Sage Olson
@sageolson.me
Not a plant, nor a wise man.
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A multi billion dollar giveaway to Turbotax and other big Trump donors.
The I.R.S. is shutting down its free online system for filing tax returns, a program that the Biden administration introduced last year and that users gave high marks.
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A multi billion dollar giveaway to Turbotax and other big Trump donors.
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This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.
But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.
But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
/1
I swear the Trolley and the Flyer are timed to just exactly miss each other
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I swear the Trolley and the Flyer are timed to just exactly miss each other
@darthbluesky.bsky.social darth look at this pup I found in Svalbard
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social darth look at this pup I found in Svalbard
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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
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Just watched people taking sleeping medication for a (delayed) flight that has not yet boarded. Bold strategy Cotton etc
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just watched people taking sleeping medication for a (delayed) flight that has not yet boarded. Bold strategy Cotton etc
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Heads up! MTS Route 992 now stops at the elevated departures road that now seamlessly connects the new Terminal 1 to Terminal 2. No more battling chaotic arrivals traffic.
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Heads up! MTS Route 992 now stops at the elevated departures road that now seamlessly connects the new Terminal 1 to Terminal 2. No more battling chaotic arrivals traffic.
Transit nerds, check this out: stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
September 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Transit nerds, check this out: stations.albertguillaumes.cat
The T1 Open House was a neat idea. And SAN is finally getting an airside outdoor patio!
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The T1 Open House was a neat idea. And SAN is finally getting an airside outdoor patio!
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TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
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Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities."
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
arstechnica.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.
The damage is generational.
The damage is generational.
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Never a dull moment
July 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Never a dull moment
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KPBS stands to lose $4.3 million in federal funding that Republicans in Congress are clawing back. That’s 12% of our budget.
If you like my reporting on housing, transportation and climate change in San Diego, please donate to help ensure I can keep doing it 🙏🏻
donate.kpbs.org/kpbs/donate?...
If you like my reporting on housing, transportation and climate change in San Diego, please donate to help ensure I can keep doing it 🙏🏻
donate.kpbs.org/kpbs/donate?...
Donate to KPBS
donate.kpbs.org
July 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
KPBS stands to lose $4.3 million in federal funding that Republicans in Congress are clawing back. That’s 12% of our budget.
If you like my reporting on housing, transportation and climate change in San Diego, please donate to help ensure I can keep doing it 🙏🏻
donate.kpbs.org/kpbs/donate?...
If you like my reporting on housing, transportation and climate change in San Diego, please donate to help ensure I can keep doing it 🙏🏻
donate.kpbs.org/kpbs/donate?...
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"Frustrating, maddening, disorienting to be told you aren't worthy to do the job you've been doing. You've not worthy to hold the rank you have been selected to promote to," Navy Lt. Junior Grade Sam Rodriguez said.
San Diego-based Navy sailor faces separation as transgender military ban takes effect
San Diego Navy sailor calls transgender military ban a "betrayal" after decade of service as separation looms
www.10news.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Frustrating, maddening, disorienting to be told you aren't worthy to do the job you've been doing. You've not worthy to hold the rank you have been selected to promote to," Navy Lt. Junior Grade Sam Rodriguez said.
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“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud
Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud
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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch
June 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch
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"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social Sadly this doesn’t mean there are actually any animals on the flight but wouldn’t this be the greatest flight
June 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social Sadly this doesn’t mean there are actually any animals on the flight but wouldn’t this be the greatest flight
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![Comic. [Two houses next to each other. Piping runs from one underground, connecting it to the other.] [caption] A covertly-installed *Neighbor-Source Heat Pump* takes advantage of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihme75kw3ibwada5jzdvby6ctmeiuwpvwxkwcuww4bag43agicxz4@jpeg)
June 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion
You know those newish bike lane curb separators on Friars by IKEA/Snapdragon? Saw a truck in my rearview mirror today hit one of those so hard they almost popped over it.
June 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
You know those newish bike lane curb separators on Friars by IKEA/Snapdragon? Saw a truck in my rearview mirror today hit one of those so hard they almost popped over it.