Mary Dixon
@maryldixon.bsky.social
Host of Say More w/Mary Dixon & Patrick Smith on WBEZ.
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
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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 —
Reposted by Mary Dixon
One person said they received only about 40% of the SNAP benefits they typically get each month. “The unpredictability really hurts people,” said Holly Yacoumakis, lead community food source specialist at Marillac St. Vincent Harvest Hub food pantry.
Some Illinois residents receive partial SNAP benefits due to them this month
www.wbez.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
One person said they received only about 40% of the SNAP benefits they typically get each month. “The unpredictability really hurts people,” said Holly Yacoumakis, lead community food source specialist at Marillac St. Vincent Harvest Hub food pantry.
G’morning. This raises a LOT of questions starting with, “have you read the First Amendment?”
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
G’morning. This raises a LOT of questions starting with, “have you read the First Amendment?”
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Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a remote status hearing that just began over conditions inside the ICE facility in Broadview.
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order governing conditions at Broadview ICE facility
Kade Heather reports: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Kade Heather reports: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order governing conditions at Broadview ICE facility
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is requiring officials at the de facto detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide detainees with a clean bedding mat, a sufficient amou...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a remote status hearing that just began over conditions inside the ICE facility in Broadview.
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#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.
Ellis, apparently wrapping up, is quoting George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and others.
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.
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Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people.
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people.
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Reposted by Mary Dixon
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman's temporary restraining order governing conditions in Broadview's ICE facility is in.
Follow @KadeHeather on Twitter for details from the courtroom and read the full order here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...
Follow @KadeHeather on Twitter for details from the courtroom and read the full order here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman's temporary restraining order governing conditions in Broadview's ICE facility is in.
Follow @KadeHeather on Twitter for details from the courtroom and read the full order here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...
Follow @KadeHeather on Twitter for details from the courtroom and read the full order here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...
And the AP has called the NJ race for Democrat Mikie Sherrill, who’s leading the Trump-endorsed Ciattarelli by 15 points at last look.
Follow live results from the New Jersey governor election.
New Jersey Governor Election Results 2025: Jack Ciattarelli, Mikie Sherrill
Get live results and maps from the 2025 New Jersey Governor election.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
And the AP has called the NJ race for Democrat Mikie Sherrill, who’s leading the Trump-endorsed Ciattarelli by 15 points at last look.
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race, in a historic victory for progressives
Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
Reposted by Mary Dixon
BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the Virginia governor’s race, defeating Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and becoming the state's first female governor.
Virginia governor’s race will test Trump and Democrats nationally — and make history
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is facing Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the Virginia race for governor.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the Virginia governor’s race, defeating Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and becoming the state's first female governor.
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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I can see I’ll be getting a lot of chores done during the Bears game.
November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I can see I’ll be getting a lot of chores done during the Bears game.
Evanston showing up in droves at ETHS today for a food drive to help neighbors affected by immigration actions and SNAP disruption.
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Evanston showing up in droves at ETHS today for a food drive to help neighbors affected by immigration actions and SNAP disruption.
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ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.
Good morning, something about turning our clocks back etc
There has been a jarring shift in tactics and an escalation in force since Greg Bovino’s Border Patrol “Green Machine” started roving Chicago in made-for-TV patrols and raids.
Now, they’re primed to take on a much larger role in the deportation campaign.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...
Now, they’re primed to take on a much larger role in the deportation campaign.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...
Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership
Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Donald Trump’s administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patro…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good morning, something about turning our clocks back etc
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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Fresh off the boat (yeah, she came on a ship, then train to Chicago), my mom went to this high school in the 60s.
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Lake View High Cross Country Team Fights For State Title As ICE Targets Their Community: 'We're Not Hiding'
The boys team, made up largely of Mexican Americans, is chasing a rare state championship while their community faces fear and uncertainty.
blockclubchicago.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fresh off the boat (yeah, she came on a ship, then train to Chicago), my mom went to this high school in the 60s.
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Reports of Border Patrol being met with whistles and protesters on the NW side, Evanston, Skokie and Niles; some by schools, some in pretty quiet neighborhoods. By all accounts the feds were staying just long enough to rile up the neighbors.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reports of Border Patrol being met with whistles and protesters on the NW side, Evanston, Skokie and Niles; some by schools, some in pretty quiet neighborhoods. By all accounts the feds were staying just long enough to rile up the neighbors.
“Ohh, tough guy! I wear a helmet! And sunglasses!”
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Ohh, tough guy! I wear a helmet! And sunglasses!”
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Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
It’s a pumpkin sky for Halloween morn. Let’s hope all the monsters we encounter this weekend are fictional 👹
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s a pumpkin sky for Halloween morn. Let’s hope all the monsters we encounter this weekend are fictional 👹
The inaugural Say More Halloween Spooktacular is a wrap! Thanks to the @wbez.org members and staffers who came dressed to party with us today, including Best Chicago themed costume: @saltshedchicago.bsky.social and best NPR theme: the WBEZ cafe server & teacher 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The inaugural Say More Halloween Spooktacular is a wrap! Thanks to the @wbez.org members and staffers who came dressed to party with us today, including Best Chicago themed costume: @saltshedchicago.bsky.social and best NPR theme: the WBEZ cafe server & teacher 🎃
This was great fun! Thanks for being with us @mrillinois.bsky.social 🪦
Such a great honor to be on @wbez.org’s Say More this morning talkin Cemeteries. Surreal to see these disembodied voices I’ve heard for so long in person. If for some reason you weren’t listening, go to their website and check it out! I am on 40 min in but the whole ep is fun
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This was great fun! Thanks for being with us @mrillinois.bsky.social 🪦
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The federal appeals court in Chicago today put a temporary hold on the order requiring Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino to appear in a courtroom every weeknight until Nov. 5.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... via @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... via @jonseidel.bsky.social
Appeals court temporarily calls off Bovino's daily meeting with judge
It did so after Justice Department lawyers called Judge Sara Ellis' standing appointment with the Border Patrol boss an “extraordinarily disruptive requirement.”
chicago.suntimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The federal appeals court in Chicago today put a temporary hold on the order requiring Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino to appear in a courtroom every weeknight until Nov. 5.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... via @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... via @jonseidel.bsky.social