K.R.Kring
@krkring.bsky.social
Media Strategist. Photographer. Journalist. | Constantly Curious. | Chicago-based. | Talking to news workers at https://youtube.com/@karenkringmediacurious | Posts are mine alone.
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K.R.Kring
@krkring.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Get off-line and call a friend or loved one soon. Maybe go take a walk or out for a meal with them. Betting you'll be glad you did.
Photojournalists don't just chase stories with the wordsmiths, but often find them on their own.
@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened:
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Photojournalists don't just chase stories with the wordsmiths, but often find them on their own.
Being "before your time" is exhausting. Being the "canary in the coalition mine" is deadly. Working on hitting the mark with new colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Being "before your time" is exhausting. Being the "canary in the coalition mine" is deadly. Working on hitting the mark with new colleagues.
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DHS claims this never happened. Watch the video for yourself and see who is telling the truth. (hint: it's not the trump administration)
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
DHS claims this never happened. Watch the video for yourself and see who is telling the truth. (hint: it's not the trump administration)
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I'm a huge fan of Chicago media critic @markjacob.bsky.social. Every week he has a brutally smart take on politics & the news media. This week may be my favorite yet with this graphic ⤵️ & this line:
"If only the media acted more like frogs"
"If only the media acted more like frogs"
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm a huge fan of Chicago media critic @markjacob.bsky.social. Every week he has a brutally smart take on politics & the news media. This week may be my favorite yet with this graphic ⤵️ & this line:
"If only the media acted more like frogs"
"If only the media acted more like frogs"
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"The majority of teens view news media negatively. An overwhelming majority of teens (84%) express a negative sentiment when asked what word best describes news media these days." tinyurl.com/wm9mnp9k
Report: “Biased,” “Boring” and “Bad”: Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens - The News Literacy Project
This follow-up survey, which recontacted more than 750 respondents from the News Literacy Project’s 2024 News Literacy in America Report, sought to better understand the nature of teen distrust in new...
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"The majority of teens view news media negatively. An overwhelming majority of teens (84%) express a negative sentiment when asked what word best describes news media these days." tinyurl.com/wm9mnp9k
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and myself as we honor #Chicago area journalists Nov 14. bit.ly/cjaawards2025
Tracy Baim
Brandis Friedman
Shia Kapos
Alma Campos
Mike Lowe
Jim Williams
Jake Wittich
Curtis Lawrence
Dorothy Tucker
Mary Mitchell
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Asal Rezaei
Jean Hodges
Amaris Rodriguez
and myself as we honor #Chicago area journalists Nov 14. bit.ly/cjaawards2025
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Join Amber Nettles
Tracy Baim
Brandis Friedman
Shia Kapos
Alma Campos
Mike Lowe
Jim Williams
Jake Wittich
Curtis Lawrence
Dorothy Tucker
Mary Mitchell
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Asal Rezaei
Jean Hodges
Amaris Rodriguez
and myself as we honor #Chicago area journalists Nov 14. bit.ly/cjaawards2025
Tracy Baim
Brandis Friedman
Shia Kapos
Alma Campos
Mike Lowe
Jim Williams
Jake Wittich
Curtis Lawrence
Dorothy Tucker
Mary Mitchell
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Asal Rezaei
Jean Hodges
Amaris Rodriguez
and myself as we honor #Chicago area journalists Nov 14. bit.ly/cjaawards2025
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#ProtestMatters ⬇️ #Hallelujah ❤️
Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says.
Meet the Austrian nuns who fled a care home to break into their old convent
Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#ProtestMatters ⬇️ #Hallelujah ❤️
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Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
What do you think? Is it time we call ICE raids "so called immigration enforcement" or somethinglike that? Given the nature of the harassment, assaults and abductions, might we drop the pretext? Might we see with our eyes what is true and not use verbiage the federal government suggests?
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What do you think? Is it time we call ICE raids "so called immigration enforcement" or somethinglike that? Given the nature of the harassment, assaults and abductions, might we drop the pretext? Might we see with our eyes what is true and not use verbiage the federal government suggests?
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Powerful photo from @WescottImages of Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez's sister Dora Suane, right, at Loyola Medicine’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital after Ricardo was hospitalized while being arrested by immigration agents Sunday morning.
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Powerful photo from @WescottImages of Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez's sister Dora Suane, right, at Loyola Medicine’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital after Ricardo was hospitalized while being arrested by immigration agents Sunday morning.
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NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
This is how a good president acts.
"I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country. I have experienced it before, when I wasn't president, when I was a student... A line must be drawn."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is how a good president acts.
It's said that one should live in the moment. Sometimes glimpsing at moments I was not alive for is interesting too.
Poster by Luigi Martinati for the Italian release of "A Star is Born" (1954) with Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford and Tommy Noonan. Moss Hart adapted the screenplay from the 1937 version and George Cukor directed.
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's said that one should live in the moment. Sometimes glimpsing at moments I was not alive for is interesting too.
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Photojournalism matters.
Photo by Andrew Harnik, Getty
Photo by Andrew Harnik, Getty
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Photojournalism matters.
Photo by Andrew Harnik, Getty
Photo by Andrew Harnik, Getty
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Hmm...I'm starting to wonder whether our relationship to photojournalism needs to change considering we live in a society where we're being watched at all times.
'Cause why do we need to see close-up photos of this man sobbing in order to care about people being disappeared off the street?
'Cause why do we need to see close-up photos of this man sobbing in order to care about people being disappeared off the street?
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hmm...I'm starting to wonder whether our relationship to photojournalism needs to change considering we live in a society where we're being watched at all times.
'Cause why do we need to see close-up photos of this man sobbing in order to care about people being disappeared off the street?
'Cause why do we need to see close-up photos of this man sobbing in order to care about people being disappeared off the street?
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Images of American Fascism
"Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like."
#photography #photojournalism #visualstorytelling
"Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like."
#photography #photojournalism #visualstorytelling
Images of American Fascism
Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like.
readingthepictures.media
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Images of American Fascism
"Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like."
#photography #photojournalism #visualstorytelling
"Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like."
#photography #photojournalism #visualstorytelling
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Murdering humans in the Caribbean Sea. Risking starvation of tens of millions of Americans. Urging abusive federal agents to use deadly force.
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Murdering humans in the Caribbean Sea. Risking starvation of tens of millions of Americans. Urging abusive federal agents to use deadly force.
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
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Too much to ask to make Nuremberg film required viewing by I-c-e, DHS, police., etc? Can it be posted in parts on X? It may be more premonition come to life than history for them.
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Too much to ask to make Nuremberg film required viewing by I-c-e, DHS, police., etc? Can it be posted in parts on X? It may be more premonition come to life than history for them.
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Suburban moms are not a demographic you want to f*ck around with.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Suburban moms are not a demographic you want to f*ck around with.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Let's lean into that power. There are ways to keep safe while engaging in the work that needs to be done. Connect with those who know what's going on and do what you can from where you are with what you've got. Let's pull together.
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Let's lean into that power. There are ways to keep safe while engaging in the work that needs to be done. Connect with those who know what's going on and do what you can from where you are with what you've got. Let's pull together.