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Maggie Sivit
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✏️ Engagement editor at @injusticewatch.org ⌛️ Previously digital and engagement producer at WBEZ 🇨🇺 NAHJ member 📬 maggiesivit@injusticewatch.org
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A screenshot from an article reads: “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent, which was joined by the court's two other liberals. She called the order a ‘pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion.' ‘This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification,’ she wrote.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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NYT’s new “Watch” tab is its own in-app version of a Reels tab
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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For last Friday's edition of @injusticewatch.org's newsletter, I wrote about the ban on most print mail in Illinois prisons and spoke with several people about the impact of the new rule. Read the newsletter in full here, and subscribe if you don't already! mailchi.mp/injusticewat...
A screenshot from Injustice Watch's newsletter reads, "Recently, I spoke with several people who are pushing IDOC to back down from the policy, which they say eliminates one of the few tactile connections incarcerated people have with the outside world. "A handwritten letter. A birthday card from your kids. A report card - things that keep you in touch and in tune while you re away. Those are things that just can't be replaced with the tablets," said James Swansey, associate policy director at Restore Justice. He remembers the handwritten letters he received from his grandmother while he was incarcerated, and said holding the paper she had touched felt like a lifeline. "Those letters were written in pencil, right? And I actually still have those letters to this day," he said." It was just an important part of my incarceration, and that's something that they re trying to take away from individuals."
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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An update from Jessie Fuentes
A screenshot of an newsletter from Chicago 26th Ward Ald. Jessie Fuentes
October 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I especially loved hearing people have conversations prompted by these boards, which were incorporated throughout the exhibit
A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed”
September 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I loved “The Trail They Blazed” at the Historic New Orleans Collection. The exhibit heavily incorporated oral histories from and was created in collaboration with people who lived the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans.
A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed”
September 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It’s ironic that this author highlights criticism OTHER media organizations have received for demonizing trans people and drawing irresponsible, hasty conclusions. This is such a vapid and careless story @axios.com @marcacaputo.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Read @mdoukmas.bsky.social’s latest to learn more about the Cook County Circuit Court’s new chief judge www.injusticewatch.org/judges/court...
A screenshot from an Injustice Watch article by Maya Dukmasova about the election of the chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County
September 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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very bizarre and paradoxical to be at a journalism conference that is hosting a panel on how movement journalists can protect themselves while being sponsored by a company that provides police with surveillance on protestors
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Every prison in the U.S. is supposed to have a law library with legal books and resources. For this week's @injusticewatch.org newsletter, I interviewed Eliza Gonring from PNAP about the law library at Logan Correctional Center and why this book drive is so important.
A screenshot of an excerpt from the Injustice Watch weekly newsletter. The section is titled "Prison libraries and access to the courts."
July 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Sara Ahmed on wonder, feminism and movement
A photo of page 180 of The Cultural Politics of Emotions by Sara Ahmed
June 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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a tale in two parts
A photo of two cats watching a bird outside the window, perched on a bird feeder A photo of two cats watching a bird outside the window. A third cat approaches the window, and the bird flies away
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Earlier this week he invited us to see his current show at the Chicago Magic Lounge. It was so much fun. www.chicagomagiclounge.com/diary-of-a-b...
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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There were so many incredible details and anecdotes Ari and I didn’t get to include in the final story — like this one, about an illusion King choreographed to the song “The Bird” and performed at dance clubs.
An Otter excerpt from an interview with Walter King Jr, an illusionist known as the Spellbinder, in which he describes performing at clubs.
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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One of the most fun interviews I’ve ever been part of was with Walter King Jr. (aka the Spellbinder), an illusionist Ari Mejía and I interviewed last year for a story about the history of Chicago’s magic scene 🕊️ www.wbez.org/curious-city...
A screenshot from a WBEZ Chicago article about the history of Chicago’s magic scene, titled “Pick a card, any card”
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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question for video editors of bluesky: i shot footage in c-log 3 and color graded manually in premiere (did not use a LUT). after exporting and opening the video in quicktime, though, it looks washed out and desaturated. what am i doing wrong? 🤔
A screenshot of an Adobe Premiere sequence editor and QuickTime Player open with the same video clip. The Premiere sequence looks more saturated than the QuickTime version.
May 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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👀 Now that you're reading the Sunday issue of the Chicago Sun-Times, turn to page 10 to read the latest investigation by @injusticewatch.org and @raceandequityproject.org
A photo of an article by Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project in the Sunday issue of the Chicago Sun-Times
May 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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these “letter-by-letter” guides are particularly insufferable lol
A photo of a “letter-by-letter guide” to barbecuing in a newspaper insert A photo of an almost nonsensical “letter-by-letter guide” to outdoor camping included in a newspaper insert
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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64 pages of ai slop branded as sun-times content, no mention of hearst or king features anywhere. to “supplement” a newspaper that lost around 1 out of every 5 staff members to buyouts earlier this year. full of stock images from unsplash. depressing.
A photo of a Chicago Sun-Times insert titled “Heat Index” with a stock image of a person swimming A photo of a Chicago Sun-Times insert titled “Heat Index: Your guide to the best of summer”
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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fitting i guess that the ai sludge writer has an origin story involving realistic historical fiction
A screenshot from Marco Buscaglia's website that reads: Marco Buscaglia began writing stories in 1976 when he was a second-grade student at St. Constance School in Chicago, penning – pencilling, actually – "The Bicentennial Nightmare," a 141-word piece of historical fiction that was praised for its sparse narration, realistic dialogue and flawless use of the lowercase "b." Since 1991, Marco has been paid small and large but mostly small sums of money to write about people, jobs, ideas, issues, products and services. He also writes about himself, usually for free and not in the third person.
May 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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very touched to meet the teens who take care of the turtle at the kimball ave oasis garden
A photo of El Chapo the turtle in 2023 A photo of a hand drawn sign explaining how El Chapo the turtle got his name because he is a master of escaping A photo of a pencil-drawn portrait of El Chapo the turtle
May 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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According to Axios, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is now a professional model represented by an agency. Kind of obsessed with this outfit tbh, good for her
A slide from an Axios Chicago Instagram carousel with a photo of Maria Pappas in a purple outfit. The slide reads: What they're saying “I went on the internet and was fascinated by Elon Musk's [model] mother and I'm like, 'Really? I look better than her,'' Pappas tells Axios. So l got all dressed up, took a copy of my calendar and a bunch of photos from Victor Skrebneski's studio where I'm lying on a couch in phony fur jackets to Lily's Talent Agency and I signed up."
May 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thanks for an informative court-watching training @chicagoappleseed.org @endmoneybond.bsky.social
A hand holding a piece of paper, with “steps of a detention hearing” at the top and several sections of text below
May 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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highlights from arizona: hiking, star gazing, feeding alpacas, eating lots of pork chile verde
A photo of Horseshoe Bend in Arizona A photo of two alpacas eating out of my hand A photo of a dark sky and stars behind a white windmill A selfie in the Grand Canyon
April 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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See you next week! Looking forward to moderating this event 🌸 RSVP: www.humboldtparkinchicago.com/rsvp
A flyer announcing an event titled Humboldt Park on the patio: April 30, 2025 7pm | UTC: 2620 W Division St. A panel discussion with industry leaders in photography.
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM