Two bald eagle chicks have been spotted in nests on the South Side this spring. They are believed to be the first eaglets born in the city in more than a century. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/06/b...

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new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

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NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

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New edition of the newsletter in the morning. I am barely holding it together, health-wise, so it was a bit of a feat pulling this one together, but I think there's some valuable stuff in there. I plan on taking some time off soon. There are just a couple of things I want to try to finish first.

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30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

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