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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 1d

“It bears pausing on the starkness of these facts: The president of the United States demanded the jailing of two elected officials who belong to the opposing political party” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

www.theatlantic.com

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 16h

It’s maddening when you are asking the questions the press is not.

Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 16h

Probably a little bit of both. Stay well, friend.

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Everything feels like a headline from The Onion.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 1d

Ohtani, Snell, Glasnow, Yamamoto, Sasaki in NLDS:

pitched 28 of 38 innings (73.7%)
1.93 ERA, 33 K, 11 BB

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Great time for these bats to finally be heating up!

Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 1d

WOOOOOOOO!!!!
#kingtuck

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

going to war for the peace prize

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2d

Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Same. My sis & BIL live in Burbank, so BUR is my go-to.

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 4d

My husband’s a pilot & flies in there all the time so this is a bit scary, AND you made me laugh out loud with this one!

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Southwest Airlines flies in and out of BUR on the daily, along with Alaska, Delta, and a few others.

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. Weird.

Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 4d

💯💯💯

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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 4d

The Cubs-Brewers game will start on TNT until Phillies-Dodgers, currently in the 9th, is over on TBS.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Lorie Barber @barberchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Frightening.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI books are popping up everywhere, especially nonfiction and kidlit. And especially on Amazon. You can usually tell by the cover, but if you're piling stuff into a cart without looking into the titles or buying off a bulk list from a vendor, they're going to slip through the cracks.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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