Maggie Hendricks
@maggiehendricks.bsky.social
Sometimes sports journo, sometimes comms pro, always a maker. 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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Hey so I wrote a book! It's a middle-grade book on Angel Reese. It's a book specifically written for libraries and schools, so I will not be hurt if you don't buy it. But your kid may want to check it out at the library!
abdobooks.com/shop/show/19...
abdobooks.com/shop/show/19...
I obviously voted for Monty and Abolish ICE, but it's time for the Plow-colator is pretty damn good, too.
Oh, This Would Be Epic!
Whoever submitted 'Monty the Piping Plower' to the annual Chicago "You Name A Snowplow" Contest is genius!
Fellow Chicagoans, we would be honored if Monty made your list of six votes. Voting is now open through February 14.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
Whoever submitted 'Monty the Piping Plower' to the annual Chicago "You Name A Snowplow" Contest is genius!
Fellow Chicagoans, we would be honored if Monty made your list of six votes. Voting is now open through February 14.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I obviously voted for Monty and Abolish ICE, but it's time for the Plow-colator is pretty damn good, too.
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(AP) Punxsutawney Phil has been indicted on 17 counts of wire fraud.
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
(AP) Punxsutawney Phil has been indicted on 17 counts of wire fraud.
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I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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Slash has been ratatouilling this whole time, it’s rock’s worst kept secret
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Slash has been ratatouilling this whole time, it’s rock’s worst kept secret
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Hell yeah
Matt Stairs
PH
Debut: 1992 - Retired: 2011
PHI - TEX - SDP - WSN - OAK - PIT - BOS - CHC - TOR - MIL - DET - KCR
PH
Debut: 1992 - Retired: 2011
PHI - TEX - SDP - WSN - OAK - PIT - BOS - CHC - TOR - MIL - DET - KCR
Matt Stairs at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Matt Stairs
baseball-reference.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Hell yeah
I love matching sweatsuits.
February 2, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I love matching sweatsuits.
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More importantly, who is paying Michele Tafoya? She gets like 200 views per video on her YouTube channel.
Michele Tafoya pledges that if elected to the US Senate she will investigate who is paying the protesters in Minnesota
February 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM
More importantly, who is paying Michele Tafoya? She gets like 200 views per video on her YouTube channel.
STUNNING
I saw two bald eagles on the Fox River in St. Charles and Geneva this morning.
February 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM
STUNNING
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I am completely serious when I say the existence of these kinds of bars that predominate Upper Midwest neighborhoods are a big reason why Wisconsin hasn’t turned hard right as its demographics would suggest.
These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I am completely serious when I say the existence of these kinds of bars that predominate Upper Midwest neighborhoods are a big reason why Wisconsin hasn’t turned hard right as its demographics would suggest.
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"If I can't have you, no one can" is the credo of almost every abuser.
He's even tattooed his name on the building.
He's even tattooed his name on the building.
With ticket sales plummeting and artists pulling out, Trump decides to close the Kennedy Center for two years, promising to renovate it and try again to find an audience and performers when it reopens in 2028.
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
"If I can't have you, no one can" is the credo of almost every abuser.
He's even tattooed his name on the building.
He's even tattooed his name on the building.
This is brilliant
The Tampa Bay Lightning enter Raymond James Stadium dressed in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the creamsicle uniforms for the NHL Stadium Series.
February 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This is brilliant
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Reposted by Maggie Hendricks
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge
Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.
www.notus.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.
One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
February 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.
One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
I’m going to be so excited if more people have soup parties.
I know how I want to spend my birthday next month. This sounds divine.
February 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I’m going to be so excited if more people have soup parties.
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Regardless of their level of involvement, one thing that’s clear is there’s not one person named in the Epstein files who believed those girls were people.
February 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Regardless of their level of involvement, one thing that’s clear is there’s not one person named in the Epstein files who believed those girls were people.
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🏒Hockey Fans Get Excited‼️ SET YOUR ALARMS & SCREENSHOT the USA🇺🇸 & CAN🇨🇦 preliminary schedules for women's hockey👇🏽! Follow Black Rosie Media for real-time #MiCo26 updates and coverage. #USAHockey #HockeyCanada #2026Olympics #WomensHockey #WinterOlympics
February 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🏒Hockey Fans Get Excited‼️ SET YOUR ALARMS & SCREENSHOT the USA🇺🇸 & CAN🇨🇦 preliminary schedules for women's hockey👇🏽! Follow Black Rosie Media for real-time #MiCo26 updates and coverage. #USAHockey #HockeyCanada #2026Olympics #WomensHockey #WinterOlympics
Everybody brings some soup and/or bread, as well as some containers. Everyone gets to eat soup that night and also bring some home. My friend has been hosting it for years.
Hang on hang on… soup party? Is that exactly what it sounds like? It sounds heavenly
January 31, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Everybody brings some soup and/or bread, as well as some containers. Everyone gets to eat soup that night and also bring some home. My friend has been hosting it for years.
Just made these for a soup party I'm going to tonight and I strongly recommend them. smittenkitchen.com/2015/01/cara...
caramelized onion and gruyère biscuits
The onion soup of biscuits, with bits of cheese that trickle out and land in crispy frico puddles while baking.
smittenkitchen.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Just made these for a soup party I'm going to tonight and I strongly recommend them. smittenkitchen.com/2015/01/cara...
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
"Learning how to watch a thing for the job you want to do" is such a key part of learning that job. I know that sounds vague but learning how to watch basketball or football to write about it took me a lot of time and study, but it was worth it.
i went to usc film school and “how to watch a movie” didn’t actually click until i read peter woolen’s signs & meaning in the cinema during the summer between my freshman and sophomore years
If there’s a short answer, how do you teach someone how to watch a movie? It strikes me even with that sentence that our language is not up to the present task: “how to watch a film” has always meant interpretation, not “how to look in one consistent direction for about 100 minutes”
January 31, 2026 at 7:32 PM
"Learning how to watch a thing for the job you want to do" is such a key part of learning that job. I know that sounds vague but learning how to watch basketball or football to write about it took me a lot of time and study, but it was worth it.
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"The chair is still standing"
January 31, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"The chair is still standing"
Big Susanna Hoffs fan
January 31, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Big Susanna Hoffs fan
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"Too often, these vehicles become a menace when used at high speeds or in places they don’t belong."
I'm trying to imagine a world in which the Tribune Editorial Board applies this logic to automobiles and bike lanes.
I'm trying to imagine a world in which the Tribune Editorial Board applies this logic to automobiles and bike lanes.
Editorial: Secretary of State Giannoulias puts e-bike safety on the table
We are not letting teenaged motorcyclists out on our roads without oversight. So why is it different for electric bikes?
www.chicagotribune.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:12 PM
"Too often, these vehicles become a menace when used at high speeds or in places they don’t belong."
I'm trying to imagine a world in which the Tribune Editorial Board applies this logic to automobiles and bike lanes.
I'm trying to imagine a world in which the Tribune Editorial Board applies this logic to automobiles and bike lanes.