probably the coolest thing I’ve ever done … backing up @fontainesdublin for their @nprmusic Tiny Desk Concert !! It’s out today!!

The Vanity Fair photographer.

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy): https://t.co/ae4o67MrwJ

Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney's post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University.

Hunter S. Thompson aims at his IBM Selectric typewriter, Woody Creek, 1989

James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today." George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."

2 years of genocide. 2 years of mass graves, children covered in rubble. 2 years of it’s too complicated. 2 years of hospitals, schools, homes turned to dust. 2 years of starvation, thirst. 2 years of the living envying the dead. 2 years. Nothing will ever be the same.

‘At your expense’ : Amid calls for transparency, Thornton Township officials detail strains created by Henyard tenure

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🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — The Washington Post is FORCED to admit Mexico lifted 8.3 million people out of poverty in 2 years with SOCIALIST policies.

Harvey City Council took the home from an 87-year-old woman and turned it over to a developer based in Ohio. The sale was for $2,000. The home is worth $169,000, the family says. https://t.co/foUFjJUS2N

Over 92 percent of Thornton Township High Schools District 205 of graduating seniors from the class of 2025 were accepted into a college or university, according to a district official. https://t.co/U2zFJw1Se7

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Our guesthouse’s “Pledge of Non-involvement in War Crimes” applies not on the basis of “nationality,” but rather to individuals who have belonged to a military organization that has been determined by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to have committed war crimes. Therefore,

For the first time in the U.S., our film No Other Land is available to stream online. It doesn’t just show our past — it captures our ongoing struggle. Watch it now -- all proceeds go to support the communities of Masafer Yatta. https://t.co/E11LJ55P2z

The revision comes after the Trump administration declared English as the country's official language, worrying advocates about language access. https://t.co/lzSshEKx0u

20: the meeting adjourns at 7:22 p.m. Its next special meeting is Monday 4/28 at 6:30 here at the Lindblom Fieldhouse. Follow @CHIdocumenters for more public meeting coverage!

19: Williams plays a clip of himself being interviewed on ABC7 in 2021 about how 86% of ShotSpotter’s alerts don’t end in an arrest. In it, he advocates for the money the city spends on the contract to be allocated directly to communities. https://t.co/kR6hTW8JSA

18: McGill said ShotSpotter has false advertising — it doesn’t save lives or help close cases, but it can bring police to the scene of a crime to collect shells or find a body. If that’s how it was billed, he would have less of a problem. Williams agrees that it’s not perfect.

17: “We know that it hurts, but nobody can prove that it helps,” McGill said. “The company operates in bad faith.” The Office of the Inspector General released a report detailing its failings. https://t.co/QL4BhMbwEM

16: the board discusses Mayor Johnson’s reconsideration of the ShotSpotter contract. Williams isn’t a huge fan of ShotSpotter, but he thinks “something is better than nothing.” McGill totally disagrees. He thinks it harms more than it hurts.