Magnar Strand Olsen

Hanging in here a little while longer, but can be found at @strandolsen.bsky.social, magnar.olsen @ threads, and @magnarolsen.mastodon.social.

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

Angie reviews 40 lies told by RFK Jr. during his recent interview on CNN with Dana Bash. Based on Angie's substack column “RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview.” 📺 https://t.co/48MGqwzFV7

[Magnar Strand Olsen @strandolsen]

@DrNeilStone Not one, but two. Turbo cancers and the virus creation lie.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Ivermectin for Covid - scam
Hydrochloroquine for Covid - scam
The idea vaccines didn't work - scam
Vaccines causing "turbo cancer" - scam

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Still my favourite Dr. Fauci moment.

😎

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Elon Musk claiming that money will not matter in ten years is one of the most dishonest distraction tactics ever deployed by an oligarch.

Listening to him talk about a post-scarcity world makes him sound bizarrely like a utopian communist, except he insists on keeping all the capital in his own hands.

The world's richest man is suddenly preaching a pseudo-communist fairytale where artificial intelligence and humanoid robots eliminate economic scarcity and render money obsolete by 2036.

If there were a single grain of truth to his utopian claims, his actual behavior would look completely different. Instead, every single action he takes directly contradicts the post-scarcity fantasy he sells to the public.

If money were truly heading for irrelevance, public debt figures would be irrelevant, corporate profits would be meaningless, and tax policy would not matter. Yet Musk spends his energy railing against taxation on the wealthy and cutting social safety nets under the banner of ”government efficiency” (DOGE was not efficient in any way and did not make the US more efficient). Why cut USAID and cause thousands of deaths if money won’t matter in ten years?

This is a classic maneuver from a compulsive liar with a massive ego. Musk has built an empire on serial overpromising, from claiming full self-driving was just one year away for a decade straight, to promises of landing crewed missions on Mars by 2024.

Being skilled at business development and technology hype does not mean he understands political economy. He is simply applying marketing rhetoric to macroeconomics to serve his own immediate interests.

Strip away the futuristic jargon, and his message to society is remarkably simple: grant me total tax breaks, maximum deregulation, and unprecedented capital concentration today, and trust me that wealth inequality will magically resolve itself tomorrow. He is playing the public for fools while continuing to collect every dollar he can lay his hands on.

Elon Musk telling the public that money won't matter in ten years is the ultimate grift from a billionaire who spends every day trying to hoard more of it.

He is the ultimate con artist

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Retweet if you agree.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

THE TRUTH: Dr. Anthony Fauci led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 40 years. Throughout those decades, he had an impeccable record of integrity, which is why he was trusted by both Democratic and Republican administrations. He is largely credited (along with activists) with the development of life-saving AIDS treatments. It wasn't until he refused to say and do what Donald Trump wanted that he was suddenly accused of being corrupt, a liar, a fraud, etc. If you think he's one of the bad guys, you've fallen for the con. ~Via Adam Sank.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

RECAP: Fauci Fiasco with Drs. Angela Rasmussen and Vincent Racaniello https://t.co/EZrn7AN5wR

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Complete drivel.

As someone with a degree in molecular biology, who's worked in virology, and who has read on this extensively, the natural origin continues to be, by far, the most likely explanation.

I have no love for China, but the evidence does not point to a lab leak.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

United & Delta donated $1M → Trump ended flight cancelation compensation rules.

TurboTax parent donated $1M → Trump killed free tax filing.

Toyota donated $1M → Trump canceled CFPB refund order for overcharged borrowers.

It’s a pattern of corruption that costs you money.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Farming and nature restoration need to go hand in hand - and they can with a bit of help from government

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Yep.

We could bomb Iran every day for the next 10 years and still fail to significantly change the battlefield calculus.

I’m obviously no fan of the Iranian regime, but this is why I said we couldn’t win this war with air power alone, and that it was a foolish war to enter.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

I hope our leaders are cognizant of the fact that Iran is clearly forcing these deployments to Israel on purpose.

Going after Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan depletes interceptors that were being used to protect Israel.

Now our assets are moving to a less-defended Israel. 🙃

[Magnar Strand Olsen @strandolsen]

@JoJoFromJerz Fucking brilliant

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"Rarely, if ever, is anyone given a diplomatic posting directly following such a spectacular failure, especially one that did so much damage to American interests around the world."

https://t.co/pxEzixLJjD

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Kari Lake, Trump’s candidate for ambassador to Jamaica, has “no diplomatic or political preparation, other than the 14 months she has just spent running America’s foreign broadcasting agencies into the ground,” @anneapplebaum argues. https://t.co/U4C18F5bAg

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n Let’s recount his public statements made in 2025 when he was HHS Scty during our awful measles epidemic in Texas and how he undermined public confidence in public health, as 99 kids/adults hospitalized and 2 kids needlessly died. I had a front row seat. Are you ready? Let’s go:

[Magnar Strand Olsen @strandolsen]

RT @ZelenskyyUa: شب اول جنگ تمام‌عیار با حملات موشکی آغاز شد. روسیه از همه چیزهایی که داشت استفاده کرد: موشک‌های کروز، بالستیک و انواع موش…