Torq Olson
@tolson421.bsky.social
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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
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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.
"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
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
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
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
He and JE are quite a pair standing up for Iowans and Americans. The silence in the face of the destruction of the farm economy and Social Security is deafening!
March 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
He and JE are quite a pair standing up for Iowans and Americans. The silence in the face of the destruction of the farm economy and Social Security is deafening!
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Schumer needs to step aside. It’s a whole new world out there, and he only knows the old, unsuccessful moves. Step aside now, before it’s too late!
March 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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 5:36 PM
Tim Walz & Bernie Sanders are going out and getting after it, they’ve got the right idea!
March 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is so well done.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“If ever there were any doubt as to the role ICE would serve and has served under Trump’s regime, let those doubts now vanish. ICE is Trump’s Secret State Police, i..e Gestapo. The Gestapo were secret Nazi police that abducted dissenters and stifled opposition with threats, force, and torture.”
ICE Abducts & Disappears US Green Card Holder Mahmoud Khalil
ICE claims it is acting on US State Dept orders, without warrant or charge, and refuses to inform Khalil's U.S. Citizen wife or his attorney of his whereabouts
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.
UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
March 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Coming up at 12n ET, we're talking about the illegal arrest and disappearance of Columbia organizer Mahmoud Khalil by ICE despite the fact that he is legally in the US, the Tesla Takedown protests, Andrew Cuomo's abhorrent run for NYC mayor, and way more.
youtube.com/live/rrTe4t-...
youtube.com/live/rrTe4t-...
BREAKING: Columbia Protestor DISAPPEARED by ICE As Rubio Says He'll Illegally RESCIND His Green Card
YouTube video by #ResistanceLive
youtube.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This quote is making the rounds again, even though FOX deleted the interview. It's in my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I'll never forget: 1) the death threats I got in 2016 for posting the clip 2) the amount of effort put into removing HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, a bestseller, from circulation.
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“I need ammunition, not a ride.”
March 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“I need ammunition, not a ride.”
The night before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I wrote down what I thought would be Putin's strategic objectives and have been using it as a slide.
Until today, I thought he had failed in dividing NATO. But it seems we're closer to that after today's oval office meeting.
Until today, I thought he had failed in dividing NATO. But it seems we're closer to that after today's oval office meeting.
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM