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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight, 7 pm, UIC library on S. Morgan. Deleted my earlier post because link led to another event.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1h

Here's a better link with info: midlandauthors.org/2025/09/oct-...

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1h

Here's a better link with info: midlandauthors.org/2025/09/oct-...

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 1h

Siri, show me a lying sack of shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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The Chicago Genius Herald @chicagogenius.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago Genius Inside ICE: Several ICE Agents Lost, Wandering Aimlessly on Lower Lower Wacker for Days

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Chicago Genius Inside ICE: Several ICE Agents Lost, Wandering Aimlessly on Lower Lower Wacker for Days

LOWER LOWER WACKER — For the past two weeks, some of Chicago Genius’ bravest and reddest-necked reporters have been embedded undercover within ICE patrols deployed across our city, to bring you

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4h

"Everyday Chicagoans are proving that they’re the first line of defense against this extraordinary federal incursion into this city," Edward McClelland writes for @chicagomag.com: www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 4h

Do the Hocus Focus. I almost never get all 6.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 14h

Agreed. But the Chicago art forms you cite have never been platformed on a national scale like SNL & lack a visual dress-up-as shorthand. So loser guys at ballgames do Ditka, because it’s recognizable. How does one dress up as Footwork, Stepping, or Drill? Or even Blues or Jazz? Ask Jake or Elwood.

Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 14h

Goodnight y’all.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. But the cities you cite weren’r the origin of improv and sketch comedy, which led to Chicago-trained comedians on Saturday Night Live making the ‘85 Bears & their coach into enduring recognizable people or caricatures. See also SNL and the Billy Goat. Other cities lack this cultural capital.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14h

Bought the new Pynchon in hardcover today, at our local indie bookseller, fulfilling two promises to self. Read the first few pages while waiting for our lunch sandwiches to be toasted in a nearby patisserie, immediately getting that in-for-a-good-read feeling.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

Didn’t one of the ESPN guys back in the day say about injured players that we’re all “Day to day “?

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

Not in the Major Leagues. Oh, pardon me, “the League.”

Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

This is me about Chicago’s Grid.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15h

whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl.online · 16h

Respectfully I need the Brewers to win because David vs. Goliath is a tired narrative but Seattle Mariners vs. Seattle Pilots is a story for the ages

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

I almost forgot to do my annual (re)post of my Christopher Columbus essay. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

How Christopher Columbus Ruined My Life

I have to explain to my children the difference between Native Americans and Indians simply because one man got lost one time.

open.substack.com

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

I have edited/annotated three books, and this is 100 percent accurate. 2 were public domain, the other an “anniversary edition” by a Serious Literature canon-adjacent author from their longtime publisher. Annotation takes time, editing it for accuracy even more time, and it doesn’t pay well.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

It’s the mirror image of this play. With a Contreras brother involved. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHF...

Javier Baez, Willson Contreras Steal Run With Insane Base Running

YouTube video by Cubs Baseball ~ Everything Cubbies

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 15h

It’s the mirror of this play. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHF...

Javier Baez, Willson Contreras Steal Run With Insane Base Running

YouTube video by Cubs Baseball ~ Everything Cubbies

m.youtube.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

Donald Trump says that Barack Obama could have gotten the October 7th hostages released during his presidency, raising new concerns about Joe Biden's memory and cognition.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 16h

Long before Horner Park became home to a rare oak savannah and a modern effigy mound, it was a municipal dump. And before it was a dump, it was a clay pit and brickyard. This cycle of extraction to disposal to restoration inspires me to imagine an urbanism that is ecologically and historically just.

Two children running toward a spiraling effigy mound covered in native grasses

Children running down a mulched path that runs along a gently sloping riverbank covered in native grasses and a few burr oaks.

a restored oak savannah with native grasses in the front and a mix of deciduous trees in the back

Two children running up a gently sloping hill with short crabgrass. A row of trees sporting autumn colors rises beyond the crest of the hill.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 16h

My best undergraduate Irish lit professor, Seán Lucy, actually advised against reading it. Said it wasn’t a novel in English, it was a novel in James Joyce’s idiosyncratic Indo-European dialect. Why bother? Put it off, do see his point, but am enjoying it by treating it as a long surrealist poem.

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