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Yeah? Well that’s just like uh, y’know, your opinion, man.

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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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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film
motherjones.com
Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film
The Defense Secretary plans to telecast the military's first firing squad execution since 1945.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We don’t even know what we don’t know. The Tim Heidecker Podcast will never hide the truth. Watch now on InfoWars.
Four individuals are sitting in a recording studio, wearing headphones and speaking into microphones. The text overlay includes: 

1. "They're suppressing it for sure. There's some suppression that's taking place."
2. "I just read—I think we know something like, 80% of the information that they do have is being classified."
3. "It's fucking crazy."
4. "Dude, the fucking shit that's been classified. Like, dude, you don't even know half of it."
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Trump's HHS just gave nearly $9 million in federal family planning grants to groups with anti-abortion ties. The recipient of a $3 million grant to train family planning providers has a history of discouraging the use of hormonal birth control. read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn’t AI. My cousin Braycen was torn apart by Havana syndrome which is why he’s in his coffin in “chunks”. The ugly “boy” in the (real) photo isn’t his son; it’s a full grown small intruder man who ran off with the head & ate it behind the funeral home. RT to salute 🫡 🇺🇸
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On Fridays, we dance!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A consequence of the desolation of rural healthcare is that gaps are being filled with 'capability' that papers over those losses while dramatically increasing the cost in both morbidity, mortality and economics to patients. Adding an air ambulance to a rural area in decline is this.
cardinalnews.org
HCA plans new Roanoke County ER, new Danville-based air ambulance
The standalone emergency room will be LewisGale Medical Center’s third. LewisGale’s parent company, HCA Healthcare, also plans to add a second air ambulance helicopter based in Danville…
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
war eagle
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
one of my problems with living in Houston is that unlike Washington D.C. there are no plans to build a beautiful ballroom here any time soon
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.
A chat request from a late friend
I recognize the pain of thinking if I could only talk to them one more time. It is among the more familiar human laments. But that's just the thing it is a human problem to be endured not a technological problem to be sold. Our capacity for loss – in fact the necessity of losing and having lost – is what makes us who we are. Individually and collectively. There is no workaround. There will be no workaround. And every step toward preventing that or perverting that is an affront to our humanity. Why not just taxidermy nana and prop her up at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table? At least there's something real and tangible about that. Undeniable in its sacrilege. You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
newrepublic.com
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The four key inputs in agriculture in this country are diesel, potassium (potash), nitrogen (ammonium nitrate), and phosphorus. We have plenty of phosphate in the US. The other three, well,
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EATING THE COST | Gin and Tacos
The rising costs of fertilizer - and increased reporting on the problem - have fueled the doomer that lives in all of us these days. Let's t
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new piece with @katharinehayhoe.com is out a TIME, which highlights what we all need to learn from climate communicators: “This summer of disasters has shown us that climate impacts are not political, and it is past time we stopped talking about them as if they were.” time.com/article/2026...
time.com
We Need to Stop Talking Like Climate Change Is Partisan
Climate change should be seen as a shared challenge to solve together, not a political debate, write Katharine Hayhoe and Dana R. Fisher.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have to keep saying this. Trans rights are very unpopular on face but extremely sensitive to persuasion and question wording. In other words very few people care deeply about them, one way or another. Electorally, there is no advantage or penalty for Democrats to take one way or another.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
Human rights organisations express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going forward, the US National Science Foundation research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and Earth sciences is $110 million per year. Trump's illegal war with Iran cost the Department of Defense (i.e., the American taxpayers) $38 billion in the first 5 months, or $220 million per day.
cbo.gov
Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran
CBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meanwhile, in China, the rapid adoption of EVs is estimated to have saved more than 262,000 lives
electrek.co
China's EV shift cut pollution enough to prevent 262,000 deaths
China's rapid switch to electric vehicles cut urban air pollution enough to prevent an estimated 262,000 premature deaths, new study reports.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not.
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Michael Ray Surber of Killer Antz with a zed + Church Rat @surber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran being a coward is not surprising to say the least. Free Palestine.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A top staffer to Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) appeared to wear an SS uniform while marching near Nazi flags in photos. He also created a public Spotify playlist called “Tales From Rhodesia," the White-run African colony embraced by white supremacists. Gift link: wapo.st/4xkuEa0
wapo.st
Ohio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo
A top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform.
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jon Ossoff on the internal Dem center v. left conflict: “No Georgia voter has yet asked me about elections that were 800 miles away,” he tells me. “I don’t know why we do this to ourselves.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Can Senator Jon Ossoff Hold On to His Seat?
He’s the most vulnerable incumbent in the Senate race, and his state is ground zero for the new Jim Crow attacks on voting rights.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Again, the discourse centering on whether “woke went too far” and “should we be able to hound Black people to death, y’know, for free speech” while people are still suffering the fallout from political purges like these and those that targeted Black federal employees is grotesque.
theintercept.com
Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Seasonal Ass Disorder @aknownscientist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social Stop ceding ground to bad faith fear-mongering losers, start standing up for what you know is right. Just tell the truth.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the year since Charlie Kirk’s killing, the federal government has, as promised, ramped up its targeting of leftist groups and individuals: Minneapolis anti-ICE activists have been raided and indicted. Orgs like PSL & CodePink subpoenaed. Hasan Piker is an existential threat.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI "whistleblower:" We have invented magic. It's freaking me out how good our magic is. I am an evil sorcerer. Tech press: My God... why would he lie about this
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records on air quality after 9/11. The documents shed new light on what city officials knew about dangerous conditions around Ground Zero as New Yorkers were being reassured the air was safe.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It turns out that Netanyahu was warned, in shockingly specific terms, about October 7 — and not only chose to do nothing, but hid the warning from the people who could have stopped it www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it’s fine to be skeptical of these things. i was a skeptic myself until recently. but i think fear is at the root of this skepticism, a fear of its power. people are simply not ready for what’s coming. it is powerful, it is alive, and it is quite possibly god
batman pez dispenser
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
campaign-trails.ghost.io
Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
imagine being sent to die in this pedophile's war, started because he's stupid and angry and racist and confused and easily led, one started illegally because hes too lazy and has no impulse control, and then after you die your family is denied death benefits because he lied and said it isn't a war
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s so weird how these guys will be like ding dong pobodies nerfect about this and then a Cheerios commercial will have a gay guy and it will be six months later and they’re still talking about it
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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