Jason Olson
@jeotraveller.bsky.social
Food. International development. Travel. YIMBY. California. Good government. Spy fiction. Not necessarily in that order. Posts are my own opinions and views.
Californians: Vote Yes on prop 50 as soon as you receive your ballot!
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Californians: Vote Yes on prop 50 as soon as you receive your ballot!
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Please take a minute out of your day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and urge him to sign a critical piece of pro-housing, pro-transit, pro-climate legislation.
Rumor is that Gavin Newsom is wavering on housing and might veto SB 79. If you live in California, please reach out to the governor’s office today: cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Call the Governor to sign SB 79!
Please call the Governor and urge him to sign SB 79!
cayimby.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Please take a minute out of your day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and urge him to sign a critical piece of pro-housing, pro-transit, pro-climate legislation.
All Californians: Please call Governor Newsome now and urge him to sign SB 79. It’s easy, you can wait to talk to a very friendly staff member or leave a message. Talking to a human probably best but either beats doing nothing!
Please call the Governor and ask him to sign SB 79!
(916) 445-2841
(916) 445-2841
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
All Californians: Please call Governor Newsome now and urge him to sign SB 79. It’s easy, you can wait to talk to a very friendly staff member or leave a message. Talking to a human probably best but either beats doing nothing!
Great. In LA we can build accommodation for dead people but screw the living???
A Woodland Hills nursery is turning into a cemetery. Some locals are fighting it
Boething Treeland Nursery has served flora to the San Fernando Valley for the last seven decades, but plans by its new owner call for a cemetery on the 32-acre property in Woodland Hills. Locals are c...
www.latimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great. In LA we can build accommodation for dead people but screw the living???
Well…this is starting fast.
August 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Well…this is starting fast.
God forbid New York actually build more apartments
Thousands of New Yorkers work — then go home to shelters. They can’t afford apartments, despite some earning $50,000 or more.
They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters
Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
God forbid New York actually build more apartments
2.9 million dead just because of cuts in global HIV funding. Millions more from cuts for global vaccines and other health, nutrition and humanitarian support. Trump and Elon are actually going to beat Pol Pot and close in on Mao on the mass death league table.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study
Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
2.9 million dead just because of cuts in global HIV funding. Millions more from cuts for global vaccines and other health, nutrition and humanitarian support. Trump and Elon are actually going to beat Pol Pot and close in on Mao on the mass death league table.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
In the theme of abundance...I think we need more abundance on legislators. A US House of 800+ members, a California Assembly of 200, a California senate of 100, and LA City Council of 45+. It's insane we've not grown these bodies to be more representative of the diverse communities they govern.
March 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In the theme of abundance...I think we need more abundance on legislators. A US House of 800+ members, a California Assembly of 200, a California senate of 100, and LA City Council of 45+. It's insane we've not grown these bodies to be more representative of the diverse communities they govern.
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced plans to ban pharmaceutical advertisements on television.
March 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
If the UK, Canada, Europe were smart they'd dedicate a lot of resources to their universities to hire US STEM academics to improve their universities and research capabilities. I hate to see the US lose this intellectual capacity, but I'd hate more to see it lost to the world.
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If the UK, Canada, Europe were smart they'd dedicate a lot of resources to their universities to hire US STEM academics to improve their universities and research capabilities. I hate to see the US lose this intellectual capacity, but I'd hate more to see it lost to the world.
If you have to say it this loud and keep repeating it, there’s a good reason to doubt it
Schumer on CBS: "I am the best leader for the Senate ... I am the best at winning Senate seats."
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you have to say it this loud and keep repeating it, there’s a good reason to doubt it
For Trump/Musk life worthy of protecting = white and unborn.
Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary.
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For Trump/Musk life worthy of protecting = white and unborn.
Be like @captmarkkelly.bsky.social! I now decline Uber and Lyft rides when the offer is a Tesla, same with rental cars. I'm sad about the impacts on drivers who bought them and the emissions implications, but that pales in comparison to what Musk is doing via his $TSLA paper wealth.
I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired!
New ride coming soon.
New ride coming soon.
March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Be like @captmarkkelly.bsky.social! I now decline Uber and Lyft rides when the offer is a Tesla, same with rental cars. I'm sad about the impacts on drivers who bought them and the emissions implications, but that pales in comparison to what Musk is doing via his $TSLA paper wealth.
Penfolds is an Australian wine, is the Times confusing Austria and Australia?
March 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Penfolds is an Australian wine, is the Times confusing Austria and Australia?
The number of people who will die because of Musk's slashing is truly horrific. And to think these are people are the ones leading the charge on AI, which will have massive global implications on lives and livelihoods...they clearly won't care one bit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The number of people who will die because of Musk's slashing is truly horrific. And to think these are people are the ones leading the charge on AI, which will have massive global implications on lives and livelihoods...they clearly won't care one bit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
What a sad failure of legislative oversight and accountability. @whitehouse.senate.gov is failing the good people of Rhode Island by prioritizing his buddy over his job and constituents’ wellbeing.
No questions for RFK Jr. from Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, his old law school pal www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
No Questions For RFK Jr. From Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, His Law School Pal
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What a sad failure of legislative oversight and accountability. @whitehouse.senate.gov is failing the good people of Rhode Island by prioritizing his buddy over his job and constituents’ wellbeing.
This is why we need the state to take over. LA officials have completely failed in allowing more housing to make our city liveable. They are beholden to homeowners who fight any increased density near them, and for the good of the city, region and state we need the state gov to stop this madness.
January 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is why we need the state to take over. LA officials have completely failed in allowing more housing to make our city liveable. They are beholden to homeowners who fight any increased density near them, and for the good of the city, region and state we need the state gov to stop this madness.
Evil purely for the sake of being evil.
The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.
Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump's first term.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Evil purely for the sake of being evil.
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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Wholly agree. Also concerned about violence in response to that political backlash, especially now that Tarrio and similar ilk probably feel they can act with impunity.
Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.
January 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wholly agree. Also concerned about violence in response to that political backlash, especially now that Tarrio and similar ilk probably feel they can act with impunity.
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I know a lot of you are asking us or talking about the 12 IGs (Inspector Generals) being fired. They aren't stepping down until it's done correctly. This is how you #Resist
January 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I know a lot of you are asking us or talking about the 12 IGs (Inspector Generals) being fired. They aren't stepping down until it's done correctly. This is how you #Resist
He is a disgusting Nazi. Teslas just appear like mobile swastikas to me now.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany
Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
He is a disgusting Nazi. Teslas just appear like mobile swastikas to me now.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...