Olga
@olgainseattle.bsky.social
Part-time estate lawyer until the next chapter.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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When rich people get help from the government they call it a subsidy, bailout, loophole, or tax break or incentive.
When poor people get help from the government they call it free stuff, a hand out, socialism, or communism.
When poor people get help from the government they call it free stuff, a hand out, socialism, or communism.
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When rich people get help from the government they call it a subsidy, bailout, loophole, or tax break or incentive.
When poor people get help from the government they call it free stuff, a hand out, socialism, or communism.
When poor people get help from the government they call it free stuff, a hand out, socialism, or communism.
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Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world,
Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.
Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.
September 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world,
Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.
Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.
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What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
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Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."
September 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."
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September 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
"Ballard" was ten episodes of yelling "No! It's Shut the F Up Friday!" at the TV.
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
"Ballard" was ten episodes of yelling "No! It's Shut the F Up Friday!" at the TV.
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
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We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
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Want to instead explore the Virgo Cluster as captured by Rubin at full resolution? Head to our Skyviewer and enjoy some cosmic joyscrolling! There's so much to explore and discover ✨ #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪
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June 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Want to instead explore the Virgo Cluster as captured by Rubin at full resolution? Head to our Skyviewer and enjoy some cosmic joyscrolling! There's so much to explore and discover ✨ #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪
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🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
June 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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Now, imagine a simple model in which activists opt to engage in nonviolent or violent resistance and then the state responds with typical or excess force. (To be clear, the world is more complicated, but these simplifying assumptions help us describe some common patterns.) 3/
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Now, imagine a simple model in which activists opt to engage in nonviolent or violent resistance and then the state responds with typical or excess force. (To be clear, the world is more complicated, but these simplifying assumptions help us describe some common patterns.) 3/
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“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”
A Permanent Stain on Our History
The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.
www.thebulwark.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”
I hate it here. This cruel, racist, thoughtless regime. So far have not figured out where to put skills, or how to balance appreciation for life with anger and disgust. The micro-world is great. Everything beyond is horrific.
June 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I hate it here. This cruel, racist, thoughtless regime. So far have not figured out where to put skills, or how to balance appreciation for life with anger and disgust. The micro-world is great. Everything beyond is horrific.
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The full story is here. It is heartbreaking and infuriating simultaneously. ICE's actions are actively undermining the rule of law and telling people that they shouldn't comply; that if they follow the rules, they'll be punished for it.
Stop this madness! www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...
Stop this madness! www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...
Families in Tears and Panic Outside Immigration Office as ICE Accelerates Round-Ups
Over the course of Wednesday, THE CITY witnessed at least 15 people arrested at routine, mandatory check-ins with the agency as the Trump administration escalates its crackdown.
www.thecity.nyc
June 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The full story is here. It is heartbreaking and infuriating simultaneously. ICE's actions are actively undermining the rule of law and telling people that they shouldn't comply; that if they follow the rules, they'll be punished for it.
Stop this madness! www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...
Stop this madness! www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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In other words, changes on the ground, changes to the material reality of voter lives, would cut through the information haze, overcome the information asymmetry.
That was the theory. I heard people involved say it explicitly, more than once.
It failed.
That was the theory. I heard people involved say it explicitly, more than once.
It failed.
May 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In other words, changes on the ground, changes to the material reality of voter lives, would cut through the information haze, overcome the information asymmetry.
That was the theory. I heard people involved say it explicitly, more than once.
It failed.
That was the theory. I heard people involved say it explicitly, more than once.
It failed.
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Judge: There is no evidence here absent the op-ed. That creates very significant substantial claim that 1st Amendment protected speech formed the basis for the detention
Suggests the reason she was detained was her expression.
Suggests the reason she was detained was her expression.
May 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Judge: There is no evidence here absent the op-ed. That creates very significant substantial claim that 1st Amendment protected speech formed the basis for the detention
Suggests the reason she was detained was her expression.
Suggests the reason she was detained was her expression.
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AC/DC performed a stirring rendition of our national anthem last night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas
April 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
AC/DC performed a stirring rendition of our national anthem last night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas
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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research