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.

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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.”

The Reader is going monthly

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

NEW: Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who is running for Congress, confronted Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino today:

In a second example of local police securing a path for Bovino's caravan today, Evanston cops just assisted with the feds' departure by blocking and directing traffic.

After raiding shopping plazas in Cicero and Bedford Park this morning, a caravan of Border Patrol agents swung north toward Edgewater. Several Chicago police vehicles can be seen here intervening to protect their exit from DSLSD onto city streets and escort the caravan.

Today I am also 38 but feel like 33

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

Rapid Response teams are reporting in across Chicago's southwest side and collar suburbs. Federal agents' presence also reported around 8 am this morning in the Back of The Yards neighborhood, per Southwest Side Rapid Response.

Nice interview with Uniflora on @post-trash.bsky.social - excited to see them Friday (and my first time at Color Club!):

For the night crowd

Chicago Zine makers make international news. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @dansinker.com

This is infuriating. For those who just want the donation link, it's here secure.everyaction.com/gLkKHzevhku4...

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

Spotify is wrapped in complicity for helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Who in Chicago is brave enough to make a hybrid live lit/karaoke reading series and why is it probably @neonpajamas.bsky.social ?? 📚 🎤 🕺

if you're in Chicago, there will be Piżama books available at this holiday market! Did we mention it's inside of a chicken & fish spot? Did we mention there's beer?

Happening right now. Community members in Elgin, IL are in a standoff with Feds who are trying to abduct their neighbor. ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.

Good morning from Chicago's Navy Pier. A U.S. Coast Guard Christmas event is currently underway, with Christmas trees being offloaded from Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw. Reports emerged yesterday that Kristi Noem would be attending this event. I haven't seen her, but Secret Service is present.

What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

Some kids just whipped snowballs at my windows so I guess I'm over winter already

Snowy walk around Eugene Field Park

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Nice day to explore the sacred nuclear waste burial ground

We'll be vending at this year's Get Lit Holiday Book Fair at the American Writers Museum! Join us on December 2nd from 5:30 - 7:30. Tickets are $10 when you use the code SKUNK10. We'll have a selection of our year's best sellers, staff faves, and picks from our annual gift guide.

Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!

Posting about Matlock in the Columbo chat

Ho ho ho

Gary Mani Mounfield of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream dead at 63 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Walking under the heat lamps at the Admiral Theater at 8:30 AM is…jarring

Seen in the Loop #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottAmazon