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We’re a group of people who live in Chapel Hill and Carrboro who write about issues that affect our towns. We also liveblog civic meetings.

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

"I'd like you to consider that legality is more about power and risk tolerance than it is about morality. That's how your upstream corporate platform opponents think about it, and it's one of the reasons they keep winning."

Adversarial internecting

How to move data to the Atmosphere and screw over someone else's valuation in the process

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Registrations are now open for August! Come along and learn how to investigate with maps using QGIS 🗺️ luma.com/7rq6w3sp

Journocoders: Investigating with maps using QGIS · Luma

This month we'll be learning how to investigate with maps using QGIS. QGIS is a free Geographic Information System (GIS) — a tool for viewing, editing, and…

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Yes just me posting even more @chicagoreader.com content chicagoreader.com/city-life/an...

Chicago’s new indie print publications want to highlight today's cultural scene - Chicago Reader

New publications like Gab, Write That Down!, the pub, The Issue, and more are invoking the long history of creating outside mainstream media.

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I wanted to learn more about how Spotify’s data plays a role in live music for my newest @chicagoreader.com feature. I ended up writing more about Instagram.

Is the Internet panopticon going to ruin live music too?  - Chicago Reader

Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint.

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The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.

The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center

Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself

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The @chicagoreader.com has some counterprogramming to all the Lollapalooza roundups circulating today: Hallogallo scene photographer Braeden Long visited several shows during Nitro-a-Go-Go, an indie fest so resolutely DIY that it didn't use any conventional venues. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

Nitro-a-Go-Go severs the music festival from the music business - Chicago Reader

Photographer Braeden Long captured four of the six Nitro-a-Go-Go shows, not one of which was held in a conventional venue.

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university leaders should remember that trying to appease the trump mafia is always a losing proposition. Sadly, I have zero trust in most of them.

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

📢 JOB ALERT: @blockclubchi.bsky.social is teaming w/ @thetrace.org to hire a reporter focused on gun violence in Chicago. By combining the Trace's expertise + BC's neighborhood approach, this reporter will be positioned to land stories that drive change. Apply: blockclubchicago.org/the-trace-is...

The Trace Is Hiring: Staff Writer On Gun Violence In Chicago

The Trace, in partnership with Block Club Chicago, is looking for a full-time staff writer to cover the impact of gun violence on Chicago’s neighborhoods. The staff writer in this role, which is funde...

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This week’s main story is about how police use surveillance tools like cameras, microphones, license plate readers, “cell site simulators,” and the practice of “predictive policing,” to create a world that has been lovingly described as “Big Brother on steroids.” Full segment at the link in our bio.

pretty excited to be gathering up materials to share at the South Side Zine Fest and you are INVITED on August 15th! Come through to the workshop with @kdc.bsky.social and me on disability zinemaking 🏵️

Join us for South Side Zine Fest + Carnival 2026!

Zine Club Chicago is thrilled to present the 2nd annual South Side Zine Fest + Carnival! This year, we’re bringing a carnival vibe to our annual celebration of zine community on the&nbsp…

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making art@marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

fully printed disability zines, second printing we are lucky to have run out of our first printing and had enough requests to do a second printing thank you to @wildramppublishing.bsky.social for providing resources to get us going!

"Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people. That’s data politics."

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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The only way forward imo, is to spread the good news of More Than One Thing Can Be True to break out of these pernicious nonsense dichotomies. For example, public health measures can be annoying and inconvenient and expensive and tedious and not 100% effective and also the best course of action.

I’m given very little time to practice www.pbump.com/projects/gol...

Trump Property & Golf Tracker — Philip Bump

An ongoing accounting of days President Trump has spent at his own golf clubs and hotels during his second term, and how often he's likely played golf.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

100% supportive of this sentiment. The WNBA needs a crash course in online information dynamics and media manipulation. ASAP. Old school crisis response plans are going to fail spectacularly.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez reporting for @cbsnews.com Detentions by ICE set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown, making arrests at airports, check-in offices and communities across the U.S.

ICE detentions set Trump-era high in July, as immigration crackdown widens

Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown.

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this thread has reminded me of all the hours i spent on typing.io a few careers ago

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

How often are towns abandoned?

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 4d ago

Hartman residents asked for declaration after infighting exacerbated water crisis and all town leaders resigned

wait for it

Alex Selby-Boothroyd@alexselbyb.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think Lenny Fib woulda been into this

TIL among the popular lexicon that inspired college mascots like Ohio Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers and Wisconsin Badgers we had Illinois Suckers and Missouri Pukes h/t @barrypopik.bsky.social barrypopik.com/blog/puke_st... www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/202... www.loc.gov/pictures/res...

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Sly Stone tribute- articles by Rickey Vincent ("Funk: The Music"), @patthomashistorian.bsky.social, Kandia Crazy Horse & more; review of Black Rock Coalition covering the RIOT album; essays on "Everyday People" & "Dance to the Music" www.furious.com/perfect/slys... #funk #soul #SlyandtheFamilyStone

when you're being mean to me online, this is where you're posting from

dmercer.bsky.social@dmercer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Gothic Revival on N. Harlem in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood

Went down a coal mine today, perhaps the best single argument for unions ever.

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Bank of America quit before it started helping the city sell $1 billion of vehicle debt amid a midyear budget shortfall. https://www.citybureau.org/newswire/2026/7/28/bank-of-america-quits-debt-sale

Bank of America Bails on Facilitating Chicago's Debt Sale — City Bureau

As Chicago alders accuse Mayor Brandon Johnson of delaying a $1 billion sale of traffic debt, the plan hit a snag as the city contends with a midyear budget shortfall of $89 million.

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NEW: Chicago police leaders failed to publicly account for all of the times officers used force against members of the public in 2025, missing a deadline set by the federal court order requiring officers to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights. @wttw.bsky.social

CPD Brass Missed Deadline to Detail How Many Times Officers Used Force Against Chicagoans in 2025: Records

That missed deadline comes as CPD officials acknowledged, again, that the number of times officers used force against members of the public “continues to trend upward,” according to the report.

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People rightly love the For You feed but I’ve been trying a “smart mix” from @opentrough.com and it is really good. I have it mixing from For You, Followers, Mutuals and Quiet Posters and it’s nice to get out of the For You bubble a little opentrough.com