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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · 23d

Maybe we should spend less time worrying about the causes and cures of autism and more time figuring out how to support autistic folks (& all disabled ppl) so they/we can live happy, healthy, safe and loved lives. Put money towards care not cures.

Weekend Update: Jeanine Pirro on the Mexico–United States Border - SNL

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Aug 4

As a @washingtonspirit.com fan, I’d love to see the team boycott the upcoming CONCACAF match in San Salvador over Trump admin’s brutal use of the inhumane CECOT penitentiary. We are sending immigrants to a Salvadoran megaprison that violates international law. Maybe we shouldn’t play soccer there.

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · May 9

I would love it if Cecily Strong as Judge Jeannine was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbt...

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Apr 18

Dear Sec. Kennedy: This year I paid the IRS 22% of my wages. I made a podcast for The Atlantic, baseball sucks, poetry is best left to poets & I have a partner of 7 years. I am so good at using the toilet on my own, I often clog it right up. Not knowing I was autistic is what destroyed me.

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Apr 9

Ok, I have four hours left to hit my stretch goal for my podcast Kickstarter. I need to get $700 to get there. Can you help?! Thank you!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/obe...

A narrative podcast about what happens when the influencer economy, adventure tourism and climate change collide in the high Himalayas.

Pocatello Police defends shooting 17 year old with autism: teen remains in critical condition

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Apr 8

And this is why every first responder should be required to do autism training to understand how to de-escalate these situations. This could have been avoided with proper training. https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2025-04-07/pocatello-police-shooting-victim-autism

Pocatello Police made a press statement defending the weekend shooting of a 17-year-old with autism. On Monday, his family reported to Local News 8 the teen was in critical condition.

www.boisestatepublicradio.org

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is a great story from @propublica.org about a truly despicable practice that Americans should be ashamed of. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

www.propublica.org

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 24

I think what this country really needs is a Baby Jessica stuck in a well type event to bring us all together.

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 19

So so scary

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Mar 19

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 19

I can't be the only person wondering if astronauts Butch and Suni...

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 14

The good folks at @kickstarter.com named Race To The Top Of The World one of their "Projects We Love." I'm nearly at 50% of my goal. Can you help me pass the halfway mark? Thanks! #projectswelove www.kickstarter.com/projects/obe...

A narrative podcast about what happens when the influencer economy, adventure tourism and climate change collide in the high Himalayas.

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hey friends! I'm trying something new — I'm doing a Kickstarter to fund my new narrative podcast. I'd love your support. It's a rough time for all of us, but donating to my new show could be cheaper than a carton of eggs or a gallon of gas. Any support would be so appreciated! Thank you!

A narrative podcast about what happens when the influencer economy, adventure tourism and climate change collide in the high Himalayas.

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Ashleyanne Krigbaum @wambamash.bsky.social · Mar 10

As I keep seeing excellent journalists get pushed out of the corporate podcast world, I'm excited to see how community-funded projects, like my pal Lauren's, shape up. www.kickstarter.com/projects/obe...

A narrative podcast about what happens when the influencer economy, adventure tourism and climate change collide in the high Himalayas.

Coming soon: Race To The Top Of The World

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 6

I'm working on a new podcast project and I'm launching a Kickstarter next week to fund it. I hope you'll consider supporting it. And by "consider" I mean open up your wallet and give me all the cash that you were going to use to buy one carton of eggs. Thanks!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/obe...

A narrative podcast about what happens when the influencer economy, adventure tourism and climate change collide in the high Himalayas.

The Podcast of Magical Thinking

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 6

This week's episode of Radio Atlantic from @theatlantic.com debunks the podcast The Telepathy Tapes and it's pseudoscientific claims about non-speaking autistic children. Very worth a listen! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Don’t fall for The Telepathy Tapes.

www.theatlantic.com

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Mar 3

So we can’t send food aid to Sudan because that’s a bad use of U.S. taxpayer money, but somehow $4bil worth U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel is benefitting us? How?

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is what being a woman in media is like.

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 26

I cannot believe that the person who made that pseudoscience nonsense podcast The Telepathy Tapes went on Joe Rogan spouting her magical ESP autist garbage. Except I guess I can because like attracts like.

'Corrupt purposes': See Jan. 6 juror on Trump's inexperienced loyalists running the FBI

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 26

I did a TV spot yesterday on @thebeat.msnbc.com about J6 jury duty. Cute how my neck turned scarlet. But I still look 1mil times better than Dan Bongino. https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-corrupt-purposes-see-jan-6-juror-on-trump-s-inexperienced-loyalists-running-the-fbi-232920133636

MSNBC's Ari Melber reports on new backlash to Trump's controversial pick for FBI deputy director, right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino. Lauren Ober, who served as a juror in a Jan. 6 trial, and John Harwo...

www.msnbc.com

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 18

Damn, I wish I wasn’t so stupid. Then I would be able to understanding why dunking on me - a freelancer who makes excellent longform narrative podcasts and does not work for anyone - is something anyone would care about or be interested in.

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 18

I have no idea what this means. But ok

Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 18

No. My producers at The Atlantic.

Opinion | I was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me.

Reposted by Lauren Ober

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · Feb 17

"When the jury summons for federal criminal court arrived in my mailbox in November 2023, I knew I had to answer it," @oberandout.bsky.social writes.

"I had to answer this one because in my gut I knew it wasn’t going to be just any old criminal case."

Trump’s pardons of virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I safe?

wapo.st

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Lauren Ober @oberandout.bsky.social · Feb 17

We had dozens of hours of recordings and two amazing producers who listened to all of them! And we let the tape guide the writing. It’s a sort of alchemy I can’t really explain! Thanks for reading!