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“Every crime is devastating, but scapegoating entire communities is misleading, unjust, and beneath us. Any action that amplify fears of deportations makes Chicago more dangerous.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson Tells Congress: ‘Scapegoating Entire Communities is Misleading, Unjust, Beneath Us’
“Any action that amplify fears of deportations makes Chicago more dangerous,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
news.wttw.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Every crime is devastating, but scapegoating entire communities is misleading, unjust, and beneath us. Any action that amplify fears of deportations makes Chicago more dangerous.”
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Big yikes. I don’t know how this could be interpreted as a private meeting when local residents of the public were invited & it was widely advertised. An apology + assurance it wouldn’t happen again + clarification of any CPS media policy would have been the right move here.
Alderman's Office Kicks Reporter Out Of Meeting On Controversial Bar Reopening
A 25th Ward staffer demanded a Block Club reporter leave a public meeting in Pilsen last week while two other reporters stayed. The move could violate the media's First Amendment rights, experts said.
blockclubchicago.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Big yikes. I don’t know how this could be interpreted as a private meeting when local residents of the public were invited & it was widely advertised. An apology + assurance it wouldn’t happen again + clarification of any CPS media policy would have been the right move here.
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“Moore added that the Mag Mile space did not perform well financially due to the bookstore being inside the Wrigley Building, and the idea that “tourists aren’t trying to buy and carry books around.”
Sad to hear. A lot of challenges to small Black owned and poc book stores.
Sad to hear. A lot of challenges to small Black owned and poc book stores.
Semicolon bookstore is closing due to ‘decisions that were not financially sound,’ owner says • The TRiiBE
The Chicago nonprofit’s owner Danielle Moore said the Mag Mile location didn’t perform well financially, among other tribulations.
thetriibe.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“Moore added that the Mag Mile space did not perform well financially due to the bookstore being inside the Wrigley Building, and the idea that “tourists aren’t trying to buy and carry books around.”
Sad to hear. A lot of challenges to small Black owned and poc book stores.
Sad to hear. A lot of challenges to small Black owned and poc book stores.
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I feel like so much of our politics can be explained by the fact that Daniel Perry is hanging out with Trump and Vance, while the liberal establishment is flummoxed by Luigi Mangione’s appeal.
Daniel Penny joins Trump and JD Vance at the Army Navy game.
December 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I feel like so much of our politics can be explained by the fact that Daniel Perry is hanging out with Trump and Vance, while the liberal establishment is flummoxed by Luigi Mangione’s appeal.
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To me there is nothing more beautiful than the city of Chicago
December 9, 2024 at 4:30 AM
To me there is nothing more beautiful than the city of Chicago
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Rashid Khalidi tells the NY Post that his book got into the hands of President Biden “four years too late.” nypost.com/2024/11/29/u...
Biden picks up anti-Israel book during Black Friday shopping— ‘4 years too late,’ says author
President Biden left Nantucket Bookworks holding a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia Univ…
nypost.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Rashid Khalidi tells the NY Post that his book got into the hands of President Biden “four years too late.” nypost.com/2024/11/29/u...
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An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli airstrike, Gaza health ministry says
An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
www.npr.org
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
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PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE
"We don't want to see any big cuts to the Police Department, obviously, but pretty much everything else is fair game.” –Ald. Brendan Reilly on CBS 2.
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
November 26, 2024 at 12:37 AM
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE
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MSM largely does not challenge this perspective
"We don't want to see any big cuts to the Police Department, obviously, but pretty much everything else is fair game.” –Ald. Brendan Reilly on CBS 2.
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
November 26, 2024 at 1:03 AM
MSM largely does not challenge this perspective
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"We don't want to see any big cuts to the Police Department, obviously, but pretty much everything else is fair game.” –Ald. Brendan Reilly on CBS 2.
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 AM
"We don't want to see any big cuts to the Police Department, obviously, but pretty much everything else is fair game.” –Ald. Brendan Reilly on CBS 2.
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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New: for the first time, we are publishing the list of police departments used at the Chicago DNC in August.
100+ PDs across the state sent cops to Chicago, many of them in pairs.
CPD, meanwhile, primarily used their own tactical officers to arrest protesters:
unraveledpress.com/chicagos-mas...
100+ PDs across the state sent cops to Chicago, many of them in pairs.
CPD, meanwhile, primarily used their own tactical officers to arrest protesters:
unraveledpress.com/chicagos-mas...
Chicago’s massive DNC cop city included over 135 outside police departments
Recently obtained contracts between CPD and other Illinois law enforcement agencies illustrate precisely how dissent was crushed at the national political convention.
unraveledpress.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:16 PM
New: for the first time, we are publishing the list of police departments used at the Chicago DNC in August.
