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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1h

Don’t let pete see these guys. I know they’re not regular military. But I can also see that some of them are…..fat.

Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social · 16h

New: As Trump pursues Gaza peace, he incites civil strife at home

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War and peace: As Trump pursues Gaza peace, he incites civil strife at home

‘A Trump-led deployment of federalized Guard & active-duty troops to quell a fabricated insurrection inside American cities should only be understood as a war on the American people,’ ex Navy Undersec

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1h

Myself, I love it! Journos inevitably ask the dumbest questions. Good for Porter for saying no more.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder how you can bear to eat them given what you yourself make.

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WTF Just Happened Today? @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 12h

✨ Yesterday's news today: Illinois and Chicago sued to block Trump’s 300 federalized Guard troops; a judge let Texas troops move; agents shot a woman in Chicago; Kennedy fired a vaccine whistleblower. whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/10/06/d...

Day 1721

“To cause chaos.”

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 23h

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 12h

What a story.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 14h

And MANY thanks for tracking down the study.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 14h

Agree that results are interesting. But two-plus decades of thinking about alcohol makes me deeply skeptical.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 14h

Full moon.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique.

If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you.

Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 18h

It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

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M.T. Cannon @sonofrockhound.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know who needs to hear this, but just because a craven and tin-eared SC majority has ruled that a president can override the Constitution doesn't make it so.

Illegitimate actors can capture an institution but they can not confer legitimacy.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, yes, and yes.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h

Trump engages in crazy talk. Miller is inciting civil war. presswatchers.org/2025/10/what...

What is Stephen Miller trying to accomplish in Portland and Chicago? | Press Watch

Trump engages in crazy talk. Miller is inciting civil war.

presswatchers.org

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, dear…

NewsNation @newsnation.bsky.social · 16h

For the first time, scientists have successfully grown human embryos without a biological mother using skin cells that can be fertilized.

MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/ivf-researchers-human-embryos-no-biological-mother/

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Damn

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 16h

Read the whole thread about this awful, evil case. And consider adding @404media.co to your independent media subscriptions. Jason and his team have been breaking major tech oligarchy and government surveillance stories since they started. If you find Wired valuable, you will feel the same about 404

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Drop what you’re doing and read this.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Kids, they do NOT expect to be accountable. They’re not going to leave office.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

I’m having a hard time believing it. Really, I am.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I figured you were walking! We walkers walk. But am delighted to see another Walk, as it were. And Wales!!!

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of wanted to watch the bondi heating, but between her lies and grassley’s usual doddering, I can’t do it.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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