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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · Apr 21

There’s no vacation from Trump. He’s ruining everything including your summer vacation.
🦬Understaffed Natl Parks
🔥Fire Hazards
🚫Border Chaos
⚓Germy cruise ships
🥦More unsafe food
😷Virus outbreaks
✈️Flying risks
🌪️Less reliable weather forecasts

My latest⤵️
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Picture of long lines of cars waiting to get into the grand canyon.

sign on window of ranger office that reads " sue to staff shortages, the washakie ranger district office will be closed until further notice. Please see front door signage for locations where permits and products may be purchased.

picture of the grand canyon including a telescope

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

on earth 1, this is happening:

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h

Politico says Republicans have "lost the plot" !

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

"detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans..."

Read this @southsideweekly.bsky.social follow-up piece on that obscene ICE raid in Chicago:
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

3/ Here's the full Cuomo death watch story.
“Voters have decided it’s time for new blood."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

2/ Here's the full Mamdani story:

"CAPTAIN AMERICA: Mamdani's momentum has been described as a miracle. But he's also drawn the wrath of President Donald Trump, who threatened to have him arrested."

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/z...

The Legend of Zohran

NYC’s mayoral candidate has Kennedy-like charisma, a global profile, and nepo baby instincts. He is also a proud democratic socialist who has both Donald Trump and the left-wing establishment in a lat...

www.vanityfair.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

This split screen is brutal. Cuomo gets a death watch while Mamdani gets the cover treatment & lines like this:
"I saw someone leap from a moving bike and another guy leave a motorcycle running on the sidewalk, all of them running to ask for one of the selfies that Mamdani takes endlessly"

As Cuomo Tries to Catch Mamdani, the Campaign May Get Ugly
“You’ve got a candidate who has lost his way,” one Cuomo insider tells Vanity Fair.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 8h

The gratuitous word “negligently” here is the tell that those complainers may be onto something.

Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 8h

There are people on here who complain that NYT headlines are written to be friendly to Trump

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9h

This is super dorky but also pretty great

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 11h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10h

One of many from the past week in chicago.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

And so it begins

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11h

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss "without prejudice" the charges against Huburt Mazur, who faced a misdemeanor charge stemming from ICE protests in Broadview.

Mazur's preliminary hearing was set for Wednesday morning.

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

This This This

You have to read deep into any of the news stories about this to get to the heart of the story: the senators were being investigated for their role in helping trump on Jan6th.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 13h

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”'

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

"The special counsel's investigation delved into phone calls between lawmakers and the president on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021"

Remember when Trump tried to overturn the election? Some Senators were happy to help him so Jack Smith was looking at their phone data.

www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-gop...

Some of the lawmakers were part of a group of Republicans who planned to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election. After the voting was disrupted by the rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, most of the lawmakers named in the FBI document voted to certify the results, while Sen. Lummis and Rep. Kelly objected to at least one state.

The special counsel's investigation delved into phone calls between lawmakers and the president on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, which Smith alleged were part of a last-ditch attempt to talk congressional Republicans into blocking the certification of Biden's victory. The 2023 indictment against Mr. Trump lists several attempts by Mr. Trump and his alleged co-conspirators to reach senators and representatives by phone. It argued the president "attempted to exploit the violence and chaos at the Capitol by calling lawmakers to convince them, based on knowingly false claims of election fraud, to delay the certification."

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14h

🧵on Bari Weiss at the Times written by one who knows

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14h

Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 14h

Podcaster / FBI Director gets Community Noted.

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