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Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Six providers in the Twin Cities area said no-show rates have increased for prenatal visits, which are essential in detecting, treating and preventing complications such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia and even stillbirth. @shefali.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

“The Artists Arrive.”

Hell yes @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social and @samyoungman.bsky.social.

And hell yes Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen and and and and and.

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

I’m stuck midway through the seven stages of Kennedy Center grief, specifically, the anger part.

Analysis | Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base The president accused the Hollywood director, who was stabbed to death along with his wife, of having “Trump derangement syndrome.”

what a ludicrous headline that cannot even acknowledge the man is a sociopath: wapo.st/3MEXZKH ... just testing?!?

True story: I was invited on the Oprah Winfrey show bc I’d been told I was a celebrity look-alike. The celebrity? “Laura” of General Hospital’s “Luke and Laura.” (I don’t think I look like the beautiful Genie Francis; I def didn’t go on the show!) RIP Anthony Geary.

(So much tragedy. Enough. 💔)

Anthony Geary, 'General Hospital's Luke Spencer and 8-time Daytime Emmy winner, dies at 78 Eight-time Daytime Emmy winner Anthony Geary, who became a household name for his role as Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital' died after surgery complications Dec. 14. He was 78.

Luke. How I loved you.

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Spousal Spotify sharing makes for an interesting Wrapped. Tennis|Taylor. Dochii|Mozart.

Unpopular opinion: Chicago needs to back off the Pope.

For example, he doesn’t need to be read in on “the vision for a new White Sox stadium,” as the email headline I just saw stated.

Let him Pope.

This is important context from Julie K. Brown.

With alt text.

Tonight I’ll be at a high school production of “The Addams Family” musical*, in which my niece steals the show (so I’m told, no bias whatsoever obvs). I’m warned that I’m “going to die” when I see her/the show. Wish me luck.

*No idea what it is. (And Northwestern is also staging it!?) 🤷‍♀️

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

This isn’t very hard, folks.

This week, mercy. Seems like a good day to remember you have no idea the burdens others are carrying.

Entering Week 6 of rebuilding the half of my home destroyed in a July plumbing accident. Every morning, the loveliest gentlemen arrive to do the work, step by agonizingly slow step. (And nearly every day, I chase around about another insurance matter.) Hi, I’m the beleaguered but tenacious Home CEO.

Yesterday I didn’t yet know what p(doom) is. I miss yesterday.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

“residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

The great Julie Bosman knows this city so well.

Sitting in the Wrigley Field bleachers when the Cubs hit a home run is absolutely exhilarating. Highly recommend.

Iconic Wrigley Field marquee announcing a Cubs victory.

I’m joyfully rearranging my weekday schedule to accommodate PLAYOFF BASEBALL!

Can you solve this crossword puzzle created by an MLB player?

Today in my favorite things combined: an MLB player constructing a crossword. !!!

www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

It's somehow simultaneously 2025, 2002, and 1951.

What is this black box, why did it suddenly appear, and how do I make it go away?

A Labor Day rally is planned to protest President Donald Trump and his threats to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. blockclubchi.co/4n0bZvp

Starting to rebuild half your home after a massive plumbing accident is like … being awake during surgery, without anesthesia, while instructing the surgical team what goes where and how, speaking only in their language that you aren’t fluent in, and being left with wounds long to heal.

I’m fine.

And he brought a TRACKPAD for the mouse!

Next level.

Young corporate persons! If this was you below caught on a laptop in the bleachers call 773-525-0557 NOW! Operators are standing by!

For a low three figure fee we can mentor you in just 3 easy sessions on the best places and best practices for “Working Remote” at Wrigley! We can help! #NiseiCares

Shoutout to the guy in the bleachers at Wrigley this afternoon, working not just on his laptop, but with a computer mouse too. Remote work, respect.