100+ PDs across the state sent cops to Chicago, many of them in pairs.
CPD, meanwhile, primarily used their own tactical officers to arrest protesters:
unraveledpress.com/chicagos-mas...
100+ PDs across the state sent cops to Chicago, many of them in pairs.
CPD, meanwhile, primarily used their own tactical officers to arrest protesters:
unraveledpress.com/chicagos-mas...
This is a very good explainer of how CPD, empowered by politicians and bureaucrats to do so, has used the consent decree process to burn through countless hours of residents' time while failing to meaningfully address their concerns.
NEW: Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the process on track, @wttw.bsky.social and @propublica.org found
November 20, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Quick chart comparing Chicago's results for every General Election since 2000
Chicago voters appear to have cast less than 1M votes for President for the 1st time in 24 years
175K Biden 2020 voters refused to turn out, a number 2.25X greater than Obama's midterm loss of 77K voters
Chicago voters appear to have cast less than 1M votes for President for the 1st time in 24 years
175K Biden 2020 voters refused to turn out, a number 2.25X greater than Obama's midterm loss of 77K voters
November 20, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Quick chart comparing Chicago's results for every General Election since 2000
Chicago voters appear to have cast less than 1M votes for President for the 1st time in 24 years
175K Biden 2020 voters refused to turn out, a number 2.25X greater than Obama's midterm loss of 77K voters
Chicago voters appear to have cast less than 1M votes for President for the 1st time in 24 years
175K Biden 2020 voters refused to turn out, a number 2.25X greater than Obama's midterm loss of 77K voters
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WE GOT ONE
Cook County Judge Shannon O'Malley LOSES retention. Judge O'Malley previously made the news when he changed his name to be Irish after he lost a judge election with his birth name "Phillip Spiwak." Becoming Irish isn't so lucky the second time for O'Malley. He needed 60%.
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 AM
WE GOT ONE
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I wrote an archival story on Thing for @chicagoreader.bsky.social in 2021
November 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I wrote an archival story on Thing for @chicagoreader.bsky.social in 2021
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“Since I was a child, I’ve seen my mom threatened, parents screamed at, cousins yelled at, but it was a first for me to be attacked,” Zahran said”
Woman faces hate crime charges in assault on Palestinian man, pregnant wife at Downers Grove Panera
Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, allegedly berated and hit a man who was wearing a hoodie with the word "Palestine" while also taking swings at his pregnant wife Saturday. "F—- Palestine," she ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
“Since I was a child, I’ve seen my mom threatened, parents screamed at, cousins yelled at, but it was a first for me to be attacked,” Zahran said”
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Ebony Magazine, May 1968
“Many had predicted it, but few had expected it.”
“In his final speech in Memphis, less than 24 hours before his death, he had spelled out the two challenges to America: racism and poverty.”
“Many had predicted it, but few had expected it.”
“In his final speech in Memphis, less than 24 hours before his death, he had spelled out the two challenges to America: racism and poverty.”
January 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Ebony Magazine, May 1968
“Many had predicted it, but few had expected it.”
“In his final speech in Memphis, less than 24 hours before his death, he had spelled out the two challenges to America: racism and poverty.”
“Many had predicted it, but few had expected it.”
“In his final speech in Memphis, less than 24 hours before his death, he had spelled out the two challenges to America: racism and poverty.”
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[reads about the most horrific things imaginable happening all over the world on a daily basis] I just don't know why I'm so anxious lately, lol
October 11, 2023 at 10:01 PM
[reads about the most horrific things imaginable happening all over the world on a daily basis] I just don't know why I'm so anxious lately, lol
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"The biggest mistake was just 'police say' journalism. The buying into a police narrative of what happened, and the dismissal or marginalization or erasure of eyewitness statements is what happened and what went wrong. The media bought into the police’s narrative on every level."
So much of what we've been told about Freddie Gray’s 2015 death at the hands of Baltimore police is wrong. In today's newsletter, @jewstein3000.bsky.social, author of "They Killed Freddie Gray," talks with @elizabethweill.bsky.social about the biggest misconceptions & how they became so widespread.
‘They Killed Freddie Gray’: New Book Reveals Dark, Hidden Truth About Gray’s Death
In her new book, “They Killed Freddie Gray”, Justine Barron reveals much of what the public has believed about Gray’s death is incorrect.
theappeal.org
August 24, 2023 at 4:49 PM
"The biggest mistake was just 'police say' journalism. The buying into a police narrative of what happened, and the dismissal or marginalization or erasure of eyewitness statements is what happened and what went wrong. The media bought into the police’s narrative on every level."