Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.
Happy Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so don’t be surprised by six more weeks of winter.
■ Then again, Illinois’ Woodstock Willie went shadowless, so maybe better things await us.
■ Regardless, today’s looking a lot better than Chicago’s snowpocalypse of 15 years ago today—when just walking through the snow was a workout.
■ At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the third annual Harold Ramis Day at Navy Pier will celebrate the late Chicago-born filmmaker who brought us the movie Groundhog Day.
‘Sue this … dope.’ President Trump’s up in arms over a Jeffrey Epstein joke Trevor Noah made about Trump at last night’s Grammy Awards.
■ Plenty of expletives got cut during the broadcast as music’s biggest stars profanely slammed Trump’s Twin Cities reign of terror.
■ The New York Times (gift link) has found more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Justice Department-released emails, government files, videos and other records related to dead sex offender Epstein.
■ Also from the Times: “They said they weren’t close to Epstein. New documents show otherwise.”
■ The AP surveys a who’s who of powerful people named in the latest trove.
‘I don’t think people realize how much of an insane step up Minneapolis was, how much more violence and aggression, and how many more agents doing completely illegal things.’ Two Chicago-area teenage brothers born in Minneapolis have spent days up there observing and documenting immigration agents’ actions.
■ Y’know that video of a federal agent running at a Minneapolis protester and then slipping on ice and falling on his ass, to the cheers of onlookers? That was their work.
■ The BBC surveys “how ICE raids changed a once bustling Chicago neighbourhood.”
■ The Tribune compares the federal assaults on Chicago and the Twin Cities.
■ ProPublica’s identified the two federal agents whose gunfire left Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti dead.
Freed at last. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, snatched by immigration officers and shipped to Texas last month, have been returned to Minnesota …
■ … after a judge issued a blistering order condemning “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.”
‘Pure fascism.’ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for simply covering a protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church … remind us that no one has been more instrumental than Attorney General Pam Bondi in the assault on Americans’ civil liberties and the rule of law.”
■ Bondi faces congressional articles of impeachment.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch sees trouble ahead for Ohio: “It’s hard to call this proposed operation anything … besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil.”
■ Want to support journalists stretched to the limit covering the Twin Cities incursion? Here’s how.
■ The Intercept: A raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is a warning: “Turn off your phone’s biometrics now.”
■ Salty Politics columnist Julie Roginsky: “Trump is selling out our national security and the Constitution all at once.”
‘Just like his casinos and other businesses, the Kennedy Center went out of business after he put his name on it.’ That’s one of the slams against Trump on social media after his announcement that the [Trump] Kennedy Center would be closing for a two-year renovation …
■ … coincidentally—or not—after a bunch of artists refused to perform at the facility he’s taken over.
‘How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won’t be testifying about the Chicago Police Department’s notorious code of silence in federal court?’ Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg? Not so much: “I’m not sure why lawyers … ever thought they’d need Rahm Emanuel to explain the tight lips of Chicago police. Everybody knows.”
■ A judge’s change of heart is good news for those hoping Emanuel runs for president.
■ The New York Times (gift link): “The Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive.”
Plow ahead. Balloting’s now open in Chicago’s annual name-the-snowplow finals.
■ Chicagoans—or at least those who enter a Chicago ZIP code (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)—can vote here.
■ During this ninth anniversary month for Square, you can get a special code good for $9 off the purchase price if you support this publication in any amount—even $1, just once.
Happy National News Literacy Week. The News Literacy Project has a passel of activities for teaching kids—and adults—to be smart news consumers …
■ … including a quiz on “pink slime” news.
Chicago news needs you. If you can spare about 10 minutes for a survey, you can help news organizations working with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to better understand the public they serve—and you could win a $100 gift card.■ Completed the survey for another news organization? Do it again and get a bonus shot at that gift card.
Thanks. Karen Kring and Mike Braden made this edition better.
■ A hat-tip to Igor Studenkov for kind words in his new Chicago Media Journal email newsletter.