ICYMI: A former Chicago Public Schools employee who was classified as ineligible to be rehired after being accused of defrauding the district through a dual employment scheme is now working in a six-figure job at the Chicago Transit Authority.
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
do not take his crossword section
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
tax the rich (case sensitive)
thunder so loud it's shaking my windows. like a camera flash outside and then an m80
it's insane how immediately i snap to attention in the newsroom when i get the notification of the walk report bc it means new photos of the dog. @ellery.bsky.social can attest to this
brown dog with his big toothy mouth wide open
brown dog with a derpy sort of mlem smile
brown dog with his mouth wiiiide open
brown dog with a derpy sort of smile
i have immensely appreciated the photographic skills of lou's dog walker
they are now shrieking lol
omg this wind
lol the lightning is like a strobe light outside and my neighbors just cheered and cracked open some more beers from their stoop
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby lies on his office floor and takes 20-minute naps- and he says it doesn't mean he's accomplished any less
big news for illinois-based fans of tummy time
@jschleuss.com take notes
waiting for the first winning union organizing strategy that involves prompt injection
counterpoint: someone thinks there is a vampire on your flight
full photo. i think i might not be in the tax bracket to understand this kitchen perhaps
wait I am confused here. two dishwashers? pull out trash bin or some sort of cooler? I get separate sinks, maybe one is a hot water faucet. but separate dishwashers, two fridges. two sinks. kosher kitchen?
so good
sometimes i think about being much more candid about 1. what said illness is and 2. how it impacts me and 3. how i navigate the world with it especially as 4. a journalist who can end up spending a solid chunk of time out in the field. maybe later.
weekends with a chronic illness means you're often spent sitting/waiting/wishing (like the Jack Johnson song)
@harebrained.bsky.social
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schweeeeet. ty & ty @colinbphoto.bsky.social :)
? back and forth from Burr Ridge
N129NH
does anyone know what construction project is requiring a sikorsky to continue to fly at low altitude back and forth lol
Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.
Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
my hair is braided right now and realizing that was the inciting event toward the tears lolol