Chicago Public Library is doing some amazing work.

Went ass over teakettle at Millennial Park. Busted up my knee (and my dignity).

Welcome home.

Excellent example of social infrastructure in the Chicago Public Library. It is frictionless, offers patrons privacy, and connects them to the Heath Department.

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Facades and fonts.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

Two bookstore views.

ilya kaminsy PSALM FOR THE SLIGHTLY TILTED (with alt text)

Okay, this is genuinely funny.

Snow!

Chicago pizza recommendations?

Alley art.

“Democracy is ragtime on the corner, unemployed.”

This might be the only way to get through to some people.

Folks have to move away from suing as the primary way to address every fucking issue in this country. We need so much more creativity and focus.

I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.

There's power in beautiful things; spending the day with art and nature.

Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?

I do in fact think the Minnesotans standing up to ICE are doing something braver than anything this nation’s founders ever did

Godspeed to all these folks wearing ankle socks.

Apparently there is another video of ICE murdering someone and so I will remind you, again, that you do not have to watch it in order to confirm the thing everyone already knows: ICE is a lawless group of thugs who are killing people who stand up for basic American rights.

This could be us.

Chicago. Time to bundle up.

Me logging off at bedtime.

De-icing in Detroit.

Small things.

Real niceness is how you warm up for real kindness, and real kindness, in Minneapolis, at this moment, is screaming at the federal occupiers who oppress your neighbors and your city. — @philipchristman.bsky.social in his newsletter

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliation against people recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc) in North Carolina. I focus on press, but victims do NOT need to be a journalist. Everyone has right to record. Our friends @aclunc.bsky.social would also love to hear from you:

One unintentional lesson that years of mass shootings seems to have taught Americans is that those in power won't do anything to help and that it's better to protect ourselves than the alternative.

I love these coral maples, the way they save their elegant beauty for the winter, when they’re stripped bare and bright.

Brillant and moving. @philipchristman.bsky.social bringing it as always. open.substack.com/pub/philipch...

I watched this whole thing and my mind kept replacing "Europe" with "US colleges and universities" and now I gotta sit in a corner and think for a bit

It is finished.

@spindlypete.bsky.social - Have you read this book with the lads? Seems up your alley.

Today might be the day.

Happy Friday! Overprinting of three strengths of colours, 1940.

Minneapolis is about to do something big. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cold-city-...

The Pfaltzgraff is almost all packed and ready for its new home.

You don't want to provoke Midwesterners.

Koko! KOKO! It is I, Vincent Price. The actor

There are at least half a dozen overlapping grievance cultures there.

mamdani is doing what we have been begging dems to do since obama was in office. every time he does something, he is in front of a camera. it's like a DAILY MTV kurt loder news break. those junk fee policies are biden policies, and no one knows. dems expect people to just "get it" but they don't.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the whaling boat has figured out we are not going to the right place.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the ocean liner has figured out we are not going to the right place.

It's that time again!

My brother's school in St Paul, MN, is putting together a needs pantry/mutual aid thing for students and families who need help surviving the ICE occupation. He's said a lot of his students have been staying home from school because it's unsafe to go out. There are ways to donate if you're not local

I wish.

So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope.

are they not monsters?