Mark Vasko

Tweet from Elon: “When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don't realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor.”

LOTR: Unlikely DEI band defeats a fascist dictator using psyops and backdoor infiltration. Along the way, they help Nature destroy a climate-denying tech bro, then save corrupted Gondor w the help of agrarians, indigenous people, and (dead) mutineers seeking redemption.

What version did Elon read?🤨

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

ANTIFA statue, right in the middle of Washington DC!

If you make $60,000/year, $36 of your taxes pays for SNAP while $700 of your taxes pays for corporate subsidies. Guess which one the Trump administration is going to cut off at the end of the week?

sorry I rant about AI so much but jfc these commercials are so depressing. they just had one where a woman is perusing flowers at a florist and asks her phone’s AI what kind of flowers they are and how often to water them. why can’t you ask *the person who works there*?!? am I having a stroke

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

Trey Yesavage's first start of the year was for Low-A Dunedin on April 8th.

199 days later, he will be the Game 1 starter for the Blue Jays in the 2025 World Series 👀

The Bruce Springsteen movie about the Nebraska era of his career comes out on Friday. I got to play Nebraska as a DJ in college. I love that record and most everything else of his. My thoughts on that quiet, dark album and why it stands the test of time. markvasko.weebly.com

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Apparently penalties can only be called on the Bears

20-0 is nice but it is still distressing to hear announcers say 'Caleb has to learn this' or 'Caleb has to get better at that.' This is his 23rd NFL start for goodness sake. The top overall pick. They praised him for his timing on a simple down & out completion which he then missed on his next pass.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Reminder that this is also happening across many, if not all, of Chicago’s hundreds of suburbs, many of which, like mine, have significant Latino and immigrant populations.

We should have seen Galen Rupp finish and he should have been interviewed, asked about his goals now and then asked about Conner and what he will face now because he KNOWS! Malpractice. He's a former winner and 4x Olympian for goodness sake!

Btw, I had to look it up because @nbcchicago.com
didn't mention his name even once towards the end of race coverage, Galen Rupp, one of the most decorated and popular American runners ever, finished 16th at 2:09:41. Who finishes 1st isn't all people care about. Sheesh.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

October means playoff baseball so I picked up this book. I learned a lot about Larry Doby and Satchel Paige that I did not know but should have. Same even for Lou Boudreau and more. My story on the 1948 Champion Cleveland Indians markvasko.weebly.com

This card game was my childhood so I thought I would talk about it here. It was my 10 thousand hours. I loved it as I wanted to broadcast baseball from my earliest memories. Thank you PopTarts. Yes, really. PopTarts. markvasko.weebly.com

Such a shame that the leadership of the @wnba.com has such contempt for the people that make it so riveting to watch and seem to undercut the sport and it's players at every turn rather than support it. Bravo to Phee for sticking up for players and fans.

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country?
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ?
@schumer.senate.gov ?

Keeping my city safe from those pesky street vendors apparently.

Photo from a friend in war ravaged Portland.

For what it's worth I cancelled my WNBA app weeks ago and for someone who has announced well over 1000 women's games, that is saying something. I wanted to watch basketball, not players beating the crap out of each other.

The White Sox clocking at least 100 losses three seasons in a row has been bad, but two successive seasons of John Schriffen as lead TV announcer has been worse.

If I were the White Sox, I would have sold tickets as a chance to watch games without listening to John Schriffen. 💯

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Anniversary of the Cheap Trick
show at North Central College in Naperville. Cost 7 bucks to see them just before they hit it big. Got my ticket at Recordland at the Fox Valley Mall. Seen them countless times since but this 1st time from a folding chair in that gym was amazing.

Just in case Chicago TV viewers want to avoid the primary local outlets of the corporations who made this Kimmel thing happen:

— Disney is obviously WLS/ABC 7.
— Nexstar is WGN 9.
— Sinclair is Marquee Sports Network.
— and Fox is Fox 32 and WPWR 50.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.