FULL STORY: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown. @wttw.bsky.social

If you are working on a book proposal, you want @atrubek.bsky.social.

Bear County, Michigan, by the incredible Midwest writer John Counts. My first acquisition for TriQuarterly, longlisted for a PEN. Let’s go, Midwest!

From Rob Reiner’s foreword to A Director’s Handbook by Viola Spolin.

LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥

Helicopters everywhere.

Great guide for how city alders have responded to ICE

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

MacKenzie Scott on giving. yieldgiving.com/essays/we-ar...

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Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood flower shop.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

same.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Chiiiiiiiiicagoland!

"The books that small-press publishers produce show us – more than any other – that writing itself is as much a process of thinking, one of creative-critical engagement with the world through which we reach new understandings; and that this thinking is collaborative as well as singular."

Let's make essays.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...

"Now might be a good time to try and detect your own pelvic floor. Sit on the corner of your chair, or more ideally the corner of a table, so that the area between your legs is in full contact with the surface. (If you’re in a public place or office, try to be … a little bit subtle about this.)"

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

This spring I'm working with @offassignment.bsky.social on an online class about writing rage. Dan, Maggie, Ashley, and Carmen are going to help me. Their work has kept me from launching myself into the sun. Come join us.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD. We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????

With appearances by @britticisms.bsky.social, @zoezolbrod.bsky.social, Gina Frangello, @meganstielstra.bsky.social, and the all-star band of @marydeereynolds.bsky.social, Amalea Tshilds, @beanatitagain.bsky.social, Angela James, L. Wyatt, Julie Pomerleau & Jeanine O'Toole.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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Ellis says she sees a Chicago where neighbors "have shown up for each other .. standing watch to protect the most vulnerable among us."

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

When operation midway blitz started, the term “detained” was used to describe federal agents taking ppl. There has been a shift in the language being used among rapid responders and Chicagoans. Abduction/kidnapped feels more accurate bc there are no warrants, no badged agents, no due process.

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

gonna do this

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Nearly 2 million people in Illinois could lose SNAP benefits starting Saturday. Here's a list of food pantries in Chicago & the suburbs if you're looking to donate or you need extra food. tinyurl.com/2zxvrxx5

We can write about it.

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Here's for Chicago & Cook County: www.chicagosfoodbank.org/find-food-2/

I’m starting to appreciate the extent to which all of Chicago is a frayed nerve right now