, I learned 2 things: 1, this needs to be a unit every single year, K-12, across disciiplines, because it's that difficult to teach well and, 2, kids actually like spotting fakes and really get into this if you give them the skills to do so
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Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
https://apnews.com/article/fake-news-classrooms-finland-russia-194b32d8829838bfe47469d6ff357689
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I moved around a lot in my 20s, and have traveled to a lot of professional conferences.
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Joe Murphy
6 days ago
The flu surge in the last week of the year was really something else (see the line chart in the story). "About 5,000 people have died of the flu so far this season, including 9 children, as the Trump administration pulls back on advice to get kids vaccinated."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Flu surges in 45 states as doctor visits reach highest level in nearly 30 years
About 5,000 people have died of the flu so far this season, including 9 children, as the Trump administration pulls back on advice to get kids vaccinated.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/flu-2026-states-deaths-cdc-symptoms-superflu-rcna251910
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Jason Koebler
6 days ago
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
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cwilk
6 days ago
Enough is enough. I just saw this clanker run a train crossing and narrowly avoid a collision with a Metra train. Who knows what would’ve happened.
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Shannon Heffernan
6 days ago
ICYMI over holidays: 3,800 children, including infants, were held in immigrant detention in 2025. Families report children are so distressed they are hitting themselves in the face and soiling themselves, despite being potty-trained.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
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ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/children-immigration-detention-dilley-ice
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unraveled
8 days ago
Sorry for limited skeets; frozen fingers! Large Chicago crowd has hit the streets in protest of the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.
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Dave Byrnes
8 days ago
The protest continues to grow, now spilling further back into Federal Plaza and across the street in front of the city's federal courthouse. Police hanging out nearby but the atmosphere is calm so far.
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Sabrina Vourvoulias
8 days ago
"The breathtaking use of military force against a sovereign state has no legal justification." Editorial from
@inquirer.com
:
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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For Venezuelans in the U.S., the recent election was not just a political event but a pivotal moment | Opinion
As the dust of the election settles, Casa de Venezuela cofounder Emilio Buitrago writes that sentiment among the diaspora is a mix of cautious optimism, hope, and frustration with the Maduro regime.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/venezuela-elections-maduro-usa-20240814.html
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Parker Molloy
9 days ago
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-apologize-grok-isnt-sentient
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Michael McLean
10 days ago
Strong Towns Chicago deployed my location crash report dashboard 🤝
@strongtownschicago.bsky.social
Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward. Best experienced on desktop 🗺️
www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...
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Barry Butler Photography
11 days ago
2026's First Light. This morning's sunrise in Chicago to start off the new year.
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Injustice Watch
10 days ago
📣 We’re hiring an editor in chief to lead our award-winning editorial team. Check out the full job posting and apply here:
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10 years since I graduated with my masters from CUNY with this crew!
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Caitlin Gilbert
12 days ago
EXCLUSIVE:
@laurenweberhp.bsky.social
& I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link:
wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
https://wapo.st/49zDc43
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Philadelphia Inquirer
12 days ago
OPINION: "When a gunman attacked my classmates, school active shooter drills proved useful to me. It's a skill I wish I never had to learn." — CJ Lair
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The shooting at Brown haunts me. It should haunt us all. | Opinion
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/brown-university-shooting-gun-safety-laws-cj-lair-20251229.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1767121062
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Philadelphia Inquirer
13 days ago
Our favorite visual stories from the past twelve months
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The Inquirer’s best interactives and visual stories of 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/year-in-interactives-best-visual-stories-20251230.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1767091907
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Prisonculture
14 days ago
The Black Zine Fair needs funds to happen. We pay workshop facilitators, it costs us thousands to rent tables and chairs, we feed exhibitors & volunteers & more. Please help us to raise the funds needed:
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
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Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
https://gogetfunding.com/black-zine-fair-returns-in-2026-help-us-bring-it-to-life/
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Lynda Lopez
14 days ago
“Ramírez didn’t fully understand her legal options, and she says she wanted to escape the difficult conditions inside Broadview. She signed the self-deportation form.” “Ramírez says she wanted to get out; there was little food and water, and she was unable to shower.”
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She was deported to Mexico. He’s in detention. Now, this Chicago couple has to figure out what’s next.
