Jeanne Whalen

Pringle Theatre
Glenmora, LA

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’ WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

Tom Homan was investigated last year for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut down the probe.

By @carolleonnig.bsky.social @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social

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Solar-Powered Cars and Trucks Are Almost Here New, power-sipping EVs due next year are efficient enough to gain 10 to 40 miles of daily charge from the sun alone.

15 to 40 miles.

That's the range per day from the sun alone for Aptera Motors’ solar-powered car. The $40,000 EV is poised to ship as early as next year. by @mims.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/business/ene...

“.. There are two economies in the U.S. right now ... In August, annual wage and salary growth fell to 0.9% for the bottom third, the smallest gain since 2016 ...

“.. The top third saw growth of 3.6% year over year, the most since November 2021."

@jeannewhalen.bsky.social

WSJ: “For high earners and many older Americans, the economy looks robust ..

“.. For many others, momentum has stalled .. ‘They don’t have a home, they don’t have a large .. 401(k) and they are the most concerned about losing their job ..’”

@jeannewhalen.bsky.social
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The Two-Speed Economy Is Back as Low-Income Americans Give Up Gains High-earners and older Americans are faring better than ever, while fortunes are sliding again for low-wage and young workers

America has always had rich & poor, but the divide is widening again.

Wage growth has slowed for the bottom third of earners while continuing to climb for the top third. Soaring markets & home values for top earners are deepening the divide.

www.wsj.com/economy/us-e...

Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Black and white portrait of Louis Sullivan, 1876. (Ryerson & Burnham Archive)

Black and white photo of the staircase inside Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange Building, completed in 1894. The staircases were removed and saved from the building when it was demolished in 1972. The copper-plated ironwork exemplifies Sullivan’s mature ornamental style—a combination of two-dimensional geometric shapes and naturalistic plantlike forms. (Met Museum)

Black and white photo of a terracotta and plaster ornamented interior taken by Richard Nickel in 1960. He launched one of the most publicized preservation campaigns in American history to save Adler Sullivan’s 1891 Garrick (formerly Schiller) Theater. It was torn down in 1961 for a parking garage. (Art Institute of Chicago)

Black and white photo taken by Ralph Marlow Line of Louis Sullivan’s Schlesinger and Mayer building (1899) taken in the late 1940s. (Ryerson and Burnham Archive)

Architect Louis Sullivan was born #onthisday in 1856. When he first arrived in Chicago in 1873, the city was still in ruins after the Great Fire w/miles of shanties. Yet he saw potential in its reinvention. “There was stir, an energy that made [me] tingle to be in the game…THIS IS THE PLACE FOR ME!”

Six Months Into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything A North Carolina company says tariff uncertainty has given way to a new problem: what to charge. “Everyone is struggling to figure out what to do.”

Six months into tariffs, businesses don’t know how to price anything.

Tariffs keep changing. Big retailers won’t pay more. And everyone is afraid of angering consumers.

‘Everyone is struggling to figure out what to do.’

www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

Your annual reminder that this exists for twelve days a year and is deeply soothing:

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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

BARKIN: “.. we’re not walking into a 2022 situation where consumers are flush with cash and bound to spend. .. I think we’re in a 2025 situation where consumers are feeling somewhat stretched and therefore, you know, are making choices.”

@jeannewhalen.bsky.social
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IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE

Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.

this is still making me laugh months later

Migrants Vanish Into Opaque ICE Detention System Frequent long-distance moves leave families and lawyers struggling to keep track of people facing deportation—and undermine their legal defense.

When immigration lawyers sought to defend a Texas construction worker detained in early March, they couldn’t find him.

Migrants are vanishing in an opaque ICE detention system

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Good roundup of the reactions.

A great tribute to a great man. "For many, many people, including myself, meeting Derk changed the course of our lives."

Derk Sauer, Moscow Times Founder and Dutch Media Entrepreneur, Dies at 72 - The Moscow Times Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement.

Horrible news. Derk made an enormous contribution to freedom of speech in Russia, and helped a whole generation of journalists (including me) find our footing.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/31/d...

EU didn't want a trade war partly because it "feared Trump would abandon Ukraine & perhaps NATO altogether. A one-sided trade deal was the price of keeping, for now, Trump committed to the trans-Atlantic security alliance."

www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

I have been watching baseball for many decades and I have never seen a throw like this

Gray and dark gray clouds and fog with hint of pink after sunset. Over San Francisco Bay.

Sky after sunset last night over Marin County, California. Taken from Emeryville.

#sky #sunset #nature

Chicago architecture does it every time:

Wonderful and surprising news out of Belarus, as Lukashenko sets free 14 political prisoners in a deal brokered by Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg.

Belarus opposition leader's husband Sergei Tikhanovsky freed from prison Sergei Tikhanovsky had planned to challenge Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 election, but was detained before the vote.

Belarus opposition leader's husband Sergei Tikhanovsky freed from prison

Wayne Thiebaud
24th Street Intersection (1978)
watercolor on paper 25.4 x 35.5 cm