That ‘W’ is blasphemy now

Former Leona’s space is open for low-cost parties — and AI entrepreneurship hpherald.com/evening_digest…

Israel just bombed an murdered the entire Aljazeera staff in Gaza city: Correspondents Anas Al Sharif أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammad Qreiqei, killed. Cameramen Ibrahim Dhaher and Mo’men Aleiwa, killed. Crew driver, Mohammad Nofal, killed. All murdered in an Israeli bombing of

I don’t care if you review regional theater or run a Middle East desk, if you’ve been too cowardly or too careerist to denounce the targeted slaughter of hundreds of your Palestinian peers these last 22 months, you really have no business calling yourself a journalist.

🚨🚨 theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

Chicago’s entrenched racial segregation — decades in the making and readily apparent to everyone who lives here — makes it so that the current federal blitz is extremely targeted. That means, depending on where you live, you either feel their presence everyday, or not at all

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports. Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase. Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

The most important news story in the country is happening in Chicago right now with the ongoing Trump deportation raids.

ICE hits Hyde Park hpherald.com/evening_digest…

Dr. Sahloul showed Biden photos of two kids he had treated in Gaza who ultimately died from their wounds. This is what followed:

You cannot tell where someone went to college by their prose style, with one total exception: The University of Chicago.

A stat worth knowing: McKinsey the consulting firm has more employees than there are journalists of any kind in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

RIP Bela Tarr

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, photography by Gábor Medvigy, Miklós Gurbán, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza) one the great films of the millennium, full stop

This is the same way they write about killings in the West Bank

Breaking: One day after tens of thousands of Minnesotans hit the streets to peacefully protest and demand ICE leave their state. An ICE agent shot another observer.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. propublica.org/article/chicag…

Wiseman… an uninterrupted streak of curiosity, empathy, wisdom, sharp observation, quiet anger, and edits that cut like a knife - ended only by the reality of living in a human body.

While he was here, Frederick Wiseman was the most curious man alive. He came to filmmaking late, at 36, and spent the next six decades making a body of work that allows us to move through the world in a new way. How beautiful is that.

wishing safe passage to a humble giant. Frederick Wiseman (January 1, 1930 – February 16, 2026)