Fears of looser standards as the FBI and Justice Department scramble to fill a depleted workforce The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the last year.

Ya think?

Donate to Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead, organized by Ali Liezert Many people may not be aware of the challenges the Smith family will be facing … Ali Liezert needs your support for Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead

If you're able to, please donate to the family's expenses. Johnny and Jan have both had to limit their work time to take care of Caleb and his sister in the last months. If you can't give money at this time, please share with others. Thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/hope-and-h... /end

Donate to Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead, organized by Ali Liezert Many people may not be aware of the challenges the Smith family will be facing … Ali Liezert needs your support for Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead

Their son Caleb lives with Down syndrome and spastic diplegic cerebral palsy. He's about to have a procedure this week at @luriechildrens.bsky.social that will hopefully improve his mobility and relieve some discomfort. www.gofundme.com/f/hope-and-h... 2/

Donate to Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead, organized by Ali Liezert Many people may not be aware of the challenges the Smith family will be facing … Ali Liezert needs your support for Hope and Healing for Caleb’s Journey Ahead

Johnny Smith has been doing lawn maintenance for me at my late father's former house and store in rural Ogle County, Illinois. He and his wife Jan are great people. I'm grateful that they have been able to check on the buildings when I'm not around. www.gofundme.com/f/hope-and-h... 1/

City Civics Day 2024 | Opening Performance with avery r. young and Mekeba Malik YouTube video by Chicago DPD

things that came out years ago that I'm enjoying this week:

1. Ted Lasso (fave is Higgins)
2. grape uncrustables
3. this avery r young performance for City Civics Day 2024 (sold out his opera's Lyric debut this weekend, congrats!) youtu.be/4j_5zqwk19g?...

Thread from user lolaogbara on Threads

Thread from user lolaogbara on Threads

A person on Threads is saying that the Chicago club Podlasie has been discriminatory against Black people

The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How the hell did we get here? And how do we change course? Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-how-the...

was once New Amsterdam.

6601 West College Drive, Palos Heights, IL, 60463

Trinity Christian College’s 60 acre campus and buildings in Palos Heights, IL are for sale. The college will close after this May’s graduation.

The campus was a golf course in the 1950s when Trinity acquired it and the clubhouse is still intact. Listing from CBRE: bit.ly/3Q3Q0bW

NEWS: Biden’s HHS created guidelines for a “morning after” type pill to drive down syphilis infections after sex. The target populations: LGBTQ+, Black, and Native Americans.

The data is in, and it's a success.

Trump’s anti-DEI posture would have prevented it.

www.advocate.com/health/sexua...

Dolly Parton Is the Most Popular Person in America, New Poll Finds A new University of Massachusetts Lowell poll finds Dolly Parton is the most beloved public figure in America, with net

Is it any wonder?

I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

"Poak Chops" by Tamechi (also a designer & created Hammer pants + countless ensembles for Soul Train dancers).

I'm not from the South but I can relate to weird great parties in someone's yard where your cousin the stripper is teaching the kids her moves

youtu.be/Ox9KvQLVtek?...

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Mistress of Kristi Noem's husband reveals how ICE shootings wrecked his home life The husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly admitted things got "really bad at home" after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.Texts and phone call recordings obtained by The Daily Mail detailed sex worker Shy S...

The husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly admitted things got "really bad at home" after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.

I cannot stress this enough: Vegas gave Musk millions to build us a supposed public transportation system. Instead he built basically an Uber tunnel for Teslas that only goes FROM ONE END OF A CONVENTION CENTER TO THE OTHER. Literally just gets you to the other side of a building.

FBI recently recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone (archived link; story via @404media.co ) archive.today/bSQhD

Obama might meet Pope Leo before Trump does: report The new Donald Trump administration hasn't had much of a positive relationship with the Vatican since entering office and now he may not even be the first U.S. president to meet Pope Leo XIV. Former c...

AWKWARD!
Obama might meet Pope Leo before Trump does: report www.alternet.org/barack-obama...

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Refugee families are the latest group to face SNAP food benefit cutoff Refugees and people granted asylum in the U.S. will join thousands of others in Illinois expected to lose their food assistance starting this spring as the Trump administration’s tax and spending bill goes into effect.

Refugee families are the latest group to face #SNAP food benefit cutoff, joining thousands of others in Illinois expected to lose their food assistance starting this spring as Trump administration’s tax + spending bill takes effect
chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202... Via @elviamalagon.bsky.social

💻; silly tasks, silly work... ✧⁠*⁠。

#cats #illustration #cute #art

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN SLUGGO: I'M GONNA BE A MUSICIAN WHEN I GROW UP NANCY: OH, NO --- ANYTHING BUT THAT P2- SLUGGO: WHY ? --- WHAT'S WRONG WITH BEIN A MUSICIAN? NANCY: THEY'RE ALWAYS BROKE P3- SLUGGO: HOW CAN YA PROVE DAT ? P4- NANCY TAKES SLUGGO TO A STORE FRONT OF A PAWNSHOP THE WINDOW IS FILLED WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 03,1948

Is America on the cusp of a farm crisis? Rising prices for fertilizer and diesel are driving up costs for farmers — squeezing an industry that's already under intense pressure.

Is America on the cusp of a farm crisis?

Rising prices for fertilizer and diesel are driving up costs for farmers — squeezing an industry that's already under intense pressure.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Pope Leo’s first Easter: one year in, what do Catholics think of the new pontiff?

Some would like Leo to be more vocal on world conflict, but others say he uses his influence discreetly

A drawing of my tabby cat, Otter, done in rough digital pencil lines over flat areas of gray and cream with white highlights and details in blunt lines. He is sitting in profile to the left with his head turned to look directly at the viewer with his normal cryptic expression. Chunky orange lettering surrounding him above and below reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments:

The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.

The cover of the book Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.

Sample spreads of a scrapbook that started out as a baby book and the continued to include current events in the 1960s. Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.

A section on CB Radio QSL postcards from: Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.

A section of the book showing 1980s San Francisco street flyers from the collection of Stephen Perkins. From the book: Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.

In 2014 Inventory Press invited me to make a Public Collectors book. This was before my self-publishing rampage hit full force. The result was this beautiful 224 page tome that is long out of print. I have some final copies they gave me to sell, available for $25: halfletterpress.com/public-colle...

Charles Joseph Smith brings his music aboveground  - Chicago Reader Charles Joseph Smith is a beloved fixture on Chicago’s DIY scene, but the ambitious music he's been making for decades has gone mostly unheard—until now.

Another deep dive from @imleor.bsky.social, this time on basement-show savant Charles Joseph Smith. If you've been on the Chicago DIY scene in the past 20 years, you've probably seen him—but have you heard his music? Do you have any idea what he can do with a piano? chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

In situ minimus - Chicago Reader The sixth iteration of Barely Fair—the annual 1:12-scale art fair where one inch equals one foot—opens Friday, April 3, in McKinley Park.

BARELY FAIR in the @chicagoreader.com by Erin Toale

chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...