Bill Savage
@rogersparkman.bsky.social
Watch your noggins, everyone.
Pinned
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Bars are great, especially since they can be distribution points after the packing event. And I was anti-baggie too until I started scaling then reluctantly became pro. I never did start printing know your rights cards just because that’s so much info and 2x the paper
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Bars are great, especially since they can be distribution points after the packing event. And I was anti-baggie too until I started scaling then reluctantly became pro. I never did start printing know your rights cards just because that’s so much info and 2x the paper
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If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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Yup. Em is ready to ship whistles onward if they really leave us. The instruction zines have been customized for dozens of localities, ready to be printed for anywhere they pop up next. bsky.app/profile/left...
Praying this means I can mail a couple thousand whistles to the next city www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, official...
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yup. Em is ready to ship whistles onward if they really leave us. The instruction zines have been customized for dozens of localities, ready to be printed for anywhere they pop up next. bsky.app/profile/left...
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"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
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Oh you think the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is funny? My father was killed in a Gordon Lightfoot song you son of a bitch (not that one; it was Sundown)
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh you think the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is funny? My father was killed in a Gordon Lightfoot song you son of a bitch (not that one; it was Sundown)
If reports that ICE/CBP swine will leave the Chicago area to terrorize some other place are true, might I suggest that we pivot too? Share our mutual aid/resistance knowledge with folks in Baltimore or wherever these swine go next? Send extra whistles, plus information about strategy? @dansinker.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If reports that ICE/CBP swine will leave the Chicago area to terrorize some other place are true, might I suggest that we pivot too? Share our mutual aid/resistance knowledge with folks in Baltimore or wherever these swine go next? Send extra whistles, plus information about strategy? @dansinker.com
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Part of a memo from the British Consulate in Chicago analyzing Mayor Richard J. Daley's 1971 reelection.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Part of a memo from the British Consulate in Chicago analyzing Mayor Richard J. Daley's 1971 reelection.
Holy Moly, it’s a Mr. Boffo crossover, with Willy from Willy ‘n Ethel making an appearance at the lunch counter with Earl! @neilsteinberg.bsky.social Get Willie ‘n Ethel back in the Sun-Times, and I will double my donation on top of my subscription. @chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Holy Moly, it’s a Mr. Boffo crossover, with Willy from Willy ‘n Ethel making an appearance at the lunch counter with Earl! @neilsteinberg.bsky.social Get Willie ‘n Ethel back in the Sun-Times, and I will double my donation on top of my subscription. @chicago.suntimes.com
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Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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Well, these images have done the viral circuit, and are now at the spot where people are accusing them of being AI.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Well, these images have done the viral circuit, and are now at the spot where people are accusing them of being AI.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
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The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
Also, they will close the Bullpen Door after the Cart is out. @buckweaver.bsky.social
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
MLB and sportsbooks cap bets on individual pitches in response to pitch-rigging scandal
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Also, they will close the Bullpen Door after the Cart is out. @buckweaver.bsky.social
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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SNAP is a political football, but making sure the USA ate used to be a national security issue: "up to a quarter of draftees called up via the Selective Service Act of 1940 were malnourished and unfit to serve"
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
SNAP is a political football, but making sure the USA ate used to be a national security issue: "up to a quarter of draftees called up via the Selective Service Act of 1940 were malnourished and unfit to serve"
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
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for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
Book Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
The book series Chicago Visions and Revisions published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
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I haven’t ruined a workplace, but I do take pride in ruining Jeff Bezos’ day every single chance I get.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I haven’t ruined a workplace, but I do take pride in ruining Jeff Bezos’ day every single chance I get.
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This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
To Hell with these swine. They are irredeemable. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
To Hell with these swine. They are irredeemable. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 05,1959
November 05,1959
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 05,1959
November 05,1959
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Snowvember! ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Snowvember! ❄️
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Fifty years ago, I was a third-grader in Orland Park. My family took a weekend trip to northern Wisconsin, including a visit to the shores of Lake Superior. Then a big storm hit. We got snowed in and missed a day of school. The same storm wrecked the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Fifty years ago, I was a third-grader in Orland Park. My family took a weekend trip to northern Wisconsin, including a visit to the shores of Lake Superior. Then a big storm hit. We got snowed in and missed a day of school. The same storm wrecked the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Snowy Start. This morning, Chicago's Millennium Park gets hit with lake effect snow while the autumn colors are in their final days.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Snowy Start. This morning, Chicago's Millennium Park gets hit with lake effect snow while the autumn colors are in their final days.
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It's a Trap! Forest Park, IL #manholecovermonday @robertloerzel.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social @jgieger.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM