Mary Dixon
@maryldixon.bsky.social
Host of Say More w/Mary Dixon & Patrick Smith on WBEZ.
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
Irish memory ☘️
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
Irish memory ☘️
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Mary Dixon
@maryldixon.bsky.social
· Sep 16
You can find Say More here: www.wbez.org/say-more-wit...
And on the @wbez.org app — will let you know if/when the pod drops —
And on the @wbez.org app — will let you know if/when the pod drops —
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“Imagine being a survivor who was raped by Epstein and having to click, one photo at a time, through 100s of photographs, hoping for some shred of hope that the FBI actually investigated your complaint”
Via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, who broke this story
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
Via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, who broke this story
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Files: My observations
Nothing to See Here
jkbjournalist.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Imagine being a survivor who was raped by Epstein and having to click, one photo at a time, through 100s of photographs, hoping for some shred of hope that the FBI actually investigated your complaint”
Via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, who broke this story
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
Via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, who broke this story
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
Some of the heavily redacted files —
Update: The Justice Department released some of the Epstein files, including many previously public documents, related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal charges and his death by suicide in federal custody.
DOJ releases Epstein files and the first batch is short on new information
The Justice Department released some of the Epstein files, including many previously public documents, related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's criminal charges and his death by suicide in federal custody.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Some of the heavily redacted files —
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House Republicans are now canceling Friday votes. Congress will recess for the rest of the year on Thursday afternoon.
Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
House Republicans are now canceling Friday votes. Congress will recess for the rest of the year on Thursday afternoon.
Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino had a tense standoff with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss after federal agents arrested a man at a gas station Wednesday. Later, agents broke out the window of a pickup truck to detain two men outside of a Home Depot.
Bovino's Border Patrol caravan hits Chicago area for second day, making arrests in Evanston
www.wbez.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino had a tense standoff with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss after federal agents arrested a man at a gas station Wednesday. Later, agents broke out the window of a pickup truck to detain two men outside of a Home Depot.
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Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the controversial immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among the city’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
Bovino’s back: Border Patrol chief leads agents in fresh round of raids throughout Chicago area
www.wbez.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the controversial immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among the city’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
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So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
Yeah, I should probably do that
In my 120-year-old house in Chicago, my war against dryness and draftiness has included:
- aerosealing all my vents
- blowing new insulation into the roof and most walls
- obsessively caulking window cracks and meticulously putting plastic sheeting on most windows every winter
- aerosealing all my vents
- blowing new insulation into the roof and most walls
- obsessively caulking window cracks and meticulously putting plastic sheeting on most windows every winter
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yeah, I should probably do that
Please help an ignorant homeowner out (me, it’s me) — how have you made your home more sustainable? A heat pump? Other strategies? Let me & @pksmid.bsky.social know today on Say More at 10a @wbez.org
a man and a woman are standing next to a bathtub .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to a bathtub .
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Please help an ignorant homeowner out (me, it’s me) — how have you made your home more sustainable? A heat pump? Other strategies? Let me & @pksmid.bsky.social know today on Say More at 10a @wbez.org
Rob Reiner talked about making Spinal Tap at the Music Box last September. His wife, Michelle, was in the audience. May their memories be a blessing.
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rob Reiner talked about making Spinal Tap at the Music Box last September. His wife, Michelle, was in the audience. May their memories be a blessing.
When we light the menorah tonight, I will be thinking of the (now 11 dead, dozens wounded — at a Hanukkah celebration) victims in Australia … and at Brown and everywhere hatred and fear explode into gun violence.
Two gunmen have shot dead nine people at Sydney's Bondi Beach, with eleven wounded, including two police officers. Police shot dead one gunman, second was arrested in critical condition. n.pr/4oWwgmd
Gunmen kill 9 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach, injuring 11 others
Two gunmen have shot dead nine people at Sydney's Bondi Beach, with eleven wounded, including two police officers. Police shot dead one gunman, second was arrested in critical condition.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When we light the menorah tonight, I will be thinking of the (now 11 dead, dozens wounded — at a Hanukkah celebration) victims in Australia … and at Brown and everywhere hatred and fear explode into gun violence.
