Just had a weird time travel moment on the Fullerton Brown Line platform.

Y'all remember this? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

1/3 A very personal show for artist Shane-Jahi Jackson, & also one that speaks to so many of us with Porters in our families. My great grandfather listed Pullman as his employer in both the 1930 & 1940 censuses & I have done research in these very same archives at the Newberry seeking more info.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Good morning!

@greenleejw.bsky.social What do you think of this? blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/14/a...

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

The deadline for submissions this year is July 1, 2026.

Thankfully, that ginormous window also identifies the original purpose of the building. I imagine students showing up on the first day of surgery school, seeing this cartouche & feeling reassured that they were in the right room.

“A jaunty work of surrealism… It’s a hoot.” Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this review of my fifth novel MAN OVERBOARD!, out on July 7th!

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Lots of people waving and pointing at each other across the big room. 👋

Rainbow time over the lake!

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

I just had a "The Last Visible Dog" moment when I saw my hundreds of open tabs multiplied into infinity.

“The Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.” The New Republic

This is a perfect Alex Jones impression by Heidecker, written by the Onion, doing infowars-like stories with Max level absurdity. Watch this and subscribe to the onion to let them keep doing good work for the Sandy Hook families.

We don't have to live like this, and it doesn't have to be this way. But we need to make different choices as a country. It starts with standing up to the fascists. (Which we're doing.) But we also need to envision and build a better nation from the ashes of America's current shitshow.

It's Indie Bookstore Day so just a reminder that if you're old like me and can't get around to them all -- @bookshop.org is offering free shipping this week. AND it's graduation season. Dreyer's English makes a great grad gift! @bcdreyer.social #IndieBookstoreDay

Just for the record: UW history has more majors and minors right now than at least since 2015, maybe 2010, and we are starting to hear people leaving, say, computer science, and explaining that the job market is uncertain everywhere so they may as well do what they enjoy

The switchboard is open to forward calls to your senators: +1 (202) 224-3121. For more information on the Boundary Waters Wilderness and why it's so important to protect: morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-bounda.... 🌎

“The Young Lords Speak” Tells the History of a Revolutionary Chicago Movement

For our 10th anniversary, we’ve started the New Chicago Renaissance series to revisit exemplary works of literature about Chicago from the last 10 years, and explore their continued relevance. Stay tuned for one every month!

Our fifth installment in the Chicago Renaissance series is an essay about Megan Stielstra (@meganstielstra.bsky.social)—and her book The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (2017, @harpercollins.bsky.social)—by Julia Fine (@finejuli.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/t...

Another morning of ICE sightings happening around Chicagoland and the northwest burbs as yes, they are still here, operating under the surface as they were before Bovino's spectacle.

I hope you think we did a good job on this one. Really.. zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...

I was lucky enough to be one of this weighty tome’s editors. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

it's nice to see people moved by a space mission again. #projectgemini #projectapollo #projectartemis

Middle school kids screwing around under the tracks at the Paulina Brown Line Station and suddenly...they break into perfect harmonized song. And just as suddenly...they're goofy, awkward kids again. Made my past choir/theater kid so very happy. We still rule!

Dear whoever in Chicago PL implemented this: please to be pitching a code4lib talk next year walking everyone through how you did it blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c... 📚

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He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

Rep Mike Quigley (IL-05) calls for impeachment and says Congress must return from recess TODAY. (He asks the Cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment but this clearly seems a formality.)

Cherry blossoms this morning in Jackson Park

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

The Grolier Club has digitized the meeting minutes of the Hroswitha Club! The Hroswithians were a group of women collectors not allowed in the Grolier Club. These minutes are a treasure trove, and Im thrilled to see them digitized and not in my phone anymore! www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx...

It’s weird to see all these people celebrating immigrant history today

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

I'm talking about "The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace" at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Sulzer Library. www.ravenswoodhistorical.com/category/pos...

Last week UNESCO contacted all parties in the Iran war, sharing locations of revered cultural heritage sites hoping they might be spared. These sites are protected under international law. But they are being hit hard by Israel and the United States www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

30ish years ago, Jesse Helms sponsored a similar bill to the one that Mary Miller is offering up now, trying to limit what information about sexuality and gender available to young people in schools & school libraries. I wrote my exp as a school librarian for a comp zine and share it here.

Closure shows “there’s not a priority for the arts or the humanities” at DePaul, especially when the university is investing & developing other divisions...City Council approved DePaul’s plans for a $60 million basketball & athletics practice facility in December blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/d...

NEW: ALA strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation introduced in Congress, HR 7661. As ALA President Sam Helmick said, "Parents, not politicians, should guide their children's reading." Call your Rep and tell them to oppose this new bill. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/02...