@bylaurenfitz.bsky.social
Reporter! Still watchdogging for the Chicago Sun-Times. Happy grower of: some food, bee buffets, #TheHeir. Same @bylaurenfitz over on Instagram, too. Read my work: https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/lauren-fitzpatrick Haters will be blocked.
Veterans entitled to and who earned this mental health care…
NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed
VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*
One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*
She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets
How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
The Defense Department barred press photographers from briefings on the war with Iran because their photos of Pete Hegseth weren't flattering enough www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @scottnover.bsky.social
#ICYMI since I did amid all the #JesseJackson remembrances: Look how many meetings Cook County Board commissioners have missed! Counted up by @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social and Alden Loury and @amyqin.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/06/c...
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
LISTEN to the voices who formed the Rev. #JesseJackson into the SOMEBODY who inspired others to be Somebody, too. Take the trip with Somer Van Benton to South Carolina. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/03...
I stand corrected. Click through for all the T-ness: chicago.suntimes.com/live/jesse-j... #MrT
Gorgeous reporting by @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org journalists that puts you right in the room for #JesseJackson's funeral, all except for the part where Mr. T is there in US flag overalls: chicago.suntimes.com/live/jesse-j...
What you need to know about the service honoring the civil rights icon who died on Feb. 17, that will feature three former presidents and thousands attending the memorial tribute Friday.
Thousands are expected at the Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral service Friday at Chicago's House of Hope. Doors open at 9 a.m., with the service beginning at 11 a.m.
For decades, the Leak family and the Jacksons were “intertwined.” Now, the family behind the long-time funeral business is tasked with planning and executing Jackson’s services and handling his remains.
Watch live: Homegoing service celebrates civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in Chicago
The Rev. Jesse Jackson comes home, to the South Carolina people who molded the man Chicago knew chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/03..., reports @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social from South Carolina
The public is about to be admitted to the statehouse building in Columbia. #revjessejackson
This is the choir from Allen University. Giving us “Take my hand, precious Lord.” Which of course was written in Chicago.
The casket has moved inside, under the dome. Relatives are filing in. #revjessejackson
Mrs Jackson not here today as her husband’s casket is being moved from a horse drawn carriage into the South Carolina statehouse. #revjessejackson
South Carolina’s statehouse where Rev Jesse Jackson’s home state will honor him this morning. #revjessejackson
NEW from ProPublica:
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
I remember when he showed up at bargaining days into the 2012 teachers strike, on Michigan Ave. Went in to try to mediate between @rahmemanuel.bsky.social's board of ed and the @ctulocal1.bsky.social
How Jesse Jackson shaped education in Chicago -->> chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Ex-strip club owner with ties to reputed mob figures a big campaign donor to #AlexiGiannoulias chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... by Robert Herguth
hi again
some very important personal news:
Moreover, it appears that Sinema used campaign funds to buy a pair of vehicles for over $70K each, paid $30K to a company that outfits high-end camper vans, and then sold herself one of the vehicles (through an LLC) for just $17K.
@campaignlegal.org filed an FEC complaint alleging former Senator Kyrsten Sinema abused her donor money, spending at least $700,000 in leftover campaign funds on personal expenses--flights, high-end meals, luxury hotels, and even a vehicle--in the year after she left office.
This @drewharwell.com story about a man who set up a fake ICE tip line, and the sheer range of people who called in, is gutting www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Pritzker, a longtime and frequent critic of Donald Trump, also called out the president during his State of the State address earlier this week.
Join Aaricka Washington (IRE) and TyLisa Johnson (Poynter) for a 30-minute AMA on Instagram Live. We will be talking about new projects and programming at our orgs.
Friday, Feb. 27 at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET on our IG accounts @ire_nicar and @poynter_institute
Drop your questions in the comments.