Katie Prout

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Power Lines Drawing #114 (Detroit, Buchanan St)

Original drawing for sale by me at my store
8" x 10", black ink on paper
$250

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Local Man Enjoys Herbie Hancock Sunday Morning

The more frustration I feel when my baby stands up mid diaper change, the more likely I am to address him as “my brother in Christ”

Color photo. We're looking out over a farm's barren winter landscape. At the horizon, the sun is rising and the low edge of the sky is peach, while most of the sky above it is still blueish. Across the top of the image, some electrical lines cross through. At mid-distance, the only real subject in the image is a home or barn. We're looking at the side facing away from the sunrise, so it is nearly pitch black, with detail hard to make out.

US-421, near Medaryville, IN.

Hundreds packed into Chicago's Federal Plaza this evening in protest of the U.S.-Israeli massacre in Iran.

The number is now 40. Imagine the response to a mass shooting that killed 40 kids at school.

But this is an act of self-defence.

“There is absolutely, unequivocally no appropriate way to detain a child, period,” Jones said, citing studies showing that detention is associated with serious health consequences for children. “It is causing physical, mental, measurable, studied harm. There is no context in which that’s justified.”

hard to read this because it makes me sick to my stomach. these children deserve the world.

concentration camp profiteers

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years The DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years amid substantial financial challenges at its parent university, which has initiated layoffs.

$42 million for a basketball training facility destroying local housing, not a dime for art. $850 MILLION for Northwestern's new vanity stadium. Loyola demolishing a building housing local businesses. Ethical bankruptcy, thy name is higher education, 2026.
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In an attempt to control the public narrative around Chicago police, CPD’s communications/pr budget has increased 700 percent over a decade.

Meanwhile, CPD’s refusal to answer Freedom of Information Act requests has resulted in 200 public records litigation cases & cost the public $3.1 million.

A PR Push on the Public Dime: Chicago Police Podcast Records Peel Back Layers of Expanded Communication Costs Podcasts are a new avenue for police to reach the communities they serve. A monthslong public records battle with CPD identifies the cost of the podcast “Roll Call.” It is the latest evidence of the h...

The “Roll Call” podcast is just part of a larger push in recent years to expand CPD’s communications operation.

Comms have vastly expanded over the past decade, and costs rose along with it.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

We have 15 rents in need of a home

Just throwing it out there because ya never know, but if you have $1100-$3000 to give and would like to cover a rent tonight, hit me up on Signal.

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We’re One Triibe United, help us get recognized! The TRiiBE has grown so much since its founding in 2017, thanks to the Black and abolitionist press that paved the way for us. We are a trusted news source on both the local and national levels. This ...

It's gonna be a hot union spring. Workers at The TRiiBE are organizing!!! Sign their letter demanding TRiiBE management recognize their union 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/were...

let's gooooooooooo. excited to get into it in good faith with our new owners, Noisy Creek

You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants

[Reading about the impending NYC blizzard] lord I see what you have done for others

A snowstorm could fix me

Just found out Fredrick Brennan died. I only met him in person once, but I always had a lot of respect for his personal growth and ownership of his past. More than anything, I respected his commitment to changing himself for the better.

He was a good guy. So it goes.

US-led Board of Peace a 'colonialist operation,' Cardinal Pizzaballa says Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and r...

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

Third American death linked to ICE crackdown uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop.

Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?

We have an interview with Tara Raghuveer, the director of the Tenant Union Federation, about this rent strike coming out Monday and frankly I've never seen this kind of organizing happening this fast anywhere outside of cities in the middle of straight up revolutions

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610311024: 4418 West Fulton Street

4418 West Fulton Street

Re-upping this, from 2023 chicagoreader.com/music/best-o...

Quantum leap or community crossroads? - Chicago Reader Residents organize around the quantum computing megadevelopment planned for Chicago’s southeast side.

alder greg mitchell has publicly supported the quantum campus megadevelopment. his office told us no when we asked if we could attend the “state of the ward” event.

south siders have been organizing against the project:

Greg MITCHELL 7th Ward Alderman 7th Ward Service Center 2249 E. 95th Street, Chicago, IL 60617 773.731.7777 7th@GregMitchell7thWard.org State of The Ward Alderman Mitchell Invites You to Attend an In-Person Presentation from City Departments to Discuss Development, Infrastructure Improvements, And Future Projects in the 7" Ward. Presentations By: Advocate Health Care CareHaus Chicago Department of Planning and Development Chicago Department of Transportation IQMP/Psi Quantum Thrive Exchange Location: Compassion Baptist Church 2650 E. 95" Street Chicago, IL 60617 Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026 Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM This Meeting is for 7 Ward Residents Only. You will be required to show proof of residence in the 7" Ward before entering.

seventh ward alder greg mitchell is advertising a “state of the ward” event on march 3 where representatives from the quantum campus megadevelopment are slated to give a presentation.

the flier says attendees will have to show proof that they live in the ward to be admitted.

Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons.

"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.