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Steve Olson
@steveolson.bsky.social
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Humble ad guy. potato influencer. whiskey & cephalopod obsessed. expat minnesotan. Novice wine drinker and bonsai... uh... keeper? Sportsball: Vikings, Tottenham, Bath Rugby.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · Jan 10
Damn, "Hurricane Season" was dark.. A perfect book to kick off the 2025 Reading Season. I did struggle with how to feel about it, but reading @jcljules.bsky.social's 2020 review citing Marlon James' quote about the need to risk "pornography" in describing the impacts of violence helped. #booksky
Cover image of "Hurricane Season" by Fernanda Melchor
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h
Nobody ever wants to talk about or admit this but it happened.
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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1h
Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1h
Such Covert. Much coup. Wow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d
Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h
👇🎯💯

Unprecedentedly good fiscal & monetary policy. Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades, because the lesson the Democrats have now learned, for at least a generation, is that you should never again try & avoid them, because you will be destroyed in the media & the court of public opinion.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 16h
there is something desperately sad about people who don’t want to see real humans make art.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d
this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look
Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 22h
Travis Kelce, call your publicist. www.cnn.com/science/supe...
Scientists create ‘Superwood’ that’s 10 times stronger than steel | CNN
A US company has engineered a new type of wood that it says has up to 10 times the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, while also being up to six times lighter.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 23h
Well, someone on bluesky said something about Stephen Miller's non-existent hairline... so...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d
Free speech means Republicans can say what they want with no consequences for speaking reprehensibly.

"the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely—and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo..."
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d
Young Republicans group chat.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1d
yeah, i was somewhat suspicious of the allegation. Thanks!
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1d
(ftr, saw a piece by her on homeric translation in the NYT Review of Books and she seems pretty rad)
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1d
thanks! i had seen some criticism that hers was kinda overly contemporized… guessing you didn’t feel that way?
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1d
These horses woke up and chose violence.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 1d
Dearest nerds: Which Illiad translation should I read? Looking for a more poetic than academic translation, but don't really want it too modernly idiomatic. Google hasn't helped.

Yes, I just finished and loved "Song of Achilles", and only read The Odyssey in school.

Go go gadget #booksky
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d
1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.
Quid Pro Presidency
Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 2d
RIGHT?! It is known. There is only one reasonable explanation.
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 2d
a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland is dancing
ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland is dancing
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 2d
at some point we need to consider the possibility that matt stoller may have some kind of public humiliation kink.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob" Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 2d
congratulations!
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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 2d
Quick reminder that Christopher Columbus was considered a vile, repulsive, evil man even in his own time. His actions as governor of Spain's New World colonies landed him in prison for his cruelty and violence.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d
The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d
Do not step to menswear guy. He is very good at this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob" Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d
ICE was apparently out doing its thing this morning outside a Catholic church in West Rogers Park in case you were hoping that the federal government was prepared to live up to the standards of propriety set by the Barksdale Organization.
The Wire | On A Sunday Morning?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d
Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
Both can be true:
1. Many bad faith actors are trying to impose conservative viewpoints on academia and should be resisted as threats to academic freedom
2. Viewpoint diversity (broadly defined) is good for free inquiry scatter.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... eternallyradicalidea.com/p/is-higher-...
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