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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Sep 28

Trump signs up along rural Wisconsin roads for most of the last 10 years are completely gone now. Over the last two months, I’ve driven hundreds of miles along these roads, and literally the only thing I’ve seen about him was this the other day: #TACO on the tile of a gas station bathroom.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 18

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thank you! Next time I’m there…

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’ve never found the unfilled ones anywhere else. They’re enough. Why gild the lily? :)

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 4

I struggle with something related. When I was a kid, we lived below a Polish aunt who included me in the large-scale making of pączki—from buying A&P lard by the tub, to dozens of the delicious finished product. But she made them unfilled. As an adult, jelly filling disappoints me. Why fill them?

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 3

If you had a time machine and went back to tell American conservatives that the U.S.S.R. was going to break up, but one of the republics would need help to keep its independence from Moscow, they would have been so excited!

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m your Venus.

One bright light in the sky shortly after sunset.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 22

Kids these days will never have the experience of buying a CD, and suffering the scorn of the cool music people working in the store.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 19

Travis, thanks for this story and your other coverage of California HSR. Could I get your contact information? I work for the national, nonprofit High Speed Rail Alliance. We occasionally release new material that might be of interest, and would be glad to help with future coverage you do.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 19

We need dozens or hundreds more like this rep!

Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 19

Mapquest lets YOU decide what to call it.

Gulf of Mexico Has a Much Better President Than We Do

Check out my custom Gulf of Mexico Has a Much Better President Than We Do map created with MapQuest!

gulfof.mapquest.com

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 12

Does he think he's Uncle Sam?

Wearing a blue suit, red white and blue pocket square, an American flag belt buckle, and hair product, the Secretary of Defense points a finger.

Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 11

I look forward as well to the increase in the chocolate ration.

Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 10

@wired.com is doing really important reporting on this huge threat to taxpayer dollars and democratic control of the U.S. government. To support this, I’ve now subscribed, for the first time.

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

www.wired.com

Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Feb 7

A member of EM's crew has already been forced out. Exposure, pressure, and push-back are helping, at least a little. As the consequences of what they're trying to get away with speed up, there will be chances to bring down more of them, and hopefully all of them. fortune.com/2025/02/07/2...

25-year-old employed by Elon Musk’s DOGE who posted he was ‘racist before it was cool’ resigns after being linked to deleted social-media account

Marco Elez was part of a team of young, tech-savvy DOGE workers that have been tearing through government agencies.

fortune.com

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 29

Wondered about this too-perfect photo, and it does turn out to be altered. Let’s not fall for the same kind of bullshit his followers have. We don’t need fakes when the belligerence, selfishness, and dishonesty are so real.

Photo of ICE Agents Arresting Man Wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-Shirt Is Fake

A photographer for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured the original, unaltered picture during arrests made in Ohio in 2018.

www.snopes.com

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 27

Wow!

Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 26

Thanks @janannc.bsky.social for sharing this elsewhere. I first saw it thanks to you.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 26

Good recent article by a Turkish journalist sharing her perspective: “America will survive the next four years if Democrats pick themselves up and start learning from the successes of opponents of autocracy across the globe.”

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.

I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned.

www.politico.com

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 25

Is AI the new BS?

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hope you’re doing OK and government of, by, for the people hasn’t perished from the earth.

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Chris Ott @christopherott.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sunlight yesterday made Wisconsin’s capitol especially pretty.

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