Grant Olsen

Steve Earle has released this beautiful video of his song "City of Immigrants," which was directed by Steve Buscemi. It's a wonderful ode to a key cause of American greatness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRt...

omg

Civil Disobedience. It works! Try it.

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It turns out that people who caught Trump Derangement Syndrome got herd immunity from stupidity.

Is it just me, or is Bluesky unusually giddy today?

If you are still using Spotify, time to stop. @indivisible.org leading a nationwide boycott because Spotify runs ICE ads. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Seriously time for General Strike.

Check out my new album, Sightlines! grantolsen.bandcamp.com/album/sightl...

📡 Broadcasting a new signal On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes ffm.to/remrfe2025

The cognitive dissonance is almost impressive.

Gig night! Backeddy Pub, Egmont, BC

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

😂🤣 we love you QC

🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

Word of the day: EREMITION Eremition is the act of withdrawing or retreating, often into solitude. It comes from the word "eremite", which means a hermit.

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

Fire night!

Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

On a cloudy Vancouver street, close to Chinatown, a small historic building tells the truth about us.

This interview had me smiling. I have no role to play in the upcoming Liberal leadership race but I can only hope that they elect a leader that has a chance to disrupt a Conservative Majority. We'll do our part and elect a great MP (Gord Johns, NDP) who works across party lines to get things done.

Sonya hit the beach today for the first time in '25!

While Trump threatens to invade Canada and his MAGA movement bullies and harasses Canadians and other US allies, Canadians are busy saving USians from burning alive. Canadian air crews in Los Angeles risked their lives to save US civilians. #palisadesfire

My message to Zuck

With CBC Poilievre gets his way. It's a simple strategy: A relentless attack on the public broadcaster as "state media" "government propaganda" followed with relentless threats to shut them down and cut off their funding, , Sooner or later they fall into line by not asking the hard questions.

Crude, cynical vandal would like a bit more positivity and refinement over at The Other Place, please.

"Putin, Harper and Modi did it all in one night!! Yes! I still hate Canada" Pierre Poilievre as Ebeneezer Scrooge.

What is a "free speech absolutist"? Explain it to me like I'm 5.

the scariest words you'll hear from a voter: "I do my own research" cc: @radiofreetom.bsky.social

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

time to rate some sums of money $100: classic amount of money $0.55: not very much $320.13: not bad $2.02: i think you can do a little better than that, don't you $74,000,000: huge amount of money $74,000,100: just when i thought it couldn't get any better! $16: sure -$7230: you GOTTA be kidding me