Joseph O'Sullivan
@olympiajoe.bsky.social
Journalist covering politics/gov’t/democracy/crisis. Ex-Cascade PBS, Seattle Times, Rapid City Journal. PNW/Jersey shore https://olympiajoe.substack.com/
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Joseph O'Sullivan
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· May 20
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is on a quest to bring back the Blue Dogs
The Democratic congresswoman's strategy of appealing to working class rural moderates won her Washington's 3rd District. Will it work anywhere else?
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NEW: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is on a quest to bring back the Blue Dogs-
The Democratic congresswoman's strategy of appealing to working class rural moderates won her Washington's 3rd District. Will it work anywhere else?
For @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social
www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...
The Democratic congresswoman's strategy of appealing to working class rural moderates won her Washington's 3rd District. Will it work anywhere else?
For @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social
www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...
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Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military:
Out: New York Times, Washington Post.
In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV.
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Out: New York Times, Washington Post.
In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV.
wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social
Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout
A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military:
Out: New York Times, Washington Post.
In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV.
wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social
Out: New York Times, Washington Post.
In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV.
wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
‘Current and former national security officials … describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.‘
It is not a coincidence that ICE/DHS are the only part of state capacity that Trump is expanding, and also that they are engaged in brazenly unconstitutional acts.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
‘Current and former national security officials … describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.‘
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Good morning! Our database is now LIVE. Please flag us any social media posts, news reports, or official reports of crowd counts.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Good morning! Our database is now LIVE. Please flag us any social media posts, news reports, or official reports of crowd counts.
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Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.
For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.
For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
Big No Kings turnout in tiny & conservative Ship Bottom NJ
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Big No Kings turnout in tiny & conservative Ship Bottom NJ
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These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.
ICE in Oregon: Pointing rifles at family, stopping teens at gunpoint, pinning man during arrest
These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.
www.oregonlive.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
Notes on a Nor'easter, Saturday's No Kings rallies, and my upcoming open mic reading in Somers Point NJ.
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Flood it again
I love a good Nor'easter. Plus, a note on the No Kings demonstrations Oct. 18, and my upcoming reading in Somers Point, NJ.
olympiajoe.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Notes on a Nor'easter, Saturday's No Kings rallies, and my upcoming open mic reading in Somers Point NJ.
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Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.
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Lately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been siding with Democrats to call for extensions to health care subsidies and supporting an effort both Speaker Johnson and President Trump oppose to force a vote on releasing Epstein files.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Lately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been siding with Democrats to call for extensions to health care subsidies and supporting an effort both Speaker Johnson and President Trump oppose to force a vote on releasing Epstein files.
'They posited that the recent influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for a decline in U.S. moral standards and were part of a Catholic conspiracy to seize power.'
Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists-
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Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists-
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Anti-immigrant riots shook American cities. In D.C., Marines were sent into the streets.
This was 1857, and violence had been fanned by the American Party, which posited that the influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for declining moral standards.
wapo.st
October 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
'They posited that the recent influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for a decline in U.S. moral standards and were part of a Catholic conspiracy to seize power.'
Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists-
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Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists-
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A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
trib.al
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
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A professor who drew the ire of some South Dakota politicians for a 700-word social media post on conservative activist Charlie Kirk says calls to punish educators for their private views will take the U.S. down a "dangerous path."
Read more: buff.ly/YdvjkaZ
Read more: buff.ly/YdvjkaZ
southdakotasearchlight.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A professor who drew the ire of some South Dakota politicians for a 700-word social media post on conservative activist Charlie Kirk says calls to punish educators for their private views will take the U.S. down a "dangerous path."
Read more: buff.ly/YdvjkaZ
Read more: buff.ly/YdvjkaZ
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“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”
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And absolutely nothing comes close to replacing it…
“All of Washington is short on the dogged reporting needed to maintain a healthy society."
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
Remembering Crosscut: 18 years of independent journalism in WA
As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital newsroom, formerly Crosscut, current and former staff members reflect on some of the outlet’s impactful reporting.
www.cascadepbs.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And absolutely nothing comes close to replacing it…
“All of Washington is short on the dogged reporting needed to maintain a healthy society."
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
Remembering Crosscut: 18 years of independent journalism in WA
As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital newsroom, formerly Crosscut, current and former staff members reflect on some of the outlet’s impactful reporting.
www.cascadepbs.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“All of Washington is short on the dogged reporting needed to maintain a healthy society."
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:
www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...
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Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?
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JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.
Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.
Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
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October 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Spoke to a landscaper yesterday in ruby-red Ocean County NJ. He knows I live on the west coast; he supports the military going into PDX.
He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again
He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Spoke to a landscaper yesterday in ruby-red Ocean County NJ. He knows I live on the west coast; he supports the military going into PDX.
He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again
He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again
This guy snuck past security to get to the press offices a few years ago, where he delivered donuts to myself & Austin Jenkins of public radio.
One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Intruder damages ‘facilities and historical artifacts’ in WA Capitol, governor says
The break-in damaged "priceless" artifacts in the State Reception Room. A judge declined to set bail for the suspect but ordered a mental health evaluation.
www.seattletimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This guy snuck past security to get to the press offices a few years ago, where he delivered donuts to myself & Austin Jenkins of public radio.
One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Wrote about competing visions of what makes America America through the lens of “One Battle After Another”.
The corrosive rigidity of fascism
Is America something fixed or something fluid? Is it a country founded on a perfect set of ideas or a country that has struggled to become perfect? Is it a system that works or one that sputters, one ...
www.pbump.net
October 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Wrote about competing visions of what makes America America through the lens of “One Battle After Another”.
'U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said the government appeared to be directly defying her previous temporary restraining order from a day earlier blocking the administration from sending Oregon’s National Guard to the city by instead deploying members of California’s Guard.'
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Judge deals Trump new setback in plans to deploy troops to Portland
U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut temporarily blocked the administration from sending any state’s National Guard troops under federal control to Portland.
wapo.st
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
'U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said the government appeared to be directly defying her previous temporary restraining order from a day earlier blocking the administration from sending Oregon’s National Guard to the city by instead deploying members of California’s Guard.'
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“These leaked messages make it blatantly clear that the decision to send troops to Portland is based on political optics, not safety,” said U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.
‘Dangerous and un-American’: Politicians deride Trump administration over leaked messages on deploying Army to Portland
Several Democrats in Minnesota and Oregon criticized the administration this weekend, responding to an exclusive report by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
bit.ly
October 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“These leaked messages make it blatantly clear that the decision to send troops to Portland is based on political optics, not safety,” said U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.