Was in bed with a heating pad before 8 PM on a Friday night 👵🏻

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

"When I visited her in the Wichita Falls jail in May, her spirits were bright despite her circumstances. I wanted to ask her about what she’s been reading, but wondered if she was scared to answer. 'It’s crazy that we live in a world where it’s not safe to ask what books you’re reading,' she said."

"entered as evidence during the Prairieland’s trial ... guns, Narcan, protective masks, decals, among others" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

The cat didn't want to go to work and is jealous of the cat that was abducted.

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

I wrote about the astounding indictment of 15 people in Minnesota now charged with an alleged criminal conspiracy against ICE, and what federal prosecutors’ wild “who posted what on Signal when,” “who said what on the ‘Anarchist Speaking Tour’” claims are meant to do:

“The demand for these housing resources significantly exceeds the number of units available citywide.” Every time there’s a story about encampments or homelessness, this is the core. We need to dramatically increase the amount of public housing in chicago!

“Pride is something that’s for you, yourself…I can’t allow myself to not feel equal or the same as others. I can’t allow myself to wait for others to be proud of me, because that don’t happen often. It’s for me and not nobody else.”

Ahead of a planned construction project, Chicago closed a Logan Square homeless encampment that was a haven for queer Black residents. I wrote about how, with support from the community (and an unusual move from the alder’s office), the residents are rebuilding elsewhere in the ward.

I took one look at that man’s hair and decided to trust everything he had to say about pool and pool related products

Ahead of a planned construction project, Chicago closed a Logan Square homeless encampment that was a haven for queer Black residents. I wrote about how, with support from the community (and an unusual move from the alder’s office), the residents are rebuilding elsewhere in the ward.

The pleasure of showing my son tiger lilies at a rest stop in June

It's raining so hard today that the MWRD has issued an Overflow Action Alert! Please conserve water usage to reduce water in sewers! Also! Follow @chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social, & read the rat log below to catch up on what we sacrificed last year to keep the Reader alive. It's new contract time 😎

does anyone know how to do anything, is anyone able to get anything done

Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez of the 25th Ward released a statement and footage of men detonating a bomb near his home in Pilsen last night.

Happy National Pigeon Day! In 2020, I wrote "Searching for the Pigeon Lady," for @chicagoreader.com, still one of my favorite pieces. It has so much of what I love: Chicago folklore, Chicago freaks, the alleys and doorways of the Loop, and a reminder that urban settings are a wilderness, too.

Tree Culture by Paul Klee, 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137397

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Info comes from La Resistencia, a grassroots organization working to shut down the Tacoma ICE concentration camp.

Unconscionable: ICE deported one the organizers of the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE, Rogelio Bolufe Izquierdo, after he organized a hunger strike at the Tacoma, WA. detention camp. Bolufe Izquierdo is a Cuban national. They deported him to Guayaquil, Ecuador.

CHICAGO AT NIGHT Glittering recent additions to Chicago's ever expanding skyline are represented here in this recent twilight view.

This is funny and also I’m devastated???

Enjoyed this

Reading this as I hold my baby. Every child is the world.

CPD said the case was suspended after they exhausted all “investigative leads,” despite video evidence showing the crash and subsequent violent arrest Tuesday morning. A police report said the ICE agent was making a “tactical move” when causing the crash; it was classified as “non-criminal.”

A drone attack killed a young woman and injured 15 others near Khan Younis, reported the Wafa news agency.

For the evening crowd!

For the @chicagoreader.com's Pride issue, I interviewed Matthew Keller, a social services associate & Midwestern queer who lives in a Chicago shelter, about what it's like to date while unhoused, finding salvation in the bottom of a clothing donation bin, & how it's never too late to start again.

It was great to talk to him & learn more about SPARC, the city’s intake shelter, and queer life as an unhoused Chicagoan! We had a ball, honestly.

Really enjoyed this piece in @chicagoreader.com 'Let's find out who you are' chicagoreader.com/city-life/pr...

None of my brilliant friends can find decent work that pays a living wage, but all the dumbest pampered chuds on the planet rake in the dough. It rules frankly

*to the tune of Cat Scratch Fever* stove top stuffing

During that scuffle, one of the agents dropped a magazine fully loaded with ammunition on the street (a supervisor retrieved that magazine minutes after the agents left the scene). chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The man screamed for help as he was brought to the ground under the agents’ vehicle. One agent then used a taser on him. The agent aimed it at bystanders before and after tasing the man. Another agent aimed a can of pepper spray and pointed it at the crowd. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

More than two dozen people arrived to face federal agents in five different unmarked vehicles with aftermarket emergency lights. One agent had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone, a Christian symbol dating to the Crusades that more recently has been associated with white supremacy.

Looks really similar to the playbook IL authorities have used to quell disruptive protests at the ICE facility in Broadview. Never seen IL State Police at Broadview use horses, though.

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

Who up crying at Rilo Kiley

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

what the actual fuck. “prosecutors in at least four misdemeanor traffic cases have referenced an ‘office policy’ in open court that supposedly guides them to seek a warrant in cases where the defendant has been deported.”

New: ABC7 reports Ricardo Hernandez Navarrete, the Mather High School student taken by immigration authorities alongside his mother Liliana Navarrete Capazan in March (for both of whom Chicago community members organized a press conference in April), has now been reunited with his mother:

Does anyone have any executive function I can borrow

If you can get down to Delaney to support the strikers please do. My union has a bunch of folks there today and I’ll be heading back down there tomorrow.

My architecture column this weekend. A city-owned 1870 landmark deserves better. And so does the Washington Park neighborhood in which it sits.

elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add