Torq Olson
@tolson421.bsky.social
Outstanding analysis.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Outstanding analysis.
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The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms
September 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms
HUGE
Trump won this district by 11.5 points.
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Iowa State Senate District 1, won byCatelin Drey, breaks the Iowa state senate supermajority! 55-44%
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Iowa State Senate District 1, won byCatelin Drey, breaks the Iowa state senate supermajority! 55-44%
I wish there was a public speaker today who could articulate Lincoln’s antidote to end times rubric in slightly less antique language. “End times” fatalism is evangelical nonsense exploited by despots and others who exploit fear.
June 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I wish there was a public speaker today who could articulate Lincoln’s antidote to end times rubric in slightly less antique language. “End times” fatalism is evangelical nonsense exploited by despots and others who exploit fear.
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Please attend this if you plan on going to a No Kings event this weekend.
TONIGHT: at 7 PM ET: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training for the upcoming NO KINGS events this Saturday: act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Please attend this if you plan on going to a No Kings event this weekend.
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It’s looking like Saturday’s No Kings mobilizations are going to be even bigger than Hands Off!
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest near you for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest near you for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s looking like Saturday’s No Kings mobilizations are going to be even bigger than Hands Off!
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest near you for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest near you for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Thanks Joni; you first.
June 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Thanks Joni; you first.
That footnote one-off carveout for the FED really highlights how this Court is just another (unelected; unaccountable) political layer (eg Bush v Gore)
May 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
That footnote one-off carveout for the FED really highlights how this Court is just another (unelected; unaccountable) political layer (eg Bush v Gore)
Yes, the next step in the survival of the Judicial Branch. Someone, somewhere must be held in contempt to try and put the breaks on the regime’s growing lawlessness.
May 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yes, the next step in the survival of the Judicial Branch. Someone, somewhere must be held in contempt to try and put the breaks on the regime’s growing lawlessness.
"Look at any program serving Americans with low or moderate incomes that Trump is trying to cut or eliminate, and you’ll likely find a particularly harsh impact on rural areas ... he's betraying the very voters who put him back in power." — @schaller67.bsky.social and @paulwaldman.bsky.social
The white rural reckoning
Trump is betraying the very voters who put him back in power.
www.publicnotice.co
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is very important. Share it far and wide. “I am requesting an attorney and invoking my right to silence.” STOP STFU SAY NO MORE.
Practice saying it out loud and then shutting up.
You may need it, including if you are stopped returning to the US.
Practice saying it out loud and then shutting up.
You may need it, including if you are stopped returning to the US.
If you are stopped by Trump's ICE goons, or any other kind of cops:
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
Memorize it.
And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
Memorize it.
And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.
May 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I was fortunate my mother opened an account for me at the local bookstore and introduced me to one of the sales ladies. I could stop in any time (after school eg.) and purchase any books I wanted. One of the first was “The Autobiography of Malcom X.”
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I was fortunate my mother opened an account for me at the local bookstore and introduced me to one of the sales ladies. I could stop in any time (after school eg.) and purchase any books I wanted. One of the first was “The Autobiography of Malcom X.”
Don’t let them privatize the US Postal Service; created 1775 by the 2nd Continental Congress.
The US mail is not for sale!
The US mail is not for sale!
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Don’t let them privatize the US Postal Service; created 1775 by the 2nd Continental Congress.
The US mail is not for sale!
The US mail is not for sale!
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Don’t let them privatize the US Postal Service; created 1775 by the 2nd Continental Congress.
The US mail is not for sale!
The US mail is not for sale!
They control what happens in their courtroom; and rightly so! This should make every judge in every courtroom in this country simmer with rage!
April 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They control what happens in their courtroom; and rightly so! This should make every judge in every courtroom in this country simmer with rage!
I clerked for Judge William M Dale in Multnomah County in law school (night classes) and after. The thought that any agency could walk into a judge’s courtroom and attempt to effect a warrantless arrest is beyond the pale.
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I clerked for Judge William M Dale in Multnomah County in law school (night classes) and after. The thought that any agency could walk into a judge’s courtroom and attempt to effect a warrantless arrest is beyond the pale.
Holy shit you guys.
This ad for Iowa Senate candidate Nathan Sage is f’ng fire.
A Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park is about to send Trump humping toady Joni Ernst back to castrating hogs.
And we can help him do it.
LFG!!!
👇
actl.ink/ntsgcmpln?re...
youtu.be/wOYyZYSn_vg?...
This ad for Iowa Senate candidate Nathan Sage is f’ng fire.
A Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park is about to send Trump humping toady Joni Ernst back to castrating hogs.
And we can help him do it.
LFG!!!
👇
actl.ink/ntsgcmpln?re...
youtu.be/wOYyZYSn_vg?...
Elect Nathan Sage to the Senate!
actl.ink
April 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I feel your pain. Did the same thing with my two boys spring skiing in MI about 25 years ago. Took that snow board right back and got skis. Tail bone ached for days!
April 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I feel your pain. Did the same thing with my two boys spring skiing in MI about 25 years ago. Took that snow board right back and got skis. Tail bone ached for days!
Sans the black jurist.
April 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sans the black jurist.
Paying lip service to due process.
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Paying lip service to due process.
This is a stunning find, and a glimpse at the Death Star scale of "mass deportation" spending foreseen in the reconciliation bill moving through Congress.
By comparison, "In the last fiscal year, D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE."
By comparison, "In the last fiscal year, D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE."
April 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM