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Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social · 14d

As we urge the press to cover what is happening, we need to protect the press when they do their job. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.
#MOMSky

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14d

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police.

Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14d

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random.

They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14d

FYI, the crime isn't happening on Michigan Avenue.

Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 14d

Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22d

There’s a terrible situation at an ICE facility in Chicago. ICE GOONS are forcefully arresting people, pushing through protesters, and even lobbing tear gas at reporters.

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 3

CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returns to Martyrs' on 9/10.
Meet one of our featured readers: Boston-raised, Chicago-braised drummer/singer/songwriter Gerald Dowd who has been described as “the hardest working drummer in Chicago.”

Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 4

Don't miss CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returning to Martyrs' on 9/10.
Meet one of our featured readers: Stand up comedian Audrey Jonas who has been drawing audiences all over the Midwest since 2014.

Get your tickets at firsttime.chirpradio.org

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 5

CHIRP's live lit series The First Time returns to Martyrs' on 9/10.
Meet one of our featured readers: Amy Eaton, a writer, performer, director and arts educator. Her work has been published in The Coachella Review, Mulberry Literary and Hippocampus Magazine.
tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 6

Experience CHIRP's live lit series The First Time at Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet our featured reader: Eunji Kim, a comedian, actor and writer. She was a Senior Writer for Cards Against Humanity and can be seen performing stand-up all over the country.
Show tickets at: firsttime.chirpradio.org

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 8

Experience CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returning to Martyrs' on 9/10. Meet our featured reader: Kat Sachs - the co-managing editor of Cine-File Chicago and a columnist on moviegoing for the Chicago Reader.
Get your tickets at: firsttime.chirpradio.org

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · Sep 9

TOMORROW! CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time returns to Martyrs. This edition features five unique readers' "First Watch" stories and a song accompanying each one performed by The First Time Three. Get your tickets at firsttime.chirpradio.org

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Aug 8

@audiofusser.bsky.social we are screwed

Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · Aug 8

The business geniuses at OpenAI are deliberately developing nonsense to boost their user numbers with people who only create an account to double-check if the nonsense they saw on social media is actually true

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jul 23

@missspoken.bsky.social presents the BURNT show, Monday, 7/28. 7 pm FREE! Featuring Salem Collo- Julin, Kim Germain, Wendy Sackler and Nikki Nigl. With hostesses @jasmined.bsky.social and me!
Cole’s bar, 2338 N Milwaukee, the best city on earth.
#LiveLit#chicago

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jul 23

Best CNF conference ever, even if we don’t get to shmooze irl!

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Jul 23

SESSION PREVIEW: Join us 8/17 at 6 pm ET for An Evening w/ the Editors feat. Athena Dixon (Split/Lip Press & Fourth Genre); Wendy Fontaine (Hippocampus); Steph Liberatore (In Short); Tom McAllister (Barrelhouse) & Alexis Paige (Vine Leaves Press). www.hippocampusmagazine.com/hippocamp25/

Evening with the CNF Editors | Hippocampus Magazine

Learn about the publishing process from lit mag and small press editors from Split/Lip Press,Fourth Genre, Hippocampus Magazine, Barrelhouse and more.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jul 21

45 years ago Dolly Parton released “9 to 5” and we were all like omg she’s so right and then we just never did anything about it and that’s on us

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jun 23

Coles Bar, 2338 N Milwaukee, the best city on earth

Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jun 23

Tonight! Get outta the heat and into some words to soothe your soul at @missspoken.bsky.social free. 7pm. Lindsay Porter, Kim Moldofsky, Delilah Orizaba and Kelsey McGrath are our features! Hostesses @jasmined.bsky.social and myself preside!
#LongLiveLiveLadyLit

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jun 17

June 23, come out to see the BOOK show @missspoken.bsky.social
Cole’s bar, 2338 N Milwaukee 7pm
Free!
Long Live Live Lady Lit!!

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Jun 9

I loved that book!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Jun 7

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · May 25

Come spend the end of the 3 day weekend with @missspoken.bsky.social at Cole’s, 2338 N Milwaukee and listen to some stories on Sacrifice! Readers Chiquita Renee, Kloie Rush-Spratt, Rachel Head& Kesia Reynolds. @jasmined.bsky.social and me host! And it’s our birthday!! We’re 11!
#LongLiveLiveLadyLit

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · May 16

It’s wack on the nw side too. I went outside because I’m dumb and each direction had a different color. Yellow, pink, gray, purple and slivers of blue.Eerie AF. Stay safe.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Apr 28

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Apr 27

Oh, to be read like this! What a gift is this review of The Mourner’s Bestiary. Thank you, Mark DeVries and @christiancentury.bsky.social. Honored. www.christiancentury.org/books/wild-e...

The wild earth and its consolations

The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological...

www.christiancentury.org

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Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social · Apr 26

Waiting on a RAINy evening on Monday the 28th @missspoken.bsky.social ! Head over to Coles Bar, 2338 N Milwaukee! 7pm! Free! Featuring @veronicaeye.bsky.social @elizabethgomez.bsky.social @jasmined.bsky.social
Maria Kostas & Calle Hack!
Long live Live Lady Lit! #chicago #LiveLit

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 7

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Honored to be reviewed by @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social for my audiobook performance of my memoir and love letter to the Gulf of Maine and my family, The Mourner’s Bestiary. “Graceful and authentic.” High praise for a high wire act of learning a new skill. www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

THE MOURNERS BESTIARY by Eiren Caffall Read by Eiren Caffall | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Eiren Caffall lives with polycystic kidney disease, a congenital disorder that killed most of her family members before they were 50. Her performance

www.audiofilemagazine.com

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