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Charles Olney

@olneyce.bsky.social
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VAP at Emory Political Science. Until recently, Associate Professor at UTRGV. I study justice, democracy, political identity, and law. But mostly post about women's football and my dog. Uppsala, Sweden

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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No, the conclusion should be that these are two different candidates, running for two different jobs, against two different opposing candidates, who are therefore differentiated in many different ways. SMH
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Would you like to guess which of these two teams Ian Darke and Landon Donovan think are playing exceptionally well and which one is embarrassed at their performance?
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Over many interviews, the fox told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake the henhouse defense system. Can he lead the security establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The claim that ‘leftist violence is just as scary as rightest violence’ may or may not be true but it’s very clearly not the same thing as ‘political violence is bad’
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The shutdown gambit was Senate Democrats drawing to an inside straight. They got the card they needed. And then folded for some reason
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Little bit of women's world cup 2019 reminiscing today cc @lawsonsv.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/topkomme...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Let the kids vote! open.substack.com/pub/topkomme...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sophie pls The story of the season in Sweden is IK fighting for promotion and Eric holding his lonely vigil, protecting the Uppsala goal from all assailants
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
4-1 at halftime, and both teams have hit the woodwork. Not the highest quality football we’ve ever seen but Eric is getting plenty of chances to wave his flag.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Helen is enjoying the Euros
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
lol
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This reply is so on-the-nose that it feels made up
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“People” is doing a lot of work here
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Spending a beautiful Ascension Day at the park. Staying away from the domkyrka though, just in case Magnus II happens to be around (cc @flatpacksweden.bsky.social )
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Frodo's defining characteristic is his capacity to withstand temptation. But if he were just an ascetic, he would be quite boring. What makes him interesting is the extraordinarily delicate balance between desire and resistance that's necessary to complete the task.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The thing that makes Gollum’s story truly tragic is the tiny sliver of self that remains, screaming in the dark, after everything else has been ground into oblivion.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Already down 0-1 after a pretty abysmal goal kick routine turned into a goal in the 5th minute. But Uppsala coming into the game a bit now
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
American democracy is under serious and existential threat. Massive damage has already been done, and will take decades to repair even in the best case. We are shockingly close to a total breakdown
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Denethor is a great man, but also terrible. He stands firm under incredible pressure, until finally he cracks. And when he breaks, he breaks hard. Tolkien provides a wonderful portrayal of a complicated character.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Without Merry, Boromir is never redeemed, Strider tries to follow Frodo (with disastrous consequences) or else the Fellowship goes to Minis Tirith (with disastrous consequences). Gandalf never revives Théoden and the ents are never roused. Saruman defeats Rohan. Angmar never dies. Sauron wins.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Théoden's best scenes are the ones where he sets the world on fire with a battle hymn or unleashes on Saruman. But the thing that fully rounds him out as a character is his affection for Merry
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
First fotboll of the year. Uppsala already up 1-0 to Eskilstuna
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It seems incredible that slime molds are capable of performing intelligence without a brain. But are we really so different?
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Old habits die hard, so I’m just not used to seeing the Pride obliterate teams like this. But holy cow that's a paddlin'
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I used to say ironically that Douglas Adams was the most interesting philosopher of my lifetime. What this post presupposes is... maybe he is.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How should we think about creativity once it becomes clear that machines can actually produce deeply imaginative works without any of the friction or struggle that we thought made those things so special?
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kids are small humans, and it's equal parts incredible and terrifying open.substack.com/pub/topkomme...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I think we could all collectively benefit from trying to be a little bit less precious about weddings
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Communication isn't what you do to GET a successful relationship. Communication IS the relationship topkomment.substack.com/p/communicat...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My top 40 songs of 2024 www.heartachewithhardwork.com/2024/12/top-...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Life got in the way of my end of year lists last year, for the first time in two decades of music blogging. But we're back this year, starting with albums Featuring: @djsabrina.bsky.social @bessatwell.bsky.social @vanessapeters.bsky.social among others www.heartachewithhardwork.com/2024/12/top-...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The woke-nimby complex
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New article: In "Our Bodies, Our Choices" at Feminist Review I argue for incorporating the social experiences of bodies into the framework of reproductive justice. I hope it helps to both enrich and challenge our tendency to default to the logic of 'my body my choice' doi.org/10.1177/0141...
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Five years since I got to see the Carissa's Wierd reunion shows in Seattle. A long five years.
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
RFK wants to ban mayonnaise
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Uppsala derby. We support IK because, among other reasons, they are the pink team (Eric’s favorite color)
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
She is the Vice President
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Haley's path is: stick around in the race for another couple weeks, hope that Trump literally dies of a heart attack or something, and that people have gotten accustomed to thinking of her as the person who finished 'in second place' Pretty simple!
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
That's right, it's 'we have not technically been eliminated' o'clock! #DashOn
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