Heyyyy be fair, RFK was actually pulling his car around to strap that guy to the roof

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Working hard on my Hungarian has ruined me for editing in English because I keep staring at my text thinking there should be one single word for "in our house" or "he crosses back over" or "you might pick it up" or "I can tear it apart" or "in the south"... English is not cooperating.

Hey New Yorkers? What do you call the pits of stairs on your sidewalk going down into restaurant basements? The ones I'm always almost falling into? Is there a word for those?

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This is our statement on the steps we're taking to protect our students and our community. We love and value all our writers and we need everyone to be able to tell their stories, especially now.

What percent of ICE agents do you suppose are divorced men whose children have gone minimal-contact? What percent are holding out hope that the OnlyFans girl actually has feelings for them? What percent had no male friends till they joined and now go to BW3 with their lil ICE buddies to get drunk?

This is happening in residential neighborhoods, and it was happening yesterday near schools.

God has promised me my enemies will receive the word in the form of a rage stroke in a Florida golf course toilet. I remain steadfast in hope.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

You know what's kind of great is that the nation's dogs have no idea who the president is.

Sometimes you begin reading a novel and start to recognize it as the exact book you always wished someone would write. THE GOSPEL OF SALOME instantly rang all those bells for me, and I was so happy to choose it as the winner of @wildhousepubs.bsky.social's 2024 contest!

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active. Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

I don’t know who made this but I love it

I was thrilled to review Eye of the Monkey (A Majom Szeme), the newly translated 2022 novel from genius Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth. It was a hard book to describe -- dystopian and experimental but fundamentally realist -- and I recommend it enthusiastically. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/b...

Happy Zillow Day! We’ve got ghost benches, we’ve got a creepy Humphrey Bogart (?) statue, we’ve got the perfect castle for the next Duke of Texas! Please join me over on Subst*ck and we’ll momentarily divert ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

Today on @nytimes.com, @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social jumps down EYE OF THE MONKEY's dystopian rabbit holes

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

This may be one of the worst ICE deportation stories I’ve ever fucking read.

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

(1/5) 🌟 “We needed to do something.” Lori’s story is a reminder that grief, rage, and love can become engines for change. From buses to food pantries to ACT UP, she showed how ordinary courage feeds extraordinary legacies. 👉 rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-... @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social

This is TONIGHT! Register for free to come in person, or watch the livestream! www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Anyone who needs me, I’ll be here all day teaching people how to pronounce Krasznahorkai 🇭🇺

I’m doing another online seminar for 5 Things I Learned… Specifically: When people ask how I balance parenting with a writing career, two answers come to mind. 🧵

In early August, the indomitable Chicago AIDS activist Lori Cannon passed away. She was an irreplaceable resource while I was writing The Great Believers, and inspiration, angel, and friend to thousands. 🧵

This sounds so fun: Create an oracle to get creatively “unstuck” and build more meaningful patterns in @sarahkokernot.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… One class, in person, starts October 29! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

It's essential to record ICE violence when we see it. It's often useful to post it. We do NOT want to stoke these guys' egos by making them look tough. So couldn't we, like, give them dumb bunny ears in the videos? Or put words over their photos like "Daddy issues" and "teenie peenie"? Both?

Haunt your readers in time for Halloween in @ruthjoffre.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… One class, Zoom, starts October 16! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

If your book’s almost done, learn how to revise and where to submit in @bess-winter.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… Four classes, Zoom, starts October 30! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

You know your story, but how do you tell it? Take Lane Regan’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class and learn to write your memoir… Five classes, Zoom, starts October 30! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

A tedious but serious question: How do you organize/sort/identify all your various cords and chargers? I have a huge heap sitting here and I have no idea what's completely outdated, what goes with what, etc. Please tell me someone out there has a hack.

How on earth is "warfighting" being used as a word by someone who is NOT a six-year-old boy trying to get you to play GI Joe with him?

Chicago! I'm in conversation tonight w/ Peter Mountford at 7 pm and you will enjoy the hell out of it. One of the highest compliments I can give a writer is that they aren't boring. He is never boring. He's pictured below. I'd like to convince you he's the bear, but he's really the one on the left.

The Hegseth conference was like just one big gift for the SNL cold open. Developing my conspiracy theory that Miller stuck him out there to distract the SNL writers from opening the season with even more insidious shit…

The fuck…????

Plans tonight? Check out this awesome book event -- writer Peter Mountford, author of the new short story collection DETONATOR, will be in conversation with our Artistic Director @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social at Book Cellar at 7pm. More info and RSVP here: www.bookcellarinc.com/peter-mountf...

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I can only hear the line "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" in the confused quiet voice my mom had went her dementia got really bad.

Kind of wild, given all the things it does, that we call the thing we’re holding right now a phone. Could call it a flashlight or a newspaper an encyclopedia or a porn machine, but no: a phone. Also if you call me I will hurl this thing across the room before I pick up. But: phone.