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Maggie Hendricks
@maggiehendricks.bsky.social
I write and talk about sports for a living. Quilt, sew, bake, and love Chicago. Probably making a Taskmaster or Murder, She Wrote joke. I won't answer any questions you can Google. I'm here for conversation, not debate. I mute whining about officials.
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Since Broadview is so close to where I grew up and much of my family is near there, I want to be a resource for anyone heading there to protest. To begin with, here are some places where you can go and grab some food not far from the Broadview ICE facility. These are all BIPOC owned and delish.
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"Person in pajama pants confronting federal immigration agents" seems to be a developing trend.

The photo below appears to have been taken during an incident that took place today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The moo deng fandom is dying. Reskeet if youre a *real* dengist
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I have two Thanksgiving tips for everyone.
1. Assuming this works in your family dynamic -- if you don't know how your grandparents or parents met, what their weddings were like, etc., what it was like for them living through major historical events, this is a great time to ask questions.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
*flexes, kisses biceps*
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
About to start baking these, and I strongly, strongly recommend them. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
Pumpkin Blondies Recipe
Fudgy like a brownie but slightly cakey (and light) from the pumpkin purée, these delightful blondies are the ultimate fall sweet treat They’re a riff on a Martha Stewart recipe, tweaked by Annie Mars...
cooking.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Everybody loves the guest who does the dishes, this is universal
At the in-laws, where there’s always too many cooks in the kitchen but only one dishwasher (me - and that’s why I’m the MIL’s favorite).
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
LOL, I went to high school with two of them (John Carrozza and Michael Zink) and they were both nice dudes in high school and uhhh, that was not the norm at a high school that had just gone coed.
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is so brilliant.
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"We are all fools to have left Chicago. It was a town to play in; a town where you could stay yourself, and where the hoots of the critics couldn't frighten your style or drain your soul." — Ben Hecht, writing about his friendship and writing collaborations with Charles MacArthur
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Boy did I get a lot less confused when I realized Welcome to Derry is not a spinoff of Derry Girls.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's a very irritating thing that Ken Burns is one of the most the world's most prolific collectors of quilts and yet he doesn't deem quilts -- which are both utilitarian and pieces of art -- important enough to look at. So yeah. I'd like for him to look at how quilts have kept America alive.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Links can't hurt you here.

Save your out of context screenshots for the garbage platforms.

LINK! TO! THE! STORY!
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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when you’re being quoted approvingly by transphobe extraordinaire Jennifer Sey, you’re doing something very wrong
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We have a LOT of good basketball to watch this week, my friends. sports.yahoo.com/womens-colle...
Feast Week preview: UCLA-Texas and Duke-South Carolina at Players Era Festival highlight top women's matchups
It's officially Feast Week, and we're not just talking about the big meal for Thanksgiving on Thursday.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Absolutely amazing.
🎁🎁 $98,239 🎁🎁

It's a wrap! I am laughing & tearing up. $98K over a weekend directly to kids & young adults in ways of immeasurable, long-term impact. Thank you, sincerely, to those who donated, shared, made it a dang game, pooled resources or just plain made us smile 💙

@onesimplewish.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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the wheeling rapid response team reports multiple plainclothes ice agents have been spotted over the past two days eating and shopping at local businesses.

the group warns “residents likely have no idea that they are agents because they are in regular clothing.”

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November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I assume the Eagles pulled out the throwbacks in honor of @treblaw.bsky.social and @megwalbert.bsky.social raising a shit ton of money for @onesimplewish.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Cardinals with the most ridiculous pick six ever. Wow. That was so fun.
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I swear being a Bears fan this year has taken years off my life in a different way than usual
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM