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Forty years at major metro newspapers, here and there. Now back home in the Chicago area. Not affiliated with any political party.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h
Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. n.pr/4zo45Cp
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Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102
Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 4h
A Downy Woodpecker looks over his shoulder while perched along the nature path.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 5h
102! RIP.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h
FT Exclusive: The Democratic powerbroker says Donald Trump is ushering in ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ and says Republicans will ‘reap the reaction’ for redistricting efforts. ft.trib.al/aaJNDeW
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 6h
A male Eastern Bluebird flying past the golden leaves of a Birch tree.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 7h
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former.editor @formereditor.bsky.social · 6h
Vought is dangerous.
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former.editor @formereditor.bsky.social · 6h
I did.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 10h
State Street postcard, Chicago 1943
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h
Trump stole millions of dollars from us to buy those campaign ads. Of course he won't pay us back. He's a criminal who should be in prison right now.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h
Featuring a cameo by @peoplesfabric.bsky.social
Screenshot of arrest video on propublica site:

Journalist Steve Held said he was filming federal agents making an arrest when the agents grabbed him. He reported in a lawsuit last year that he was tackled, thrown to the ground, handcuffed and taken into ICE’s Broadview Processing Center in Illinois. He was released hours later without charges.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h
Mike Johnson is not a trustworthy negotiating partner. He lies as part of his religion.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h
US REITERATES IT STRONGLY ADVISES NOT TO TRAVEL TO RUSSIA
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/t...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h
Too many people in the media give Trump props for "transparency" because he talks to reporters frequently. But he lies most of the time and often ignores questions. A day after he talked about letting Iran destroy Los Angeles and San Diego, he won't even explain what he meant.
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former.editor @formereditor.bsky.social · 13h
A crime in progress?
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Alexandra Billings @alexandrabillings.bsky.social · 19h
The President of The United States has just committed treason
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h
We've got to face the fact that a third of the country doesn't care if Trump is out of his mind as long as he's as racist and sexist as they are. But we also must recognize that the rest of the country deserves to live in a free country, not a dictatorship. Vote against all Republicans.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15h
By lopping off his full replies and interweaving explanatory narrative, reporters often wind up sanitizing Trump’s babbling
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h
If you vote for Republicans, you're voting to cover up the truth about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his friends, including Donald Trump.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h
“Pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump says. He is, along with: An illegal war, high gas prices, ICE’s street murders, measles, crypto scams, explosive diarrhea after food safety cutbacks, concentration camps and pardons for cop beaters. When you vote for Republicans, you’re voting for all of that.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17h
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h
Trump hates America.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 15h
Sunrise Silhouette. This morning's start in Chicago.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Illegal. Don’t waste your vote on Trump’s false promise to buy it.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Tankers are being struck. Wars are escalating. Gas and diesel prices are surging. And Trump says everything is going great. But what’s actually happening tells a very different story. Get the facts live on the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET:
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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 10/5/26
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine choosing to be this vile and doing it day after day. Megyn Kelly is toxic waste.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/10/2026
Trump doesn't understand your issues and he doesn't care to.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Faced with outrage over his use of taxpayer money for campaign ads, Trump now says he’ll use his PAC money. Will he pay back the money from ads that already ran? I want proof of what he says, because he’s a lying criminal.
Trump: The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money. This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Republican congressional nominee Brandon Herrera laughed and joined in as podcast hosts spent an extended segment joking about necrophilia and sex with dead bodies. And it somehow got more disturbing from there.
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“Hot Pocket with a Cadaver”— GOP Candidate Joked About Necrophilia
Brandon Herrera joined in during a podcast segment where hosts discussed having sex with dead bodies.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The CTA has unveiled a 1950s neon-style sign at a revamped Blue Line stop. buff.ly/5Ifslf9
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BlueDream @58bugeye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When asked about the pneumonic plague Dr. Trump called it the pneumonia plague, because he thinks he can fix anything by renaming it. How long before he calls this plague “Fake news” or “A Democratic hoax”?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
WATCH: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica revealed the existence of the case for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Zach Lahn is the GOP candidate for Iowa Governor who actually lives in Kansas and Trump is looking for him tonight in Nebraska.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Too many news orgs rely on “horse race coverage”, “sanewashing”, “false equivalence”, “euphemism” and other inadequacies. Endorse our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...
Ahead of the midterms, journalists must:
• Make threats to democracy clear.
Protect Americans from disinformation.
I Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
PROJECT
Sign our open letter asking for pro-democracy coverage by visiting mediaanddemocracyproject.org
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Gov. Shapiro: We’re going to go as far as we can to show that we believe in science, to protect access to vaccines. If RFK tries to take something away from our public health system here in Pennsylvania, as he has… I sued and won. We’re going to stand up for science and stand up against RFK Jr.
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Media reports claim that President Trump tried to persuade Poland's defence minister to leave the government and form a new ruling coalition with the right-wing opposition. We outline what is known so far and how the government, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, has responded.
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Reports claim Trump tried to change Poland's government. What do we know?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026
Here’s the backstory behind these $500 checks. As you probably guessed, it's another scam (sort of). Trump & the GOP caused premiums to skyrocket by thousands of dollars this year for ~19M enrollees. Now he’s ”giving back” a tiny fraction of that to ~1M of them. acasignups.net/26/09/12/tru...
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Trump's Latest Con is On: Presenting the $500 User Fee Flim-Flam
Less than 24 hours after making an absolutely absurd and utterly illegal attempt to literally bribe voters with $5,000 cash if they vote for Republicans this November, the Trump White House just annou...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact checking Dr. Oz: The BLS shows the average cost of butter in the US is $4.02 per pound and the price has gone up since this summer! crumbcounts.com/prices/butter/
$3.19 $4.16 $5.14 2019 2021 2023 2025
Monthly U.S. city average, April 2018 to August 2026. Source: BLS.
Last 13 months
Average price of butter by month
Month	Average price (per pound)
August 2026	$4.02
July 2026	$3.92
June 2026	$3.82
May 2026	$3.93
April 2026	$4.22
March 2026	$4.26
February 2026	$4.31
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dr. Oz is proving himself to be a serial liar just like his boss.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 18h
"The Trump Administration's mass removal policies are systematic, pervasive and coordinated with maximum intent to terrorize immigrants." read, share, bookmark this report. it's going to be an essential resource for the post-trump reckoning.
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