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Ariel Cheung

@missprint.bsky.social
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Editorial Director at City Bureau. 📰 Previously Tribune, CS, DNAinfo. Dibs is law ❄️. (she/her) ariel@citybureau.org ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 16h
I am so, so, so excited to be debuting PERFECT STORM, a City Bureau series in partnership with local organizations across the Documenters Network examining how federal cuts are eroding community safety nets across the country.
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Perfect Storm: How Federal Cuts Affect Local Communities — City Bureau
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026
As long as everyone’s talking about sex stuff, a reminder that I’m fundraising for @scarleteen.com (link in the next post). Scarleteen has been at it with high quality, free, inclusive, joyful sex ed for almost 30 years. They’re one of the few online resources left standing.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16/09/2026
Restaurant review: Indus Progressive Indian, transcending traditions from North India to the North Shore
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Restaurant review: Indus Progressive Indian, transcending traditions from North India to the North Shore
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh John. John, John, John.
A text message from a spam number that says, “Hey, it’s John. Curious about your views on Israel. Can we chat? Stop2End”
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
STORY: For months, Avery awoke to his roommate screaming and trying to yank his bedroom door open. “It literally sounded like he was trying to break my door down." But as a trans person experiencing abuse from someone he wasn't dating, he got turned away from shelter after shelter. (1/4)
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are talking about this daily at City Bureau. It’s really invigorating work and changing the way I think about journalism.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 12/06/2026
It’s forbidden jump rope time #ILwx #WXsky
A massive lightning bolt arcs over the Chicago skyline. As if it were a jump rope
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Remember folks. Warning means it’s here Watch means the ingredients are here but it isn’t spotted yet
WATCH vs WARNING
TACO WATCH
TACO WARNING
We've got a taco
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The victory lap Mayor Johnson took hours after state lawmakers agreed to impose a new tax on digital advertisements was premature — the new revenue won’t help the Chicago City Council fill the $1.16B projected gap in the city’s 2027 budget. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2026/06/03/v...
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Victory Lap on Digital Ad Tax Was Premature, Brandon Johnson Acknowledges
The $56 billion spending plan awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature explicitly prohibits the City Council from imposing a version of the tax that would send new revenue into the city’s cash-strapped c...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
just keep at this do not let them off the hook
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
i love it when east coast journalists visit www.politico.com/news/magazin...
POLITICO

CHICAGO — Nobody asks "who sent ya?" when you walk into Manny's Deli, pick up a tray and deliberate over pastrami or corned beef to go with your latke.

This South Loop institution welcomes every element of Chicago. That was evident last week when we took "On The Road" to the American city that's perhaps most consumed by its own politics.Manny's crowd spanned class and racial lines. They were united in caloric excess, the Chicago way. It's one of the few things that links a city otherwise balkanized by neighborhood, class, ethnic group, even baseball allegiance.

