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A Pulitzer! Team! Special congrats to my partner—the incredible @bechang8—who edited this series & built @city_bureau's community-first, values-driven editorial dept at for all the right reasons, with the best partners. I’m proud 👋🏾 Our lil’ baby is proud 👶🏽 Community is proud 🥳

Congratulations to @sarahanneconway, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, @city_bureau and @invinst. #Pulitzer

PulitzerPrizes's tweet image. Congratulations to @sarahanneconway, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, @city_bureau and @invinst. #Pulitzer


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Official 1:20pm statement from our not well run organization on recent controversy: In the spirit of the season we proudly debut for your pleasure 100 bottle wall of Chicago Non-Apology Apology juice. We’ll be donating $1 from each shot to the @FoodDepository until it’s gone!

NiseiLounge's tweet image. Official 1:20pm statement from our not well run organization on recent controversy:

In the spirit of the season we proudly debut for your pleasure 100 bottle wall of Chicago Non-Apology Apology juice. We’ll be donating $1 from each shot to the @FoodDepository until it’s gone!

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Graceland Cemetery has a distinctive new memorial for Ruth H. Pater, a longtime NASA researcher and polymer scientist who immigrated from Taiwan. smithcorcoran.com/obituaries/Rut…

robertloerzel's tweet image. Graceland Cemetery has a distinctive new memorial for Ruth H. Pater, a longtime NASA researcher and polymer scientist who immigrated from Taiwan. smithcorcoran.com/obituaries/Rut…
robertloerzel's tweet image. Graceland Cemetery has a distinctive new memorial for Ruth H. Pater, a longtime NASA researcher and polymer scientist who immigrated from Taiwan. smithcorcoran.com/obituaries/Rut…
robertloerzel's tweet image. Graceland Cemetery has a distinctive new memorial for Ruth H. Pater, a longtime NASA researcher and polymer scientist who immigrated from Taiwan. smithcorcoran.com/obituaries/Rut…
robertloerzel's tweet image. Graceland Cemetery has a distinctive new memorial for Ruth H. Pater, a longtime NASA researcher and polymer scientist who immigrated from Taiwan. smithcorcoran.com/obituaries/Rut…

Great read on reframing PTSD & how it could help people get help. Op-ed: Renaming PTSD could help reduce stigma, encourage treatment chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…


JB is a treasure. Moments like this prove it.

Malort is one of Chicago’s finest beverages.



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On this day In 1841, Madison Washington led The Creole Rebellion: One of the Most Successful Slave Revolts in History. A THREAD

AfricanArchives's tweet image. On this day In 1841, Madison Washington led The Creole Rebellion: One of the Most Successful Slave Revolts in History.

A THREAD

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Chicago is set to have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the migrant crisis by the end of the year. The contractor who has billed the city the most is a suburban Kansas City firm named Favorite Staffing. 1/5


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…the boy’s mum grateful phoned me and told me where to take the wallet. ‘My son is autistic so he would have been very anxious so this is such a relief’ she explained So, the result: ‘profit maximising multinational financial institution 0, cash starved municipal service 1.


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how do you fight this? i’m not a meme generator, these are my actual words, written from lived experience, shared for connection. y’all rob the artist of connection when you do this.


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"The whistle walk" was the walk leading from the kitchen to the House. Enslaved people were required to whistle as they walked as whistling and chewing are incompatible simultaneous actions. It would also ensure that they did not eat or spit in Massa's food on the way to serve.

AfricanArchives's tweet image. "The whistle walk" was the walk leading from the kitchen to the House. Enslaved people were required to whistle as they walked as whistling and chewing are incompatible simultaneous actions. It would also ensure that they did not eat or spit in Massa's food on the way to serve.

Listen.

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The US government continues to limp into the digital age. The consequence: the gap between the policy outcomes we intend & what we get is widening. So what can we do? Join us Nov 2nd at noon w/ “Recoding America” author @pahlkadot for some answers: techequitycollaborative.org/event/recoding…


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Interested in using your career skills for the public good but not sure where to start? Volunteer with local and state governments through USDR! From digital, to content, to hiring skills, we need your expertise. Learn more today at 11 AM PT! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…


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Major collision event in Chicago, 4-5 October 2023 Please keep all nonessential lights turned off tonight and over the next few days. Over 900 birds were collected at McCormick Place alone. birdcast.info/news/major-col… 📷:@thebirbologist

yorickgarcia's tweet image. Major collision event in Chicago, 4-5 October 2023

Please keep all nonessential lights turned off tonight and over the next few days.

Over 900 birds were collected at McCormick Place alone.

birdcast.info/news/major-col…

📷:@thebirbologist

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It’s #BandcampFriday and this time the workers of the platform need us to do something for them - sign this petition for new ownership to recognize their union @bandcampunited actionnetwork.org/petitions/song…


Capitalism at its “finest.”

I think these processes pervade multiple levels of our lives - the small compromises, short-term thinking and gratification that leave things worse overall for most and satisfy only a few.



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What if you break into the Capitol building?

Trump: "Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!"



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Highlighting Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a standout black transgender rights activist. Her advocacy is deeply rooted in fighting for girls and #Transwomen of color who've endured police brutality and abuses while in prison. #WomenLeaders #FreedomFighters

RoseSAfriyie's tweet image. Highlighting Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a standout black transgender rights activist. Her advocacy is deeply rooted in fighting for girls and #Transwomen of color who've endured police brutality and abuses while in prison.

#WomenLeaders #FreedomFighters

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What’s more awesome, the pony mullet or the catch?

September 11, 1995: Monday Night Football in Chicago, a Bears fan jumps into the tunnel to successfully catch an extra point ball.



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