@jayohday
Journalist w/ the Illinois Answers Project based in St. Louis investigating stories in the Metro East & Southern Illinois. 217 native. Priors: Center for Public Integrity, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tips? jodea@illinoisanswers.org, Signal at jayohday.11
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Former deputy in Sonya Massey killing serving prison sentence, but state officials won’t say where capitolnewsillinois.com/news/former-...
With @jayohday.bsky.social
Feds accuse former Carlyle police chief of wire fraud, theft capitolnewsillinois.com/news/feds-ac...
"A Metro East police chief spent more than $100k of public money intended to combat drug use & support a local fire protection district on...basketball tickets, travel, and a diamond engagement ring."
The latest from me, @bhundsdorfer.bsky.social capitolnewsillinois.com/news/feds-ac...
The Carlyle police chief, who resigned Dec. 1, was indicted this week. @bhundsdorfer.bsky.social and @jayohday.bsky.social have more. ➡️ https://loom.ly/zGRDHpk
I hope you get some rest! You done good.
really racking up the good neighbor points over there
Wow this thread. Thank you for sharing with us — and for being a good neighbor-from-afar 💓 that’s the STL spirit
St. Louis Post-Dispatch “week in Illinois” section from Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 edition, with a photo headlined “Texas buses migrants to Chicago”
Going through my stack of old Post-Dispatches and
Ahh the comfort of hearing the KMOX guys read the Brown and Crouppen commercial once again
IYKYK
It feels like everything is terrible but
It’s less than one month until opening day 🙌⚾️
![Dashboard-style web app titled "NICAR 2026 Posts on Bluesky from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26." At the top are three large summary tiles showing total posts, unique authors, and total likes. A left sidebar lets you select a date range and filter by authors (with checkboxes) and optionally show only posts containing external URLs, plus a button to download the current dataset. The main area contains a searchable, filterable table of posts with columns for timestamp, post text snippet, author, likes, reposts, replies, and tags; entries include links to open the original post. [Alt text by ChatGPT]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z4cp3uwgxiioi7uaxn2boq47/bafkreia6bbbprk6cdpvnyf2ghu3i7nndnaci3xrxwvguc62qjwnhjyr72a@jpeg)
Dashboard-style web app titled "NICAR 2026 Posts on Bluesky from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26." At the top are three large summary tiles showing total posts, unique authors, and total likes. A left sidebar lets you select a date range and filter by authors (with checkboxes) and optionally show only posts containing external URLs, plus a button to download the current dataset. The main area contains a searchable, filterable table of posts with columns for timestamp, post text snippet, author, likes, reposts, replies, and tags; entries include links to open the original post. [Alt text by ChatGPT]
Browse, search, and filter all the NICAR 2026 posts on Bluesky R Shiny app collects all the posts with the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtags
App: apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar2...
#RStats code: github.com/smach/bskyconf
#RShiny
[Did this for Twitter years ago, now updated]
"He was 9 months old when he got here. I mean, he's been here his whole life,” said Barcenas, adding that he has no family in Mexico.
“We're just hoping that we can get him back home.”"
(Via @brianmunoz.bsky.social)
@illinoisanswers.bsky.social
@capitolnewsil.bsky.social
Off the top of my head
@illinoisanswers.bsky.social
@capitolnewsil.bsky.social
You should read this.
This is what kills me. You can have all the Substack commentary and AI podcasts you want.
But at the end of the day, *someone* has to go talk to people, read documents and find out what actually happened on the ground.
Someone with rent, a car note and medical bills, no less.
The last live Colbert 😭 he’s so good
So thrilled to hear this bc I have missed Dark Sky
In my house you actually have to say “big yawn, little baby”
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — As the Metro East grapples with a developer looking to build three data centers in the area, the city assured residents it had ‘no formal proposal’ for a facility, but city emails tell a fuller story.
From @jayohday.bsky.social:
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Thank you for the kind words and for reading
“they (residents) are concerned, in some instances, that local officials announce the data center projects late in the process, when planning is well underway and the time for public input is short.”
@jayohday.bsky.social on the #DataCenterIL gold rush.
🚨 #il #datacenters
ICYMI yesterday
Just listening to Donna Summer obsessively hbu
Missing Noot, still, but I’m sooooo so happy I get to have baseball on in the background again 🙌 one month and six days until opening day
Alysa Liu and Fredbird
Congrats Alysa Liu! 🥇 #STLCards
Fun fact:
The next Saturday without a baseball game will be in November
Feel warmer yet?
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” -Orwell, timely
Good reporting.
illinoisanswers.org/2026/02/21/e...