Patrick Smith
@pksmid.bsky.social
Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
Nick Cave
Wu Tang Clan
Beck
Joe McPhee
Sonic Youth
Wu Tang Clan
Beck
Joe McPhee
Sonic Youth
St. Vincent includes one Love This Giant show that ruled
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Nick Cave
Wu Tang Clan
Beck
Joe McPhee
Sonic Youth
Wu Tang Clan
Beck
Joe McPhee
Sonic Youth
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Today’s focus @wbez.org — @pksmid.bsky.social and I challenge you to pay a compliment to another generation. What do you appreciate about your elders/youngers?
Hi, I’m an elder Gen X - and this week on Say More @wbez.org — Millennial @pksmid.bsky.social and I are talking about our generations. Where do you fall? Does your generation fit you? What are your beefs or compliments for Boomers, X, Millennials, Zoomers and … Alpha?
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today’s focus @wbez.org — @pksmid.bsky.social and I challenge you to pay a compliment to another generation. What do you appreciate about your elders/youngers?
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Gonna need my fellow millennials to listen and call in. Always felt like a modification of the Winston Churchill quote -- Millennial is the worst generation, except for all the other ones. 10am central time on @wbez.org -- 866-915-9239
Hi, I’m an elder Gen X - and this week on Say More @wbez.org — Millennial @pksmid.bsky.social and I are talking about our generations. Where do you fall? Does your generation fit you? What are your beefs or compliments for Boomers, X, Millennials, Zoomers and … Alpha?
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Gonna need my fellow millennials to listen and call in. Always felt like a modification of the Winston Churchill quote -- Millennial is the worst generation, except for all the other ones. 10am central time on @wbez.org -- 866-915-9239
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Hi, I’m an elder Gen X - and this week on Say More @wbez.org — Millennial @pksmid.bsky.social and I are talking about our generations. Where do you fall? Does your generation fit you? What are your beefs or compliments for Boomers, X, Millennials, Zoomers and … Alpha?
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hi, I’m an elder Gen X - and this week on Say More @wbez.org — Millennial @pksmid.bsky.social and I are talking about our generations. Where do you fall? Does your generation fit you? What are your beefs or compliments for Boomers, X, Millennials, Zoomers and … Alpha?
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BREAKING: Chicago police officers will be allowed to file felony gun charges without first getting approval from a prosecutor throughout the city, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke announced Friday. @wttw.bsky.social
Program Allowing CPD Officers to Directly File Felony Gun Charges to Expand Citywide, Top Prosecutor Announces
The Felony Review Bypass Pilot Program was “an unqualified success,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said.
news.wttw.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
BREAKING: Chicago police officers will be allowed to file felony gun charges without first getting approval from a prosecutor throughout the city, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke announced Friday. @wttw.bsky.social
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
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Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
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Two Chicago police officers who started a drunken daytime brawl at a Wrigleyville pizza restaurant in 2019 reached settlement agreements with the city that allowed them to keep their jobs after each served a one-year suspension. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/2...
2 Chicago cops who started drunken Wrigleyville brawl kept jobs after one-year suspensions
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability disclosed both officers were recommended to be separated from CPD the city later agreed to let the men each serve a one-year suspension.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Two Chicago police officers who started a drunken daytime brawl at a Wrigleyville pizza restaurant in 2019 reached settlement agreements with the city that allowed them to keep their jobs after each served a one-year suspension. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/2...
Describe the snow near you! Plus we're talking best new Chicago restaurants. Got any great recommendations? 10am. WBEZ. Give us a call at 966-915-9239!
STORRRMMMMWATCHHHHhhh
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Describe the snow near you! Plus we're talking best new Chicago restaurants. Got any great recommendations? 10am. WBEZ. Give us a call at 966-915-9239!
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STORRRMMMMWATCHHHHhhh
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
STORRRMMMMWATCHHHHhhh
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
Live team coverage today at 10a @wbez.org - gimme me & @pksmid.bsky.social a call and let us know how the shoveling is going: 866-915-9239
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The #Trump team carries out its #deportation blitz in Democratic-led #Illinois in the name of fighting crime. But Republican-led states have higher murder and violent crime rates—and faster-growing populations of unauthorized #immigrants.
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Trump's claims about murder rates and illegal immigration fit red states more than blue states
As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows other Republican-led "red states" have ...
www.wbez.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The #Trump team carries out its #deportation blitz in Democratic-led #Illinois in the name of fighting crime. But Republican-led states have higher murder and violent crime rates—and faster-growing populations of unauthorized #immigrants.
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
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new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader
The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...
chicagoreader.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
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FYI this story started with a tip that led to two reporters combing through DUI arrest records in DuPage County, which led to callings lawyers, more reporting and eventually like 15 FOIAs, not to mention the vetting, writing, editing and social media.
So go ahead and complain about paying for it
So go ahead and complain about paying for it
I really wish the @chicagotribune.com would not paywall FOIA-related reporting.
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
FYI this story started with a tip that led to two reporters combing through DUI arrest records in DuPage County, which led to callings lawyers, more reporting and eventually like 15 FOIAs, not to mention the vetting, writing, editing and social media.
So go ahead and complain about paying for it
So go ahead and complain about paying for it
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NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
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IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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ICE is using Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition tool that Illinois law enforcement is barred from using.
There’s apparently few guardrails.
A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared
tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh
There’s apparently few guardrails.
A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared
tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh
ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight
The administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expansion of...
tinyurl.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
ICE is using Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition tool that Illinois law enforcement is barred from using.
There’s apparently few guardrails.
A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared
tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh
There’s apparently few guardrails.
A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared
tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh
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The Chicago Sun-Times is demanding the Department of Homeland Security remove its photos from government social media pages under threat of legal action after the newspaper says the federal agency repeatedly used its photos in posts.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Chicago Sun-Times demands DHS remove social posts using its photos without permission
A letter sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday says the government used three Sun-Times photos without permission to promote its immigration enforcement campaign. The ...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The Chicago Sun-Times is demanding the Department of Homeland Security remove its photos from government social media pages under threat of legal action after the newspaper says the federal agency repeatedly used its photos in posts.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Where will you be tonight at 7? I'll be at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square seeing @stefanfatsis.bsky.social and Jonathan Eig talk about Fatsis's new book "Unabridged: The Thrill of and Threat to the Modern Dictionary." Come listen, buy a book and say hi. www.bookcellarinc.com/stefan-fatsi...
Stefan Fatsis in conversation with Jonathan Eig, "Unabridged" | The Book Cellar
www.bookcellarinc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Where will you be tonight at 7? I'll be at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square seeing @stefanfatsis.bsky.social and Jonathan Eig talk about Fatsis's new book "Unabridged: The Thrill of and Threat to the Modern Dictionary." Come listen, buy a book and say hi. www.bookcellarinc.com/stefan-fatsi...
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Agree 100%. Especially since Chicago media—local TV affiliates, Sun-Times/Tribune, local NPR, Block Club, Triibe, college newspapers like Loyola, independent journalists, even some Chicago bureaus of national media outlets—have done terrific work
We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone
We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone
The Washington Post and NYT should have Chicago on the front page every single day. Stories, columns and photos. Every day.
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Agree 100%. Especially since Chicago media—local TV affiliates, Sun-Times/Tribune, local NPR, Block Club, Triibe, college newspapers like Loyola, independent journalists, even some Chicago bureaus of national media outlets—have done terrific work
We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone
We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone
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A former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official says masking is “all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust.
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Masked immigration agents erode trust and intimidate, former No. 2 DEA boss, others say
A former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official says masking is "all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official says masking is “all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust.
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