I've been sidelined by a sinus infection today so I can't make this event. Just donated $25 to ICIRR. Who's gonna match me? www.hideoutchicago.com/shows/icirr-...

Chicago! Today! 3pm!

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

It’s “the planes flying overhead are significantly louder” degrees outside

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

As someone who personally experienced a burst pipe in a 125-year-old building designed by Adler & Sullivan, this is your reminder to drip your faucets!!!

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

with subzero temperatures on the horizon, now‘s a good time to revisit @katieprout.bsky.social’s 2022 piece about the lack of 24-hour warming centers in chicago. four years later and nothing has changed.

It's the last day of our Annual Subscription and Donation Drive, which supports our 2026 work. We are really close to reaching our goal! Please consider helping us across the finish line today! Thanks so much for your support! icont.ac/51cQq

Today is yet another opportunity to urge you to read Jonathan Eig’s Pulitzer-winning “King: A Life.” It is a corrective to the idea of him as an icon or symbol. He was a gifted young (!) man who had to choose, again and again, not to give up when doing so would have been easy and rewarding…

We just donated $1000 to the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center’s warming shelters. It’s currently 7*F and snowing. Can you join us in helping? givebutter.com/KBNd5w

If you don’t mask, it’s never a bad time to start again (with the added bonus that it keeps your face warm when it’s so cold outside!)

It's true!

Cancel your Spotify subscription.

I was wondering what she was up to…

Registration is now open for the next event in our Writers on Writing series in partnership with the Newberry Library. On 2/17, we'll welcome writer Edwidge Danticat to the Newberry. She'll be in conversation with Rachel DeWoskin. This is free to attend in person or on Zoom. RSVP: buff.ly/fT6UdMY

Really happy that @storystudiochicago.bsky.social is co-sponsoring a fundraiser to support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights on Saturday, January 24th at 4:30pm 🧵 www.eventbrite.com/e/fundraiser...

Thanks to some incredible Twin Cities and Chicago folks, we have a whistle party on Saturday! Come out if you live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We’ll be folding zines and putting them together with whistles that have been donated for free speech and community safety. Take some to distribute!

The situation in Chicago is quiet now, compared to Minneapolis, but federal immigration agents nevertheless continue to operate. Rapid responders say they've gotten a credible report of one person taken this morning near 52nd & Drexel, near UChicago's Hyde Park campus.

In case anyone was actually excited for IMLS to open up funding, don’t forget to tailor your application toward “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and “Advancing AI Education for a American Youth” 🤢

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

For no reason in particular we've re-booted this online store. Orders taken through 2/8. Proceeds benefit @icirr.bsky.social

Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community held a vigil yesterday for Renée Nicole Good. “We wanted to send a message to her wife, Rebecca, that we see you, we hear you, we stand with you, and we’re here with you—united as a community,” said Dawn Valenti, an LGBTQ+ and crime victim advocate who organized the vigil

Finally made it to the Yoko Ono exhibit at @mcachicago.bsky.social yesterday

Excited for Chicago Museum Member Swap weekend 🏛️🖼️🖌️🧫 More details here: americanwritersmuseum.org/program-cale...

At least 3 solidarity vigils are scheduled tonight in the Chicago area. The one The TRiiBE notes here, at 26th & Troy in Chicago's La Villita neighborhood, at 7:30 pm. Another at Winnemac Park in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, at 6 pm. A third at Fountain Square in Evanston, IL, at 7:30 pm.

Haven't seen any reports of big Border Patrol caravans in the Chicago area this morning, but a rapid response team on the city's southwest side is now saying federal agents have abducted at least one person in the area this morning.

soup soup soup

We are proud and honored to be supporting this fundraiser for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 5 pm at The Hideout. Just look at this STACKED lineup of readers! A $20 donation is suggested and RSVP is requested: buff.ly/hRMvPZj #chicagoevents

The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.

See a bridge, post a bridge

I recently started reading Steve Krakow's Secret History of Chicago Music Compendium. The first artist profiled is Adegoke Steve Colson, and the first song of his I listened to was "Atrocities" - sadly poignant on a day like today:

They are putting Americans’ safety in danger while destabilizing the region to enrich themselves. Congress must act, and Trump must be impeached.

Chicago!

i have family in Venezuela & their immediate reaction is (understandably) is just pure unbridled joy--which i totally get: life under Maduro (and Chavez before that) was a nightmare, but

BREAKING NEWS: Trump says Nicolás Maduro and his wife are aboard a U.S. warship and will face prosecution in New York. Follow AP's live updates.

Post a transit selfie from 2025

The great thing about reading a Milwaukee-set Pynchon novel is you get to learn facts like how Pabst used to make cheese: www.pabstmansion.com/2022/06/pabs...

🎶 Chi don’t shovel no mo’ / all we do is juke / all we do is juke 🎶

Head chef at Les Halles in New York City

Lil Drifty ride in Wisconsin, 100 miles over three days, plus 20 miles of canoe

19/20 😔 guess I’ve gotta pack it in and leave town, it was fun while it lasted 😔 😔

“She said her father has “severe” health issues, having previously suffered two heart attacks, high cholesterol and blood pressure. He was scheduled to be tested for colon cancer the week of his arrest.“

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”