@oconn270.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to Chicago NOW’s Anthony Ponce and Kaitlin Cody at @fox32chicago.bsky.social for chatting with new editor in chief Sarah Conway about what’s ahead for the Reader!
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Huge thanks to Chicago NOW’s Anthony Ponce and Kaitlin Cody at @fox32chicago.bsky.social for chatting with new editor in chief Sarah Conway about what’s ahead for the Reader!
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As mayor, Eric Adams embraced a secretive, abuse-ridden police unit called the Community Response Team.
One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.
He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.
Revisit our investigation:
One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.
He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.
Revisit our investigation:
How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses
After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.
www.propublica.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
As mayor, Eric Adams embraced a secretive, abuse-ridden police unit called the Community Response Team.
One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.
He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.
Revisit our investigation:
One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.
He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.
Revisit our investigation:
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New ICE office in College Park. WTF?
ICE opens satellite field office south of Atlanta
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened a satellite office around College Park to accommodate more administrative officers. ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams confirmed to WABE that more officia...
www.wabe.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:49 PM
New ICE office in College Park. WTF?
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ICIJ is now on Apple News!
If you want to keep up with our work and support our organization, make sure to give us a follow: apple.news/TjqrobLHpTeq...
If you want to keep up with our work and support our organization, make sure to give us a follow: apple.news/TjqrobLHpTeq...
January 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM
ICIJ is now on Apple News!
If you want to keep up with our work and support our organization, make sure to give us a follow: apple.news/TjqrobLHpTeq...
If you want to keep up with our work and support our organization, make sure to give us a follow: apple.news/TjqrobLHpTeq...
@itsthebrandi.bsky.social has announced it has updated the Doomsday Clock: it is now 85 seconds to midnight.
PRESS RELEASE: It is 85 seconds to midnight
At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.
thebulletin.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:26 PM
@itsthebrandi.bsky.social has announced it has updated the Doomsday Clock: it is now 85 seconds to midnight.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Definitely in the thousands now at this Chicago protest against Trump’s domestic terrorism.
January 25, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Definitely in the thousands now at this Chicago protest against Trump’s domestic terrorism.
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HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, in a social media post, said: "It's time to abolish Trump's ICE."
Pritzker, Johnson call for ICE to be abolished after second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, in a social media post, said: "It's time to abolish Trump's ICE."
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200+ UU colleagues are in #Minneapolis protesting ICE www.uuworld.org/articles/min...
The Day of Truth and Freedom: UU Clergy and Laypeople Join Multifaith March in Minneapolis Against ICE
Developing story: Follow UU World’s live updates, including dispatches from Minneapolis.
www.uuworld.org
January 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM
200+ UU colleagues are in #Minneapolis protesting ICE www.uuworld.org/articles/min...
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
ICE murders another legal observer
Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitness Says
The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month.
theintercept.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
ICE murders another legal observer
I think you mean St. Paul's lead
Choose Chicago CEO Kristen Reynolds and Board Chair Guy Chipparoni say Chicago should follow New York City's lead and start aggressively "packaging" events during cold weather months.
City's tourism team says it's time Chicago turns 'cold into a wonderful party'
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I think you mean St. Paul's lead
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Choose Chicago CEO Kristen Reynolds and Board Chair Guy Chipparoni say Chicago should follow New York City's lead and start aggressively "packaging" events during cold weather months.
City's tourism team says it's time Chicago turns 'cold into a wonderful party'
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Choose Chicago CEO Kristen Reynolds and Board Chair Guy Chipparoni say Chicago should follow New York City's lead and start aggressively "packaging" events during cold weather months.
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I’m wondering how federal immigration agents’ actions sit with those who saw vaccine mandates as government overreach, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: As federal agents target citizens, where are the folks who cried ‘tyranny’ over pandemic restrictions?
