After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More

After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them. Since Elon Musk … Read more

Five years after @MayorEmanuel

People ask why I didn’t continue @MayorEmanuel. Hell, the Chicago Tribune published an editorial when the account was shutting down begging for it to keep going. But what’s happening in Chicago right now isn’t funny. The idea of ridiculing the day-to-day work of trying to fix the city never appealed to me, and the way that reality has played out in the last five years has only born that instinct out.