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A stack of candidate mailers on my kitchen counter.
One day’s worth of Illinois primary election mailers in my mailbox 🫠
Thank you, David!
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
Final stack of Injustice Watch judicial election guides.
Last stop—and third CPL branch—of the day is the Wicker Park-Bucktown library. I started with 2,800 guides in my trunk. They’re all gone—joining the 167,200 others my colleagues and our partners have delivered around the county. Thanks for following along!
Don’t forget to #CheckYourJudges!
Stacks of election guides on a window sill
Mindy’s Bakery has judicial election guides—and, on Fridays, the best challah in the city, imho (though none for me today, since I got there too late 😭 Gotta be there before 2 to snag some.)
A table and bulletin board full of papers and flyers.
Guides on the floor next to a pile of Chicago Readers
Guides are available at Wormhole Coffee on Milwaukee and up the street at Myopic Books (look under the front table, next to our friends, the Chicago Reader.)
Injustice Watch guides in a table next to other newspapers. On the wall in the back is artwork of Walter Payton.
Gallery Cafe has judicial guides — and a sweet portrait (made of skateboards and paper, I think) of Sweetness.
A bookshelf full of magazines and newspapers.
Dropped some guides at Quimby’s books, on North Ave. (Made me sad all over again that Volumes Bookcafe closed, since I always used to drop some there.) Support your local independent bookstore!
Me in sunglasses and a blue sweatshirt with arms full of judicial election guides.
It’s so nice I ditched the car (and the fleece) for a few stops. If you’re getting your caffeine fix on Division in Wicker Park, you can find guides at Philz, Foxtrot, Alliance Bakery (the other one), and Candor Coffee.
A stack of election guides in the middle of a record store.
A stack of election guides in front of a sign that reads Engine Coffee
Moving to Wicker Park now. Dusty Groove records on Ashland has a stack of judicial election guides and so does Engine Coffee across the street
A stack of judicial election guides next to a bunch of laundry detergents.
I think these got out of order. But stop by YoYo Coin Laundromat and read some judicial voter information while you do your laundry.
Stack of judicial guides on a table inside the West Town library.
My hand holding two Dory Fantasmagory books.
Second library on my route is my local branch, West Town. So I got to pick up some books I had on hold while I dropped off guides (the aforementioned 5-year-old LOVES Dory Fantasmagory. Highly recommend to the parents out there.)
Extravagantly decorated cakes in a window with a building reflected in it.
Alliance Bakery a few blocks up on Grand, another personal favorite (are you sensing a theme?) has judicial election guides. Just look at these extravagant cakes?! If you’re looking for something smaller, I recommend a macaron.
Stack of guides in a window
Dogs playing
That was my last stop in the West Loop (thank God, I very narrowly avoided a parking ticket outside the library). Now serving West Town. First up, Publican Quality Bread (a personal favorite) on Grand Ave. Met some very good dogs waiting outside.
A stack of musical guides sitting on the table at the West Loop public library.
There are 100 guides at the beautiful, modern West Loop Public Library. You can stop by the global McDonald’s at their HQ around the corner—or, as my 5-year-old still calls it, “Old McDonald’s.”
A stack of guides on a table underneath some cool skateboards.
Sawada Coffee, 112 N Green St., has judicial election guides! And enormous, delicious cookies (not pictured).
A stack of judicial election guides in a window.
100 guides dropped at Milk Bar, 208 N Green St. Signs around say they’re filming a TV show called “The Fugitive” in the West Loop today. No sign of Harrison Ford, though. But I’ll give him a guide if I see him.
Me wearing sunglasses holding a stack of Injustice Watch judicial election guides.
I’m out on this beautiful fake spring day delivering @injusticewatch.org judicial election guides to coffee shops, libraries, and other spots in the West Loop, West Town, and Wicker Park. Follow along, won’t you?
As always, you can find our guide online at injusticewatch.org/checkyourjudges
Why is the Cook County state’s attorney prosecuting nonviolent ICE protesters? blockclubchi.co/3ZXJS6K
The department’s office of communication has vastly expanded over the past decade, and costs rose along with it. In 2017, the communication office had four employees who were paid about $340,000, budget documents show. The 2026 budget identified 24 employees with a payroll of more than $2.75 million, an increase of more than 700% over a decade. CPD’s office of communication did not answer questions about the cost of its communication staff.
Classic. The Chicago Police Department’s now 24-person communication staff did not respond to @jaredrutecki.bsky.social’s questions about the massive growth in the department’s communication staff. news.wttw.com/2026/02/25/p...
Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth.
Their current licenses are now invalid.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox
They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender
They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
Mavis Beacon, baby! Kids were alway trying to find ways to cheat and spent most of the time using our rare hour in the computer lab to find ridiculous things on the internet, like that interminable hamster dance.
Like everything @pamelacolloff.bsky.social writes, this is well worth your time: www.propublica.org/article/okla...
It's completely deranged how many news outlets are partnering with "prediction markets" which are just gambling with a fancy name. You'd never watch CNN if it were sponsored by roulette or the concept of "double or nothing."
Congrats, Melissa! So well-deserved!
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
I am not always on board with complaints that something in a headline should have been put this way instead of that way, but “their story falls apart” is much too soft for me in this case. One’s story does not gently fall apart like a popsicle stick house.
And that’s not what gets you suspended.