I’m wondering how federal immigration agents’ actions sit with those who saw vaccine mandates as government overreach, writes Heidi Stevens.
trib.al
January 23, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I’m wondering how federal immigration agents’ actions sit with those who saw vaccine mandates as government overreach, writes Heidi Stevens.
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🚨Democrats say ICE body cameras improve oversight. But the provision largely benefits Axon, a law-enforcement contractor that spends spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year lobbying the government.
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM
🚨Democrats say ICE body cameras improve oversight. But the provision largely benefits Axon, a law-enforcement contractor that spends spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year lobbying the government.
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#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
Day 24: A song that feels like a warning
Marvin Gaye – Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5x...
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
Day 24: A song that feels like a warning
Marvin Gaye – Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5x...
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
YouTube video by Marvin Gaye - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:47 PM
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
Day 24: A song that feels like a warning
Marvin Gaye – Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5x...
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
Day 24: A song that feels like a warning
Marvin Gaye – Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5x...
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“Why would any journalist feel comfortable working for [Bari] Weiss, when she…won’t even call for justice if the network’s journalists are killed by Israel?”
@premthakker.bsky.social on CBS and Bari Weiss’s silence following the killing of a CBS photographer by Israel.
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
@premthakker.bsky.social on CBS and Bari Weiss’s silence following the killing of a CBS photographer by Israel.
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
“Why would any journalist feel comfortable working for [Bari] Weiss, when she…won’t even call for justice if the network’s journalists are killed by Israel?”
@premthakker.bsky.social on CBS and Bari Weiss’s silence following the killing of a CBS photographer by Israel.
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
@premthakker.bsky.social on CBS and Bari Weiss’s silence following the killing of a CBS photographer by Israel.
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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The EEOC voted to delete a 200-page document on workplace harassment matters amid a push to prioritize cases brought by white men.
It Just Got Harder for LGBTQ+ People to Address Harassment at Work
This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The EEOC voted to delete a 200-page document on workplace harassment matters amid a push to prioritize cases brought by white men.
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Chicago Reader logo on its old Illinois Street offices
January 23, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Chicago Reader logo on its old Illinois Street offices
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"Look at what MAGA is trying to take from our fellow citizens—their freedom, their prosperity, their families, their basic way of life—and look at how hard they are fighting in response. These are the stakes." prospect.org/2026/01/23/m...
Minneapolis Discovered Its Own Strength Fighting ICE Tyranny - The American Prospect
Trump’s goons thought they could push around a blue city. They came in for a nasty shock.
prospect.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
"Look at what MAGA is trying to take from our fellow citizens—their freedom, their prosperity, their families, their basic way of life—and look at how hard they are fighting in response. These are the stakes." prospect.org/2026/01/23/m...
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 21: song with a powerful live performance
Ann and Nancy Wilson's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin, live at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
#MusicChallenge
Day 21: song with a powerful live performance
Ann and Nancy Wilson's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin, live at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD
YouTube video by Mark Pakula
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 PM
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 21: song with a powerful live performance
Ann and Nancy Wilson's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin, live at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
#MusicChallenge
Day 21: song with a powerful live performance
Ann and Nancy Wilson's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin, live at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
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The House is voting today on legislation that will permanently damage the Boundary Waters.
This bill would clear the way for a massive sulfide-ore copper mining operation, causing irreversible harm.
I will be voting NO. Our beautiful Boundary Waters shouldn’t be for sale.
This bill would clear the way for a massive sulfide-ore copper mining operation, causing irreversible harm.
I will be voting NO. Our beautiful Boundary Waters shouldn’t be for sale.
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The House is voting today on legislation that will permanently damage the Boundary Waters.
This bill would clear the way for a massive sulfide-ore copper mining operation, causing irreversible harm.
I will be voting NO. Our beautiful Boundary Waters shouldn’t be for sale.
This bill would clear the way for a massive sulfide-ore copper mining operation, causing irreversible harm.
I will be voting NO. Our beautiful Boundary Waters shouldn’t be for sale.
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Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.