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@maureenogle.bsky.social

Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie Maureenogle.com

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Or I’m at oglemaureen at gmail

01.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know why either. It simple will NOT accept the University Blvd address. Unless you’re not actually IN Dallas?

01.11.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
two people in 'egyptian garb' lighting a cigarette. More i Egyptian garb behind them at the entrance to a movie est

two people in 'egyptian garb' lighting a cigarette. More i Egyptian garb behind them at the entrance to a movie est

Boris Karloff lighting up on the set of The Mummy, 1932

01.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

What?

01.11.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, thank YOU for your work.

01.11.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love New York.

01.11.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Note to @emilypawley.bsky.social @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social @larryglickman.bsky.social @joshspecht.bsky.social @arielron.bsky.social
I’ve sent you a copy of my new book. You were major inspirations as I researched and wrote.

PS to Ariel: yours will be en route once I figure out the address.

01.11.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadists

01.11.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kids, they’re not doing all of this so they can get booted out of office.
They’re doing all of this so that they can’t be booted out of office.

01.11.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.

01.11.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2252    πŸ” 760    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 44

Thanks. I haven’t had much experience with surgery so…..

31.10.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Social media graphic with a dark green background and an illustration of a farm worker and photos of pumpkins.

Text: This Halloween, thank the hands that make it fun!

Social media graphic with a dark green background and an illustration of a farm worker and photos of pumpkins. Text: This Halloween, thank the hands that make it fun!

No pumpkins, no #Halloween. It's that simple. πŸŽƒ

This Halloween, thank the hands that make it fun. Behind every jack-o-lantern, every pumpkin pie, and every festive decoration is the skilled, often strenuous labor of essential immigrant farmworkers.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/dont-ghost...

31.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
Sean Bean resting on his arm while eating. His cloak is fastened with a horse bit!!

Sean Bean resting on his arm while eating. His cloak is fastened with a horse bit!!

With huge thanks to my friend Patrick for spotting this.

The new MGM Robin Hood series.

Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...

...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!

Crying!! 🀣🀣🀣🀣

#Archaeology 🏺

31.10.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5
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Navy Cruiser Joins Caribbean Flotilla As Reports Claim U.S. Is Readying Venezuela Strikes (Updated) The deployment of USS Gettysburg comes as a carrier strike group is also heading to the region, while Trump denies he is about to strike.

Scoop: Tico class guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg now deployed in Caribbean as part of counter-narco operation. News comes as Trump denies plans to attack Venezuela.

31.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I lived in Evanston for 22 years, not far from here. It's a standard American town, with lots of families. The high school was (is) on soft lockdown. ICE agents were around one grade school, and according to a friend there, looking in windows. That's when the schools went on lockdown. On Halloween.

31.10.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Just got my physical therapy appointments. 10 in November and 6 in December.

And every damn one is at 8am.

31.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, he was played. dt has zero grasp of the nature of Chinese society or of true authoritarianism.

31.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gold ballroom, 42 million people pushed into starvation, illegal war with Venezuela…we’re having a grand ole fucking time

31.10.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4
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Trump’s Odd Nuclear Threat and America’s House of Dynamite Almost nothing about Trump's latest nuke tweet is correct. Plus what Netflix's HOUSE OF DYNAMITE gets right about nuclear war.

I couldn't let this week go without reviewing HOUSE OF DYNAMITE β€” which gets right to me the four core principles of nuclear thrillers. Most of all it should serve as a reminder why Trump's nuclear threats this week are so dangerous: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-od...

31.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
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a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her . Alt: a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her .

Happy Samhain and Halloween to everyone!!

And it's time for my annual PSA that women brewing in UK and Ireland were not removed from the beer trade via en masse witchcraft accusations and the modern witch stereotype doesn't come from their garb either

31.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@arielron.bsky.social I'm attempting to send you a copy of my new book, but no matter how I load the address of your Department, the menu keeps telling me that the address doesn't exist. (3225 University Blvd)
Got any advice??

31.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Experts still debate the utility of the New Deal but people at the time adored him because FDR was so *visibly* trying anything and everything

For politicians, demonstrating you're listening and responding to their concerns is as important as finding the best policy

31.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Good work here

31.10.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

& another thing: the combo of Vance's attacks on multi-lingual Americans & his arguments that labor unions should oppose diversity echo quite closely the conditions that led to racial terrorism like the Rock Springs Massacre. πŸ—ƒοΈ

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2020/09/spec...

30.10.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Principled prophet Susana M. Morris's Positive Obsession is an intimate and tragic look at the life of Octavia E. Butler

Susana Morris's Positive Obsession is an intimate and tragic look at the life of Octavia Butler, exploring how she observed the world and imbued her books with her principles and insights, resulting in a stunning body of work that remains relevant, decades after they were written.

30.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fucking cunt liar

30.10.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people outside Chicago do not know what's happening in Chicago. They don't know about the broad daylight disappearances. They don't know about the tear gas. They don't know how communities are organizing against all this.

Tell as many people as you can.

30.10.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€˜Bugonia’ Review Mean-spirited, but in the sort of way we all kinda-sorta deserve.

NEW MOVIE REVIEW: This, I gotta say, looks like a wild ride.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bugonia-re...

30.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is hands down the scariest thing I've ever read or seen in my life. Running the other way as fast as I can.

30.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally Fuck Them Kids

30.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 894    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 3

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