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“I resent Spotify for monopolizing how people imagine you can experience music.”

Alongside Sam Cantor of Minor Moon, Reader senior staff writer @imleor.bsky.social spoke to Sasha-Ann Simons on @wbez.org's In the Loop about Chicago musicians and listeners leaving Spotify.
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Features writer Katie Prout (@katieprout.bsky.social) estimates that at least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September—but there's often little record of disappearances, making it difficult to tell just how many people have been abducted.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM