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Walter Olson

@walterolson.bsky.social

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Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.

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@jwharris.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:40 AMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Not surprised to learn Musk had a hand in amplifying this utter nonsense about Talarico.

@johnpfaff.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:07 AMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling?

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:45 PM

Recipes are all over the web (we used one), just search Georgian bean walnut stew.

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:35 PMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

An apt and evocative neologism from @amandacarpenter.bsky.social:

‘Neporuption’ -- when the fathers wield the power, and the sons cash in.

www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...

@financialtimes.comOct 11, 2026, 3:13 PMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Breaking news: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has accused Moscow of meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum and warns European voters of the Russian threat ft.trib.al/ucfuDpV

@scottlincicome.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:29 PMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

"A government ownership stake in the shipyard did not come up in our conversation with [Andruil] ahead of the president’s announcement." 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

@surcomplicated.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:27 AMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Absolutely disgusting.

@katiefallow.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:26 PMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Noerr-Pennington immunizes efforts to influence government actions from antitrust liability. Also this is as stupid as it is unconstitutional.

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:37 AM

It was from the Internet and there are a ton of online recipes out there for this particular dish - just search Georgian bean walnut stew.

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:45 AM

Tax on IT services brings in 77% less revenue than initially projected, Silver Spring synagogue's right to self-defense, Maryland's big trade relationship with Canada, Takoma Park goes 50 years without multifamily construction and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup at Free State Notes

@protectdemocracy.orgOct 6, 2026, 12:00 AMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

California could be our sharpest test when it comes to bad-faith attacks on election results. The good news: the Golden State is ready.

@ianbassin.bsky.social and Ben Gips outline the work Protect Democracy and partners have supported to protect CA's elections. via @democracyproject.bsky.social

@democracyproject.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:53 PMReposted by @walterolson.bsky.social

Elections 2026: Claire Finkelstein & Brenner Fissell “What Might ‘Cheating’ in an Election Look Like When the Cheater Is Also Commander in Chief of the Nation’s Military?”

We publish daily essays on potential threats to the 2026 election process & mechanisms to manage them
Read here: bit.ly/4y3ck5u

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:28 AM

Eugene Volokh examines the legalities of this laughingstock enactment.

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:24 AM

Egg and lemon emulsion is an amazing flavor resource that should be used more often.

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:18 AM

Source on that: John Puri, National Review. www.nationalreview.com/corner/demag... Puri also links to a Microsoft statement demonstrating (if diplomatically) that Vance's assertions are utterly unreliable. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:15 AM

JD Vance goes after Microsoft, and no, he can't be trusted an inch on that subject either.

Screenshot reading, "“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft,” said Vance. To support his claim, he pointed to Microsoft laying off 6,000 workers last year, while “at the same time benefitting from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards,” he said. “In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one-and-a-half indentured servants.”

For context, Microsoft has 121,000 employees in the United States. Nothing in that data suggests that the company’s immigrant workers hold the same positions as those who were laid off, or that there was any deliberate “replacement.” Vance also does nothing to distinguish “replacement” hirings of immigrants from regular turnover or entirely new roles. He lumps them all together and draws a misleading connection to company-wide layoffs.

A bigger problem with Vance’s claim is that four-fifths of Microsoft’s immigrant workers weren’t even hired last year, when they supposedly “replaced” Americans. The company explains, “Of the approximately 6,000 H-1B visa applications we submitted in the last fiscal year, 80% were to extend or change the status of existing Microsoft employees. These were not to hire new people.'"
@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:59 PM

"Prominent Founders, including George Washington, hosted successful distilleries on their homesteads. Yet today, the federal gov't bans home distilling outright." Cato cert amicus brief in Ream v. Treasury urges Court to overturn Raich and restore household liberty [Thomas Berry & Matthew Cavedon]

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:42 PM

Our first time trying it and I can say it’s one of my favorite bean dishes ever. It has been called the national dish of Georgia.

@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:13 PM

Georgian bean and walnut stew with onions, vinegar, and cilantro on top, spicing is coriander and blue fenugreek. Served with rice. Used @ranchogordo.bsky.social Occhio Della Capra beans. #CookSky #FoodSky #BlueskySupperClub

On a black stovetop, bean stew and rice in separate copper pots.
@walterolson.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:50 PM

Federal law allows the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, to issue regulations enforced by criminal penalties -- in effect, to create new crimes. That sort of delegation violates the separation of powers and should not be sustained [Thomas Berry on Cato cert amicus brief in Pheasant v. U.S.]

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