Nick Olson

Enjoying the little things.

[Owen Siebring @owensiebring]

What's he saying? Wrong answers only.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Ted. Look at our deficit. Look at how much we pay in interest every minute of every day. Look what that is doing to interest rates.

It’s Econ 101, you either have to raise revenue significantly, cut spending, significantly. Or both.

Talarico committed to support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. That was a pre requisite for my doing the event with him this week.

If this Hawley/ Warren bill passes, we would reduce the deficit. We would cut costs for patients. Drug pricing would drop like a rock.

Yet not a word from you in support Ted. Why ?

A true capitalist would understand how these economics work. They wouldn’t ignore the fact that our debt levels pull money away from business. And consumers.
If you truly want to do what is best for business, and the economy, we are going to have to raise taxes and cut spending.

The best place to cut spending is by removing the HealthCare middlemen that are Too Big To Care, which is exactly what the Break Up Big Medicine Bill does

You ready to whip up support among republicans ? Or do you prefer people dying because they can’t afford care , and the economy continuing to slow down because we are having to print money to financial engineer our debt obligations.

What say you Ted ?

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

@RpsAgainstTrump God's work does not lead to the end times. Unusual people that lose connection to preserving faith and country talk like this.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

AI has made our lives easier but I struggle to find where it has made it better by brodening footprint. There is unforseen costs associated with infrastructure growth. Public perception would change if realized gains were put into perspective... but who is investing in that?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive new hyperscale data center project called Stratos is planned for Box Elder County, Utah. If built, it would demand up to 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than twice the total power consumption of the entire state.

But the real shock comes from the waste heat. According to Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies, the facility would generate an additional 7 to 8 gigawatts of heat, creating a total thermal output of roughly 16 gigawatts concentrated in one location.

That energy release, Davies calculated, is comparable to detonating 23 atomic bombs per day in Hansel Valley, a high desert basin near the shrinking Great Salt Lake that naturally traps heat like a bowl. The project’s energy footprint would also be roughly equal to that of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters.

Local temperatures could rise by about 5°F (2.8°C) during the day and a staggering 28°F (15.6°C) at night. Ecologists warn that such dramatic warming would stress an already fragile ecosystem, worsen toxic dust from the drying lakebed, and disrupt plants, wildlife, and water resources.

As the backbone of artificial intelligence, data centers are essential for every AI query, image, and training run. The Stratos project now raises a critical question: Can the massive infrastructure behind AI expand without permanently transforming, and overheating, the communities and landscapes where it’s built?

["‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake." The Salt Lake Tribune]

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

Who will take the challenge to be a better thinker in '26?

https://t.co/mB5ftUmBJk

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

Message is the same. The approach matters. The meaning can't be overloaded.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

I miss what we have lost.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

How the times have truly changed

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reporter: The president called you a loser.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis: “I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president.”

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.

In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much.

Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.

If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

@HeatherRadio Did anyone see it? Books are cooked

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control.

That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

@keithmurphy This is what it's all about. Great perspective and lived experience.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

@dtnpf Newspeak is the buffoon administration's ideal state. Let's remember all the facts were available until minimum effort was embraced by our gov't.

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

$1.60 a person/yr. Gaslighting his base on eliminating wasteful bias media. Newsflash... PBS won't change and will thrive. Smart people will persevere.

Btw, this is the backbone for the emergency alert system. I'm sure influencers will save us all.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

NEW: The president's executive order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. https://t.co/otMVjnWXnu

[Nick Olson @NickOlsonIA]

Shota to the dugout!

[Bluedog @HereLiesBlueDog]

The world’s smallest man lost tonight.

Imagine thinking you’re the most powerful person on the planet and you don’t have a friend who cares about you enough to tell you that you have shit paper on your shoe

That’s the President of the United States tonight

The world hates him

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

JUST NOW: Senator Mark Warner GOES OFF on Jamieson Greer asking why we would tariff Australia: “Answer the question on Australia! We have a trade surplus with Australia! We have a free trade agreement! They are an incredibly important national security partner. Why were they whacked with a tariff?””

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Sen. Rand Paul blasts Trump’s tariffs:

“One person in our country wishes to raise taxes. This is contrary to everything our country was founded upon. One person is not allowed to raise taxes. The Constitution forbids it…

Conservatives used to understand that tariffs are taxes on the American people…What happened? Did we all of a sudden give up all the things we used to believe in as conservatives?”

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Top Trump officials accidentally texted U.S. war plans to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

Senior Trump administration officials used the commercial messaging app Signal to debate the pros and cons of launching military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen and accidentally invited Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and Washington Week moderator, to be part of the chat. Goldberg revealed the details in a report for The Atlantic and joined Amna Nawaz to discuss more.