Cory Brown
@localmustard.bsky.social
FKA @tcb // I help newsrooms build loyal audiences // Past: @ProPublica @AustinMonitor @capgaznews // He/Him
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The Newspaper Experts come jumping out every time trying to explain that we all just don't get that this huge package glossy photo 5,000 word profile using up extremely valuable real estate is actually a Carrie-like prank. For some reason.
I don't know much about irony or newspapers so I guess they got my ass once again.
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Newspaper Experts come jumping out every time trying to explain that we all just don't get that this huge package glossy photo 5,000 word profile using up extremely valuable real estate is actually a Carrie-like prank. For some reason.
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We're thrilled to welcome @cplhouse.bsky.social to the @blockclubchi.bsky.social team as an investigative editor with The Watch!
Crystal won the Lisagor Award for Best Community Reporting for us in 2024 for her story about missing basketball courts in Beverly. Excited to be working together again.
Crystal won the Lisagor Award for Best Community Reporting for us in 2024 for her story about missing basketball courts in Beverly. Excited to be working together again.
Happy to announce I've joined the @blockclubchi.bsky.social investigative team 'The Watch' as investigative editor.
I look grumpy in the photo, but I'm stoked to work with a dope team of journalists & at an outlet with such deep roots in Chicago communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/14/i...
I look grumpy in the photo, but I'm stoked to work with a dope team of journalists & at an outlet with such deep roots in Chicago communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/14/i...
Investigative Editor, Partnerships Pro And Sales Associate Join Block Club Chicago Team
Crystal Paul joins The Watch team as an investigative editor, Christine Schmidt joins our partnerships team as an associate and Ella Durchin joins revenue as an assistant account executive.
blockclubchicago.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We're thrilled to welcome @cplhouse.bsky.social to the @blockclubchi.bsky.social team as an investigative editor with The Watch!
Crystal won the Lisagor Award for Best Community Reporting for us in 2024 for her story about missing basketball courts in Beverly. Excited to be working together again.
Crystal won the Lisagor Award for Best Community Reporting for us in 2024 for her story about missing basketball courts in Beverly. Excited to be working together again.
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16 out of 614.
They arrested ~16 people with criminal records.
They terrorized thousands,
brutalized protesters,
destroyed families,
cratered businesses,
tear-gassed a Halloween parade,
traumatized kids in a day care,
killed a man,
& pepper sprayed a baby…
for 16 people with criminal records.
They arrested ~16 people with criminal records.
They terrorized thousands,
brutalized protesters,
destroyed families,
cratered businesses,
tear-gassed a Halloween parade,
traumatized kids in a day care,
killed a man,
& pepper sprayed a baby…
for 16 people with criminal records.
NEWS: Internal Homeland Security documents on 600+ detainees to be released prove that the vast majority of immigrants detained in Chicago area are "low" public safety risk, even by the government's loose standards. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...
Only 2.5% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show
Meanwhile, the other 598 people on the list had no listed criminal history at all.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
16 out of 614.
They arrested ~16 people with criminal records.
They terrorized thousands,
brutalized protesters,
destroyed families,
cratered businesses,
tear-gassed a Halloween parade,
traumatized kids in a day care,
killed a man,
& pepper sprayed a baby…
for 16 people with criminal records.
They arrested ~16 people with criminal records.
They terrorized thousands,
brutalized protesters,
destroyed families,
cratered businesses,
tear-gassed a Halloween parade,
traumatized kids in a day care,
killed a man,
& pepper sprayed a baby…
for 16 people with criminal records.
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Announcer: And now we turn to the hot dog suit guy to ask, Who did this?
Higher education “got in trouble” by paying men like this exorbitant salaries to ruin the liberal arts teaching function while sucking up to trustees for perks. As a former subject of a Gee administration, E. Gordon Gee is a synonym for high-profile foolish waste of money.
E. Gordon Gee: ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’
The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.
www.chronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Announcer: And now we turn to the hot dog suit guy to ask, Who did this?
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Scott Galloway buying himself a prominent role as a masculinity expert really is very fucking weird!