Alexa Ramírez came to Chicago with big plans for the future. As she tries to readjust to life in Mexico, she and her husband are working out how to rebuild their life together.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/28/deported-chicago-to-mexico-husband-ice-detention-middway-blitz
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That was a fun Green Bay drive to watch, at least.
#Packers
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Laurie
16 days ago
✶✶ How closely did you follow Chicago local news in 2025? ✶✶ Take the quiz to find out! 📰 🏙️ 🤓
lauriemerrell.com/chicago-news...
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Chicago Local News Quiz 2025
Chicago local news quiz 2025
https://lauriemerrell.com/chicago-news-quiz-2025/
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Jeff Nichols
17 days ago
Chicago Christmas map by the Illinois Office of Tourism, 1982
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Bill Savage
17 days ago
Everyone looking for some Chicago Christmas history, from heart-warming to heartbreaking, check
@backwardsriver.bsky.social
tonight.
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madeline odent
18 days ago
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
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Mark Joseph Stern
19 days ago
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Reo Eveleth
20 days ago
In case you missed this on Friday, at
@unbreaking.org
we updated our trans healthcare explainer with a timeline (100+ events) and a totally rewritten explainer (20k words, 150+ footnotes) to help people understand the many diverse attacks on gender affirming care, and where they currently stand:
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Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
https://unbreaking.org/issues/transgender-healthcare/
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Jeff Agrest
22 days ago
The Sun-Times Sports Sunday cover, featuring the Bears, whose miracle finish stuns the Packers in overtime, by
@patfinley.bsky.social
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john j. kim
22 days ago
If divine intervention ever played a role in a football game, it happened tonight. Leo da Pope had something to do with this Bears win 🙏 🏈🏈🏈🏈
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...and all my snarky remarks from the first three quarters of the Packers-bears game will remain in drafts. Glad I held off on posting now.
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The TRiiBE
22 days ago
NEW — Ahead of tonight's game, we wanted to know how Black Chicagoans can somehow choose the Green Bay Packers over the Bears. These three men shared their origin stories with us. "The Packers have mostly been better than the Bears in my lifetime," one fan said.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/i-do...
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‘I don’t hate the Bears. I just tease the fans’: why some Chicagoans root for the Green Bay Packers • The TRiiBE
Chicagoans call them traitors. These Packers fans share their origin stories.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/12/i-dont-hate-the-bears-i-just-tease-the-fans-why-some-chicagoans-root-for-the-green-bay-packers/
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Just rebranded an open-face toasted PB&J as "PB&J pizza" in order to get my 4-year-old kid to eat it. Success.
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Mike Baker
23 days ago
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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Parker Molloy
24 days ago
As I wrote today:
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Rough times to love and care about a trans person, of any age.
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jael holzman
25 days ago
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
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Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
https://youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?si=-ptnhELw91NDX8th
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Puff the Magic Hater
25 days ago
ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.
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Jill Geisler
26 days ago
This award recognizes extraordinary journalism done in the face of ethical challenges. We know how often such challenges arise while doing important work. Enter yours!
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Mike (1 of many)
27 days ago
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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Lynda Lopez
26 days ago
It feels extra cruel and intentional for CBP and Bovino to come back to Chicago, especially hard hit immigrant nhoods, one week before Christmas. These are strategies to abduct people but also about psychological terror meant to keep vulnerable community members afraid.
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Heather Cherone
26 days ago
A church "was hosting a holiday food giveaway with crowds bundled up outside waiting for food when Border Patrol agents showed up," and "Students ... were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles,
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
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Border Patrol Boss Bovino Back In Chicago As Agents Target Southwest Side
Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/border-patrol-boss-bovino-back-in-chicago-as-agents-target-southwest-side/
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unraveled
27 days ago
The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side. Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers. It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
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Excited to see that
@inquirer.com
made the "Best" part of this list.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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MOBILE VERSION: The Ten Best (and Five Worst) Pieces of Trans Journalism of 2025 — Assigned
A definitive ranking of trans journalism in 2025.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/worst-best-trans-journalism-2025-mobile
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unraveled
27 days ago
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
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dan sinker
27 days ago
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce
@unraveledpress.com
and
@lataco.bsky.social
as the inaugural winners.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-12-15-snooping-newsie/
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Merriam-Webster
28 days ago
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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ICE Flight Monitor
28 days ago
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
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