Bovino's reply to Block Club's post on Twitter

#ManholeCoverMonday #Odense #HCAndersen themed. @jillthewheel.bsky.social @tycjanc.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social @foresterbob.bsky.social @damondarlin.bsky.social @nep-dk.bsky.social @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @spark1emark.bsky.social @giegerj.bsky.social

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Seen this morning in Graceland Cemetery #ManholeCoverMonday @kevinirvine.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @ironcovers.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social

Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

To Hell with these swine. They are irredeemable. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Sadistic, marauding fascist monsters having a tourist moment. “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!”’”

One of Chicago’s many creatures of the night: chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...

Snowy Start. This morning, Chicago's Millennium Park gets hit with lake effect snow while the autumn colors are in their final days.

Manhole cover next to a hole. (Watch your step!!!) #ManholeCoverMonday @kevinirvine.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @ironcovers.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social

It’s that time of year #manholecovermonday #detritus @kevinirvine.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @jjtindall.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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.

Friends come in many shapes. Like a good Chicagoan, Emilia keeps an eye on the community. Morning, watcher of the skies. Let's get to it 🫡

Please rise if you are able and remove your hats for the singing of the Great Lakes Republic national anthem

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

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.” Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

But…those are state charges. They were never federally charged. Nor could they be even if we win in 2028 because the statute of limitations will have expired. But okay.

Miserable fools. Every one. Absolutely disgraceful.

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Current view of the snow outside my window in Uptown

They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.

In the 1953 movie “The Blue Gardenia,” Ann Sothern’s character includes this information when she describes herself: “Nationality — Chicago.”

The Criminal podcast's latest episode: "Rogers Park: The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago — and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors" thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...

Here's a story about the family whose 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed yesterday by federal agents. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

You CANNOT spend FSA money on health care premiums, and if you’re self-employed or unemployed you don’t even have a fucking FSA.

Missed the interstate exit, took the GPS-recommended detour — and soon saw a bald eagle sitting in a farm field in central Illinois. Spotted another pair a few miles further, also just sitting there in the stubbly, recently harvested field

I went to Calumet Park on the Southeast Side to see this rare bird, a Townsend's solitaire. First one I've ever seen.

Ping ping ping hissss. The sound of fall in Chicago.

There’s usually at least one baseball at the grave of Ernie Banks in Graceland Cemetery. This is the first time I’ve noticed a baseball bat.

In a nearby galaxy the battle has resumed over the placement in books of citational notes—which of course go in the back; only adorable digressions are set as actual footnotes—and I am STAYING OUT OF IT.

TV Guide (1966) Image: Andy Warhol / TV Guide

Chicagoans, if you are searching for an environmental book club & reading community, join us for part III of our climate conversations series 🌎💚 Bring a friend or share with your network to anyone who may find this event of interest We will be discussing the book Seeds of Hope by Jane Goodall

*whispering* stooormmmmwatchhhhhhh

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"celebration chicago" a typewriter haiku by Ola Faleti from Poems While You Wed: poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7997456...

The days of domineering mayors and rubber stamp City Councils are over. My story for Chicago magazine.

Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents. trib.al/ADixIUH

“Yuppies”!

Winter is here.

Delegation to Washington by the Apsáalooke/Crow (1880)
l-r: Old Crow, A.M. Quivly (interpreter), Medicine Crow, Two Belly (standing), Long Elk, Augustus Keller (Agent), Plenty Coups, Tom Stewart (interpreter) 
Photo: C.M. Bell / Smithsonian

Whistle up Baltimore.

Big lakes do have effects 😊🌊🌊 Just getting going today

S.G. Goodman singing “Solitaire” on Friday at Lincoln Hall

On X, Bovino has a comment

In the early/mid 80s when the movie industry was forced to accept the concept of home video, films on VHS routinely cost $100. There were displays in every rental store to tell you if you ruined a tape you rented you would have to pay $100. This was why renting ever existed.

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Looking at my inbox … I think it's probably a good idea not to open any links in an email sent by an account called "Tooth Repair Hack."

With Trump in charge of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ticket sales down 50 percent, NYT reports. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...