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dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC. Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV Reach me on Signal: dlknowles.12
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ICE took her mother. Now, a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or legal path back to reunite in Honduras. Story of the times from @nellsalzman.bsky.social @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/i...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Not to pile on this random dude at all, but this is too perfect an example to pass up. It’s funny to me how so many people Problematize perfectly normal vacancy rates. 100 units in 4 towers in Chicago with 2346 units is 4% vacancy rate. People need a vacant unit to move into, folks!

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

"Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths" - every couple of weeks I think about how this happened between 2020 and 2022 and just...never really made or stayed in the news. english.elpais.com/internationa...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Trump Is Losing Political Ground on Immigration - WSJ Just 43% approved of Trump’s performance on immigration while 54% disapproved. On deportations, 40% approved while 56% disapproved. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What a despicable comment from his press secretary. Jose Padilla is a convicted terrorist.

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

Few people across the political spectrum seem to have internalized the stiff headwinds any left-wing candidate is going to face attempting to implement their agenda

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The fear of the subway — or the performance of fear, because I think many of the people who claim to be afraid of it aren't actually — is one of the more bizarre elements of our current political discourse

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: The child sex abuse material trade on X is spiraling out of control… and a key child safety partner just cut X off after they say to company stopped paying them www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

That was fast.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 4 days ago • 441 comments

Some personal news (do we still do personal news on BlueSky?): I am the Economist’s new South Asia economics correspondent, and will be based in Mumbai.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Good essay question tbf. "Could slavery have been abolished in the Southern United States without a civil war?"

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The discovery that all MAGA politicians go to the same tailor but he sells off-the-peg suits for $300 feels like it explains a lot: www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

So I read this and it's completely fine. I don't know what the deal is with the snark, it's a perfectly okay and informative piece

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 6 days ago • 858 comments