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H Kapp-Klote
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I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.

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TBT to a Sun Times headline during the Burke trial:
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
No one (even MAGA types) posts like this if they're not worried they're about to lose their job.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So is the Bean not on city property? What's the deal? Seems like there should be a full investigation. Looking forward to action on this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Any Chicago or Illinois politician that doesn’t resist this with everything they’ve got doesn’t understand this moment or anything about their constituents.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Democratic Shutdown Strategy:
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Sorry this causes me physical pain
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🚨 ICE raided a daycare. Springfield bailed out the trains. Chicago isn't Greg Bovino's city.
hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/chicago-31...
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is how I picture all the Chotiner interviews
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Every speaker I’ve heard so far has emphasized that we need more action from local leaders – – and that it needs to happen NOW.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
So many children, so many parents and grandparents — they’re angry and they are *organized*
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Van Jones is shocked because he thought a 'character switch' was only to collect a check from the highest bidder
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
icon. she's done it again
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So... the consensus is that the ultimate outcome of tariffs is that companies immediately passed all of this along to the consumer…? (From kyla scanlon)
buff.ly/9OQhdwz
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
well....
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yesterday, November 2, ICE brutally attacked Ricardo R. in Melrose Park while he was riding his bike.
He was taken to Gottlieb Hospital — where agents locked down the floor and blocked his family from seeing him.
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🫡
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
who did this
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I know their whole deal is media illiteracy, but… Gatsby??? REALLY??
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Mace is so profoundly unwell that condemning or mocking her often feels pointless.

…but… she had this meltdown in the TSA security line??

For the BODY SCANNER?

The trans panic zone? Really? 😂
November 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
she should have filed a grievance imo
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM