Steve Olson
@steveolson.bsky.social
Humble ad guy. potato influencer. whiskey & cephalopod obsessed. expat minnesotan. Novice wine drinker and bonsai... uh... keeper?
Sportsball: Vikings, Tottenham, Bath Rugby.
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
At some point familiarity with @dril.bsky.social's oeuvre is going to become as fundamental to understanding American discourse as reading Shakespeare's.
John Woo: ‘Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my film is dying.’
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
At some point familiarity with @dril.bsky.social's oeuvre is going to become as fundamental to understanding American discourse as reading Shakespeare's.
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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK 2: Air Traffic Boogaloo!
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK 2: Air Traffic Boogaloo!
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
Ok, I am embarrassed to say that, while I've been familiar with Joyce Carol Oates for decades, i've for some reason (mainly that I don't read enough fiction) never read any JCO. Given the large body of work, any recs?
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ok, I am embarrassed to say that, while I've been familiar with Joyce Carol Oates for decades, i've for some reason (mainly that I don't read enough fiction) never read any JCO. Given the large body of work, any recs?
“Notebooks full of ideas, Binders full of women” would be a heckuva pop country song chorus.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Notebooks full of ideas, Binders full of women” would be a heckuva pop country song chorus.
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What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
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The thing about caving on the shutdown is that it immediately emboldens the GOP on every other issue. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Republicans take a big swing on labor reform
Senate HELP Committee Republicans unveiled a slate of bills aimed at raising the bar for filing grievances with the National Labor Relations Board.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The thing about caving on the shutdown is that it immediately emboldens the GOP on every other issue. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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We are going to need a slew of Reconstruction-like constitutional amendments including drastic reform of presidential pardons.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
We are going to need a slew of Reconstruction-like constitutional amendments including drastic reform of presidential pardons.
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The reason Dems are losing the endgame is that, from the best I can tell as an outsider following the news, they never had a strategy to win the endgame
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The reason Dems are losing the endgame is that, from the best I can tell as an outsider following the news, they never had a strategy to win the endgame
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
Joe lieberman bucked the Dems and tanked a public option, John McCain heroically bucked the GOP to save Obamacare… which of these two votes looks better these days?!
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Joe lieberman bucked the Dems and tanked a public option, John McCain heroically bucked the GOP to save Obamacare… which of these two votes looks better these days?!
my brothers in christ, you failed to convict a ham sandwich earlier this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
my brothers in christ, you failed to convict a ham sandwich earlier this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Is it just me, or is JJ kinda the opposite of Captain Kirk? When the Vikings need 3, he throws for 25 (and gets the ball tipped) instead of when we need 7 and Kirk throws for 3. I prefer the JJ version… but still. #SKOL
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Is it just me, or is JJ kinda the opposite of Captain Kirk? When the Vikings need 3, he throws for 25 (and gets the ball tipped) instead of when we need 7 and Kirk throws for 3. I prefer the JJ version… but still. #SKOL
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
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really good reporting apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
really good reporting apnews.com/article/trum...
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man