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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 12h

Damn right I am

Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 12h

Are YOU Antifa?

@jvl.bsky.social's latest Triad @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-you-an...

Are YOU Antifa?

Plus: Hostage releases and prisoner swaps.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of Columbus Day, a few thoughts from @charlescmann.bsky.social, who knows more than most of us about the man and the event the day is supposed to mark.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 13h

As the guy in the White House has recently insisted, today is Columbus Day. What to do about it, given Indigenous peoples’ entirely merited dislike of the whole thing? A couple-three ideas that I've been thinking about. 1/

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 12h

That is truly hilarious

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 12h

What in the world…….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "But Air Force One was really, it was covered with Egyptian desert just a few months ago. If you think about it. Just a few months ago it was Egyptian desert and now it was just a few feet off our window. And it was a spectacular sight."

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 12h

Boston, MA — 165 years ago today

Taken from a hot air balloon, this photo is one of the first examples of urban aerial photography.

It pre-dates the US Civil War and it was taken more than 40 years before the Wright brothers’ first airplane flight.

Aerial photo of Boston from 1860 showing densely packed multistory buildings

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 12h

Not yet. Haven’t gotten that far!

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

You tell ‘em, Heather.

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KJW...

On October 18th, we say #NoKings

YouTube video by Home of the Brave

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve lost rack of the number of guys who got pissed off because I wouldn’t travel 100s of miles to talk to their home brew club.

Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 16h

Louder for those of you at the back.

David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17h

A sad but necessary reminder: I’m a professional journalist/reporter and haven’t got the time or resources to work, advise or advocate for free. Stop hounding me with DMs

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 16h

Louder for those of you at the back.

David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17h

A sad but necessary reminder: I’m a professional journalist/reporter and haven’t got the time or resources to work, advise or advocate for free. Stop hounding me with DMs

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not being paid to lead a march on Saturday.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Ah yes, the evil cabal of Antifa-billionaires and their grassroots-funded pawns are directing the largest peaceful protest in US history!

Has anyone gotten their George Soros check yet? We haven’t 😔 we keep having to buy frog costumes and make signs ourselves.

Oh, wait the Trump regime is lying???

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 16h

Roy Justus on Congress bowing to King Richard, October 1973.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Paul Simon, born today in 1941.

“It’s a cliché,” he said, “but music really IS the closest we come to a universal language. It crosses borders as effortlessly as a cloud.”

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 15h

Glad you had a dad who loved and was proud of you. Onward!

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 16h

No better read for Indigenous Peoples' Day (& every other day) than Ned Blackhawk's *The Rediscovery of America*. 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/september-24...

September 24, 2025: Recent Scholarly Reads: The Rediscovery of America – Black and White and Read All Over

[It’s been a while since I shared a series on scholarly books I’ve had the pleasure of checking out recently, and for this latest iteration I wanted to highlight recent reads that have offered inspira...

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 16h

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 16h

Me, myself, and I

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

He does not look impressed.

Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 3d

Elizabeth Taylor remarried Richard Burton in Botswana #OnThisDay in 1975. Taylor wore a colourful ombré printed silk chiffon dress designed by Gina Fratini, with a patchwork bodice, floating sleeves, and feather trimmed streamers. Sold via Christies. #ElizabethTaylor #fashionhistory

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Worn #onthisday in 1977 by Nigerian head of state Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, with President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office before sitting down for a candlelit dinner at the White House. Per UPI, Obasanjo wore "a brown Nigerian outfit embroidered with silver thread and an elaborate headdress." #OTD

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, was born #OnThisDay in 1884. She wore this grey wool dress and matching fur-trimmed jacket ensemble at the United Nations in March 1961. FDR Library collection. #FirstLady #fashionhistory

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Worn #onthisday in 1944 by King George VI (with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery of and Air Vice Marshal H. Broadhurst) visiting the British Liberation Army in Holland: the waist-length British Battledress blouse, the inspiration for the US Army's Eisenhower jacket. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

This is every kind of wow.

Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

As if an encrusted silver dress was not already a lot, it has a scarlet satin coat with a matching silver lining. There is an occasion here of which I can only imagine. Late #1950s Arnold Scaasi @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