M. Hannah Langhoff
@mhlanghoff.bsky.social
Chicago transplant. Writer, editor, language nerd. Bookish. I post a lot about climate activism, opera, and cats. Jeopardy! contestant 3/10/22. She/her, English/español/Deutsch
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Greg Bovino may have moved on to Charlotte, but federal immigration agents maintain a presence in the Chicago area.
Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.
Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Greg Bovino may have moved on to Charlotte, but federal immigration agents maintain a presence in the Chicago area.
Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.
Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.
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It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
Free webinar from 350 Chicago tonight!
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Free webinar from 350 Chicago tonight!
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My top 5 movie genres:
- You can kind of tell it's based on a stage play
- Writing is sexy
- Period piece w/ absurd costume budget
- Silly people being very earnest
- Still arguing about what it meant 3 hrs after the credits roll
- You can kind of tell it's based on a stage play
- Writing is sexy
- Period piece w/ absurd costume budget
- Silly people being very earnest
- Still arguing about what it meant 3 hrs after the credits roll
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Beautiful people singing on Greek islands
-Girl with really long hair rediscovers long lost love
-Girl uses brains to show up mediocre ex-boyfriend
-People from very different cultures fall in love and navigate family, hilariously
-Just witchy things
-Beautiful people singing on Greek islands
-Girl with really long hair rediscovers long lost love
-Girl uses brains to show up mediocre ex-boyfriend
-People from very different cultures fall in love and navigate family, hilariously
-Just witchy things
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My top 5 movie genres:
- You can kind of tell it's based on a stage play
- Writing is sexy
- Period piece w/ absurd costume budget
- Silly people being very earnest
- Still arguing about what it meant 3 hrs after the credits roll
- You can kind of tell it's based on a stage play
- Writing is sexy
- Period piece w/ absurd costume budget
- Silly people being very earnest
- Still arguing about what it meant 3 hrs after the credits roll
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Today’s state violence and copaganda out of Broadview show that we can’t expect material conditions to improve much with the removal of CBP from the city.
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Today’s state violence and copaganda out of Broadview show that we can’t expect material conditions to improve much with the removal of CBP from the city.
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
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I just donated. You should too. It's egregious that this administration wants to send people back to the brutal Ortega regime.
So this is someone I know who got snatched by ICE for the crime of missing a phone call while she was at work. She needs help and it would be good to help her.
Donate to Help Free Ariana from I.C.E., organized by Lisa Munyan
My name is Lisa Munyan; I'm just your average, semi-retired old woman living on a s… Lisa Munyan needs your support for Donate to Help Free Ariana from I.C.E.
gofund.me
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I just donated. You should too. It's egregious that this administration wants to send people back to the brutal Ortega regime.
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But I do recommend anyone posting to remember no matter how clever you think it is, imagine a Mormon FBI special agent reading to back to you deadpan and serious.
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
But I do recommend anyone posting to remember no matter how clever you think it is, imagine a Mormon FBI special agent reading to back to you deadpan and serious.
Living in Illinois.
(In defense of adult!me, I live in the cool part of Illinois now.)
(In defense of adult!me, I live in the cool part of Illinois now.)
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Living in Illinois.
(In defense of adult!me, I live in the cool part of Illinois now.)
(In defense of adult!me, I live in the cool part of Illinois now.)
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
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None of this could happen without wealth so extreme as to make one essentially above the law.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
None of this could happen without wealth so extreme as to make one essentially above the law.
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!).
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!).
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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.
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If you don’t know, immigration attorneys have been sounding alarms that ICE appears to be using frequent shuffles between detention centers to exhaust migrant detainees, separate them family and their attorneys, wear them down and get them to sign “voluntary” deport papers.
It’s a torture tactic.
It’s a torture tactic.
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you don’t know, immigration attorneys have been sounding alarms that ICE appears to be using frequent shuffles between detention centers to exhaust migrant detainees, separate them family and their attorneys, wear them down and get them to sign “voluntary” deport papers.
It’s a torture tactic.
It’s a torture tactic.
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
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“My dad has lived in Des Plaines, IL for over 30 years. He’s worked hard every single day to support our family and help others. We were just doing landscaping work in downtown Des Plaines when ICE came out of nowhere. They detained my dad and another worker I was held too but eventually let go”
Donate to Help Bring My Dad Home — Detained by ICE, organized by Xavier Rivera
My dad has lived in Des Plaines, Illinois for over 30 years. He’s worked hard e… Xavier Rivera needs your support for Help Bring My Dad Home — Detained by ICE
www.gofundme.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“My dad has lived in Des Plaines, IL for over 30 years. He’s worked hard every single day to support our family and help others. We were just doing landscaping work in downtown Des Plaines when ICE came out of nowhere. They detained my dad and another worker I was held too but eventually let go”
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Donate money to a food bank or food pantry, then give your extra cans and boxes to a mutual aid org, love fridge, free pantry, etc. in your neighborhood.
Money in formal channels takes advantage of scale, and whatever you can spare in informal channels reaches more neighbors.
Money in formal channels takes advantage of scale, and whatever you can spare in informal channels reaches more neighbors.
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Donate money to a food bank or food pantry, then give your extra cans and boxes to a mutual aid org, love fridge, free pantry, etc. in your neighborhood.
Money in formal channels takes advantage of scale, and whatever you can spare in informal channels reaches more neighbors.
Money in formal channels takes advantage of scale, and whatever you can spare in informal channels reaches more neighbors.
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It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation.
Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
Bovino left LA to come to Chicago and it's not like LA saw immigration operations stop - just less showboating from his crew. So even if these circulating rumors over the last week turn out real, I'm pessimistic about how much change to expect on the ground.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation.
Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
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Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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Durbin's Illinois office isn't taking any live calls, but you can definitely scream into his voicemail at this number: 312-353-4952
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Durbin's Illinois office isn't taking any live calls, but you can definitely scream into his voicemail at this number: 312-353-4952
You know who else told people to quote tweet things like they were super mad about them? HITLER.
Please quote tweet this like you’re super mad about it
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
You know who else told people to quote tweet things like they were super mad about them? HITLER.