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I just want everyone to know that the creator of one of our favorite whistles (the micro bitonal) is a very nice man in Italy who has been messaging me asking if there are things he can tweak in the next version he is designing mostly to help us mass produce these more efficiently to fight ICE.

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Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The Bean with a Beanie. Frozen February is here. This morning in Millennium Park with the Bean in reflection.

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026.

📷: WCCO-TV

For Liam.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,

"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

Brewery snowball fight! Atlas near Anacostia Metro Sunday afternoon

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

Always down, never out.

Get ready while you can! I think it's pretty easy to 3d print more

We keep us safe

I have friends everywhere

Your silence will not protect you

There's more of us than there are of them

Power doesn't panic

Resistance is built on hope

Freedom is a pure idea

This is a different Chicago vigil than the one we just attended. With hardly any notice, several happened across the city today:

anyways, this is how it looks here today and all the local news is like 'it's called rime ice actually, not hoarfrost' its v pretty

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

Called my reps

A viaduct at night reads ‘You are now entering free Rogers Park’ as a train passes over it and the moon is out.

We took some time to rest and recover from everything the feds threw at our city in 2025. Chicago is ready for whatever is next.

As I watched the series finale of Strangers Things, I felt gratitude. It gave me a place to reflect and grow and mourn the last 10 years. I am so grateful for how I have changed and the joys that have come into my life. We’ve also lost a lot. Stranger Things grew up with me and brought us together.

25 Favorite Moments from this past year. Putting the biscuit in the basket. A setting moon over the Chicago Skyline in September. 11 of 25

Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Other things found digging thru old travel art-kit this holiday:

Study for a lichenalope

A fire-eyed lichenalope won't (always) eat fire as per myth.

It's (probably) just judging your campfire, not planning to eat it & leave you cold, lost in the woods.

Still. Best leave it a snack offering, eh.