Once again, I must start a post with a sentence that includes words "so it as come to this ( Read more... )

When the Russian-Ukrainian War broke out, my mom and I knew that there are going to be rallies and protests in support of Ukraine and against the war - and we wanted to be a part of it. But my usual sources within the Russian-speaking communities, and the general activist chatter on Twitter, kept failing me. I kept finding out that event after ( Read more... )

As I’ve commented before, we journalists have a tendency to swoop in when there’s a crisis/controversy, and then forget about it once the heat dies down. And that is something I’ve personally been trying to avoid, even when I don’t get paid for it.

Kenosha has been on my radar long before the shooting of Jacob Blake. I visited it several times - ( Read more... )

Last week, I saw a Facebook event listing advertised across my news feed. Anthony Delmedico, head of a Scotsdale, Arizona based company that;s apparently a big deal in the apparently lucrative niche of insurance restoration roofing, decided to produce a a documentary about how COVID-19 lockdowns are unconstitutional. And he decided to organize a ( Read more... )

When, back on Tuesday, Chicago Public Library system announced that it was doing away with late fees, I admit I was a little dubious ( Read more... )

Tonight, in cleaning up old tabs.. back in April, I came across an Esquire article about how, during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump held a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he used media-bashing to get his supporters riled up. But that isn’t really something we haven’t seen before. I was far more interested in a little sidebar ( Read more... )

While reading this morning's Politico Illinois newsletter... There were a lot of interesting parts in there, but I wanted to focus on this one.

Riding Amtrak to Springfield last night: Anne Caprara, chief of staff to J.B. Pritzker; Joe Duffy, president of JMD Public Strategies; Jasmine Hooks, who’s directing operations for the governor; Democratic ( Read more... )

When I started checking through my phone archives, it turned out that I got the first in what would would turn out to be a series of texts back in October. For some reason, I missed it completely.

October 22, 2018 | 9:13

IL early voting is open NOW until Nov 5 & Republicans need your vote. Skip the Election Day lines. Find your polling place ( Read more... )

There are two articles from Politico magazine that I've been meaning to share for quite a few weeks now, but I never seemed to find the time (or other, more time-sensitive posts took priority). So I figured that, so long as I have a couple of hours free...

First, there is a feature about Democrats' efforts to make in-roads in Ohio among white ( Read more... )

Back in April 4, my friend Devin read a piece at The Skewer, a monthly spoken word show thing at Logan Square's Cafe Mustache. When talking to my mom about it aftewards, I struggle to describe what it was actually about. But now that there's a video, I can just embed it ( Read more... )