Chris Ott
@christopherott.bsky.social
Views here are mine (especially anything that makes you mad).
Trump signs up along rural Wisconsin roads for most of the last 10 years are completely gone now. Over the last two months, I’ve driven hundreds of miles along these roads, and literally the only thing I’ve seen about him was this the other day: #TACO on the tile of a gas station bathroom.
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump signs up along rural Wisconsin roads for most of the last 10 years are completely gone now. Over the last two months, I’ve driven hundreds of miles along these roads, and literally the only thing I’ve seen about him was this the other day: #TACO on the tile of a gas station bathroom.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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If you had a time machine and went back to tell American conservatives that the U.S.S.R. was going to break up, but one of the republics would need help to keep its independence from Moscow, they would have been so excited!
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you had a time machine and went back to tell American conservatives that the U.S.S.R. was going to break up, but one of the republics would need help to keep its independence from Moscow, they would have been so excited!
Kids these days will never have the experience of buying a CD, and suffering the scorn of the cool music people working in the store.
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Kids these days will never have the experience of buying a CD, and suffering the scorn of the cool music people working in the store.
Mapquest lets YOU decide what to call it.
Gulf of Mexico Has a Much Better President Than We Do
Check out my custom Gulf of Mexico Has a Much Better President Than We Do map created with MapQuest!
gulfof.mapquest.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Mapquest lets YOU decide what to call it.
Does he think he's Uncle Sam?
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Does he think he's Uncle Sam?
@wired.com is doing really important reporting on this huge threat to taxpayer dollars and democratic control of the U.S. government. To support this, I’ve now subscribed, for the first time.
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
www.wired.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
@wired.com is doing really important reporting on this huge threat to taxpayer dollars and democratic control of the U.S. government. To support this, I’ve now subscribed, for the first time.
A member of EM's crew has already been forced out. Exposure, pressure, and push-back are helping, at least a little. As the consequences of what they're trying to get away with speed up, there will be chances to bring down more of them, and hopefully all of them. fortune.com/2025/02/07/2...
25-year-old employed by Elon Musk’s DOGE who posted he was ‘racist before it was cool’ resigns after being linked to deleted social-media account
Marco Elez was part of a team of young, tech-savvy DOGE workers that have been tearing through government agencies.
fortune.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A member of EM's crew has already been forced out. Exposure, pressure, and push-back are helping, at least a little. As the consequences of what they're trying to get away with speed up, there will be chances to bring down more of them, and hopefully all of them. fortune.com/2025/02/07/2...
Wondered about this too-perfect photo, and it does turn out to be altered. Let’s not fall for the same kind of bullshit his followers have. We don’t need fakes when the belligerence, selfishness, and dishonesty are so real.
Photo of ICE Agents Arresting Man Wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-Shirt Is Fake
A photographer for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured the original, unaltered picture during arrests made in Ohio in 2018.
www.snopes.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Wondered about this too-perfect photo, and it does turn out to be altered. Let’s not fall for the same kind of bullshit his followers have. We don’t need fakes when the belligerence, selfishness, and dishonesty are so real.
Good recent article by a Turkish journalist sharing her perspective: “America will survive the next four years if Democrats pick themselves up and start learning from the successes of opponents of autocracy across the globe.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.
I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned.
www.politico.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Good recent article by a Turkish journalist sharing her perspective: “America will survive the next four years if Democrats pick themselves up and start learning from the successes of opponents of autocracy across the globe.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Is AI the new BS?
January 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Is AI the new BS?
Sunlight yesterday made Wisconsin’s capitol especially pretty.
January 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sunlight yesterday made Wisconsin’s capitol especially pretty.
It should be possible to travel by train between most cities in the Midwest within just a few hours. This video shows five fixes at Chicago Union Station that would open the way for this. youtu.be/SNIqCLR6rMs
Fix Chicago Union Station and Build a High Speed Rail Hub
YouTube video by High Speed Rail Alliance
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It should be possible to travel by train between most cities in the Midwest within just a few hours. This video shows five fixes at Chicago Union Station that would open the way for this. youtu.be/SNIqCLR6rMs
He has no mandate for big changes. Instead of 47, let’s call him 49.9, for the percentage of the vote he scraped in with.
January 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
He has no mandate for big changes. Instead of 47, let’s call him 49.9, for the percentage of the vote he scraped in with.
Hard lessons might be coming, and there might not be much that any of us alone can do about it for now. But, as the saying goes, we can try to be the change we want to see in the world. That can include trying not to be anything like such a selfish, ignorant man.
January 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hard lessons might be coming, and there might not be much that any of us alone can do about it for now. But, as the saying goes, we can try to be the change we want to see in the world. That can include trying not to be anything like such a selfish, ignorant man.
During January in Wisconsin, temperatures climbing to near freezing just feel refreshingly cool. ❄️
January 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
During January in Wisconsin, temperatures climbing to near freezing just feel refreshingly cool. ❄️
On a mostly deserted campus over Thanksgiving, a little group of us grabbed another friend’s hand-labeled recording of a movie called Blue Velvet. “I think it’s a comedy,” someone said, and we popped it in. 🫨https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/david-lynch-dies-director-twin-peaks-blue-velvet-age-78/
David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," dies at 78
David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced.
www.cbsnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
On a mostly deserted campus over Thanksgiving, a little group of us grabbed another friend’s hand-labeled recording of a movie called Blue Velvet. “I think it’s a comedy,” someone said, and we popped it in. 🫨https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/david-lynch-dies-director-twin-peaks-blue-velvet-age-78/
More people live in LA County than in literally most American states.
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
More people live in LA County than in literally most American states.
All I wanted was a glass of water.
January 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
All I wanted was a glass of water.