Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Damon is amazing. Back this project!

This is amazing.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

I got stuck in an elevator and the fire department had to rescue me. This may be the best day of my life.

I got stuck in an elevator and the fire department had to rescue me. This may be the best day of my life.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

POLAR BEARS ALERT!

Do you want to know what REALLY happened to Amelia Earhart? You'll have to read Jennifer Lee Rossman's "Allosaurus in Wonderland and Other Tales of Avalonia," coming in December. frombeyondpress.com/books/allosa...

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Do you want to know what REALLY happened to Amelia Earhart? You'll have to read Jennifer Lee Rossman's "Allosaurus in Wonderland and Other Tales of Avalonia," coming in December. frombeyondpress.com/books/allosa...

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

Well don't I feel stupid

I earned this.

It’s autumn so it’s time for me to repeat my demand that Over the Garden Wall get a stage adaptation

As if I could talk to another human for three hours. I'm feral.

Fans (and writers!) of SFF and noir, check out this new anthology. They're also taking submissions. 🕵️‍♀️👻🤖📖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social

I miss the olden days when famous actors thought they were above shilling in commercials.

Because I am in the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social book club, I got a copy of The Barre Incidents by @renbolger.bsky.social along with a spinach pie recipe. I can't show you the recipe because there's a vaguely threatening note attached.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Every caption George Herriman writes to describe Bum Bill Bee is a work of pure beat poetry decades before that movement was formally codified. (Krazy Kat)

The annual pumpkin display at the entrance of Governor Pritzker’s personal residence on Astor Street. He is the pumpkin king. Illinois produces the most pumpkins, including canned, than any other state in the U.S., twice as many as the next five states combined.

A month until the veil is lifted and THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION is unleashed! Nine tales of horror & dread that put candle flame to the underbelly of this mortal coil. Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

a character who really fucking sucks written well is such a joy

I’ve been playing around with spooky poems to recite at a local Halloween event & I swear shoving this book of spec-fic lady poetry from the 1920s-1950s between my thighs is completely unrelated.

TFW you're waiting for a response for an anthology you submitted to, and they announce the final lineup, and you get all het up about not getting a rejection email, and then you realize you never submitted your story.

I am outside your house as you read this.

I AM THE BOSS OF MSPAINT COME MY FOLLOWERS LET ME SPOIL YOU WITH THESE PICTURES

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

"To this day, whenever I meet someone else who loves DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, I know we’ll get along."

A lot of things are bad. But some good things remain! Such as books. The mail brought me these in the last two days. I hadn't read anything by Kyle Winkler before, loving Enter the Peerless already (always fun to read a book where the narrator travels all around my locale). Black Brane soon!

What movie do you consider perfect?

I can't get over the fact that the nazi with the camo and the mask and the tacti-pouches is wearing Vans.

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

They're here. They're signed by Joe Koch and Silver. They're only ten bucks. @horrorsong.blog @blacksugarpill.bsky.social

MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS author Maud Lavin joined RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES contributor Jotham Austin II on the Rabbit Hole of Research podcast to talk about Lake Michigan’s mythic, ecological, and feminist depths. jothamaustin.substack.com/p/ep-44-lake...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

A great article on what was essentially the birth of second wave Sword & Sorcery: gwthomas.org/10-sword-sor...

scramble you little shits, scramble

The Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria is taking too long.

"What radicalized you?" Media Literacy

The next book in our Beyond Pulp Reprints series is Dorothy Quick's STRANGE AWAKENING, a 1938 planetary romance with emphasis on the romance. Coming in January. frombeyondpress.com/books/strang...

The next book in our Beyond Pulp Reprints series is Dorothy Quick's STRANGE AWAKENING, a 1938 planetary romance with emphasis on the romance. Coming in January. frombeyondpress.com/books/strang...

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Experimental filmmaker karaoke at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

In memory of my big brother on his birthday 🧡

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

New banger from @gwenckatz.bsky.social !

Has anyone used "Eat Prey Love" to describe Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir? Because if not, remember you heard it here first.