Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble
Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate.
I spent Halloween chasing ghosts. Not kids in costumes, or jumpscares in a haunted house. I spent Halloween chasing ghosts of a different kind: careening from one ICE spotting to another. I wrote an essay about it, and about other ghosts we’re chasing.
Text in the night from my kid. image
Unfuckwithable. image
Just spent nearly two hours in a line of cars to drop food off for families losing their SNAP benefits. Right now is a literal nightmare but it is incredible to see communities coming together. Everyone understands that the only ones to save us is us.
ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. πŸ–•πŸ–•
Full ICE whistle assembly line over here. image
I am never ever going to forgive a single one of these motherfuckers.