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Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
Happy Caturday … I hope everyone, including our four legged friends, can stay warm this weekend.
As temperatures likely dip below zero this weekend, the city’s largest no-kill shelter is hoping 125 of its animals will soon be in warm, forever homes just in time for the holiday.
Adopt a pet? PAWS Chicago hopes to find homes for 125 animals for the holidays
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Happy Caturday … I hope everyone, including our four legged friends, can stay warm this weekend.
👏🏻 @adrianacardmag.bsky.social & @samiraahmed.bsky.social ! And props to @eveewing.bsky.social - whose Original Sins is the next book club selection by @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social
Recipients of the so-called “CHIRBy” Awards include Eve L. Ewing, WBEZ’s Adriana Cardona-Maguigad and New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed.
Five Chicago writers recognized with Chicago Review of Books 2025 awards
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
👏🏻 @adrianacardmag.bsky.social & @samiraahmed.bsky.social ! And props to @eveewing.bsky.social - whose Original Sins is the next book club selection by @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social
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The remaining residents of the South Shore apartment complex raided by federal immigration agents earlier this fall left the building Friday, scattering to different parts of the city.
Last remaining residents move out of troubled South Shore building raided by feds
www.wbez.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The remaining residents of the South Shore apartment complex raided by federal immigration agents earlier this fall left the building Friday, scattering to different parts of the city.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center tells me that, despite the ruling's bottom line, the 7th Circuit is now the first federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration's new reading of immigration law — used to hold people in mandatory detention.
Federal appeals court blocks release of hundreds, but Trump still loses in mixed immigration ruling
From @chicago.suntimes.com on tonight's complicated ruling from the 7th Circuit: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com on tonight's complicated ruling from the 7th Circuit: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal appeals court blocks release of hundreds, but Trump still loses in mixed immigration ruling
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the first to reject the Trump administration's novel reading of immigration law, which it's used to hold people in mandatory detention.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center tells me that, despite the ruling's bottom line, the 7th Circuit is now the first federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration's new reading of immigration law — used to hold people in mandatory detention.
Getcha some hot local blues talk right here —
Dave Specter was Son Seals’ rhythm guitarist for two years before becoming a bandleader himself. I love hearing Specter play as well as chatting with him at his club @evanstonspace.bsky.social, but I’d never gone in depth with him like we do on the new Caropop. www.caropop.com/caropopcast/...
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Getcha some hot local blues talk right here —
Wow.
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Wow.
Good news — the power is back on! We will Say More at 10a @wbez.org !
Had to Say Less today and re-book out book nerdette @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social because of a power outage. Live radio is exciting!
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Good news — the power is back on! We will Say More at 10a @wbez.org !
Had to Say Less today and re-book out book nerdette @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social because of a power outage. Live radio is exciting!
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Had to Say Less today and re-book out book nerdette @gretamjohnsen.bsky.social because of a power outage. Live radio is exciting!
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WBEZ programming could be interrupted due to power outage at Navy Pier
WBEZ programming interrupted due to power outage at Navy Pier
www.wbez.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
WBEZ programming could be interrupted due to power outage at Navy Pier
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This is a beautiful story
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is a beautiful story
Good morning🌨️
Children Of Men is one of my favorite movies of all time and I’m a little afraid to revisit it since it broke my heart the first time around, when we weren’t so near to 2027.
Children Of Men is one of my favorite movies of all time and I’m a little afraid to revisit it since it broke my heart the first time around, when we weren’t so near to 2027.
Children of Men was set in 2027. Maybe it wasn't a 'dystopian action thriller' but the anticipation of today. Yes, I'm talking about immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees.. whoever we are.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good morning🌨️
Children Of Men is one of my favorite movies of all time and I’m a little afraid to revisit it since it broke my heart the first time around, when we weren’t so near to 2027.
Children Of Men is one of my favorite movies of all time and I’m a little afraid to revisit it since it broke my heart the first time around, when we weren’t so near to 2027.
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A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation
Children of Men was set in 2027. Maybe it wasn't a 'dystopian action thriller' but the anticipation of today. Yes, I'm talking about immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees.. whoever we are.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation