Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Tickets for Monday and Saturday dates now available online

Plz contribute to my GoFundMe, which is dedicated to ordering 75 Waymos to the mayor's house every night at 3 am. 😊

We're adding a additional date to our skunk cabbage walk! We work weekends too so we know it's a bummer when you miss out on all the Saturday morning events. We'll be taking a second hike on Monday, March 16th. Tickets for both events on sale 2/25 @ noon on our website.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

In March, Airplane Mode is visiting Hong Kong and Venezuela with stories about normal people trying to make sense of the mundane amid political violence and turmoil.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

CHICAGO! Heat the Ground up Join us for a discussion on how the historic @sbworkersunited.org strikes were organized. With @inthesetimes.com and @labornotes.bsky.social. Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social and streaming on Youtube. Friday, February 27th at 7 PM CT RSVP:

Did you know that skunk cabbages are thermogenic - they generate their own heat to melt frozen, icy ground and prepare the soil for new growth in the spring? Join us for a hike in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for the spring and raise money for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.

Illinois Audubon Society Commits $384,000 to Windy City Bird Lab blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/17/w...

Happy publication day to Lauren J. Joseph's LEAN CAT, SAVAGE CAT! 🐈‍⬛ ✨ "A salacious romp of breathtaking self-invention and spectacular self-destruction." —Service95 ✨ "A strange and wild ride in the best way." — @autostraddle.bsky.social buff.ly/0tUeE6V

In March, we'll be joined by Dr. Shanika Galaudage, an astrophysicist working at Northwestern and the Adler Planetarium! She studies pairs of the most extreme objects in the universe (black holes and neutron stars) using gravitational waves to understand how these systems form, live and die.

“Not a cult, nor the cult of the couple-form is what is most needed for human flourishing; rather, what these novels call for is friend-love … without any onus to heal or repair.” New at PB: @reproutopia.bsky.social reviews “Casanova 20” and “Herculine.”

TONIGHT Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social 7pm EST, register free here: www.haymarketbooks.org/events/778-a...

Remembering David Graeber on his birthday, an anarchist, anthropologist, and author who dared to imagine a world beyond debt, bureaucracy, bullshit jobs, and hierarchy. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

🫵 YO 🫵 💫 BALTIMORE 💫 💃 AWP-GOERS 💃 We're throwing a rager on the Thurs! March 5! Free! There will be DJs! Tons of readers! including 💪 GWEN AUBE 💪 📗 with her new book 📗 🏀 MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🏀 DID WE MENTION IT'S FUCKING FREE March 5, 7 PM readers, 9 pm dancing ☠️ BE THERE ☠️

In March our With Feathers book club will meet to discuss Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffe. We'll meet March 18th at 6:00.

supporters say quantum computing could revolutionize life, from medicine to finance. but governments across the globe see a far more malevolent potential. in this sidebar, we look at the (theoretical) science behind it—and what the military wants to do with it (tl;dr: break into your tech).

We're taking advantage of February's slow mood to get some chores done around the store. We'll be painting and taking care of some lil maintenance tasks. We don't expect this to disrupt our normal operations but we appreciate your patience if the shop is a bit out of sorts this month.

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

go vote Chicago!

We will be closed Friday, 1/30 in support of strikes in Minnesota and beyond. We encourage anyone feeling moved to action this weekend to find a new way to plug into our city's rich mutual aid ecosystem and commit/recommit/continue to practice taking care of each other in the long term.

Here's what's on the calendar for February. Tickets for Ask a Scientist will be available on our website starting at noon on 2/3. 🎫 See ya there!

We'll be closed this Sunday, January 25th while our staff take a long weekend off for winter hibernation. 🛌 💤 Normal hours resume Tuesday.

2026 new releases aren't messing around. Here are some January releases that went straight to our staff picks, along with one older, perennially relevant retelling we can't get out of our heads these days.

We've slowly been building up our selection of periodicals and magazines in the shop. Here's who's on the shelves right now. Stay tuned for more soon! @readeasel.bsky.social @picnic-mag.bsky.social Chrysalis Mag @long-haul-mag.bsky.social @pinko.online Milwaukee Avenue Messenger

Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes

As PACBI signatories, we're so excited that WAWOG WON their demands of PEN America.

For libraries, e-books are dramatically more expensive than print copies. But readers want more digital access — creating a fiscal challenge in systems like D.C.'s. The Council is considering: Could D.C. team up with a bloc of states to negotiate a better deal? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Coming soon!

Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202. "You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.

The state is trying to write a blank check to this quantum campus, which would turn what is currently open lakefront into a campus for the Department of Defense, drive up energy costs for all of us, and wreak havoc on the lake.

This isn't a double post! This month we're doing a lil crossover event for our Airplane Mode subscription club and our With Feathers book club. In February, our With Feathers book club will be reading The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul.

I spoke with @wired.com about how if local elected officials want to protect their community from ICE attacks, one of the most important things they can do is roll back city-level surveillance programs and restrict law enforcement use of Flock, facial recognition, etc www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Introducing our Winter issue: CRYPTIDS: ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT AND OTHER IMPROBABLE BEASTS. It’s creepy. It’s crawly. It’s steeped in myth and mystery. Curl up, dive in, and, if you’re one of the sorry souls that doesn’t have a copy, subscribe right here. orionmagazine.org/product/subs...

Ten months after the body of murdered Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer was recovered and laid to rest, his loved ones were finally able to place a headstone on his grave.

Ask A Scientist is back in February! We'll be joined by J'orge Garcia, director of the Windy City Bird Lab (@windycitybirds.info). He'll tell us about the Lab's community-based science programs and how they're using bird call monitoring to better understand urban birds and their migration.

The national response to Minneapolis has me revisiting the killing of Silverio González Villegas by ICE in Franklin Park, IL. I reported on it last fall. Worth remembering. southsideweekly.com/a-tragic-hom...

Traffic is flowing again, large number of people have dispersed. A small crowd is lingering at the site of the shooting. Media doing interviews. A sign for Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September, sits in the snow and flowers.

Can't spell cop without op

Funnily enough, I checked in with CTA and they're actually urging Chicagoans not to be alone with Ald. Jim Gardiner after dark.

There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela (and ICE's public execution of Renee Good in Minneapolis). That word is criminal. Now FREE to download: a collection of interviews with activists from across Venezuela’s social movements. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

We don't have to live like this.

this is exactly the story they told about Silverio Villegas Gonzalez -- which turned out to be entirely false

The lovely folks at @dandq.bsky.social sent us a very exciting package full of Moomin books to celebrate their reintroduction of the Moomin strips! We love D+Q for keeping cartoon history alive in print alongside their excellent selection of new works. Here are a few of our faves!