Happening now in Broadview—outside Chicago: A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility. “Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

There’s never been a Gen X president. Insane

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

I was notified last week that I am getting laid off from KEXP in December. I don't really want to talk about it. But are you an editor for a reputable music publication with decent pay? Get at me: [email protected]

Eastern IL University approves Turning Point USA chapter, overrides rejection by student government www.wcia.com/coles-county...

Fun fact! Since last Thursday afternoon, I made 177 phone calls to make this article a reality. Introducing THE most up-to-date food pantry guide for the Memphis metro area, complete with an interactive map: mlk50.com/2025/10/31/u...

Chicago Home Movie Day details:

the tone deafness is beyond parody

Congrats to all the Chicago Journalists Association Sarah Brown Boyden Award finalists, but especially Max Blaisdell, @samstecklow.bsky.social, & @reemasabrina.bsky.social for your work with @chicagoreader.com in this past year. Kudos! chicagojournalists.net/2025/10/31/c...

Today’s the 30th anniversary for south side Chicago (McKinley Park) store the Video Strip, one of the last DVD/game/VHS stores open in Chicago. They do repairs and sell equipment too. I have nothing to do with them but love to support anyone keeping physical media alive! facebook.com/thevideostrip

Video of federal agents tear-gassing Irving Park this morning, obtained by Armando Sanchez. This is at least the sixth neighborhood federal agents have tear gassed while conducting immigration raids

From the owner of the house tonight:

The Jack O'Lantern emoji is my current favorite "think of it what you will" response for texts. 🎃

Love this. Our underground news zine at York High was also called “Rag” www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

It took 8 months but I finally resolved one of my father's old accounts. it's the internet service to his store, which I have closed up for the moment. He died in January. Getting an estate settled can be a months or years-long process. 1/2

Banana-selling robots pitch customers in test run at three suburban Jewel stores www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/b...

Jim Rodenbush lost his job last week after he refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition. So, higher-ups at Indiana University Bloomington fired the student newspaper adviser at the Indiana Daily Student. Let's help Jim during this time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ji...

Happy birthday on the other side, Dad. No idea what 8 track you got for your birthday in this photo, but Muddy Waters had a comeback album that year so I’ll guess it’s that or Rolling Stones’ Some Girls. Either way, I hope you’re attending ChicagoFest in the afterlife. Miss you

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back. The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours. “I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said. thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

An important article with in-depth reporting. Read it!

New print from Nicolas Lampert in the shop! "Workers deserve respect, dignity and safety, not ICE terror. An injury to one is an injury to all." justseeds.org/product/bloc...

BREAKING: Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a beloved and iconic member of the Loyola University Chicago community who was well-known as the chaplain to the Loyola University men's basketball team, died Thursday at the age of 106, according to the university. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2m43w5cf 

Meanie Productions concert booker Darien Williams recognizes something spiritual about music—and he wants that to transform the world. https://bit.ly/47gxT8u

Enjoying The Daily Show again these days "Hegseth Lectures "Fat Generals" and Trump Threatens War Against U.S. Cities" youtu.be/hlS5um3WJqg?...

Well yes. He has actual neo-Nazi tattoos, for one thing. It’s wild how quickly that has become normal. www.democracynow.org/2024/11/14/h...

Have you witnessed ICE activity in Chicagoland, or seen CPD or other local law enforcement assisting federal agents or engaging in misconduct? LET US KNOW. Upload video directly at tinyurl.com/chicagojourn... or email us at [email protected]

Come see me at AppleFest today in Lincoln Square! And Fuck ICE

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

Living Fresh in Forest Park is in danger of closing. Largest Black and independently owned grocery store in the area. youtu.be/pXy6IBU4LSk?...

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda truthout.org/articles/nat...

It's Charlie Brown's 75th anniversary today! To celebrate, check out my conversation with @benjaminlclark.com about Peanuts and baseball over at @thefanfiles.bsky.social www.thefanfiles.com/articles/cha...

Therizinosaurs are, without a doubt, some of the most interesting groups of theropod dinosaurs Here you have a selection of a few species that I reconstructed for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan for their 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller November 07,1938

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

The FCC has placed more than 1,000 government workers on unpaid leave, a byproduct of the government shutdown, and will only conduct essential activities that are pertinent to life and public safety.

My colleague @danhinkel.bsky.social found that not a single person has been exonerated with the help of the "conviction integrity unit" under the new Cook County State's Attorney

New video footage on Instagram from a witness who was at the crash site yesterday on the West Side shows federal agents escorting a Black man, who appears to be the same man who was choked by them in earlier video into an alley behind a nearby gas station. thetriibe.com/2025/10/new-...

for national poetry day you could buy my collection of very short poems?! It's called Brevity; it's less than 4 bucks. It is good! www.amazon.com/Brevity-Noah...

"Enshittification" got into @merriam-webster.com faster than centuries of well used Caribbean creoles ( and still is wrong) while the person who created advocated feeding AAVE into AI and how copyright and Ip were anti future meanwhile the concept is based on digital "separate but equal"

They’ve brought back Monopoly, the Extra Value menus, and now these. Say it loud, kids: RECESSION INDICATOR!!!!!

One more shutdown and the president gets a free frozen yogurt.

James Comey could get Trump's prosecutor outright disqualified from office: expert

Suburban police standing up to Fed cops is a development I did not see coming, definitely reflects how DEEPLY unpopular the ICE aggression is/has become. Attn: all “kitchen table issue” Dems, bc this sure seems like something ppl are talking about at the dinner table.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

79. American citizen.

 “I HAVE FOLLOWED MY INSTINCTS AND TRIED TO USE COMMON SENSE IN MY BEHAVIOR.” Joan Didion said she wanted this quote from Mina Curtiss to be her epitaph. To celebrate the paperback of “The World According to Joan Didion,” Ms. published an excerpt in which I talk about “the California woman.”

Rest in Power DJ Harry T! Such a generous and genuine spirit. Harry Tyner Jr., longtime DJ of AIDS Run & Walk Chicago, dies at 54 windycitytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...