Steve Olson

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Kinda wild that Zach Bryan is to the left of CBS News today

A gelato store sign reading: “ Sample our potato special.”

Dublin is amazing, but even I am going to balk at potato gelato. @darthbluesky.bsky.social were you aware of this?!

Caravaggio’s “The Taking of the Christ”

For today’s lesson in sensitivity: Rando American old dude came up to me in the Irish National Gallery to mansplain Caravaggio.

Can’t imagine how much it must suck to deal with that on the regular.

from your lips to The Dark Lord’s ear.

oh, we didn’t GO there… but thanks for the porterhouse tip. we were looking for our next stop after dinner at Fish Shop!

only been here in Dublin for a few hours, but can confirm.

A flag hanging from The Quays pub in Dublin advertising they won “Ireland’s Best Tourist Bar” for 2 different years.

why would you ADVERTISE this?!

(naturally a girl was selfieing in front of it when I was walking by, so i guess that answers that.)

We had a two hour drive from Galway to Dublin today, and the curiosity was killing me, so paused the Clancy Brothers and Stiff Little Fingers playlist to listen to T Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl.

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

a poster from subway promoting “your sub on a spud”

sweet jeebus, ireland rules the potato game.

The GOP gonna lose their shit when they learn Bad Bunny’s name. The conspiracies shall be glorious.

hot take, but i detect exactly zero lie

Just imagine the thermonuclear reaction -- not just from Fox News, but the legacy media sphere -- if any Democratic president said this about the GOP during a speech to a military branch.

Meanwhile, this won't even stay in the news cycle 24 hours, if at all.

My qualifications are that I have moderated a lot of small online communities and also would ban Jesse Singal immediately.

it’s what we do.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

thankful to have missed the first half of the vikings game today as we were gallivanting about Galway. #skol

this is the most only winning strategy with bad faith actors.

Feds so out of control they are gassing the Chicago PD. So it’s all local cops they will do this too and not just the Broadview PD

America did not collapse into authoritarian rule all that quickly. It’s been in democratic backsliding since at least 2016, with lawbreaking, norm violations, dismantling of checks-and-balances, attacks on rights, etc.

A lot of this is just building on Trump’s first term. Too many discounted that.

um … that’s odd.

*pushes up glasses* ACTUALLY… pushing a rock up an incline would use far more posterior chain muscles…

this may be why i have no friends

Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard, Pritzker says “This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum," Pritzker said.

Pritzker should mobilize them first. The entire Illinois Army National Guard. Order them to protect Illinois residents from menacing outsiders, regardless of who they work for.

so dumb

two unrelated thoughts on this week’s T-Swift drop:

a) pity my search history for trying to find the first use of “dickmatized” in a song lyric.

b) If she decides to make her next drop a protest record, it’s over for the Trump Administration.

The Trump admin has now stripped TPS from over a million people. Within the next year, the remaining 300,000 who still have it may lose it (except maybe for Ukrainians).

Salvadoran TPS holders have been working legally for 20+ years. Whole families will be thrown into poverty.

“America crosses a once unthinkable bright line”