Salem Collo-Julin

Writer/editor/talker/host | she/they | 📨 scollojulin@ gmail| #Chicago | I'm on other platforms, links in my linktree.

[CNN @CNN]

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A House vote is expected by Wednesday. Follow live updates. https://t.co/YMC0b1ujtv

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Toukie Smith, a top model in the 1970s and an actress who appeared as Eva Rawley on "227," has died. She was 74 https://t.co/hqKW8AaYbI

[Salem Collo-Julin @hollo]

A column on language from a former professor of mine, Tom Montgomery-Fate. https://t.co/mgeQ3H4Yeu

[Stephen Nellis @StephenNellis]

Is there such a thing as a "profession" of journalism? Some thoughts after two decades https://t.co/jU4L4M8ruT

[Salem Collo-Julin @hollo]

Chicago resellers, looks like a good retirement sale here. Lots of vintage deadstock sports shirts, hats, and memorabilia "Huge Screen Printer Warehouse Sale 50 years in business $1-$10 sale! starts on 11/7/2026"
https://t.co/zlnd5UkBQ4 via @estatesalesnet

[Englewood Elaine @englewoodelaine]

#KeishaLanceBottoms 👍🏾👍🏾

[Salem Collo-Julin @hollo]

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[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Marcia Ann Gillespie, the visionary magazine editor who led ESSENCE and Ms. magazines, has died. She was 82 years old https://t.co/jHkXUItiq2

[Salem Collo-Julin @hollo]

Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96 https://t.co/oXoXBo7ebC

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Republican congressional candidate Brent Taylor has sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. He dismisses his past sexual advances as “youthful indiscretions"

At that time, Taylor was 53

https://t.co/SnYF9r0iSw

[Salem Collo-Julin @hollo]

@englewoodelaine So sorry for your loss.

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

A Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation confirms one driver's lament that it was "the worst traffic I've ever had to deal with." Worse yet, epic delays persist — a year after a three-year construction project ended and Gov. JB Pritzker promised “faster commutes.” https://t.co/nYyv5jNojd

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

More on the Cornell 7 - great reporting by NY newspaper, the Times Union. Lordy, there are tapes!

“Recordings offer a striking firsthand account of a national fraternity official claiming personal access to campus police around the time the department was also investigating the "Cornell 7" case.”

“Within weeks of the Cornell University Police Department investigating an alleged gang rape at the school’s Chi Phi house two years ago, a top official of another national fraternity privately boasted that he could get his “friends” inside the campus police force to brush aside alleged misconduct from his chapter’s members.”

“In one of the recordings, Paese referred to the chief of Cornell’s police department as “a good friend of mine.” Paese also said he and the chief’s “boss, the guy that’s in charge of campus security overall, … go back even farther.””

[Ray Long @RayLong]

The new poll also found that 46% of likely voters viewed the candidacy of state Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who opted not to seek reelection to her state post to run for mayor, enthusiastically.
https://t.co/LhbRmVXBuU

[ABC 7 Chicago @ABC7Chicago]

A Black man who was sentenced to death in 1994 for the murder of his white neighbor is fighting for freedom after learning that his lawyer defended the KKK. https://t.co/fOG1x29CAW

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

The Catholic Church says women can’t be priests. These women have defied the church and gotten ordained anyway, despite the church saying it’s an instant and automatic excommunication. A very interesting story from @jrbullington https://t.co/I16ijs54lI

[WGN TV News @WGNNews]

On Sunday, motorcyclist rode to Loretto Hospital where they donated money to provide free mammograms for patients who can't afford them. The event was organized by a woman who beat breast cancer twice.

Read more: https://t.co/1WhM68F08F

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

CNN legend Christiane Amanpour, the network’s chief international anchor, said that she will sign off from CNN next June https://t.co/OmQLlcxhyh

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.”

“And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.”

Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for.

“I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.”

For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: https://t.co/8W0TITn3In

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

“When it happened to Jose.” For my latest story, I went to Paris Illinois to talk with residents about the Main Street Cafe’s owner being taken by ICE and the pain that brought to town. Please give it a read. @chicagotribune
https://t.co/IxnuRhPCea