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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“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.”
news.wttw.com
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.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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.
blockclubchicago.org
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.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
“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.
thetriibe.com
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.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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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thot choc @shreyabasu003.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
To me there is nothing more beautiful than the city of Chicago
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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...
nypost.com
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…
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NPR @npr.org · 30/11/2024
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."
npr.org
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."
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE
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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 26/11/2024
MSM largely does not challenge this perspective
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"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...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/11/2024
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...
unraveledpress.com
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.
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Chicagorican handshake @chicom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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
This is a screenshot of a table showing presidential election data from the Chicago Board of Elections, spanning from the year 2000 to 2024. The table columns include "GE Year," "Total Ballots (for Prez)," "Margin of Victory," "Dem Votes," and "GOP Votes." Below are the details:

- **2024**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 984,094  
  Margin of Victory: 57.57  
  Dem Votes: 769,424  
  GOP Votes: 202,954  

- **2020**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 1,144,741  
  Margin of Victory: 66.70  
  Dem Votes: 944,735  
  GOP Votes: 181,234  

- **2016**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 1,090,343  
  Margin of Victory: 71.32  
  Dem Votes: 912,943  
  GOP Votes: 135,317  

- **2012**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 1,015,634  
  Margin of Victory: 69.41  
  Dem Votes: 853,102  
  GOP Votes: 148,181  

- **2008**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 1,089,879  
  Margin of Victory: 71.72  
  Dem Votes: 930,866  
  GOP Votes: 149,255  

- **2004**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 1,032,878  
  Margin of Victory: 63.07  
  Dem Votes: 839,496  
  GOP Votes: 188,056  

- **2000**:  
  Total Ballots (for Prez): 955,261  
  Margin of Victory: 63.01  
  Dem Votes: 765,541  
  GOP Votes: 163,610  

Below the table, a source note reads: "Source: Chicago Board of Elections." An additional note states, "2024 figures current as of Nov 18th."
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 20/11/2024
WE GOT ONE
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I wrote an archival story on Thing for @chicagoreader.bsky.social in 2021
chicagoreader.com
Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house - Chicago Reader
Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, which was felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“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”
chicago.suntimes.com
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 ...
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 11/10/2023
[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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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
"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."
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
In Illinois, a system meant to protect against elder financial exploitation is failing. As usual, David Jackson with an important story for Injustice Watch
injusticewatch.org
State fails to step in as older adults fall victim to financial scams
An Injustice Watch investigation found many older adults in Illinois are losing their life savings as state caseworkers watch from the sidelines.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
A 3-year-old child died on a bus of migrants Gov. Greg Abbott had sent to Chicago
kxan.com
Migrant child dies on Texas’ border bus
The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) provided a statement via news release Friday after the death of a child migrant passenger on a border bus mission.
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Chicagorican handshake @chicom.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
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