Last week, feds pointed a gun at someone inside their home in the suburbs. ICE never left Chicago and every day feels like screaming into a void
Bragging about your inadequate PPE as a frontline journalist encourages others to be cavalier about their own safety and can get people really hurt. Maybe just fucking don't
A tale of two Chicagos: a picture perfect day plays out downtown while feds pluck people from the neighborhoods and suburbs.
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i love it when the clock strikes 10:30 every morning and the usual sites publish their 3 infuriating news stories that will drive all discourse today like zookeepers raising the enclosure's gate and letting the seals get into the day's bucket of chum
During that scuffle, one of the agents dropped a magazine fully loaded with ammunition on the street (a supervisor retrieved that magazine minutes after the agents left the scene).
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. I'm choosing my photo of an American crow. It's the best shot I've ever gotten of these beautiful corvids.
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