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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago: Avondale! 60618! A neighbor has created a community altar at the Shell station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee - a memorial to human rights and victims of ICE. I added to it and you should too. Let's make it massive and impossible to miss. Bring your offerings.

A community altar by a Shell gas station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Signs read: "Stop Ice Abductions" and "Stop Terrorizing our Communities. Abolish ICE!" There are also candles, and various offerings, as well as sidewalk chalk.

A detail of altar offerings - dolls, a stuffed frog holding a "Send ICE Home!" sign, and candles - some lit.

A pair of flyers inspired by those used by Chicago contractors who are often undocumented - both insulting ICE in various ways.

Memorial candles and a sign reading "We remember our neighbors, kidnapped by ICE at this gas station on Wednesday, October 8, 2025" hand written in black marker on blue paper.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 Wild Ramp Disability Justice Microgrant Recipients!

Crucial Comix:
Chronic Illness Comics Club Zine

Fi Stewart-Taylor, Cara Wieland &
Nicole Green:
Doing Access Anyway

The FOIA Bakery:
Students with Disabilities Zine (Title TBD)

Fall 2015
Disability Justice Microgrant Recipients

Crucial Comix: Chronic Illness Comics Club Zine
Fi Stewart-Taylor, Cara Wieland & Nicole Green: Doing Access Anyway
The FOIA Bakery: Students with Disabilities Zine (Title TBD)

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Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · 2d

My 6yo: I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK
Me: Oh wonderful! Would you like to read it to me?
6yo: CHAPTER ONE - MY FAMILY IS WEIRD

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Sugar Maven of the Desserts Coven @mochene.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another Black holiday they didn’t tell us about!

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𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙼. 🌎 @davidpmolina.com · 1d

The lights at the Chicago Navy Pier shine bright at night. It's the summer solstice and visitors, as well as locals, enjoy a night out in town. June 2021.

#BlueskyArtShow #glow #NavyPier #Chicago #summer #photography #nightshot #reflection

The lights at the Chicago Navy Pier shine bright at night. It's the summer solstice and visitors, as well as locals, enjoy a night out in town. The multicolored lights of the Ferris Wheel and other attractions reflect on the waters of the lake. A Water Taxi is docked on the pier.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 1d

I missed my train for C-U Small Press Fest this morning! 😭😭😭 If by any chance you wanted one of my zines and stopped by the fest today DM me and if you order from my website I'll send a special gift 🙏🏿🙏🏿 wildramppublishing.bigcartel.com

Bob Barker from The Price Is Right holds a FAIL sign

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Welp sorry anyone who might wanna see me in Champaign small press fest 😭

Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I missed my train

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Liz Mason @caboosezine.bsky.social · 3d

So excited that the next episode of Rough Draft is out! ✂️❤️✂️

Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 4d

Episode 2 of Rough Draft is out! This week, @caboosezine.bsky.social and I talk about the big summer in Chicago zine fests, shout out the peeps who brought us together, and share some fave local zinesters.

roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com/e/rough-draf...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 4d

Episode 2 of Rough Draft is out! This week, @caboosezine.bsky.social and I talk about the big summer in Chicago zine fests, shout out the peeps who brought us together, and share some fave local zinesters.

roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com/e/rough-draf...

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 5d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 5d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 7d

The orange douchebag is threatening Chicago with the National Guard again so I just printed 250 more copies of this single-sheet zine that I wrote/published at the end of August. Free with any order from www.halfletterpress.com. Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1u8xW...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7d

as a wee lad in the early 90s who thought it would be fun to make cartoons for a living, I did not expect to chronicle the descent of the so called american experiment into blatant fascism, but I guess you play the hand you are dealt

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 8d

Of the 37 people detained during the late-night apartment raid in Chicago, which agents rappelled into from helicopters, only two were accused of being cartel members and six had criminal records. DHS said four children were separated from their parents.

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 8d

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 8d

The Canadian book industry definitely needs the post office. Among other things, Canada Post is usually the most cost effective way to send review copies or for independent presses to ship direct orders to readers. #CanLit

Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 8d

But I thought no one needs the post office anymore
www.thestar.com/business/sma...

Small business say it’s nearly impossible to survive in the face of postal workers’ strike and Trump tariffs

Canada Post workers from coast to coast walked off the job for the second time in less than a year on Sept. 25, causing disruptions for many business owners.

www.thestar.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 8d

americans were raised to be so sinophobic that most of us can’t even recognize that china is doing everything they can to save our future while our own leaders drag us further and further behind

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9d

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10d

We're one of 4,075 verified accounts alongside the New Yorker and the Atlantic. You can just become your own official Literary World.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10d

Lording it over the Paris Review. We are the Literary World's Prestigious, Notable and Recognized Taco Bell Quarterly.

bsky.check @bskycheck.com · 10d

Congrats on your new blue check 🎉

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 11d

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

“Part of what keeps us sane is other people’s perspectives, which are often in tension with ours,” says Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you, ask questions, defy you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and it is the basis of a healthy democratic citizenry. Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people — their testimony, their experiences, their rationality — to be well informed. And chatbots are not people. They don’t have experience. They are not witness. They are fancy wordplay.”

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B. @missxbri.bsky.social · 11d

I met an older black lady at the park who was out there selling brownies & pecan candy to cover her seizure medicine after losing her Medicaid coverage. If you follow me & live in New Orleans, if you’re ever near Harrell Stadium, please go buy something from her!

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