Phil Jackson wants to do The Rehearsal

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Reading Sam Smith's "The Jordan Rules" and it's great. Almost all celebrity content including sports now feels like Brand Management and this is not. Feels like I'm reading about actual human beings

On the same trip we also visited Metropolis, home of Superman

Woody Guthrie - "Goodbye Centralia" YouTube video by Rounder Records

youtu.be/YW1FvbFp9VE?... Woody Guthrie is such a king.

Visited Centralia in Southern Illinois earlier this week and stopped by the miner's memorial in Wamac that recognizes the 111 miners who died in the 1947 explosion. Woody Guthrie wrote three songs about them

Officials have released footage showing the fatal shooting of Krystal Rivera following months of work covering the case by Peter Nickeas, @ctoner.bsky.social and our friends in @cstguild.bsky.social. Another example of invaluable work made by our members.

Saints are imperfect vessels of God

Body Cam Video Shows Chicago Cop Took Cover for 90 Seconds After Fatally Shooting His Partner, Krystal Rivera Body camera videos released Friday show that officer Carlos Baker ran up a stairwell after encountering an armed man and firing the gunshot that killed Rivera.

"I was lost and confused. I was in denial that I even fired my gun,” he told investigators, according to recordings of interviews obtained by the Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Sun-Times.

illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/17/o...

Body Cam Video Shows Chicago Cop Took Cover for 90 Seconds After Fatally Shooting His Partner, Krystal Rivera Body camera videos released Friday show that officer Carlos Baker ran up a stairwell after encountering an armed man and firing the gunshot that killed Rivera.

'I did nothing wrong. And the whole world is making me seem like a monster': Our story about the bodycam footage from the Carlos Baker Krystal Rivera police shooting and the ensuing investigation illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/17/o...

Chicago police officer Carlos Baker shot and killed his partner, Officer Krystal Rivera, in 2025. We partnered with the Chicago Sun-Times to fight CPD in court and get the body camera footage of both officers released. Read: https://bit.ly/4tTljEI

Thank you

Officer Krystal Rivera’s Partner Hid After Fatally Shooting Her and Failed to Provide Aid, New Video Shows Body camera videos released Friday show that officer Carlos Baker ran up a stairwell after encountering an armed man and firing the gunshot that killed Rivera.

illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/17/o... Our latest on the Carlos Baker Krystal Rivera shooting following the release of body cam footage that @illinoisanswers.bsky.social and @chicago.suntimes.com fought in court to release

"Sheets spent 4 years with the White Sox, has really found new life with the Padres ... career high in 2Bs last year for the Padres."

"(PLAYER_NAME) spent (NUMBER) years with the White Sox, has really found new life with the (NEW_TEAM) ... career high in (COUNTING_STAT) last year for (NEW_TEAM)"

South suburban Pope 💪

How did the 'industry plant' take root? - Chicago Reader The 'industry plant' is hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory, used to discredit breakout successes—and it’s spreading to other genres, where it’s no more plausible.

[dusts off this old thing]

Chicago Cops Did Little to Probe Gun Stolen From Police Station and Used in Three Shootings, New Records Show The Glock was later used in three shootings, but no one was ever charged in the gun's theft, nor was any officer disciplined.

A Chicago police sergeant told internal affairs he thought another cop stole a gun from his district tact office.

CPD Internal affairs didn't add the theft allegation to their case file, closed the case without more interviews, only reopened their case after we asked CPD about the theft. #chicago

This comes more than a year after we reported the theft of the gun, which was later recovered on a 16-year-old boy. Police reopened the case, which was previously closed, and refused our records requests saying it was still under investigation. We sued. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Chicago cops did little to probe gun stolen from police station and used in three shootings, new records show The Chicago Police Department fought to keep secret any details of its investigation into a Glock handgun that was taken from a room full of cops at the Gresham District station in late 2023. In the end, no one was charged, and no cops were disciplined.

chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... Chicago police didn't interview most of the cops who were in the room when a Glock went missing. A supervisor said he thought another cop stole it. No one has been disciplined or charged in the theft of the gun, later used in shootings across the South side

Reading "The Nix" and there's a POV chapter from a World of Warcraft player with the alias "Pwnage." How come no one told me about this

If you haven't read it already, an edition came out a few years ago that's annotated and introduced by an English professor at West Point who teaches it. It's an epic and he's such a cool narrator

US Grant, after whipping Lee's ass, remarks on his nice outfit.

I love how US Grant contrasts himself in a "rough traveling suit, the uniform of a private with the strap of a lieutenant-general" with Lee, "a man so handsomely well dressed, six feet high and of faultless form" while Lee surrenders his army to him.

Trump officials threatened the Chicago Pope with military power (first reported by Mattia Ferraresi) #chicago

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offici...

I'd be curious to play one, to hear the sound, but I'm conservative in my presentation they're a touch too flashy for my taste. The color red is too much on a guitar for me

What do you think

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

And the "Let's Go Brandon" bumper sticker of it all. Smdh

Crazy to me they've been acting like this for so long and never felt the need to course correct. Even after Steve Goodman dropped a diss track

I listened to the song after reporting him to the cops. Holds up!

"Protective Parking Service" (Lincoln Towing) tow truck driver driving like a total jagoff on Ashland. Using the turn lane to get out of traffic to blow through red lights.