Another is its obsession with its own politics, particularly its mayors (pronounced locally as: Da Mare). Presidents and senators are fine — and one of their own will open his presidential library next month in Hyde Park
- but the adage that all politics is local really could have been coined for Chicago.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Meze Table has found a home in Bridgeport after years of selling at pop-ups and markets. blockclubchi.co/4sGGUPX
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Amazing quote and new vocal stim unlocked: "It’s a bunch of bitches up in here." (gift link)
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City Council names new Zoning Committee chair, ending standoff over key post
The position has been without a permanent chair since September.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
These food delivery robots have individual "names" and I'm curious about the decision-making that led to giving THIS robot — the one taking the blame for smashing through the glass walls of Chicago bus stops — an Arabic name, Nasir, as opposed to something more generically white guy like Bob or Pete
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/04/2026
Absolute perfection. A+ four stars 10/10 100%. Peak duckling. What an incredible baby bird season it's been. Onto month 2! 🪶 🐣
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.
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Francia Garcia Hernandez @franciagarciah.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A police watchdog is hosting a public hearing Thursday with the city’s top cop to discuss the department’s interactions with immigration agents — but he refused to participate if it featured legal, police reform and immigration experts, records show. blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/01/t...
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Top Cop Refused To Attend Hearing On Whether Police Helped ICE If Experts Joined Panel
A police watchdog is hosting a public hearing Thursday with Supt. Larry Snelling to discuss the department's interactions with immigration agents — but Snelling would only appear if experts weren't in...
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 02/04/2026
I still remember the first time I noticed that Chicago parking ticket writers are employees of the Department of Revenue 💡💰
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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Things women used as weapons in 1900 as recorded in police court records. I can write the scenarios for some of these. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois • Sun, Sep 16, 1900Page 49
screengrab from the newspaper with women from 1900 brandishing brooms, plungers, rolling pins, umbrellas,fry pans, oil lamps. In front there's a little kitten.186 broom handles, 102 table knives, 79 stove lid lifters, 76 rolling pins, 72 plates and dishes, 55 hatpins, 48 hair brushes and hand mirrors, 33 mops, 31 revolvers, 29 flatirons, 12 curling irons, 11 umbrellas, 9 shoes and slippers, 3 scissors, 6 forks, 4 books, 3 potato mashers, 3 riding whips, 1 lamp, 1 baby bottle
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 01/04/2026
I missed this when it happened but it's a very cool opportunity for news orgs to think about next time they have a story that will have a lot of social media buzz... November elections if not before graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2...
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About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hosting a Table Talk at #ONA26: “Standing in the Gap: Why Journalism Doesn't Reach People.” Come chat from now to 11 a.m.!
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I know this is totally anecdotal, but has anyone else in Chicago noticed a huge uptick in parking enforcement since roughly December? I swear I see ticketers on my Bridgeport block weekly now after almost never seeing them for seven years prior.
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dramaturgically it tracks @yasminzacaria.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest for @americantheatre.org magazine is a powerful interview with new Golden Thread Productions Artistic Director Nabra Nelson! Here's a theatre company and leader to watch. www.americantheatre.org/2026/03/23/g...
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Literally this: 1 billion dollars, conservatively invested to produce 4% interest a year, generates $100,000 per DAY in interest alone. 100Grand every day towards harassment and abuse, without touching the capital. She has 1.2 billion, so the other 20K/day in interest pays for life expenses.
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Jandri🔞 @jandri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
JK is already a literal billionaire, and you need to understand the sheer scope of what that means and the very real influence that status affords her. She does not need more money, more publicity, more viewership. It’s so easy to withhold a personal contribution to that.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is a newer one but I laugh every time I read the headline.
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‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory
EAST HANOVER, NJ—As part of the health secretary’s highly publicized pledge to determine the cause of the disorder in the next five months, a wild-eyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly shouted “Show m...
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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
trans women have been trying for years to explain that the anti-abortion and anti-trans movements are ultimately the same movement and these bastards just come out and say it
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
good
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
After all, shoveling snow is one of those “unalienable Rights” the founders cared so much about.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Mayor Johnson says he is discouraged by this vote, slamming "the self-proclaimed Democrats" who voted for the roll back. "It's shameful," Johnson says. "We will continue to stand with working people," Johnson says, promising to use "every single tool available to me" to stop it from taking effect.
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I got to test out a 1-day version of this training a couple years ago and it was EXCELLENT.
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taliabuford.bsky.social @taliabuford.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Applications are now open for our yearlong Investigative Editor Training Program, which aims to broaden the ranks of investigative editors. Interested? Deadline to apply: March 30, 9 a.m. ET. grnh.se/73hiazh06us
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ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program
New York City, United States
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oh. "Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S."
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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Did you #CheckYourJudges and now you want to know what happened in the judicial races? @injusticewatch.org is the only news organization with Cook County judicial election results. Follow live here: 2026primary.injusticewatch.org/results
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March 2026 Cook County Judicial Election Guide | Injustice Watch
Injustice Watch's guide to the March 2026 Cook County judicial primary elections.
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Taylor Moore @taylormoore.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Meme of Elmo on fire with a Chicago "I voted!" sticker, because today is the primary Election Day in Illinois
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/03/2026
This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/
A screenshot of the landing page for a story from the Independent reading: 

Delta flew 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father to ICE detention in Texas, new video shows

A photo of federal agents detaining Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota outraged people across the nation last year
Ariana Baio
Tuesday 17 March 2026 16:15 EDT
A screenshot of the landing page for my story reading: 
Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers' noses.
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16 Mar 2026 - 8 min readA line from the Independent story reading: 

“The airport footage was obtained through an information disclosure request to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by activist Nick Benson with MN50501 - a Minnesota-based organization that advocates against Trump's policies.”

I’ve highlighted the part where it links to MN50501. 
A screenshot of a browser window showing that the MN50501 link includes “?ref=gillianbrockell.com”
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jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Raja charging $13 for a Diet Coke tracks
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Hegseth is supposed to be talking about war, but he focuses on rewriting the media's headlines. And he makes it clear that the Trump regime expects sweetheart treatment from an Ellison-owned CNN: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sometimes long reads don't necessarily flow like a downhill ski run but the reporting is so compelling and eye-opening that you keep reading. This is one of those pieces. Holy shit. It will be interesting to see what kind of traction this gets in the news cycle.
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Steve Grzanich @stevegrzanich.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Wind gusts are 50-60mph in the Chicago area this morning. A high wind warning has been issued. Waukegan has a 7am wind gust of 64mph and O'Hare has a 49mph wind gust. Aurora 56mph.
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Really love this feature by fall 2025 @citybureau.bsky.social fellow Amari Davis. Too many Black elders were casualties of two global public health crises spanning 50 years: the AIDS epidemic and COVID-19. Here's how Black Chicagoans are building those intergenerational relationships back up.
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Public Health Crises Fractured Black Queer Mentorship — But Chicagoans Are Stepping Up to Fill the Void — City Bureau
Black queer communities on the South and West Sides of Chicago are determined to thrive across generations despite the aftermath of widespread loss and disconnection.  By Amari Davis
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
REALLY excited about this project. We're teaming up with Documenters sites across the country — Detroit! Newark! Rural communities in Seattle and Washington! — to illustrate how federal cuts are affecting your local communities. Share what you're seeing here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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City Bureau wants to know: How are federal budget cuts affecting your community?
What we're doing: City Bureau and some of our Documenters sites are examining municipal and county budgets in 2026 to understand how federal funding decisions are affecting each of our communities, an...
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
holy shit
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 09/03/2026
Join us today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mouse Arts and Letters Club (555 W 31st St) in Bridgeport. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary!
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Check Your Judges with Injustice Watch — Mouse Arts and Letters Club
Join Injustice Watch reporters Kelly Garcia, Maya Dukmasova, and Dan Hinkel for a conversation about notable judicial races and themes from the primary's field of candidates.
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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Alec Baldwin really branching out lately.
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