The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

We can write about it. offassignment.com/writing-rage

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Minnesota is the best of us.

“Our children are traumatized... After our fourth student was taken yesterday, I just thought someone has to hear the story. They’re taking children.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here’s Wunmi Mosaku (who im over the moon got nominated for supporting actress for Sinners) talking about how playing Annie and this film changed her

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

“& so to tenderness, I add my action.”—Aracelis Girmay

Minneapolis.

In Chicago's Winnemac Park tonight, a growing crowd of around a hundred neighbors have gathered for an emergency vigil for Renee Nicole Good, a 37 yr old mom shot and killed by DHS in Minneapolis today.

In light of illegal actions by the U.S. gov't in Venezuela, we highlight a few teaching resources, starting with the classic "people's history" of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent." 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/op...

We're celebrating @volumesbooks.bsky.social in their final weeks as a beloved home for readers and writers in our city. Come join us, Chicago.

May we all move with fierce love and solidarity in 2026. It's been a brutal year, but I am entering 2026 with more hope than I had at the end of 2024, because the people of my city gave me that hope. I love you, Chicago.

Tatiana Schlossberg has passed away at 35. Please read this beautiful essay she published last month. It's one of the best things I've read in a long time. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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.

Journalism is not for everybody.

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.