Journalist. Bylines in @WBEZ, @Grist, @climatecentral, @Chalkbeat, @AP, @detroitnews and more
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2016
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My latest for @POLITICOMag: When Trump's immigration crackdown came to Chicago
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New from @mikegerstein: When Trump's Immigration Crackdown Came to Chicago politi.co/4aHot66 via @politico
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The DEA, along with our @TheJusticeDept partners, is assisting @DHSgov and other federal law enforcement partners with their immigration enforcement efforts.
ALT Acting Deputy Attorney General Emile Bove and Border Czar Thomas Homan speak with federal law enforcement leaders during an operational pre-briefing in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
ALT Homeland Security Investigations Chicago Special Agent in Charge Fitzgerald, Border Czar Thomas Homan and DEA Chicago Field Division Special Agent in Charge Sheila G. Lyons during an operational pre-briefing in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
ALT Federal law enforcement personnel in a command post in Chicago on January 25, 2025.
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This is what it looks like when Chicago alderpeople debate for hours…
City Council finally passes Johnson's $17.3B budget — with no property tax hike chicago.suntimes.com/mayor-b… by @fspielman
theonion.com/heres-why-i-dec…
"Make no mistake: This is a coup for our company and a well-deserved victory for multinational elites the world over."
"Before Tuesday, no Democrat born after 1986 had ever voted in an election where Republicans won the popular vote. Now, all of them had. They were not entirely sure why."
semafor.com/article/11/06/20…
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When people ask me why I am the way I am, I can now just show them this list
We documented every presidential/veep campaign stop in Michigan for the past nine months so you wouldn't have to.
We barely got all 71 of them on Page 4A of today's @detroitnews.
For history.
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.@CTGuild business: The @chicagotribune wants the power to replace me with A.I.
As a union member and as a reporter, I know that won’t work. Journalism needs human beings, not bots, to interrogate (and sometimes aggravate) the most powerful people in town
Johnson’s administration is putting unhoused people back on the streets to make room for relocated tent encampment occupants who are being moved before the Democratic National Convention next month.
“I really don’t know what I’m going to do next"
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Gov. JB Pritzker, other Democratic governors to meet with Biden after dismal debate showing
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Live Election Updates: Poll Shows Slipping Support; Biden Told an Ally He Was Weighing Options nytimes.com/live/2024/07/03/…
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Fascinating:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is coming to West Michigan to campaign for President Joe Biden on Thursday, Biden's campaign just announced.
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The shipping industry has set ambitious decarbonization goals. But how to get there? @katie_brigham reports on Seabound, a company making tech for shippers to capture their carbon emissions at sea.
Read more:
heatmap.news/technology/seab…
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“wnba rough notes” = a new substack i made! subscribe for notes after each sky home game.
wnbaroughnotes.substack.com/
my goal is to increase creative weirdness in wbb & explore how basketball lives/feels in all of us, esp. as the seas ever-change!
real ones, spread the word? 🧡
In response to pressure from the Biden administration to curb migration flows, Mexico has quietly bused thousands of migrants away from the U.S. border to sites deep in the country’s south.
nytimes.com/2024/05/14/world…
