Maureen Ogle
@maureenogle.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie
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I honestly think I'm losing my mind. The excerpt at maureenogle.com now works. I forgot to "enable" the page......
Maureen Ogle
Maureen Ogle. Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea Junkie. Books include: AMBITIOUS BREW: A History of American Beer; KEY WEST: History of An Island Of Dreams.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I honestly think I'm losing my mind. The excerpt at maureenogle.com now works. I forgot to "enable" the page......
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
Best. Gift guide. Ever. Buy my stuff too! I do custom as well!
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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In “Calvin and Hobbes,” Spaceman Spiff—Calvin’s spacefaring alter ego—first appeared 40 years ago, on November 29, 1985. Here is Spiff’s debut:
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In “Calvin and Hobbes,” Spaceman Spiff—Calvin’s spacefaring alter ego—first appeared 40 years ago, on November 29, 1985. Here is Spiff’s debut:
I VERY much dislike using SM for self-promotion, but…
My new book is THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA.
A lengthy excerpt is available at Maureenogle.com
Buy at bookshop.org, B&N, Kobo, Amazon
Pass it along…..?
My new book is THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA.
A lengthy excerpt is available at Maureenogle.com
Buy at bookshop.org, B&N, Kobo, Amazon
Pass it along…..?
Maureen Ogle
Maureen Ogle. Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea Junkie. Books include: AMBITIOUS BREW: A History of American Beer; KEY WEST: History of An Island Of Dreams.
Maureenogle.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I VERY much dislike using SM for self-promotion, but…
My new book is THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA.
A lengthy excerpt is available at Maureenogle.com
Buy at bookshop.org, B&N, Kobo, Amazon
Pass it along…..?
My new book is THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA.
A lengthy excerpt is available at Maureenogle.com
Buy at bookshop.org, B&N, Kobo, Amazon
Pass it along…..?
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My tiny little business is having its Black Friday sale NOW 🙌
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November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My tiny little business is having its Black Friday sale NOW 🙌
$37 OFF PRINTS
canieatthisforaging.com/print-shop
$37 OFF PRINTS
canieatthisforaging.com/print-shop
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This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Immigration Stance
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
I have a hard time imagining this book as a film. I’ll watch it but ….. oh, that book! Can it be translated to film?
“Hamnet” is a somber—and at times punishing—adaptation that draws on speculative work that imagines the grief William Shakespeare and his wife felt after losing their son, David Sims writes—and when the film is at its best, it “embraces the unknowability of this premise.”
‘Hamnet’ Is Miserable, and Proud of It
Chloé Zhao’s film depicts the inspiration for “Hamlet” as a relentlessly woeful tale.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I have a hard time imagining this book as a film. I’ll watch it but ….. oh, that book! Can it be translated to film?
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Indie content - stuff you can buy from a cool person on Bluesky. It's even on CD, if you like the thingness of things. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/drivin...
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Indie content - stuff you can buy from a cool person on Bluesky. It's even on CD, if you like the thingness of things. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/drivin...
He’s really popular! I bet he’ll persuade many to vote maga!
Wow — #TN7 NEWS: Speaker Johnson is coming to Tennessee (FRANKLIN & CLARKSVILLE) to try to rescue Van Epps as Rep. @aftynbehn4tn closes the gap in a Trump +20 district
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
He’s really popular! I bet he’ll persuade many to vote maga!
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1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
A must read. Long, but worth it.
This piece took me over 2 months to write.
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
0714
A Story About Illegal Orders
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A must read. Long, but worth it.
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Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735398) #nature #illustration #art
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735398) #nature #illustration #art
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November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Highly recommend. $5 a month works wonders.
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BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
![United States v. Young, 107 F.3d 903, 907 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (quoting United States v. NYNEX
Corp., 8 F.3d 52, 54 (D.C. Cir. 1993)).
In conducting such inquiry, Plaintiffs submit that the Court should "require the
government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not
to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025." ECF No. 193 (Pl. Resp.) at 1. "[O]nce these declarations are filed and depending on what
information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness
testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided." Id. The Government
similarly notes: "If the Court believes any further information is needed for [its inquiry],
Defendants respectfully request an opportunity to provide that information to the Court by way
of declarations in the first instance (as even Plaintiffs agree is appropriate)." Def. Resp. at 1.
The Court will adopt the parties' agreement on starting with declarations; it will then
assess the need for witness testimony. It therefore ORDERS that by December 5, 2025, the
Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the
transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025. Such
declarations shall detail their roles in such decision.
/s/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
Chief Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicx7z6kdhaurlvb57itwjpbfpf5odxbgnqxt5lv2ohefi24atmw4a@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Wonderful! They are fighting the good fight, and doing it splendidly.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Wonderful! They are fighting the good fight, and doing it splendidly.
A worthy long read, initially published last July and deeply relevant at the moment
Also for thanksgiving:
Certain government actors again perpetuate the myth of the thin blue line — aka that American society is always near collapse into chaos and brutality keeps order —
so please revisit my take on what the line between order & chaos really is
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
Certain government actors again perpetuate the myth of the thin blue line — aka that American society is always near collapse into chaos and brutality keeps order —
so please revisit my take on what the line between order & chaos really is
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
Thin blue-and-yellow line
The line between American chaos and American greatness runs through Ukraine
www.greatpower.us
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A worthy long read, initially published last July and deeply relevant at the moment
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A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
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Continually amazed that someone who's been in public life as long as Trump has lacks the capacity to say anything appropriate when someone has died.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Continually amazed that someone who's been in public life as long as Trump has lacks the capacity to say anything appropriate when someone has died.
Trumplicans was the name I came up with in 2016.* Pleased to see it in action.
*presumably others also chose that term.
*presumably others also chose that term.
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trumplicans was the name I came up with in 2016.* Pleased to see it in action.
*presumably others also chose that term.
*presumably others also chose that term.
Slam.
Reminder that all the "pardons" granted to Jan6ers whose convictions were still pending were auto-pen pardons.
Trump claims “any document” signed by Joe Biden is “hereby terminated.”
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Slam.
Pass this along. It’s a great idea.
my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Pass this along. It’s a great idea.
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my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
Interesting thread
🧵I often get mobbed when I say this, but it was a mistake for liberals & leftists to cede "western civilization" to the fascists. "The West" and "Western" are important political identities. Abandoning them is no smarter than refusing to offer a positive vision of American national identity.
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Interesting thread