Kerry Reid

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Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader

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This is probably the undefeated champion of the genre. bsky.app/profile/fhp....

This is *chef's kiss*

This looks excellent!

Good stuff from Navigator, shows why Rs are freaking about Project 2025. To know it is to hate it: "Seven in ten Americans have not heard enough to have an opinion about Project 2025, but after hearing about it, two in three Americans become opposed" navigatorresearch.org/a-guide-for-...

A Guide for Progressives on How to Brand Project 2025 - Navigatornavigatorresearch.org Branding and messaging guide on Project 2025, including the most resonant language to describe it and polling data on Americans' top concerns.

I post about blocking doomsayer. Doomsayer immediately follows me. These people are absolutely useless.

Today is my fifth workversary at the Chicago Reader. It's (mostly) been a blast, and I'm grateful to the coworkers and freelancers who make my job so much easier!

Do what you like of course, but I'm finding that just blocking doomsayers and nitwits makes life on here infinitely more pleasant.

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[you, foolish] swolecialism, how come you don't like delightful "klipper" ken klippenstein, fearless journalist [me, serene] syria takes determine character

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Hey, everyone who keeps downplaying the role of media framing, you know we can *literally* measure this happening, right? Your denialism doesn't make it go away, and you aren't smart enough to somehow evade it.

"Results indicated both news formats (narrative vs. informational) and frames (environmental vs. economic) had significant immediate effects on issue attitudes and other responses; narrative environmental news had a significantly greater impact than informational environmental news." #CommSky

Stories that Count: Influence of News Narratives on Issue Attitudes - Fuyuan Shen, Lee Ahern, Michelle Baker, 2014doi.org This paper examines the impact of using narratives to frame a political issue on individuals’ attitudes. In an experiment, we asked participants to read either ...

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I find it baffling to run this the week of the Chosen Few Picnic, which is generally larger than the two fests mentioned here, and has run longer than both, and simply not mention the Chosen Few Picnic whatsoever

South Siders Mourn The Loss Of Its Huge Music Festivals: 'Man, What Else Do We Have?'blockclubchicago.org The Silver Room Block Party and Hyde Park Summer Fest grew from neighborhood parties into popular, community-focused festivals. But the fests got too expensive for organizers, and some wonder if these...

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Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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Folks who do not want to see Donald Trump reelected, there are two (broad) things to talk about: policy accomplishments in the last 3.5 years, and Project 2025. Hammer it hammer it hammer it.

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The cockamamie nonsense people are coming up with to avoid the nominee being Harris if Biden steps down is partly convincing me that the whole thing is just summer silly season Beltway boredom. It's the endless fantasy of a brokered convention now seeming tantalizingly close.

Apparently Mother Nature isn't fond of NASCAR.

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It's depressing and infuriating how long we've had to pretend that Bibi is some sort of Great Man of History, rather than an obvious criminal whose every move is determined entirely by his short-term interests, with zero regard for anyone else on Earth.

Bibi is pretty clearly now actively working to prevent a hostage/ceasefire deal. The man is a deranged lunatic who belongs in jail. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-jul...

Netanyahu issues list of Israeli demands as hostage-truce talks slated to restartwww.timesofisrael.com IDF major killed fighting in Rafah * Thousands rally nationwide demanding hostage release deal * Soldier and two civilians -- including US citizen -- wounded in Hezbollah attack

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Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks. For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN. We can get voters mad about this.

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I do think we should keep hitting the GOP hard on “they want to take your freedom away, because they hate America.”

The billboard designers perfectly imitated the usual aesthetic sensibilities of wacko anti-abortion signage, and I need to stop and get a photo of this thing (can’t find one online yet).

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To quote another person on here after Poland’s election (can’t remember who immediately): “the thing about just voting harder is that sometimes it fucking works”

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When you find common ground with people with whom you agree some of the time but not all of the time, you can prevent people with whom you agree none of the time from taking power. The left and the center have far more in common than either wants to admit.

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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If you are an academic trying to get published in the NYT you generally have to be a world leading authority or have done some ground breaking research. The other route is to have a boozy lunch with Maureen Dowd.

Good day to be someone who recently argued that the contested convention commentary is often driven by self-importance.

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Reports say the NYT doesn't know what happened & is confused. Which is why I'm calling for them to step down & hand the reins over to the Daily News as the new paper of record.

Apparently the NYT is back on Threads. Someone commented that they hoped turning themselves off and on would work. I expect that an intern will be blamed.

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[meta Sorry! Another verkakte NYT article has almost given me a heart attack and I gotta say something. Yell at me for the gift link if you must!] The either stupid or terrible author, Ruth Graham, goes on about the "New Conservative Brain Trust" moving to Coeur d'Alene, ID etc. No Nazis mentioned!

Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across Americawww.nytimes.com Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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friendly reminder that most people aren’t Online™️

Just this morning I brought up Project 2025 with a woman who is well-educated, fairly politically savvy, and a staunch Democrat. She had never heard of it. When I gave her a precis, she was HORRIFIED.

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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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“The Bear” is the story of a workaday Chicago sandwich joint switching gears to embrace haute cuisine. But restaurant kitchens of all types are an ecosystem where class issues play out. How well — or not — does “The Bear” tackle these themes? Gift link www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/c...

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the most democratic process is to chuck the two people who’ve been elected and let a few thousand insane nerds spend four days fighting on television

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I focus 90% of my criticism on media ethics and leadership because that is the foundation of how we establish a shared reality. Writing off media effects as immaterial or irrelevant, as if people form opinions about events outside their personal experience without mediation, is deeply ignorant.