There’s a terrible situation at an ICE facility in Chicago. ICE GOONS are forcefully arresting people, pushing through protesters, and even lobbing tear gas at reporters.

CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returns to Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet one of our featured readers: Boston-raised, Chicago-braised drummer/singer/songwriter Gerald Dowd who has been described as “the hardest working drummer in Chicago.” Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org

Don't miss CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returning to Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet one of our featured readers: Stand up comedian Audrey Jonas who has been drawing audiences all over the Midwest since 2014. Get your tickets at firsttime.chirpradio.org

CHIRP's live lit series The First Time returns to Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet one of our featured readers: Amy Eaton, a writer, performer, director and arts educator. Her work has been published in The Coachella Review, Mulberry Literary and Hippocampus Magazine. tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org

Experience CHIRP's live lit series The First Time at Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet our featured reader: Eunji Kim, a comedian, actor and writer. She was a Senior Writer for Cards Against Humanity and can be seen performing stand-up all over the country. Show tickets at: firsttime.chirpradio.org

Experience CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returning to Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet our featured reader: Kat Sachs - the co-managing editor of Cine-File Chicago and a columnist on moviegoing for the Chicago Reader. Get your tickets at: firsttime.chirpradio.org

TOMORROW! CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returns to Martyrs. This edition features five unique readers' "First Watch" stories and a song accompanying each one performed by The First Time Three. Get your tickets at firsttime.chirpradio.org

@audiofusser.bsky.social we are screwed

@missspoken.bsky.social presents the BURNT show, Monday, 7/28. 7 pm FREE! Featuring Salem Collo- Julin, Kim Germain, Wendy Sackler and Nikki Nigl. With hostesses @jasmined.bsky.social and me! Cole’s bar, 2338 N Milwaukee, the best city on earth. #LiveLit#chicago

Best CNF conference ever, even if we don’t get to shmooze irl!

45 years ago Dolly Parton released “9 to 5” and we were all like omg she’s so right and then we just never did anything about it and that’s on us

Tonight! Get outta the heat and into some words to soothe your soul at @missspoken.bsky.social free. 7pm. Lindsay Porter, Kim Moldofsky, Delilah Orizaba and Kelsey McGrath are our features! Hostesses @jasmined.bsky.social and myself preside! #LongLiveLiveLadyLit

June 23, come out to see the BOOK show @missspoken.bsky.social Cole’s bar, 2338 N Milwaukee 7pm Free! Long Live Live Lady Lit!!

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

Come spend the end of the 3 day weekend with @missspoken.bsky.social at Cole’s, 2338 N Milwaukee and listen to some stories on Sacrifice! Readers Chiquita Renee, Kloie Rush-Spratt, Rachel Head& Kesia Reynolds. @jasmined.bsky.social and me host! And it’s our birthday!! We’re 11! #LongLiveLiveLadyLit

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

Oh, to be read like this! What a gift is this review of The Mourner’s Bestiary. Thank you, Mark DeVries and @christiancentury.bsky.social. Honored. www.christiancentury.org/books/wild-e...

Waiting on a RAINy evening on Monday the 28th @missspoken.bsky.social ! Head over to Coles Bar, 2338 N Milwaukee! 7pm! Free! Featuring @veronicaeye.bsky.social @elizabethgomez.bsky.social @jasmined.bsky.social Maria Kostas & Calle Hack! Long live Live Lady Lit! #chicago #LiveLit

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Honored to be reviewed by @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social for my audiobook performance of my memoir and love letter to the Gulf of Maine and my family, The Mourner’s Bestiary. “Graceful and authentic.” High praise for a high wire act of learning a new skill. www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

Come hear words about MADNESS @missspoken.bsky.social March 24th show at Coles bar, 2338 N Milwaukee Ave. 7pm. Joy Wright, Carmenita Peoples, RC Riley and Carly Oishi read! Jasmine Davila and yours truly hostess with the mostess!

Mark Kelly for President Pass it on.

OMG. Jamie Raskin Rips & HILARIOUSLY WRECKS MAGA Jim Jordan www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgzO...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!

GenX Update In Brief: Airplane! Sometimes I just need to make myself laugh/get the insults out, you know? #genx #update #news #health #stressrelief #millennial #genz #boomer #faa #airplane

Will you participate? My family and friends will only support small, local businesses tomorrow. No gas. No pharmacy. No Amazon. No Target. No Walmart. I won't be logging into any of their apps, sites, or social media, either. It's time for the people to stand up. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

go.bsky.app/N2BmyFf New and Improved - Team Pro Democracy Starter Pack 1 - Give it a look and please reshare to give it maximum reach - Thanks!

Gen X is in the house.

Trump illegally firing the youngest, fittest US Forest Service firefighters after a few weeks of bullshit about how the LA fires were caused by government incompetence is quite a thing.

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

Join us for our MOVING show at Coles Bar, 2338 N Milwaukee Ave ! Sunday, 2/16 at 5pm at the relaunch of @missspoken.bsky.social ! Hosted by @missamye.bsky.social and @jasmined.bsky.social . Featuring Lily Be, Chiquita Lewis, Yvette Pina and Leah Jones!

Fascinating. A Federalist Society prosecutor resigned rather that obey the Trump administration's corrupt order to drop charges against corrupt mayor Eric Adams. Imagine if all conservatives had principles... www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

NYC! @eirencaffall.bsky.social is in the house!!!! Tonight!

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

Go, NYC peeps!

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

One of the most important websites in America right now.

Pay very close attention. We CAN stop him.

Because tight now he is literally taking over the US treasury's computers to stop payments, and he just got access to a SCIF and is rummaging through our nation's classified secrets. That seems like a pretty big threat to our country. apnews.com/article/doge...

I saw this interview earlier this afternoon youtu.be/w3YRAHDiQyY?...