"Bystanders and passersby started following the officers, chanting: 'ICE, go home!' The agents stopped at the intersection with Oak Street. Several got in vans that drove away. For another 15 minutes, the crowd of protesters around them grew bigger, yelling 'shame,'" reports @chicagotribune.com

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

#CaribbeanMatters: 8 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still recovering www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

WGN reports that US Border Patrol has taken over security at Broadview. That would explain why the attacking agents seemed more organized last night.

this is my best performing skeet in months 😂

Thread — observations from inside the ICE facility in Broadview:

What the fuck?

everything is awful, but I just bought a weird red-and-tan cashmere/cotton blend mesh bomber cardigan (I know) at the Salvation Army for $6.99 and, upon googling, it appears to retail for north of $2K.

Mark your calendars frendz www.bookcellarinc.com/rob-miller-h...

Remind me what it means when a force in power violently targets journalists

One of our photogs was just hit with a rubber bullet at the Broadview ICE facility. Things have escalated since ICE started shooting pepper balls and tear gas. latest on @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The settlement has been approved!

So much good advice here, especially "remember that authors are people too...." Yesterday my massage therapist showed me a text she had just gotten from a friend to whom she'd gifted my Sinead O'Connor book. The friend loved it, and just seeing the ripple effect there made my freaking day.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

If like me you've been worried that Trump's anti-immigrant actions might've killed the World Music Festival, I have good news and bad news! It's happening, and the lineup is great—but the number of artists from outside the country has declined significantly. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Asked this guy how he felt about choking women today as he stared down at us all from the roof. He proudly declared he likes it.

Some of us do.

Sometimes it's weird to live in a country where the govt can just ... do good things.

I cannot stress this enough. We are protesting Broadview because of the human rights violations happening within the ICE facility. If they are willing to assault me on camera, imagine what they are doing to detainees behind boarded-up windows.

The NYT’s digital investigations are invaluable and unparalleled by any other news org. This one proves ICE murdered a man, and lied about what led up to that murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One unanticipated side effect of the tariffs? I applied to be part of a lit fest in Ireland but heard today that the cost of tariffs have caused one of their main sponsors to pull out, so they've had to scale programming way back. Tariffs are killing the arts as well as commerce.

"Frustrated by not being able to see through the gas, I swung my camera forward and saw a man who was carrying an American flag walk into the huge cloud of gas. He didn’t have a mask on and didn’t react to the gas. I shot 44 frames of him in two seconds." -- @staceywescott.bsky.social

book publicists

I think this suburb-city proper divide is going to be exploited by ICE in a lot of other cities unfortunately Very interesting article

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Tl;Dr: the dancing is gorgeous but oof, that story

I was excited to be asked to review the Joffrey’s “Carmen” for @wbez.org.

Killing time while working a (slow) event by dropping into the dm’s of gen-x newsletterers to cold-pitch NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU. Is that you? HMU and I’ll send you a copy 🤗 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...

He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums

Melissa Hortman. Say her name.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

And from the perspective of the regime, this was a much more offensive thing to say. Not criticizing Kirk, nor misstating anything about the details of the case, but calling out the censorship crusade itself as bullshit. First rule of censorship is you have to censor talk about the censorship.

Standing by for Conan, Colbert, and Kimmel to launch their own network.

My fucking god

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I cancelled my WaPo subscription more than a year ago, but I still never imagined it could get this dark.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

a map of ice arrests/sightings just today. reports span from way north in waukegan to the western suburbs of elgin, west chicago, and aurora, to joliet and dixmoor in the south. in chicago, agents seen in east garfield park, little village, brighton park, university village and nearby cicero.

Publicizing a book while the world burns sucks, and all that, but you know who I really wish was around right now to point us to the moral high ground, take the piss out of the rich & powerful, and sing some fierce & righteous songs? Yeah.

"Bill Kristol is more expansive and full-throated in his defense of transgender rights than most elected Democratic officials" is another sentence.

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade. Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk. Text of his email shared with me:

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Gov. JB Pritzker blasted President Trump Monday for “fanning the flames of division” in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, saying it had increased the fear and anxiety rippling across Chicago, where federal immigration agents have fanned out across the Chicago area. @wttw.bsky.social

YESSSSSS. Working on this book with Rob has honestly been a highlight of my career. Can't wait for the rest of you to get a chance to compulsively read it :)

Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.