■ The National Weather Service got reports of sonic booms. (Image: Lisle Police Department dashboard camera.)
TECH vs. TRUMP. Almost 100 tech companies—including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter and Uber—are joining the legal fight against the president’s immigration limits.
■ Destination: Supreme Court?
■ Matthew Yglesias in Vox: Trump’s “enormous” retreats show resistance works.
■ The Guardian calls on women to protest Trump with a strike.
■ Trump’s father’s middle name was Christ. (Last line of story.)
■ … But not from Spicer himself.
■ Fox News’ Howard Kurtz: A cultural war on Trump.
■ Super Bowl champ Martellus Bennett—who, unlike many of his teammates, isn’t a Trump supporter—says he won’t join the team on a trip to the White House.
MOST SURPRISING PLACE TO FIND A REPORT ON THAT VANDALISM AT A CHICAGO SYNAGOGUE. Laura Beck’s piece for Cosmopolitan.
■ $3,000 reward posted for info leading to arrest of perpetrator caught on video.
■ Women’s mags are getting woke.
WATCH WORDS.
■ Amid rumors Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is considering retiring, he’ll speak at 12:30 p.m. Monday to the City Club of Chicago. Livestreamed on the web here. (Photo: City Club of Chicago.)
■ Mayor Emanuel’s out of town, taking the stage at the Stanford Graduate School of Business View from the Top speaker series. Watch a livestream here at 2:10 p.m. to see what he says about Chicago when he’s not in Chicago.
POTATO! One of today’s most talked-about Super Bowl ads—a wordless 30-second shot of a potato with the word “Advertisement” written on it—didn’t air during the Super Bowl. But the was placed by the Chicago-based company that makes Cards Against Humanity (“a party game for horrible people”) is pretending that it did. And, which claims in a hilarious confession posted to Medium that it went bankrupt airing it. (Clarified at 1:53 p.m. in accordance with a tweet from Cards co-creator Max Temkin, who says, “It was an ad, it ran in the 5 p.m. hour, it was a regional (not national) ad buy,” but confirms the company isn't really bankrupt.)
■ $3,000 reward posted for info leading to arrest of perpetrator caught on video.
■ Women’s mags are getting woke.
WATCH WORDS.
■ Amid rumors Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is considering retiring, he’ll speak at 12:30 p.m. Monday to the City Club of Chicago. Livestreamed on the web here. (Photo: City Club of Chicago.)
■ Mayor Emanuel’s out of town, taking the stage at the Stanford Graduate School of Business View from the Top speaker series. Watch a livestream here at 2:10 p.m. to see what he says about Chicago when he’s not in Chicago.
■ Vanity Fair: Gaga made an “edgy political statement” at the Super Bowl.
■ The New York Times: Gaga brought “no controversy, lots of glitter.”
■ Washington Post: Consider the origin of “This Land Is Your Land.”
■ A Chicago-based disability rights activist tweeted video of his son, who has Down syndrome, dancing to Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
(Photo: Yne Van De Mergel)
■ Steven R. Strahler in Crain’s: Caterpillar’s not the last company to move its corporate HQ to Chicago.
STRANGERER. What does the “Stranger Things” Season 2 trailer that aired during the Super Bowl reveal about what’s to come? Stuart Heritage analyzes 30 seconds of video in excruciating detail.
■ Was the premiere of “24: Legacy” a “one-hour Super Bowl ad for Islamophobia”?