Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social
Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Mushroom and spinach soup using turkey stock as a base. The chopped mushrooms are part oyster mushrooms and part button. #foodsky #BlueskySupperClub
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Mushroom and spinach soup using turkey stock as a base. The chopped mushrooms are part oyster mushrooms and part button. #foodsky #BlueskySupperClub
Braised meatballs with leeks and celery adapted from Diane Kochilas, The Glorious Foods of Greece (2001). #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Braised meatballs with leeks and celery adapted from Diane Kochilas, The Glorious Foods of Greece (2001). #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
Cato statement on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court: www.cato.org/news-release...
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Cato statement on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court: www.cato.org/news-release...
Making the rounds.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Making the rounds.
I spoke with Business Insider about how Congress is obliged to uphold its Constitutional role by confronting a President who unlawfully spends money that has not been appropriated by law.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I spoke with Business Insider about how Congress is obliged to uphold its Constitutional role by confronting a President who unlawfully spends money that has not been appropriated by law.
Link: www.aol.com/articles/whi...
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"The Old Issue," the Rudyard Kipling poem from 1899 from which we draw the phrase "No Truce With Kings," might make a good reading for the next #NoKings Day. This is an excerpt, full text at this link (h/t George L.): www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_o...
October 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"The Old Issue," the Rudyard Kipling poem from 1899 from which we draw the phrase "No Truce With Kings," might make a good reading for the next #NoKings Day. This is an excerpt, full text at this link (h/t George L.): www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_o...
From the @newyorker.com "Daily" today.
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
From the @newyorker.com "Daily" today.
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Pasta e ceci (pasta with chickpeas) adapted from the @ranchogordo.bsky.social Bean Book with rosemary from the garden; home cured bacon on side. #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pasta e ceci (pasta with chickpeas) adapted from the @ranchogordo.bsky.social Bean Book with rosemary from the garden; home cured bacon on side. #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
The basic situation of Trump petitioning for $230 million from, in effect, himself (given his idea that the U.S. Department of Justice acts as a mere extension of presidential will) of course must ring a bell for Gilbert and Sullivan fans. /1
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The basic situation of Trump petitioning for $230 million from, in effect, himself (given his idea that the U.S. Department of Justice acts as a mere extension of presidential will) of course must ring a bell for Gilbert and Sullivan fans. /1
Apples stuffed with ground lamb and rice, an Armenian dish from Sonia Uvezian, Cooking from the Caucasus (1976). The apples were big local Ida Reds and the stuffing included dried apricots and prunes as well as plenty of tarragon from the garden. #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Apples stuffed with ground lamb and rice, an Armenian dish from Sonia Uvezian, Cooking from the Caucasus (1976). The apples were big local Ida Reds and the stuffing included dried apricots and prunes as well as plenty of tarragon from the garden. #BlueskySupperClub #foodsky
Oh honey, it's even worse than that, some of them aren't just pretending.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Oh honey, it's even worse than that, some of them aren't just pretending.
At the fourth birthday celebration for @theunpopulist.net “We started with 500 subscribers,” said founder Shikha Dalmia. “Now we have 32,000.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
At the fourth birthday celebration for @theunpopulist.net “We started with 500 subscribers,” said founder Shikha Dalmia. “Now we have 32,000.”
With @cato.org legal associate Kimberly Coleman, who’s working on Cato’s amicus brief in Media Matters v. FTC defending @mmfa.bsky.social’s speech rights. I’m proud of Cato’s decades of work on the front lines in important First Amendment cases.
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
With @cato.org legal associate Kimberly Coleman, who’s working on Cato’s amicus brief in Media Matters v. FTC defending @mmfa.bsky.social’s speech rights. I’m proud of Cato’s decades of work on the front lines in important First Amendment cases.
Penne rigate with sautéed bell peppers, tuna and anchovies #BlueskySupperClub #WhatsCooking #foodsky
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Penne rigate with sautéed bell peppers, tuna and anchovies #BlueskySupperClub #WhatsCooking #foodsky
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I made (just me this time) what a recipe bills as Vermont Cheddar Cheese Soup. Toward the end you add grated carrots and finely diced celery plunged into boiling water for 30 secs only, then into an ice bath, taking off the raw edge but leaving crunch. Recipe link in comments. /1 #BlueskySupperClub
October 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I made (just me this time) what a recipe bills as Vermont Cheddar Cheese Soup. Toward the end you add grated carrots and finely diced celery plunged into boiling water for 30 secs only, then into an ice bath, taking off the raw edge but leaving crunch. Recipe link in comments. /1 #BlueskySupperClub
From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.
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The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.
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Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.
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Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute
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Sep 19
Replying to
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we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efpytyxmwow5ffwi3dphhrlq/bafkreiapylb35eyzeglxaa56d2ffxw7jhzbbecilrc3ucunv35m5xjyesy@jpeg)
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The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.
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President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
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Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efpytyxmwow5ffwi3dphhrlq/bafkreidrdb723v44vcedzsgfkwkybjm5y2to3vellxq7do37gf7b754y6m@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.
On the old site, ICE's post attacking my colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social and @cato.org has the chuds a-stir.
October 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On the old site, ICE's post attacking my colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social and @cato.org has the chuds a-stir.
Costa Rican food booth at the Frederick Hispanic Heritage Festival. While I waited for my order a singer performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the crowd. I thought perhaps she was lingering an extra moment on the “free” in “land of the free,” but that may have been just my imagination.
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Costa Rican food booth at the Frederick Hispanic Heritage Festival. While I waited for my order a singer performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the crowd. I thought perhaps she was lingering an extra moment on the “free” in “land of the free,” but that may have been just my imagination.