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“When I die, I hope it will be here in New York, the promised land, surrounded by my brothers: all the different peoples of the world”

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026
we gotta raise taxes. a lot.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Anthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Great Depression was one of the worst things to ever happen to the people of this country. There was pain and suffering on a level none of us can imagine. It also activated a dormant labor class that fought back against the oligarchs of the 20s and built the strongest middle class ever built.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
American decline in a single sentence
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is basically the same shit Kevin O'Leary was peddling that prompted a defamation lawsuit and a bevy of corrections by Fox
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What happens for Omaha sheriff? for county commissions in Ohio? for what’s left of Florida school boards? Those matter so much! We already got answers in local elections over the last year (think the PA counties last year, Whittier this spring). Can Dems keep it up?
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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What if I told you, political parties are good actually?
liberalcurrents.com
Meet the Democrats
The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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altamahaha.bsky.social @altamahaha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Always was, the "red state/blue state" paradigm was always an excuse not to do lomg term work, as was most of dem strategy post 08
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
endzone angle is just gorgeous.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026
Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We had an unprecedented shift toward absentee balloting during the pandemic and we should have a far more precedented shift to in person voting now that Trump's fucking with the mail
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In fact if there's one political message that should reach everyone on Bluesky, the website for Democratic politics obsessives afraid to leave their own house, it's that you should vote in person this year.
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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes, and the 2015 Obergefell ruling, which established same-sex marriage in 50 states, was 5-4 and only happened because Obama won in 2008 and appointed Kagan and Sotomayor, before he even announced his position change.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/08/2026
If Ossoff had said "Natalie Harp" not many people would've noticed. Some politics name. Hear those all the time. Who cares. But saying just "Natalie" makes it sound like gossip you should hurry to decode so you can explain it to your friends. My senator is using the power of lore dumping
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🜲 @fresh72.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026
There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.
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InsideEVs @insideevs.com · 20/08/2026
It's almost time to say goodbye to range anxiety.
insideevs.com
Geely Is Testing A Solid-State Battery With Over 621 Miles Of Range. It Could End Up In A Volvo
Volvo's parent company will begin rolling out ultra-high-density solid-state EV batteries in 2027—and the Swedes could be a test bed.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The US Navy is considering renaming the future USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier honoring the Black sailor who became a hero during Pearl Harbor, and have discussed naming it after Trump instead, CNN reports.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rory McIlroy might be the only living person who hates LIV Golf more than I do.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/08/2026
This is part of my "minimum standards" requirement. None of this "the past is behind us, let's move forward" shit. More of the "this country will never do this again, and I'm going to make sure of it."
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the best part of all of this is that Ossoff just opened the door. He never said anything beyond "travel with Natalie." They're the ones who wandered in like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"QueensWay supporters produce other dishonest arguments, too. They insist, for example, that the MTA thinks QueensLink will cost between $5.9 and $8.1 billion. The MTA actually calculated that the project would cost only $1.9 billion to construct."
nyc.streetsblog.org
OPINION: Mamdani Is Making a Catastrophic Mistake on QueensLink - Streetsblog New York City
Many residents of Queens have supported the QueensLink project that would extend the M train from Forest Hills to the Rockaways. Yet on May 22, the Mamdani administration renounced the project and thr...
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Garbage Opinion Enjoyer @opinionevaluator.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It’s because they think imperialism means “I am in charge” rather than “I have carefully lined up interests and balanced inputs and outputs such that i have a plurality of influence”, and are too stupid to realize that people like them being put in charge is what causes every empire to fall.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
take note of which media outlets run with this "ossoff attacks women" framing — they are our enemies, Trump's enablers who try to help him rule over us like a king
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Many people think this but it's not true! Data centers are a small rounding error compared to agriculture. And it pains me that this is the case as a golf hater but golf no longer consumes meaningful amounts of water as most courses in the southwest have switched to graywater irrigation
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 17/08/2026
It's happening.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/08/2026
The aspirational car culture among NYC's middle/lower-middle class is so financially draining. The last thing an underemployed 24-year-old living in the South Bronx with $150,000+ in student loans and credit card and personal debt needs living in a seven-person household needs is a 2023 SUV!
nytimes.com
How a Student and Gig Worker Lives on $11,400 in the Bronx
Richard Sencion, 24, cobbles together funds from delivery jobs and bartending gigs while searching for more permanent work and living with his parents.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have to say it does seem like, "the president and his wife are separated because of his very public adultery and now he's sleeping with an aid who is fifty years his junior" would be a bigger story in most admins.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026
Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Enjoying the bluesky speed camera debate
Weightlifting skeleton meme: “American culture is a machine that turns leftists into libertarians”
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