The Weekend Desk Report

By Steve Rhodes

This is good stuff, people. And if you don’t want to listen, at least check out the awesome Show Notes at the link.
The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #189: Stevie Sunshine’s Gold
Bullyproofing racists. Plus: Olympic Gold; The Collapse Of College Basketball?; The Cubs Are Set!; Bulls Tank You Very Much; Sad Blackhawks Season Gets Sadder; and Sitton Spin.

–
On This Day . . .
A sampling.
2013: Illinois Sequestered!

*
2016: That time when Rahm and his team pimped out Bettie Jones’s family for public relations points – with an assist from current state attorney general candidate Sharon Fairley.

*
2011: When Rahm became king.

–
ChicagoGram

This dude has a bright future ahead of him 🙌🏼🙌🏼 @mauricefears1 ・・・ Maurice Fears Jr 9 year old drummer from Chicago! Just having a little fun after church yesterday. Learning, growing, and having fun. Loving God & loving music. Trying to learn and grow. #drums #drummer #chicago #chitown #chicagomusic #chicagoart #chicagoartist #music #learn #grow #practice #fun #vicfirth #vf15 #vf5abrl #tamadrums #notalone #next #youngcats #shine #drive #energy #church #cogic #pk #preacherskid #9 #nineyearsold #tyetribbett #blessthelord

A post shared by DrumGAB (@drumgabpodcast) on Feb 23, 2018 at 2:45pm PST

–
ChicagoTube
The Willie Dixon Chicago Blues All-Stars On German TV.

–
Weekend BeachBook
A sampling.
The Time I Was Almost A School Shooter.

*
Pulse Nightclub Survivors Joined Parkland Students To Rally For Gun Control.

*
The FBI’s War On Black-Owned Bookstores.

–
Weekend TweetWood
A sampling.

PBS NewsHour Featured a Member of a Known Hate Group as a Mainstream Immigration Expert https://t.co/GOIsqXfai2 via @Splinter_news

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) February 25, 2018

*

Lorde Live-Tweeting A #Bulls Game Is Pretty Weird https://t.co/XbwvSnwmLD via @deadspin

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) February 25, 2018

*

Source: https://t.co/VP7LMDeJ85 Altered A Headline And Buried Stories To Placate Advertisers https://t.co/Hok6DdMeH8 via @deadspin

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) February 25, 2018

*

For my latest #DoBetter column for @TeenVogue I argue that while we need to praise today’s #NeverAgain teens, we must not forget that young Black teens, especially Black girls, have been in the streets doing the thankless anti-violence work.#BoycottNRA https://t.co/Wv5YHcju1w

— Lincoln Anthony Blades (@lincolnablades) February 23, 2018

*

I fact-checked David Brooks’s rendering of Steven Pinker’s economic optimism. https://t.co/fxOsbTKpZ1

— Caleb Crain (@caleb_crain) February 23, 2018

*

Studies show that most Americans today are either crisis actors or Russian bots.

— Murtaza Mohammad Hussain (@MazMHussain) February 22, 2018

–
The Beachwood Tronc Line: Robotic.

Permalink

Posted on February 25, 2018