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How did Chicago’s 19th Ward vote in the 2026 primary?
I’ve recently gotten involved with Politics and Coffee, a group that brings together progressives, liberals, and Democrats from the Beverly / Morgan Park area and other parts beyond. Its first few...
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20×2 Chicago: “Are You Ready? – July 8th, 2023
Photo: James Allenspach 20×2 Chicago is a storytelling/performance series hosted by Andrew Huff. In it, 20 people answer one question in two minutes. This edition’s question was “Are You Ready?” and I...
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What’s next after elections
The following is a slight re-working of something I read at “The Word on 103rd,” a local storytelling showcase at Made Artisan Collective in Beverly. If you think some of this sounds familiar, it is....
View ArticlePN #10: just stop for a second
Is it fear or boredom? Is it depression or uncertainty? Are you burnt out or shutting down to recharge? Why don’t we think about our minds the way we do our bodies? If you have a cold with the...
View ArticleProtected: PN #9: Fathers and daughters
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The words of Martin Luther King we won’t see on Twitter this year
“Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco June 30 1964” by geoconklin2001 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I’ve been thinking a lot about this Martin Luther King quote today: And the final thing that I...
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There are some nights when you can’t outrun the moon. It hangs over you, following your thoughts, resistant to the morning. We tell ourselves there’s a happy ending, a resolution. When we peer inside...
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Reading, listening, liking: NYE ’22 edition
Lydia Loveless at Golden Dagger in Chicago on December 30, 2022 A selection of things I enjoyed this month: This paragraph from Grey Horse’s newsletter, written by fellow OG Chicago Twitter person Kate...
View ArticlePN #7: “I Drove All Night” is perfect
What are the songs that drop by unannounced in your brain every 3-4 months? “Drove All Night” is one of those songs for me. Is it a perfect song? Yes. Yes, it is. Do you know WHY it’s a perfect song?...
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Oppenheimer and the moral weight of technology
Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / CC BY 4.0 I know it’s Christmas Eve but you’ll have to forgive me for going deep on...
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I’m blogging again.
This is an updated version of something I wrote for this site’s Public Notebook last month. Since then, Dan Sinker wrote that he’s thinking similarly. And things have gotten worse on Twitter (W. Kamau...
View ArticlePN #6: What if it was 2008 again?
Yesterday Andrew and I were taking part in that late 2022 discussion of “where are we going to go after Twitter dies/gets overrun by Nazis?” We briefly debated Mastodon vs. Hive vs. Post and eventually...
View ArticlePN #5: Hope is not wishes and prayers
Hope is not a fuzzy, rainbow-covered alternative to the facts on the ground. It is reflective of our present moment, not a future that should only live in our imaginations. Hope is a collection of...
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PN #4: derailleur, derailed
A hunk of twisted metal and plastic. That’s all it is now. It used to be the derailleur on my bike. The piece that helps me go faster or slower. Or work harder. Or make things a little easier. You need...
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“I don’t see a way in which this doesn’t end badly.” It had been going on for months. But lately he’d been thinking about that first couple weeks. The initial rush followed by the almost immediate...
View ArticlePN #2: This fucking guy
From this story: On the Republican side, Carlson has an uphill battle and has had to address that he spent nearly six years in prison after being convicted 27 years ago of sexually assaulting a woman...
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“There are other factors, too, like the expense of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft spiking late at night. Several bar and restaurant operators said they have heard people saying they don’t...
View ArticlePN #1: Scratch pad
Supposedly, I’m a writer. It feels strange to claim that role if I’m not doing it in public. Or leaving some kind of recent proof of having written. But it’s been a while since I’ve wanted to do all...
View ArticleToward a better 2022
I have various projects under various rooves. One of these days, I’ll create a better way to bring them all under one. In the meantime, I wrote this thing on Medium about where we are at the end of the...
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The intersection of the Dan Ryan and Chicago segregation
When I think about racism, segregation and the systems put in place to reinforce them, the Dan Ryan Expressway comes to mind. In part because of the complexity of it. The Dan Ryan runs eleven miles,...
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