(((Steve Chapman)))
@stevechapman.bsky.social
Contributing columnist, Chicago Tribune, and freelance journalist. I always heed my doubts.
“As a previous winner, my strong advice is to say no to everything. Get home as quickly as you can. Lock the door.”
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‘Flesh’ by David Szalay wins this year’s Booker Prize
“Flesh” follows the twists and turns in the life of a Hungarian man named Istvan. The novel has been acclaimed for its attentiveness to masculine physicality and alienation.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“As a previous winner, my strong advice is to say no to everything. Get home as quickly as you can. Lock the door.”
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"My joke is how do you radicalize middle-aged white women?” she asked. “You throw tear gas at them.”https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/chicago-immigration-ice-resistance/
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"My joke is how do you radicalize middle-aged white women?” she asked. “You throw tear gas at them.”https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/chicago-immigration-ice-resistance/
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Final from Gampel
UConn 99 FSU 67
Banner night complete!
UConn 99 FSU 67
Banner night complete!
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Final from Gampel
UConn 99 FSU 67
Banner night complete!
UConn 99 FSU 67
Banner night complete!
Here's an idea: admit Nigerian Christians as refugees. But something tells me Trump won't do it. wapo.st/3JECubO
Trump’s ‘guns-a-blazing’ threat to Nigeria shocked key players, aides
President Trump’s threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria concerned U.S. military officials in Africa and surprised even those who had been pushing the issue.
wapo.st
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Here's an idea: admit Nigerian Christians as refugees. But something tells me Trump won't do it. wapo.st/3JECubO
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You know the world has become fucked up when a growing number of older people, like myself, are now saying "I'm glad I'm so old I probably won't live to see the culmination of this trend."
A proposed rule change would allow DHS to collect a wide range of sensitive biometric data on all immigrants, without age restrictions, and store that data throughout each person’s “lifecycle” in the immigration system.
DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You know the world has become fucked up when a growing number of older people, like myself, are now saying "I'm glad I'm so old I probably won't live to see the culmination of this trend."
Trump is unpopular even in OKLAHOMA
Once the honeymoon is over, presidents tend to lose popularity quickly. But no recent president has fallen so low so quickly as Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trump is unpopular even in OKLAHOMA
Mamdani is a democratic socialist, but he will do less to empower government and meddle with private markets than Trump has.
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Mamdani is a democratic socialist, but he will do less to empower government and meddle with private markets than Trump has.
"This year, more than half of the Republican spending on ads in the [Virginia] governors’ race was devoted to anti-trans messaging. Spanberger rebutted the attacks skillfully, and indeed framed the issue as one of bigotry and turned it against her opponent." www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-re...
Vive La Résistance
Waves can be blue after all.
www.thebulwark.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"This year, more than half of the Republican spending on ads in the [Virginia] governors’ race was devoted to anti-trans messaging. Spanberger rebutted the attacks skillfully, and indeed framed the issue as one of bigotry and turned it against her opponent." www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-re...
Good YIMBY news: "Voters approved a measure that will make it much harder for a single city-council member to block new housing projects. . . . Voters also approved two proposals to speed up the approval process for affordable housing and modest projects."
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
How New York Developers Won a Victory on Election Night
The passage of three referendums should ease city approval for new housing developments.
www.wsj.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good YIMBY news: "Voters approved a measure that will make it much harder for a single city-council member to block new housing projects. . . . Voters also approved two proposals to speed up the approval process for affordable housing and modest projects."
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
Trump should demand that they rename it the Nobel War Prize
November 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Trump should demand that they rename it the Nobel War Prize
Thank You, Baseball
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Thank You, Baseball
The best World Series since 2016 was an epic novel.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thank You, Baseball
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I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Gave a kid about 8 a couple of pieces of candy, including an Almond Joy. “I don’t like that,” he said, and GAVE IT BACK
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Gave a kid about 8 a couple of pieces of candy, including an Almond Joy. “I don’t like that,” he said, and GAVE IT BACK
"Since 2018, in the same 45-day period The Post analyzed, only six shows had fewer than half of their seats filled. Five of them — all orchestra concerts — were this year." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Since 2018, in the same 45-day period The Post analyzed, only six shows had fewer than half of their seats filled. Five of them — all orchestra concerts — were this year." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The great majority of SNAP recipients do work, and most of those who don't are disabled, over 65 or serving as caregivers for family members.
Q: SNAP has never out of funding in its history. Why were past administration able to find funding to keep it afloat during a shutdown & you can't?
ROLLINS: Under Joe Biden, you see an almost 30% increase in the cost of the SNAP program. The goal of these program is to move families into real work
ROLLINS: Under Joe Biden, you see an almost 30% increase in the cost of the SNAP program. The goal of these program is to move families into real work
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The great majority of SNAP recipients do work, and most of those who don't are disabled, over 65 or serving as caregivers for family members.
Just slightly disproportionate: Hamas allegedly gave back the wrong remains and killed one Israeli soldier. In response, Israel killed 104 Palestinians. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/i...
Israel’s military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 104
Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 46 childre…
www.chicagotribune.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just slightly disproportionate: Hamas allegedly gave back the wrong remains and killed one Israeli soldier. In response, Israel killed 104 Palestinians. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/i...
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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get you a job where you can singlehandedly destroy the company’s brand and they’ll still reward you with a literal trillion-dollar pay package
“.. Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% ..”
www.nber.org/papers/w34413
www.nber.org/papers/w34413
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
get you a job where you can singlehandedly destroy the company’s brand and they’ll still reward you with a literal trillion-dollar pay package
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. It’s striking that Mr. Trump is so worried about a TV spot featuring a President who left the White House nearly 37 years ago. .. Perhaps Mr. Trump fears he’s going to lose the tariff case, and maybe he also knows his tariffs are unpopular ..”
www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...
www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. It’s striking that Mr. Trump is so worried about a TV spot featuring a President who left the White House nearly 37 years ago. .. Perhaps Mr. Trump fears he’s going to lose the tariff case, and maybe he also knows his tariffs are unpopular ..”
www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...
www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...
“'Look at us as we kill people and break things' might as well be their motto. The comparison has probably already been made, but this behavior is more akin to a serial killer taunting the police than it is to the leaders of a government waging a war."
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The Limits of 'Killing People and Breaking Things'
Trump and Hegseth want the military to kill people and break things for the sake of the killing and breaking.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“'Look at us as we kill people and break things' might as well be their motto. The comparison has probably already been made, but this behavior is more akin to a serial killer taunting the police than it is to the leaders of a government waging a war."
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At the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
At the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville
Trump has been dumping shit on Americans for all his time in office. Now at least he admits it
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Trump has been dumping shit on Americans for all his time in office. Now at least he admits it