Tonight, I will be in conversation with @tanuja.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis at Women & Children's First Bookstore. The event is sold out, but the bookstore will be livestreaming the event on their YouTube channel.

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

Whoop-whoop! I love that our book is getting this visibility because it is full of such useful and necessary wisdom. I want everyone to know ‘Read This’ is here for them. Speaking as a fan as well as contributing author.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps. Etransfer [email protected] With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective. All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma. www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

DHS spokespersons consistently give petulant, amateurish, deeply unserious responses to inquiries about extremely serious matters.

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

Chicago tonight

PHOTOS: 'Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care READ MORE HERE: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Spruce up your holiday wardrobe and support @icirr.bsky.social in the process!

...while 40 million Americans are about to go hungry.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

Zohran's win is a city fighting to save itself, I wrote for @inthesetimes.com. And he can only deliver on his promises if the movement stays engage. Tonight we celebrate, tomorrow it's back to work. Read here! inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

HOLY SHIT! MAMDANI!!!!!

Join us on the 138th anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs by the state of Illinois as we mark the return to print of THE FAMOUS SPEECHES OF THE EIGHT CHICAGO ANARCHISTS, edited by Lucy Parsons & with a new intro by David Roediger. @akpress.org pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48765

Some beautiful publication day flowers from my friend and Read This When Things Fall Apart contributor @tanuja.bsky.social.

Happy pub day to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @akpress.org and everyone who inspired this beautiful and heartfelt offering. May it provide solace, clarity, and guidance in these truly scary and unprecedented times. I’m honored to have contributed a piece on grief, my great teacher and friend.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’: In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, abolitionist organizer @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (pub. Nov. 4 by @akpress.org) featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, & activists.

ICE has been staging in this parking lot. Local patrolers called an impromptu protest. Thousands of honking cars affirm to neighbors that the invasion cannot stand. Dozens getting to know each other, exchanging tips on identifying ICE cars to stop the next kidnapping, etc. Little things help.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Growing up, my mother worked full time providing care for the elderly and her wages were not enough to house us or feed us. We survived because of section 8 housing benefits and food stamps. We thrived because we were lucky enough to attend good public schools in our small town...

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Karla Strand writes in @msmagazine.com of Read This When Things Fall Apart: "Not a guide, this volume is a salve for the wounds we incur when doing the work, and its contents are the love and encouragement we need to continue tending the fires of resistance."

While mass is being held at the Broadview detention center, caravans of buses and vans simultaneously drive detained people away, most likely to the airport.

I can't think of anything to say

This event and this moment was everything. Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for bringing us all together! 💚🐸

I talked to @biidaasamose.bsky.social about what it takes to stay human and protect each other in fascistic times, and how we can build networks of care, defend our neighbors, grieve, and make space for joy. This episode includes some Nishnaabe wisdom and music from Leanne. Transcript + audio:

Today was a heavy one. I know folks are hurting over the harms our best efforts didn't prevent. It's not a fair fight, and these things are going to happen. Too often, the best we can do is document the damage done.

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

I was interviewed by @reemasabrina.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart. "Fight for what is sacred to you. And if you don’t know what’s sacred to you yet, I suggest you get out there, amongst other people fighting the good fight, and I suspect you’ll find it."

Today! I’ll be in conversation with my brilliant fellow authors about our newly published anthology, ‘Read This When Things Fall Apart.’

Tomorrow, we have the first virtual launch event for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I will be in conversation with my friends @shaneburley.bsky.social, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena Danner. Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Congratulations to our immigration project editor @almacampos.bsky.social on being named a finalist for the CJA's prestigious Dorothy Storck award! Here's a thread of some of Alma's recent work. 🧵1/5

Don’t miss the latest from @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social 🔥 for @southsideweekly.bsky.social 🙌🏾

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

Thank you, Cicero Independiente, for republishing my story. 📝

“Tricia McLaughlin said protesters “shot at agents” with fireworks and threw objects at agents [and] Agents...gave protesters multiple warnings. The video of the incident does not show protesters throwing rocks or fireworks at agents, nor can agents be heard warning protesters.”