Maureen Ogle
@maureenogle.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie
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An Excerpt from The Price of Plenty — Maureen Ogle
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I recently published a new book.
The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America.
Available at bookshopDOTorg, Amazon, B&N, Kobo.
PS: price/content same everywhere. As physical objects, however, the best QUALITY hard/paper books are at bookshop and B&N.
Read an excerpt!
The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America.
Available at bookshopDOTorg, Amazon, B&N, Kobo.
PS: price/content same everywhere. As physical objects, however, the best QUALITY hard/paper books are at bookshop and B&N.
Read an excerpt!
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Solidarity.
What gave you courage in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Solidarity.
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Check out these lowrider stamps the USPS will be releasing in 2026. [kottke.org]
USPS Lowrider Stamps
The US Postal Service released a sneak peek at some of the stamps they’re going to release in 2026. Among them are these lowrider stamps:
Five models grace the stamps: a blue 1946 Chevrolet Fleetline named Let the Goo
kottke.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Check out these lowrider stamps the USPS will be releasing in 2026. [kottke.org]
Must-read here from @mmasnick.bsky.social on the Orwellian logic of current governance
Published as opinion but it sits on solid reporting based on officials’ words via x, the official state media outlet.
The minions speak; reporters convey to non-x users. Eg, majority of Americans.
Published as opinion but it sits on solid reporting based on officials’ words via x, the official state media outlet.
The minions speak; reporters convey to non-x users. Eg, majority of Americans.
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Must-read here from @mmasnick.bsky.social on the Orwellian logic of current governance
Published as opinion but it sits on solid reporting based on officials’ words via x, the official state media outlet.
The minions speak; reporters convey to non-x users. Eg, majority of Americans.
Published as opinion but it sits on solid reporting based on officials’ words via x, the official state media outlet.
The minions speak; reporters convey to non-x users. Eg, majority of Americans.
In The Gilded Age series, Bertha Russell owns a number of garments like this.
Stunning!
Stunning!
It positively glows, this early 1890s tea gown by Emile Pingat. The variegated black & yellow silk creates a kind of burnished hue, additional drama fashioned in full sleeves & high collar. It seems quite structured for a tea gown but it certainly makes a statement #NatGalleryAus #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
December 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In The Gilded Age series, Bertha Russell owns a number of garments like this.
Stunning!
Stunning!
A truly lovely and lively image.
An Eastern Gray Squirrel with a ready escape at its back while it enjoys a peanut.
#SquirrelSaturday
📷🦊🥜
#SquirrelSaturday
📷🦊🥜
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A truly lovely and lively image.
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Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
+1. The reason I’ve loved doing radio and podcasts was because they were audio only. The shift to visual pods is 100% annoying.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
+1. The reason I’ve loved doing radio and podcasts was because they were audio only. The shift to visual pods is 100% annoying.
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I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
Merry Christmas, friends! Here's Cormac McCarthy on novel writing:
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
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Sometimes simple things are funniest.
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sometimes simple things are funniest.
Sister, none of us do.
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Sister, none of us do.
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Truly, only in NYC.
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Truly, only in NYC.
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Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
US Bombs Nigeria on Christmas Day in Trump’s Latest Military Escalation
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
truthout.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump has now bombed more countries than any president in US history.
Life in these times
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Life in these times
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Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
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Evening shoes, brand T. Eaton, 1930-35. Via FIDM Museum.
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Evening shoes, brand T. Eaton, 1930-35. Via FIDM Museum.
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ICYMI, the stunt Bari Weiss pulled this week really touched a nerve for me.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ICYMI, the stunt Bari Weiss pulled this week really touched a nerve for me.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
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Two stories side by side in WashPost
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Two stories side by side in WashPost
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My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.
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271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
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Holiday Gold
May all your selfies be bright!
May all your selfies be bright!
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Holiday Gold
May all your selfies be bright!
May all your selfies be bright!
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Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.
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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
papers.ssrn.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
And I still want to know why Princeton published it.
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And I still want to know why Princeton published it.
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“they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
Psalm 22:18
Psalm 22:18
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
Psalm 22:18
Psalm 22:18