The H.A.T.E.R.’s Guide to the 2026 NBA Playoffs Hating season is back. Ranking every playoff team by how much you’d enjoy their downfall.

Have all these people talking about the Hornets being likable seen LaMelo on a basketball court or behind the wheel? Have they read Bridges’ Wikipedia?

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Pope: [moral critique of illegal war]

President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay

Media: they are feuding😳

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986

Illinois Prison Officials Digitized Mail to Stop Contraband, But New Data Shows Little Results So Far The switch to digitized mail for incarcerated people has had little impact on the drug exposures the policy sought to stop, according to new data from the Illinois Department of Corrections.

NEW: Illinois prison officials digitized mail to stop contraband. But their data actually shows an increase drug discoveries six months after implementation. news.wttw.com/2026/04/16/i...

Chicago TikTok runner says goodbye to the city he’s fallen in love

The TikTok star who is running every block in the city of Chicago joins WBEZ’s Say More to talk about being forced to leave the United States. Joabe Barbosa’s student visa is expiring. He shares what he loves about the city and what it will mean to say goodbye.

Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why. Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

📣A must-read: Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why & what you can do about it, via @brettchase.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com: tinyurl.com/3yyw72mw @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social

COMMENTARY OTHER VIEWS LGBTQ+ No, my Sun-Times colleague, Violet Miller, and lare not the same person Many people can't tell us apart because they don't know or understand trans women, a deficit that fuels policies and rhetoric that harm us all. By Ellery Jones | Apr 15, 2026, 6:00am CDT Chicago Sun-Times reporter Violet Miller (left) and Sun-Times and WBEZ Innovation Editor Ellery Jones | Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times

A very important personal message for you all today:

No, @vimiller.bsky.social and I are NOT the same person.

And the fact that y'all keep confusing us says something about Society™️

in case you need more clarification: chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2026...

Just a couple days ago Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe called LaMelo a “likable” superstar.

a pistons-hornets 1st round series will FEED FAMILIES….specifically, jalen duren’s family. all other families will have extra time to eat together because it will be over in four games

If you are close, on going on a trip together and hugging terms with someone you cover as a journalist, that is not significantly better or worse than dating and/or sleeping with them. It's the exact same ethical concern.

I trust journalists way more than cops and courts to investigate sexual violence allegations. When a thoroughly reported journalistic investigation comes out, like the ones about Eric Swalwell, I’ve seen enough. If you haven’t done this work you may be unaware of how much goes into it.

I cannot believe how much I’ve had to hear about how dangerous the hornets are

Thanks for listening!

Fireworks should not be available for the general public.

Somehow every floor looks like a vrbo basement

Disrespectful to Kobe

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Jesus fucking Christ

She left her agent because he was in the Epstein files, and just like that, there’s a bot-driven smear campaign.

You fell for it with Amber Heard and Blake Lively, stop fucking falling for it.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling joins Say More this morning on @wbez.org Listen at 10am on 91.5 or at the website...and call with your questions -- 866-915-9239. @araceligomezaldana.bsky.social and I are awaiting your call!

Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time.

I vastly prefer it when places are locally owned, and I believe it Bowlero has made leagues worse or cut down on them but it does not seem true that Bowlero is universally “shutting down” leagues. every bowlero I looked at has leagues

Great piece! Commenting to add that there was also a whole organized freak out aimed at the Sun-Times reporter who dared quote the friend saying the same thing

Chicago Public Media went to court so you the public could have all the facts about a Chicago public agency board member accused of defrauding a public housing program.

We won. Here’s what they were hiding from you chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

maybe baseball will fix my mental health!!

ICE Killed A Man Outside Chicago Last Year. Little Has Been Done To Investigate Neither the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office nor Franklin Park police chose to launch probes into the death of Silverio Villegas González. That’s in stark contrast to Minneapolis, where local off...

ICE agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he dropped his kids off at school in September.

Minn officials launched investigations into Pretti & Good's killings. Cook County has not done the same for Villegas Gonzalez.

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It’s time for the percolator

This morning @wbez.org has you covered on primary election reaction and analysis. @sashaannsimons.bsky.social starts early at 8:45, then at 10 @maryldixon.bsky.social and I want to know what inspired you to go to the polls. And If you sat this election out we want to know why. LISTENNNN