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Neil Steinberg
@neilsteinberg.bsky.social
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News columnist on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1987, also blogging daily at everygoddamnday.com, and the author of nine books, the most recent being "Every Goddamn Day," published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 11h
Another beautiful, if quiet, day on 18th St.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 11h
Ran into state senator Celina Villanueva at 5 Rabanitos.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 11h
Another beautiful, if quiet, day on 18th St.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 15h
I can be naive. I blueskied — or whatever one does here — today's column to the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social, thinking they would, shit, re-bluesky it to their legions. Then checked. They have 109 followers, or 1/33rd of me. Someone is not doing their job.

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Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'
"The Intentions of Thunder," the new collection of poems by the city's own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 16h
Maybe you could start by not supporting the new Stalin...
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 16h
The show trials were public. They call them "detention centers" now. Immigrants trying to work through the legal process are being terrorized, along with patriotic Americans who care about democracy and freedom. Just because you are oblivious doesn't mean everybody else is too.
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staatenlos.bsky.social @staatenlos.bsky.social · 16h
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 16h
Let's hope not.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 17h
The United States is having a show trial.

I read about those in history books about Stalin. It's like we're ticking off boxes. Gulags built? Check. Masked police sent to terrorize cities? Check. Opponents dragged into the dock on trumped up charges? Check. I think mass famine is next on the list.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 17h
C'mon @poetryfoundation.bsky.social, show a little love here!

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Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'
"The Intentions of Thunder," the new collection of poems by the city's own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family
www.everygoddamnday.com
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 17h
My column on page one of the Sun-Times today:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/patr...
Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'
"The Intentions of Thunder," the new collection of poems by the city's own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 21h
This is a good time to remind ourselves of the basics:

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Immigrants: hardworking, Samaritans, not the enemy
Readers tell how they've personally benefited from immigration.
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Len Grossman @modemjunkie.bsky.social · 1d
Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'

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Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'
"The Intentions of Thunder," the new collection of poems by the city's own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family and troubled nation. Tuesday it was named as a fin...
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks, that's very kind. I'm trying. I sent a new proposal to the University of Chicago Press a few weeks ago. But they're not exactly champing at the bit to publish me again. I do really like this idea, and am hoping they bite. But hope is not a strategy.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
Sorry to afflict you with an outlook other than your own.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks. I always wondered who read it. 🥲
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Len Grossman @modemjunkie.bsky.social · 1d
'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza - Chicago Sun-Times
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'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza
An interview with Elad Strohmayer, the new Israeli consul general to the Midwest, on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks that preceded the conflict in Gaza
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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d
....I posted this bit of Orwell (from 1984) last Sunday. Yeesh 😬
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
Miss it? TEN years ago on EGD:

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Books Week #4: "Get on the goddamn ship, Dad!"
Book Week #4: "Don't Give Up the Ship."
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
Miss it? TEN years ago on EGD:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2015/10/book...
Books Week #4: "Get on the goddamn ship, Dad!"
Book Week #4: "Don't Give Up the Ship."
www.everygoddamnday.com
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
My column in the Sun-Times today:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/it-c...
'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza
An interview with Elad Strohmayer, the new Israeli consul general to the Midwest, on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks that preceded the co
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
I don't refuse to report, or to consider, opinions I disagree with. I don't expect you to understand.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
I try to be a full-service columnist.
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
That was yesterday. www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/fall...
Fallen angels
The blog of Neil Steinberg
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 1d
My column in the Sun-Times today:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/it-c...
'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza
An interview with Elad Strohmayer, the new Israeli consul general to the Midwest, on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks that preceded the co
www.everygoddamnday.com
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