The war is over, but the nightmare hasn’t ended The bombs have stopped, but life hasn’t returned. Our city is silent nothing but rubble and painful memories We lost our home, and we’re trying to survive among the ruins We have no one but you after God 💔 Donate and share our story🙏 gofund.me/d14cbe76

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

The good: I start my new W4 tomorrow. The bad: My new gig pays *monthly* at the end of each month and I'm starting at the beginning of the period, so I wont get paid until New Years. There's 12% or $8407 left to close out this ENTIRE campaign. I REALLY need a hand to hold onto the gig.

Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡 Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨ ko-fi.com/theverbalthing

Temporary Services/Half Letter Press will be at Staple + Stitch Art Book + Print Fair starting tomorrow 11/14 through Sunday 11/16 at Hotel 55 in Chicago. Get all the latest from Public Collectors too. AND Brett Bloom will be there. Find us at table 30. More details here" www.stapleandstitchfair.com

GoFundMe has deleted my friend Sama'a's account and refunded its donors. She is struggling with depression and despair and needs our support now more than ever. They have created a new fundraiser to help them survive in the war-torn wreckage of Gaza City. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Deeply grateful for everyone shedding light on the library budget situation. As a CPL worker it feels like we just get more exhausted and burned out, while the city tells us to do more and more and more, but gives no support.

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

For 10 years, we’ve told human-centered stories about the local court system and held powerful institutions accountable. Join us for a fundraiser to fuel our next decade of public service journalism.

Here's my letter. Share away. Tell the city of Chicago not to cut the library's budget. buttondown.com/papersquared...

Do you have a little money to spare? Want some good, original comics to read, and also to help get some money to the Palestine Red Crescent Society? You can always check out Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine!

I am desperately trying to raise enough money so that I begin the slow process of getting my Masters in Bioethics from Hopkins. Being the sole stream of income and with lots existing debt to pay off, anything helps. www.gofundme.com/f/support-si...

If you were ever wondering what we're up against, this is a website book banners created to train people to get books banned in their own communities. I found my kids' school in here, and the books this website suggests I get banned from their library. www.takebacktheclassroom.com/school-detai...

I can’t stop thinking about this little girl firing me with her little clipboard and everything, I’m absolutely haunted by this kid

OUR #WheelsAndRoses trailer is HERE✨🌈🛼 LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS? LOVE ROLLER DERBY AND ROLLER SKATING? LOVE QUEER GALS AND THEY THEMS?? Look no further!!! WE'RE SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE OUR TEASER TRAILER WITH THE WORLD!!! youtu.be/sT23E5MyZKQ?... #IndieAnimation

Last full day...come get

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️ This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤 A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book. #halloween #horror

I’m looking for work!!! I’m a writer, illustrator, designer, and game dev seeking longer-term projects, especially in the animation, video game, TV/movie, or TTRPG industries! I’ve been told I’m delightful to work with and would love to prove that to YOU!! . ݁₊⊹ Portfolio: kendrawcandraw.com

more news: DATURA magazine volume 4 is now available in both print and pdf form! 🌸💘 daturazine.carrd.co#issue4

one last week to pick up my comic about the death of all beautiful things @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social

BREAKING: Federal agents fired tear gas at a crowd during an aggressive raid in Little Village with no warning, Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez told @wttw.bsky.social. If agents deployed tear gas without a warning, that would violate an order issued by a federal judge two weeks ago.

🌙☁️Now Available!☁️🌙 My sapphic horror mini-comic is now available for download for $5 or pay what you want on itch! "Sweet Dreams" is a 10-page mini comic about a ghost saving a young woman from a nightmare. Buy it here: mcapriglioneart.itch.io/sweet-dreams...

Hello Bluesky! We have 12 days to help fund my indie comic book and could use a little push! It’s funny and QUEER! If you have anything to give, please consider backing our kickstarter! We need a little over $18k!! Sharing is also caring! 🙇🏾‍♀️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

My friend Sama'a has two little girls to feed and clothe, and after two years of genocidal horror she is tired in ways we cannot fully understand. Please give what you can to help her family survive. gofund.me/db56c7ce3

⚠️♿️⚠️ Doaa is an embroiderer. She managed to escape to Egypt with her 6yo child Omar who has autism. Doaa is now with no support. The rest of her family remained in Gaza. She is trying to help Omar and her family in Gaza. Please help. ✅ Verified by Molly Shah chuffed.org/project/1153...

Emergency Protest Today, 10/8/2025 in Chicago: 5:30 PM at Michigan and Ida B. Wells. We're demanding that ICE and the National Guard get out of our city. I'll attend this.

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is back in limited stock! All funds go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society! Currently there are 20 regular physical editions, 20 phys/digital combo editions, and 4 of the bundle packs available. A fantastic anthology and one I'm glad to have orderable again!

Share its urgent‼️ I received 2 appeals: two families are in urgent need of some mattresses because they sleep on the ground, in addition to two ground tarps and a few pillows. Another family needs a tent. Anyone who wants to help, i will post the campaigns below.

“It’s disguised as work requirements and term limits, but in reality it’s a way to strip families of their benefits,” said Deborah Thrope of the National Housing Law Project. “This is a huge departure from how the HUD programs have been run.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

UPDATE — Gov. Pritzker said DHS sent a memo to “the Department of War” seeking to deploy 100 troops to Illinois to protect immigration agents and facilities. Also, local leaders describe Broadview ICE facility as “a black hole” with hundreds detained inside. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

Help ensure NLG Chicago can continue supporting the movement! Donate here: nlgchicago.org/donate/

Welcome Coyote!! I was just thinking (again) today that what we need so badly right now is more local, independent, alternative media. Exactly what @emmaruthless.bsky.social is talking about here. (Signed, Christine -- editor of The Stranger in the early 90s ❤️)

Ouch... this one really hurts. There's a trans nerd in the Bay Area (whom I've met and can vouch for) and we raised some $$ for her in the past, getting her into a stable situation. But now? She's been robbed and lost everything. Please help if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x62...

Our Kaiju is voiced by @erikaishii.bsky.social. Support our puppet musical about community and food and hope in the face of unrelenting doom (Erika is unrelenting doom): www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

gofund.me/c6414d2ad Please join me in supporting a professor who was fired from Texas A&M for recognizing more than two genders in a children's lit class. #IHateItHere

literally the book i was the most excited for at SPX and it did not disappoint — you neeeed to pick up FLIP when it hits shelves later this month!!

Ok listen, when I tell people I work with teens they often immediately ask me what is wrong with Gen Z and I am telling everyone who asks me this: nothing!! (And they are inheriting a world on fire and they know it)

Goodnight.

Btwn the salt trucks and another unsourced video I just saw purporting to be from Chicago today with a reply saying it was from two months ago figured we could all use a reminder

I was the one handing these out 😊 and I handed more out today and if you want to print out/distribute some yourself, either in Chicago or any of a number of other cities/regions - here you go: drive.google.com/drive/folder... (cc zine maker @meganpiont.bsky.social)

We're funded, but in the last few hours, my car got hit-and-runned(while parked) and I had to turn down a gig I really wanted due to caretaking responsibilities, so the film having a comfortable budget will really ease my overall stress! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

I spent this morning joining fellow organizers to protest ICE fascists in Chicago, at their Broadview location at 1930 Beach St. What unfolded was telling—not about us, but about them. Here are three key takeaways, & why I hope you join the next protest near you. www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-i-pr...

Guards at 'Alligator Alcatraz' engaged in indiscriminate beatings of detainees after an uprising at the detention camp forced them to regain control last week, several people held at the widely condemned site told Noticias 23/Univision last week: