Maureen Ogle

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Wow……

I’m so old that I can remember when this was a reliable outlet.

A disability doesn’t grant you the access to be an asshole. 😒😒

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

All because you had to have yer labubu.

Ah! No wonder I couldn’t find it. Thanks!

+1

To incoming University President Mnookin: Please don’t let artificial intelligence devalue the liberal arts Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin <a href="https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/12/uw-receives-approval-to-move-l-ss-largest-majors-to-new-ai-focused-school...

The student-author of this piece is Grace Kaste, who should be widely applauded for writing it.

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

One thing I've watched the right do over the last several decades is take previously marginal or unthinkable ideas & mainstream them through sheer, relentless focus & repetition.

The left could do the same with the reform ideas in this thread.

It blows my mind that I can click and get solid info from someone like @pkrugman.bsky.social. I’ve been a fan for years and now that he’s essentially his own publisher, we enjoy his wisdom regularly.

Thank you. And may I ask what you’re sitting in front of?

A friend just directed me to the wiki page for his maternal grandfather joshua haldeman. Terrifying.

The only way this time will be different is if the most senior people involved actually go to jail for the rest of their lives.

We already know that isn't going to happen. We haven't done elite accountability since at least Iran-Contra & really since at least Appomattox.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

This.
Americans simply cannot bring themselves to hold wealthy people accountable for crime. It’s always baffled me but since 2016, it’s driven me nuts.
WHY do we fear the rich?

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Well, I guess this fits. AI art is to actual art what Bari Weiss is to actual news.

I can’t even find this series by searching for it! Doesn’t show up at all. Is it very old?

the Olympics make me believe in a lot of things and I will miss them so. I’m so glad we had them together, Bluesky.

announcing major, disruptive policies, then reversing, changing, and breeding an environment of unpredictability and confusion

makes me think of Death of Stalin, and the trains. Closed, open, closed again, wild swings in basic operations based on the caprice and infighting of the party leadership

If you needed evidence that we are governed by incompetents…….

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

This makes me ill. These people are evil.

Read the wiki entry. He was a real piece of work.

That’s a good way to put it.

The tragedy of John Fetterman is that he used to dress like a slob but have an encouraging spirt, making him an Oaf of Rugged Individuality, one of America’s great oaf groups. But now he dresses like a slob and whines all the time, making him an Oaf of Misery

Inquiring minds would like to know.

What a fucking maroon.


In the early 20th c., there was a technocrats movement of sorts. But I suspect they’d be horrified by what this century’s technocrats want.

I’ve spent my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness — and I’ve had enough. 

That’s why when Trump tried to strong-arm me in the White House a year ago, I told him I’d see him in court — and won.