The WNBA "can’t seem to bring themselves to admit that said popularity of not just the league but the players — and now-widespread knowledge of how little they are compensated — means that they can no longer hoard the ever-growing pie for themselves."

Highly recommended. 😍👇

Love this video from my State Senator Mike Simmons, who is running for Congress! 😊🚲👇

Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.

Ahhhh! There's a Chicago one now! 😍

I swear, the things I'm most thankful for lately are the Snowy Owls. More magic to counteract the rest of...everything in 2026 please! 😊 #birds

GENIUS. I wish I'd done this with my donations this year, so I'd know who sold my name to ~40 different orgs this summer. 😒

Chicago turkey photos from earlier this year:

I am watching the Shakespeare in the Park Twelfth Night and holy shit. Lupita Nyong'o and Sandra Oh in this scene where they first meet are *brilliant.* As was Jesse Tyler Ferguson in his first scene. Another incredible production.

In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966. buff.ly/iXOhxHj #ShareGoodNewsToo

Didn't know this existed until today and had an unexpected and entirely welcome treat. I need more folks to read The Gardener's Hand trilogy plz 💜💜

Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up on our Data Security, Immigration, Medical Research, and Equality at Work work: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

In Data Security, we are tracking the mounting evidence that the US is either on its way to becoming a surveillance state or that it’s already become one. @Wired discusses the debate in detail: www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Today is an excellent day to support your local indie bookstore and pre-order Nobody’s Baby, the second Dorothy Gentleman sapphic sci-fi mystery! Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

Do I need another tote bag? Absolutely not. Am I asking for this for Christmas? 100% yes.

A friend told me that her young son calls me the Delicious Chicken Lady. This is all I need in life to be happy, apparently. :)

A Babson College freshman was detained at Logan Airport and deported without warning. Our Policy Director, Nayna Gupta, has been working with the family and local attorneys to piece together what went wrong. Like so many others, this young woman had an old removal order she never knew existed. 1/2

cool cool cool chicagoreader.com/news/politic...

I just got back from seeing my brother-in-law perform a 2hr set of original songs and some covers and HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS. He's so good! I cried, like, seven times at his lyrics. And then laughed my ass off at two other songs. Brb, gotta find out how you make a record...

LISTEN UP! December 1 is Monday. This means I only have another 6 days to get an advent calendar to you.. Those days include Thanksgiving and a Sunday. I will be doing a post office drop tomorrow! This is your last chance. I can't guarantee it'll get there by Monday, but it could! SquidFacts.net

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

NEW: An MPR News journalist was among those hit by less-lethal munitions and taken from the scene by ambulance. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.

"Earlier this month, Emmanuel disembarked from a plane and spotted his mother among a throng of families. He hurried, brushing past the crowd as his mother spread her arms. He leaped, so hard that they both fell onto a sofa, weeping and locked in a tight embrace." This is the new family separation.

My readers will not be surprised to hear that DHS and DOJ lied their asses off in an emergency filing to the Supreme Court: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u... (gift link)

While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.

"Court proceedings that have yielded a striking paucity of criminal charges against detained Chicago residents suggest the entire operation was, like other federal raids unleashed in Democratic-led major cities, an exercise in state theatrics, meant to sow fear, shock & awe in targeted populations."

Happening now in Minnesota: Protestors were sprayed as ICE launched yet another federal raid in St. Paul. Communities are standing their ground while agents escalate force. Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.

We're piecing together these events and many more on our timeline and explainer on what's happening to medical research funding and what it means for all of us: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

New analysis has revealed that the Trump administration terminated funding for 383 clinical trials between Jan and Aug 2025, affecting more than 74,000 participants. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

Lawyer for protesters to ICE bigwig Russell Hott: “Do you agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?” Hott: “No.”

Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Cool $10k journalism award opportunity for those covering immigrants, LTBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized communities! cronkite.asu.edu/shaufler-prize

"We as Mexicans not only belong in the city, we helped create [Chicago]. … And when you go through an exhibit like this, there is no doubt of the amount that we have contributed to this part of the U.S. to the Midwest."

"When we were willing to step back and make deals and disenfranchise entire groups of people, that is when our democracy faltered and that is when we lost our power." ❤️👇

“If the panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Reagan appointee, had bothered to consider Ellis’s fact-finding and analysis, they would have found a meticulous accounting of the Trump administration’s practices of violating constitutional rights and lying to justify its actions.”

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share gofund.me/a5ee0064

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Alex's book recs always = immediate collapse of my willpower 😭

Check out Stephen's EXTRAORDINARY shots! 😍👇

What a way to find out the Phoenix Mercury are opening a chain of gas stations

Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs

There's a Tapatio Birria ramen bowl??? I am intrigued...

"They are using the kids as bait, and then the kids are stuck. They are creating unaccompanied children this way." These are the children @theyoungcenter.bsky.social serves and referrals for Child Advocate appointments for children sent to detention facilities because of ICE have indeed exploded. 👇

"Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders."