Tatiana Walk-Morris

Best of Chicago 2025: Music & Nightlife - Chicago Reader An index of the Music & Nightlife staff picks for Best of Chicago 2025.

The Reader’s Best of Chicago issue is out today, I wrote 10 percent of the critic’s picks, which I’ll thread below. But first, here’s all the editorial contributions to the music and nightlife section

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Took me longer than I care to admit to write a very simple email to my German teacher. I have a ways to go, for sure.

The Catholic Bishops Who Wrote a Scorching Brief Against Trump The president’s take on birthright citizenship doesn’t pass legal muster. To hear the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tell it, it’s a moral affront as well.

The Fourteenth Amendment says this in no uncertain terms: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” trib.al/bWFkA4u

While the war, domestic occupation, and child sex trafficking revelations occupy our attention, the Trump admin is still busy whitewashing history.

Last week I wrote about civil rights history disappearing from CBP’s website during Black History Month:

To me, this falls in line with some of the anti-higher education rhetoric and the overall disdain that the tech industry has toward history and humanities. If you do not value learning and you do not know how to research on your own, it's much easier to manipulate you into believing anything.

I'm thinking of one media company in particular, which has had a job posting on LinkedIn for at least a year or so but hasn't hired for it. What is the goal here? Why are you wasting people's time?

I'll vote for whichever candidate will fine employers for posting ghost jobs. If you're not planning to hire a candidate in the next six months for a role, why is lingering on LinkedIn for a year???

Racism, particularly anti-Black racism and the fear that Black Americans are getting more than someone else, is going to cost us all so much. Our way of life is hanging by a thin thread.

You're mad at the people for having...a snowball fight???

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The fact JD Vance is trying to appeal to the Chicago Pope after sending masked ICE goons to attack his hometown of Chicago is frankly bonkers. Like you raided his town and you expect a warm response.

So to commemorate and protect a white womans regency , white men drank from the skills of one of the ancestors until 2015

White men draining the brain of a Black woman after her death is a lil big on the nose for me if I’m gonna be honest

Tax refunds are bigger but some early filers must wait to get them Early tax filers are seeing larger refunds this year, but some may face delays. Find out what to expect from the IRS.

Early tax filers are seeing larger refunds this year, but some may face delays. Find out what to expect from the IRS.

Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rules The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced prison labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah…

Colorado’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace ruled

My mom got to hear me live this morning. She told me she was proud of me. So, if you need me, I'll be somewhere floating on a cloud ☺️

ICYMI the broadcast, I'll share a copy here: drive.google.com/file/d/18RjA...

I would like to note, for those who didn't click, that the editor in question is this man—Chris Quinn—not the young woman reporter he chose to make the face of this braindead screed.

Just so y'all channel your critiques at the correct face.

Hey, you know that horrible "Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future" article we're all outraged about?

It never would have happened if the Cleveland Plain Dealer weren't hollowed out by a big corporation.

Stand up against the corporate takeover; support real local news.

Happy new year!

The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Gonna be on WVON tomorrow morning to discuss this story!

The economy's so bad, I'm gonna go after my dream: writing a nonfiction book.

What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut YouTube video by ProPublica

An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic.

Our reporters journeyed to some of the places most devastated by Trump’s dismantling of foreign aid.

They spoke to hundreds of people who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways:

This weather is great, because you can wear a silk press and enjoy a stroll outside without swatting at bugs and sweating to death.

The kitty’s paws are so smol 🥹

Publishing our conversation soon on thehandbasket.co. It's really good.

Labour think tank paid PR firm to investigate Declassified journalist Labour Together, which was once run by Keir Starmer's chief of staff, classed our reporter John McEvoy among "significant persons of interest."

"A think tank with ties to the top of the Labour government paid a PR firm £30,000 to investigate journalists from media outlets including Declassified UK."

"Our chief reporter John McEvoy was among the journalists targeted."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Media #Genocide

The early pandemic years were the only ones when I didn't get a cold or the flu. I miss that so much.

Some personal news

*spits on ground, hisses*