Maggie
@maggieoconnell.bsky.social
Visual Information Specialist
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The eulogies and memorials for Rob and Michelle Reiner keep coming, illuminating their inherent goodness, deep well of empathy, and their creative brilliance. Remarkable! Such a tragic loss. 💔
Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The eulogies and memorials for Rob and Michelle Reiner keep coming, illuminating their inherent goodness, deep well of empathy, and their creative brilliance. Remarkable! Such a tragic loss. 💔
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NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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“The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments.” The Roberts Court is diminishing each of these amendments.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments.” The Roberts Court is diminishing each of these amendments.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Metro's 57.6 mile-long A Line offers riders the chance to access foods from so many countries, regions, and cultures. We picked one favorite restaurant from every stop to guide you on an epic eating tour of Los Angeles.
All 48 Spots: lataco.com/48-restauran...
By Sean Vukan and L.A. TACO STAFF
All 48 Spots: lataco.com/48-restauran...
By Sean Vukan and L.A. TACO STAFF
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Metro's 57.6 mile-long A Line offers riders the chance to access foods from so many countries, regions, and cultures. We picked one favorite restaurant from every stop to guide you on an epic eating tour of Los Angeles.
All 48 Spots: lataco.com/48-restauran...
By Sean Vukan and L.A. TACO STAFF
All 48 Spots: lataco.com/48-restauran...
By Sean Vukan and L.A. TACO STAFF
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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Otherwise unemployable rent-a-cops return to Chicago to film more erotica for Stephen Miller's home theater.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/b...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/b...
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents return to Chicago in show of force across city and suburbs
At least 100 U.S. Homeland Security agents or officers were part of the latest wave, a federal source told the Tribune.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Otherwise unemployable rent-a-cops return to Chicago to film more erotica for Stephen Miller's home theater.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/b...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/b...
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The Supreme Court's use and abuse of the Shadow Docket is *how* Chief Justice John Roberts legitimizes Donald Trump's authoritarian takeover of the government.
Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy
In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law.
www.thenation.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Supreme Court's use and abuse of the Shadow Docket is *how* Chief Justice John Roberts legitimizes Donald Trump's authoritarian takeover of the government.
Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Positive climate/nature news you might’ve missed, quiet wins in 2025 🌍👇
Renewables surged past coal, oceans and forests saw new protections, endangered turtles bounced back, indigenous leadership got stronger, dams came down and salmon returned 🐟. #ClimateAction #NatureWins bbc.com/future/artic...
Renewables surged past coal, oceans and forests saw new protections, endangered turtles bounced back, indigenous leadership got stronger, dams came down and salmon returned 🐟. #ClimateAction #NatureWins bbc.com/future/artic...
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
bbc.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Positive climate/nature news you might’ve missed, quiet wins in 2025 🌍👇
Renewables surged past coal, oceans and forests saw new protections, endangered turtles bounced back, indigenous leadership got stronger, dams came down and salmon returned 🐟. #ClimateAction #NatureWins bbc.com/future/artic...
Renewables surged past coal, oceans and forests saw new protections, endangered turtles bounced back, indigenous leadership got stronger, dams came down and salmon returned 🐟. #ClimateAction #NatureWins bbc.com/future/artic...
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This post suggests he’s aware of how his influence works and he consciously hopes it leads to being killed for criticizing him
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This post suggests he’s aware of how his influence works and he consciously hopes it leads to being killed for criticizing him
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This devastating piece destroys the lie that no one died as the result of this administration's cuts to USAID.
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This devastating piece destroys the lie that no one died as the result of this administration's cuts to USAID.
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan countless people died from cholera after US cut off money, as @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy report
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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R.I.P. Rob Reiner (1947-2025)
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
R.I.P. Rob Reiner (1947-2025)
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Between 1984 & 1995, Rob Reiner directed 8 films. There may not have been a better run in Hollywood history. RIP
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Sure Thing (1984)
Stand By Me (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Misery (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The American President (1995)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Sure Thing (1984)
Stand By Me (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Misery (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The American President (1995)
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Between 1984 & 1995, Rob Reiner directed 8 films. There may not have been a better run in Hollywood history. RIP
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Sure Thing (1984)
Stand By Me (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Misery (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The American President (1995)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Sure Thing (1984)
Stand By Me (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Misery (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The American President (1995)
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"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
deeply immoral behavior. these are human beings not livestock. america has zero moral compass. zero.
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
deeply immoral behavior. these are human beings not livestock. america has zero moral compass. zero.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.
🔗: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-is-getting-paid-to-push-for-a-chandler-data-center-40625888/
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.