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Staunchly anti-boomer since the 1900s

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h
The legal environment our corrupt Supreme Court has created for this man is that he can do no wrong. But the political truth is that he can do no right. He has made himself illegitimate. That he remains in office despite this isn't evidence to the contrary, it's evidence of systemic political rot
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10h
And yet, every single Democratic member of Congress and every progressive organization (except @indivisible.org) still uses X as their primary method of breaking news. The pro-democracy movement really needs to boycott X.
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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
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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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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is absolutely right, but the key is that Republicans would be the ones to force the issue. Many Democrats just refuse to take the open shot at Musk. He's a ripe, rich target, and an obvious way to dramatize key issues and mobilize key voters, but some of them are still sitting on their hands.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BTW this whole story shows how much meat on the bone there is for a Democrat in 2028 to run against actual waste, fraud and abuse. Trump just shut down all these prosecutions when he won!
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ABum @abaum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is disgusting and we need to prosecute a lot of Americans for war crimes…
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Walking is for losers.
A person appears to be floating horizontally above a city street with a busy sidewalk in the background. Large text above reads, "Floatmog all those walkcucks stuck on the ground!" Below the person, a magazine titled "Learn to Float" is displayed.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No no no you misunderstand: when I said "Women need to feel safe playing women's sports," I meant from an entirely hypothetical trans menace, not me, a random man currently harassing leading female athletes and turning every WNBA game into a political showdown
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/08/2026
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
At the risk of fanning the flames of this: IW appears to believe that harsh criticism of him personally justifies restricting the academic freedom of everyone. If not, I’d like to hear him say that newly minted academics should be free to say he’s trafficking in bigotry.
This is, indeed, a mask off moment. Here a newly minted academic declares without a hint of self doubt that a proposition obvious to almost everyone not too long ago, and obvious to many now—that not all cultures have the same contemporary capacity for constitutional self- government—is bigoted and racist. It is arguments like this and the cavalier confidence with which they are freely asserted in the halls of academia that make everything Trump wants to do to the
universities seem so eminently justified.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Spot-on by Kate for the People bluevirginia.us/2026/07/eigh...
Kate for the People: "Hey, there's a lot of weird Spanberger fan fiction (of her own making) circulating, so to be clear:
- The world's largest data center was blocked by *Prince William County* after immense public pressure, *not* her admin.
- She does *not* support ending the sales and use tax exemption for data centers which costs the Commonwealth $2B+ EACH YEAR.
- After refusing that sunset, the GA (again, *not* her) came up with the electricity consumption tax. Public pressure, again, forced her hand.

I'm happy for our Governor to change her course and tune at literally any time, but what we're not gonna do is stolen valor and history rewrites. She needs to earn her credibility with Virginians. "
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16/07/2026
OK.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/07/2026
Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans. n.pr/4fimkk9
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Oil companies are making billions. In the U.S., calls to tax their windfall are growing
Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗
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Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the table ante bare minimum moderate position. More serious positions are also available: - No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My time in the Senate will be devoted to ending DEI and affirmative action in the workplace. by Darline Graham Nordone
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/07/2026
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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I think you should leave turbo team @itysl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
coffin flop
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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.
A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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bastard cat 🎃 @canavarisvhenan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
me liking any post i see about lindsey graham being dead
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Beyoncé Laughs While Using Phone/Tablet
ALT: Beyoncé Laughs While Using Phone/Tablet
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 01/07/2026
“Imagine the press reaction if any other president in history had spent the country’s 250th anniversary celebrating a bribe from a middle eastern nation while boasting ‘America couldn’t build this’ about an American plane,” I whisper alone to my mannequins as I pound my head into the wall repeatedly
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"the year is 2026. donald trump is dictator of the USA; reelected just 5 years after killing half a million americans in a pandemic he tried to cover up before launching a failed coup attempt that involved trying to get his veep killed" sometimes i just need to say it out loud, sorry
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.
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The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Tesla is *already* out there blaming the driver the day NHTSA, the federal auto safety regulator, says it's doing a special crash investigation here - www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/t... after horrible collision where a Model 3 driver veered off road into a home and killed a grandmother who lived there.
cnbc.com
Tesla faces federal probe after Model 3 slams into Texas home, killing 76-year-old
Harris County authorities said that the driver, Michael Butler, said that he had been using Tesla's partially automated driving systems.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yes, of course, there is coverage of inflation, gas prices, & Trump’s policies. But the constant daily bombardment from media outlets & our most prominent public-facing economists about how It’s All Terrible, everyone is Suffering From Inflation, & it’s all The President’s Fault is just not the same
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
As the prospective new proprietor of InfoWars, I’m just gonna say… I think it’s him.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced: Stevie Wonder John Legend Jennifer Hudson The Roots Bruce Springsteen Christina Aguilera Marsai Martin Common U2’s Bono and The Edge Eddie Vedder Marc Anthony Tems
The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced:

Stevie Wonder
John Legend
Jennifer Hudson
The Roots
Bruce Springsteen
Christina Aguilera
Marsai Martin
Common
U2’s Bono and The Edge
Eddie Vedder
Marc Anthony
Tems
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/06/2026
Capitalism: bad Socialism: good Pelicanism: unstoppable.
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My office is putting car dealerships on notice. Today, we issued an advisory asserting that Massachusetts law requires transparent pricing in ads. Purchasing a car is a significant investment, you deserve upfront pricing, not hidden fees. I'll hold companies accountable to protect your bottom line.
mass.gov
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Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
David @OxytocinDAVID • 1d
FINNEAS COOKED HIM LMAOOO
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No one is jealous of the first trillionaire because no one is jealous of anyone who sits on twitter all day retweeting racist stuff. The brokest dude l've ever met is spending his days the same way.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/06/2026
Putting Bud Light out in front of the Trump White House is a funny statement about the durability of culture war complaints
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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick
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ABum @abaum.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Are the Hawk the 2nd best team in the NBA?
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ABum @abaum.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Welcome to the ref show
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ABum @abaum.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Listen, we can all agree, Scott Foster is just terrible at what he gets paid to do
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s wild that literally every trillionaire is in the Epstein files
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The way no one even bothers to try to stop Elon Musk anymore - he's allowed to take hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for empty promises, or incite pogroms and push white nationalism, and no one pushes back or tries to constrain him at all - feels like a society that's simply given up
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Props to CNN’s chyron writer:
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