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Scott Galloway buying himself a prominent role as a masculinity expert really is very fucking weird!
Extra special "fuck you" to the boomer dude lookin' extra proud of himself for crossing the Starbucks picket line this morning.
Dickhead.
Dickhead.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Extra special "fuck you" to the boomer dude lookin' extra proud of himself for crossing the Starbucks picket line this morning.
Dickhead.
Dickhead.
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Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
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Just passed an apartment in Brooklyn with what appears to be comic sans address lettering
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just passed an apartment in Brooklyn with what appears to be comic sans address lettering
fuck this guy for making me remember heath shuler
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/former-alabama-quarterback-aj-mccarron-has-little-to-say-in-early-campaign-appearance.html
McCarron’s campaign representative, Scott Boone, said that the candidate wasn’t taking questions yet, but that he would be unveiling his initiatives for office soon.
McCarron’s campaign representative, Scott Boone, said that the candidate wasn’t taking questions yet, but that he would be unveiling his initiatives for office soon.
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
fuck this guy for making me remember heath shuler
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Disappeared? People talking like this about social fucking media? Touch grass is cliche but I'm guessing some people need more than a 72 hour break for their own well being. There are people in this country actually being disappeared every day.
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Disappeared? People talking like this about social fucking media? Touch grass is cliche but I'm guessing some people need more than a 72 hour break for their own well being. There are people in this country actually being disappeared every day.
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I think every time someone from Baltimore has to endure a reference to The Wire, they should get to send David Simon a cash app and/or Venmo request for $25.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think every time someone from Baltimore has to endure a reference to The Wire, they should get to send David Simon a cash app and/or Venmo request for $25.
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lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
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A reporter friend said Bov8
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A reporter friend said Bov8
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
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Whistle up Charlotte.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Whistle up Charlotte.
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These cops learned a valuable lesson: never meet your heroes
Chicago's Far South Side devolved into chaos when residents confronted Border Patrol agents who rammed a car to make an arrest.
The feds ultimately used tear gas to flee, despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path and warning that cops didn't have gas masks.
tinyurl.com/mt3sfh4j
The feds ultimately used tear gas to flee, despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path and warning that cops didn't have gas masks.
tinyurl.com/mt3sfh4j
Feds deployed tear gas on the Far South Side even after cops told them they had no gas masks, sources say
The agents deployed gas, smoke and other riot-control chemicals against residents and officers, including Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Dan O’Connor, who had asked them not to use the gas, la...
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
These cops learned a valuable lesson: never meet your heroes
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idk the NYT called up ms rachel to ask if she was funded by hamas so i'm not sure the NYT exactly has impeccable judgment on what makes a whole news story
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
idk the NYT called up ms rachel to ask if she was funded by hamas so i'm not sure the NYT exactly has impeccable judgment on what makes a whole news story
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When the movie Jaws came out 50 years ago, it was promoted with the tagline, “Don’t go in the water.” The new documentary The Age of Water could tweak that to “Don’t drink the water.”
But this film is not all dark; it’s a hopeful tale about the power of ordinary people organizing for their rights.
But this film is not all dark; it’s a hopeful tale about the power of ordinary people organizing for their rights.
What Lies Beneath?
A new documentary set in central Mexico follows two mothers as they fight to uncover what poisoned their daughters.
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/what-lies-beneath##
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When the movie Jaws came out 50 years ago, it was promoted with the tagline, “Don’t go in the water.” The new documentary The Age of Water could tweak that to “Don’t drink the water.”
But this film is not all dark; it’s a hopeful tale about the power of ordinary people organizing for their rights.
But this film is not all dark; it’s a hopeful tale about the power of ordinary people organizing for their rights.
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A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
to.wttw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
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It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
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too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”
I learned about this from @adamchicago.bsky.social great book about Graceland Cemetery, where some of the Fugitive Slave Act resisters are buried.
My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I learned about this from @adamchicago.bsky.social great book about Graceland Cemetery, where some of the Fugitive Slave Act resisters are buried.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”