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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 23/02/2026

That assumes they were paying a lot of attention to it; they should have been but they were likely living a pivotal moment. Bottom line is the fact all the MN guys but one skipped suggest a bigger trend and my guess is the we had other obligations is an attempt to escape the shit show of both sides.

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That is the word for it, and naïve.

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Yeah, that surprised me too. Only MN guy to go. That said for most of them they are just kids who have spent their lives playing hockey which isn’t an excuse but none of us were super smart at 25.

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I don’t know him personally but he was a student in middle school of one of my best friends who says he and his family are awesome people so probably not unexpected. He should get a standing ovation at the next game.

Correct. Ever see the videos of Putin or Lukashenko playing hockey against professionals — neither can skate but they score five to ten goals against them. Autocrats autocrat and hockey players aren’t politicians, so they get taken advantage of by such people.

How do you know that is their politics? Assuming simply makes you like the MAGA asshat who would assume based on your comment you are a leftist communist — one of the players who was at the White House has been a strong advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. Did you know that?

Well, he was taking advantage of them, and having played hockey against him in my old man’s league he was a want to be/never was pylon taking advantage of them — but that is why the autocratically inclined do, put themselves at the center of everything.

I don’t know their politics but my guess is regardless of them, they like the vast majority of us from the Twin Cities are outraged because it isn’t who we are.

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100%, and I can tell you being from the Twib Cities it isn’t surprising because people of all politics are pissed off about what has and is happening there.

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What they didn’t realize is they were giving up their agency way too easily and the MN guys deserve credit for not doing that — but when it is home — like it is for them or me — it is personal what has been happening. For the guys from MN it is too.

It’s th nature of the beast — and the players aren’t political so they are easy prey for people who want to leverage their victory.

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If you lived there you would think before you write shit that makes you only marginally better than the people who you rightfully dislike. And the point is those guys including one who was a student of one of my life long best friends deserve a shoutout for not being there, which was the point.

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I am actually from the Twin Cities, grew up across the River, my sister and her family live in St Paul. I grew up playing hockey, don’t lecture me about the tragedy of Renee Good and Alex Pretti until you have been on the streets in -14 weather and had ICE invade your hometown.

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Four of them are Minnesota guys — three from the cities and one (Nelson) who is part of Minnesy’s Royal family of hockey. Perhaps not a coincidence.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I am pretty confident we are going to hear a guy who had nothing to do with a US win in Olympic hockey, talk more about his role in the win the other day than Herb Brooks did in his entire life time talking about the Miracle on Ice.

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I have probably seen them 20 times since the first time in 1989, and while we are all getting older, seeing @DefLeppard live will never ever gets old!!!

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

No it is actually powered by five years of cutting edge longitudinal research and working with leaders in the field of political discourse. Ai is just the best way to allow people to interact with that data in a way to practice conversations.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Have meaningful, structured political conversations powered by AI.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Have meaningful, structured political conversations powered by AI.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are basically soft launching which is why. Has only been out since the beginning of the week and haven’t started heavily promoting.

Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Click the contact support on the app and the tech team can answer those kinds of questions.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It started, like too many things do these days, with a Facebook comment. Someone I’ve known a long time — someone who used to knock doors for the same candidates I did and was at my fifth birthday party — wrote that I must be “a liberal with TDS.” open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

The Things We Used to Believe

If believing in the Constitution makes me a liberal, then maybe “conservative” doesn’t mean what it used to.

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Well I have called worse but typically on a hockey rink.

Yes it does and I didn’t actually know that was what it was about until recently reading that in a book on the history of the sunset strip.

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Here is the inspiration for why I posted those words — I used to think about that song all the time as I travelled the world working with those fighting for democracy. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

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I get that. Here is the inspiration for why I posted those words — I used to think about that song all the time as I travelled the world working with those fighting for democracy. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

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Minneapolis Isn’t Who We Are — But It’s Who We Can Be Again

Hope isn’t naïve.

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Reflections from my trip back home to ground zero. Minneapolis Isn’t Who We Are, But it is What We Can Be Again. Or, Hope isn’t naïve. It’s the choice to believe that “this isn’t who we are” can still become “this is who we chose to be” open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

Minneapolis Isn’t Who We Are — But It’s Who We Can Be Again

Hope isn’t naïve.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down

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“Shaped by his KGB culture and witness to Soviet demise, any peace deal that can be perceived other than complete ‘victory’ – is no longer a policy option available…It would delegitimise the entire regime. Therefore, escalation becomes not a choice but a necessity.” www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

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Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation

2025 offered the most generous potential off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. He rejected it.

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

SURVIVING THANKSGIVING Here’s the truth: Democracy begins at the table. Not the one in DC, but the one in your kitchen. The one with the gravy boat and the quiet resentment To save democracy, we’ve got to start by saving the relationships that sustain it open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

How to Survive Thanksgiving Without a Political Fistfight (and Maybe Even Build a Bridge)

Thanksgiving is the American holiday.

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

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Actually, there am numerous studies which show that if you are taking to a political extremist using data, you harden their positions not convince or persuade them. That is why you have to focus on helping them find the cognitive dissonance within themselves.

It isn’t about taking with those with whom you actually care about to convince. It is about asking questions to help those who lives are lived in ways that are incongruent with what they support politically to find within themselves th cognitive dissonance.

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Typically, they are a result of people talking past each other, rather than actually talking to each other.

With those whom we are closest to in life — family or friends — there is far more to the relationships than our political identities and we have spent an incredibly amount of time researching such divides.

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This is true, but it is also the case that rarely are such fractures 100% the fault of only one side. It is a little like insure and car accidents.

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I say in the piece of someone has personally dehumanized you you don’t need them in your lives, but you should not assume based on their politics they are doing that personally anymore than they should assume based on anything about you.