Kim Bellware

Throwing haymakers like that, for sure

The symptoms are there!

Hate to be THAT person, but everyone circulating the video of brown sweatshirt kid walloping the “I love ICE” shitposter boy saying it was at a Chicago high school…it was in Lake Zurich, Ill., a town nearly an hour away from Chicago!

*taps map*

Again, just throwing it out there, we turn off the Internet

Opinion | We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net on the need for ICE hearings. Get it all out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

I feel this, deeply

Chicago Reader Marks Print Return With Magazine Format, New Investigations The Reader was recently acquired by Noisy Creek, a startup publishing company based in Washington state focused on acquiring and restoring troubled alternative news sources.

The print first issue of the @chicagoreader.com since its hiatus hit newsstands Feb. 4 at more than 600 locations across Chicago. The cover shows a cracking egg with the caption “New Egg, Who Dis?” symbolizing a new era for the publication.

A Detroiter’s guide to the Michigan Open Meetings Act Michigan’s Open Meetings Act requires public bodies to make decisions by vote, allow public comment and make more transparency measures. Here’s what to know.

If Detroit Documenters only wanted you to know one thing, it would be that local government officials are required to meet and vote on policy decisions in public, and you’re allowed by law to be there.

Here's what else you should know about the Open Meetings Act, by Documenter A J Johnson:

300 and one

C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades

C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

I invite you all to get into the weirdest, hardest and most wonderful sport: Biathlon.

(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)

Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.

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Trump’s DOJ Keeps Losing Cases Against Protesters — But Charging Aims To 'Stifle Dissent,' Experts Say The Justice Department's approach to charging protesters and others accused of assaulting or impeding immigration agents is confounding veteran attorneys and judges.

This is a great round-up of Operation Midway Blitz cases that have collapsed at Chicago’s federal courthouse.

From Charles Thrush and Mack Liederman, via @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/06/t...

I see some skips in there

the Cook Report should do recipe reviews in off-years

essay i mentioned previously on how independent music gives you the basic tools for organizing even if you didn’t realize you were building those skills, and how great it’s been to watch people hit the ground running

This is so important, and something I learned from the history beat. Example: We don't have to say "fugitive slaves" just bc people did in 1850. We can give self-emancipated people the dignity they deserved back then. Plus, it's more accurate!

Wish more journos thought about this contemporaneously.

Brilliant

I noticed!

Air Wisconsin has done 60+ ICE flights since mid-January Dozens of secret flights carrying shackled migrants follow Air Wisconsin’s sale to ICE’s flight broker.

SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon.
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The best of us

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If you’re not in DC, tune in to the livestream of the #savethepost rally that just started at noon Eastern www.instagram.com/postguild/li...

You’re the best Jenny! Keep subscribing if you can! There are lots of good folks still doing the work there 💙

Thank you my fellow Crusader-Beacon

Thank you so much Mariame! I hope to find a good new home where the work can continue ✊

Thanks, Amy 💙

Kim is the literal best. Some newsroom better grab her quick!

Thanks, Mary!

Breaking news reporter Kim Bellware bsky.app/profile/bell...

Y'all, if you don't know @bellwak.bsky.social work, you should. This is such a loss! Though, I've got a feeling someone is going to hire @bellwak.bsky.social ASAP