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josholson.bsky.social
Josh Olson
@josholson.bsky.social
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Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of every episode of Bronzeville, co-host of The Movies That Made Me & The White Canon, drinker of fine tequilas, lover of cats AND dogs, world class father since 2022
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2h
That sounds more like I was describing his work. There's no such movie.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 1d
Really great conversation with one of the most challenging and interesting filmmakers working right now. Check out Part 1 here!
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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 1d
Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social returns with Eddington writer/director Ari Aster, in the first half of a two-parter! Ari discusses some of, you guessed it, the movies and directors that made him with @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social.

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EDDINGTON writer/director Ari Aster - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart
Writer, director, producer Ari Aster discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 1d
On our latest episode of White Canon, we flip the script and dive deep into LOVE JONES, with the one and only Briahna Joy Gray!

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Love Jones with Briahna Joy Gray
Podcast Episode · The White Canon · 10/06/2025 · 2h 12m
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 1d
Hamas has accepted multiple deals and Israel's reneged on ALL of them.

Get informed, moron. And fuck off means fuck off.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 1d
Above and beyond
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 2d
Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d
Pete? Completely craven. Doesn’t believe in anything but Pete.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d
Fell in line with what? He hasn’t changed one iota since he was first astroturfed onto the scene.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d
And it’s nowhere near enough. Schumer, Booker, Schiff, Fetterman… a whole bunch of senators have to go, and the Pete B’s of the world need to go with them.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d
100%

Honestly, any engagement I have on the subject feels mostly like playing fantasy football. The number of career politicians who need to be kicked to the curb permanently and TODAY for the Democratic Party to be even slightly viable again is ridiculous..
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d
It’s amazing to me, but there are still things that make me proud to be American.

These people stood up and did the right thing with the full knowledge that they were opposing violent, armed psychopaths. Fucking superheroes.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Serious question - who do you think has more power in our government and media: Russia or Israel?
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Dude. Come on. They’re not even a little comparable. 90% of the GOP and 80% of the Dems are completely beholden to Israel. Mainstream media is completely sympathetic to Ukraine, and if Putin was killing journalists and kidnapping Americans, it’d be front page news daily.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Do you think if Putin was kidnapping and torturing Americans, it would be swept under the same rug as the IDF’s victims are?
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Even now, a pair of Jewish Americans from California are being held illegally by Israel, and there's no mainstream coverage of it, and their parents can't even get a response from Schiff or Padilla.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah, HERE. An American citizen was kidnapped by a foreign government and tortured, and CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, Fox or pretty much any other mainstream outlet didn't mention it.

If Russia had done that, it would have been THE story for a solid week. At least.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Had to ask - these stories are getting such minimal coverage over here, it's ridiculous.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
Right? Do you know about what happened with Christian Smalls?
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 3d
The disparity in views is more than a little telling.
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 4d
I was a burglar who discovered a horrific sex crime against a child and helped the police catch the man.

My sentence was more than three times longer than Diddy’s.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
A photo of Diddy
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 5d
The whole thing is pure horseshit. Deadline just regurgitated a press release from an AI company without doing an ounce of actual journalism.

No agency is about to sign an AI actor. It’s just click bait, and people’s reactions have given this thing a metric ton of free PR.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 6d
Fabulous.

And of COURSE she did.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 6d
Worth noting - literally NOTHING in the original article indicates this is actually happening. Deadline - as usual - breathlessly regurgitated a press release from a shitty AI company suggesting their idiotic creation MIGHT be about to sign with a random un-named agency, and we all lost our minds.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’
‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’
The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, the way to prove you’re a serious adult is to go on TV and send messages to mythical creatures.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7d
Hakeem Jeffries says  "we're urging reasonable Republicans to come to the table."
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 7d
Horny, unsettling… and fun!
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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 7d
Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with a bang! Bone Lake director Mercedes Bryce Morgan discusses 10 movies that are horny and unsettling (much like Bone Lake) with hosts @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social!

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BONE LAKE director Mercedes Bryce Morgan
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 7d
It's fantastic. It'll have you punching holes in the wall.
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