Greg Olear
@gregolear.bsky.social
Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. https://bio.site/gregolear
I finally hit 10k followers. Im still small potatoes compared to many, but essential reading if you want to know who & what Leonard Leo is infecting next. Politics, films, states, Supreme Court. Thank you all for helping spread the word re Leonard Leo. MSM aint gonna do it. Democracy’s arsonist.
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
If for some inexplicable reason you want to hear the sound of my voice - uninterrupted - for twelve and a half hours (yes, twelve and a half hours 😳) there's currently a special offer on the Audiobook of Elemental. Only £3.99, or about half a pence per minute! www.audible.co.uk/pd/Elemental...
Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'An extraordinary mastery of geopolitics, combining years on the ground in the most challenging places, a raw instinct for politics and a deep ethical conce...
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Shrapnel, broken bones and head trauma: New records show how US troops were wounded in Iran war www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Shrapnel, broken bones and head trauma: New records show how US troops were wounded in Iran war
New details reveal the extent of service members’ injuries.
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The GOP wants to repeal no-fault divorce & women's right to vote so that violent misogynists like Max Miller can un-person us fully: they want to own women, as rape toys & punching bags. We're the majority of the population. We already have fewer rights to bodily protection than corpses & animals.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
It’s August, past the deadline for the special election. Mitch McConnell announcement coming any minute now, right?
Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Senator who was the GOP’s longtime Majority Leader has been dead for 40 days, but his office refuses to admit it, because doing so would trigger a special election and threaten Republican control of the Senate. (Okay, fine, we can’t confirm this, but: PROVE ME WRONG.
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
The Senator who was the GOP’s longtime Majority Leader has been dead for 40 days, but his office refuses to admit it, because doing so would trigger a special election and threaten Republican control of the Senate. (Okay, fine, we can’t confirm this, but: PROVE ME WRONG.
The Lay of the Land
This is what's happening, as we head into the heart of summer.
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The Mayor of New York has called a war criminal a war criminal. Good on him for at least TRYING to use his power for good.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoBenjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
Todd Blanche should not and must not be confirmed as Attorney General. He is grossly unfit and manifestly unworthy. His confirmation would be a death knell for the rule of law in the United States. gregolear.substack.com/p/todd-blanc...
Todd Blanche Is Already Historically Awful
How Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department stacks up against the best and worst Attorneys General in U.S. history.
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"Why did Nolan make this movie now, at this moment in history? J. Robert Oppenheimer and Odysseus have something in common: both used their superior intelligence to devise a way to sack a city and, in so doing, win a war. Both men had to live with the consequences of that." Fascinating take here.⤵️
Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social · 2w ago“But the great Mycenaean king, Odysseus tells Penelope, has an ulterior motive. ‘He wants to control the trade routes.’ In other words, the Dardanelles that Troy sits upon are the Late Bronze Age Straits of Hormuz.”
This is a fabulous show which you must watch. @nadinesmith.bsky.social always brings it. The bonus, she was in Greg's house! Follow The Five 8 on their YouTube—it costs nothing and you will learn, laugh, and cuss. Spread the word.
Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social · 3w agoGreat show last night! We talk The Odyssey, Epstein's Paris associates, Blanche, election fuckery, Trump's attempt to erase Black history, and more. Plus: our guest, @nadinesmith.bsky.social, was at my house!
“But the great Mycenaean king, Odysseus tells Penelope, has an ulterior motive. ‘He wants to control the trade routes.’ In other words, the Dardanelles that Troy sits upon are the Late Bronze Age Straits of Hormuz.”
Sunday Pages: "The Odyssey"
A film by Christopher Nolan
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Great show last night! We talk The Odyssey, Epstein's Paris associates, Blanche, election fuckery, Trump's attempt to erase Black history, and more. Plus: our guest, @nadinesmith.bsky.social, was at my house!
The World Is On Fire
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Funnest episode evah, so many giggles and lol moments. So much needed. Thank you @gregolear.bsky.social @lincolnsbible.bsky.social and of course the amazing @nadinesmith.bsky.social Going to sleep tonight with a smile on my face, because we’re gonna get thru it.
The Five 8@thefive8.bsky.social · 3w agoSee you soon! 🥃🎱🥂 youtube.com/live/gT6qDUD...
Once again, @gregolear.bsky.social hits it on the head. Every bit of this is how I feel about what is going on- “…the takeaway for me in this is that you can’t get merciful with these people, because they’re never going to change.” As ever, “We shall prevail.” open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
Moral Fatigue
Morning thoughts on the Ku Klux Klan, the failure of Reconstruction, whiny white racists, Trump and his Cabinet of pigs, and how none of this is okay.
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"Pretending that it’s okay, and thinking that these people will change if we only give them a little bit more, or we appease them? That doesn’t fucking work. It didn’t work for the Nazis. It didn’t work for the Klan. And it’s not gonna work with these guys." gregolear.substack.com/p/moral-fati...
Saw this on a tow truck in town. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be ironic or not.
LIVE on Friday night 8e/5p! Stephanie Koff & Greg Olear discuss all the crazy, and welcome an old friend. Notifications ON ✅ @lincolnsbible.bsky.social @gregolear.bsky.social youtube.com/live/gT6qDUD...
The World Is On Fire
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That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds, snakes, and airplanes…
During the Todd Blanche confirmation hearing, I want someone to ask if he hooked up with Ghislaine.
Pete Hegseth is a racist piece of shit, a sexist piece of shit, a transphobic piece of shit & a homophobic piece of shit. He's also the worst Defense Secretary we've ever had. Remember, Trump only hired him b/c he "looks good on TV"—in other words, b/c he finds him attractive. WTF are we doing?
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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"Without Addison Mitchell McConnell III, there would be no Donald Trump. Mitch fed the cancer. He prevented the oncologists and surgeons from administering treatment. And knowing he possessed the singular cure, he chose to sit on his hands as the terminal disease ate away at our democracy."
Mitch McConnell In Memoriam
Never forget: The harm the former (late?) Senate Majority Leader did to the people of the United States, and to American democracy, is incalculable.
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