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NEW! BILL! CALLAHAN! ALBUM!

Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

Today, @brianstraw.bsky.social and five others will be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. The government is trying to suppress our collective courage to stand up for our neighbors and democracy itself. Please consider joining me in supporting his legal defense.

Know any of these people?

NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award.

70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.

boycottphotoaward.org

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.

There are a couple things to add:
Knox Needs changed their meal times to their winter hours so it's daily from 4-4:30pm at Sam Duff Memorial Park. Disco Chicken is offering a community meal (all gluten free!) at their Kerns Food Hall location on Nov 13th from 4-8pm

Food for SNAP Recipients in East TN

I spent a few hours this morning trying to figure out who was offering free meals, when, and where and started making my own doc but it turns out one already exists! YAY! Knoxville/East TN restaurants & pantries offering free food for SNAP recipients: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I love CBC’s Ideas. Very excited for this!

‘Authoritarianism, resistance’ mark this pivotal American moment | CBC Radio Political analyst Rachel Maddow and writer/activist Rebecca Solnit are sharp observers of Trump 2.0. They discuss the global impact (including his beef with Canada), and where they see effective domes...

Rachel was great. And now it's a radio show. Listen at the link. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Trump’s Coup Plans for Venezuela Are Bad News for Alberta’s Oilsands | The Tyee A US-engineered regime change would flood the market with cheap, easily accessed bitumen.

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Now that Premier Smith’s favourite autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from “peace candidate” to war president, it would behoove folks in Wild Rose Country to remember why U.S.-imposed regime change in Venezuela is bad news for Alberta. #abpoli

Is there a safe archive of Teen Vogue articles? Concerned about the erasure of their archive.

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

Sports Fandom Is All About Grief | The Tyee No matter how illogical, the pain is real. Yet season after season, I can’t stay away.

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: For this malady there is no proven cure.

There is only the knowledge that on one day each year, at last, the pain will cease. The team will lose, and the journey will be over.

And then comes spring training. ⚾️

FUNDRIVE SZN!

The Regent Park Film Festival, reliably one of the best annual events in Toronto, is at the end of this month. The full schedule is available here: rpff.ca/2025/#general

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

DAILY MEMO: As L.A. Celebrates World Series Win, Feds Target Our Street Vendors

🧵 3 parts

👇🏽 Starting with Saturday, November 1st, 2025

crushed.

BIEBER TIME BABIES

the number of times LA has hit or almost hit Jays with the ball during this series is shady af

text reading "Buy a set of 5 zine-related postcards for $15 to support BIPOC zine librarians!" surrounded by five very cute and brightly colored postcards. They show a cat sitting on a stack of zines with text reading "Welcome to the zine zone"; two birds exchanging zines and text reading "zines are for everyone"; a meander-fold zines with instructions and drawings of various zoo animals; a person reading in a room with a cat, dog, and many zines; and cute possum making zines.

If you're a zine fan who likes to send snail mail, we've got a treat for you—5 zine-themed postcards! We're raising funds for the BIPOC Travel Fund for future Zine Librarians unConferences @zineluc and you can help by ordering a set of 5 zines for just $15 (shipping within the U.S. included).

I think that this is why so many women (including me) have bandwagoned so hard for the Jays

Never has go birds meant so much

bargain bin timothee chalamet pitcher trying to fight, ARE YOU KIDDING ME

my heart breaks for ernie clement

ernie clement with the most photogenic slide home, leg kicking, arm outstretched, and smiling

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE