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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jews 🤝 Asians

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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🌊🌊🌊™️ @mandyk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pardon the legal jargon, but I will say I gave to this GoFundMe after finding (via 3 mins of online research) that the guy suing her is a Real Dick.

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Ziggy Tzardust @ziggytzardust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026

Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)

On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc.
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting
the Petition.

Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She escaped her Nazi husband (disguising herself as her own maid became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth & GPS technology. BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017)

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please help a mensch

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Willy Loman @alonsoquixano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For those of you that need to know, a young Mehdi Hasan was a Charlie Kirk or a Ben Shapiro just with a different religion. Mehdi has grown since then, apparently the ends do justify the means for him when it comes to Jewish people and Israel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Tz...

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Mehdi Hasan's 2009 Sermon on Islamic Morality and Non-Believers

YouTube video by Yaqeen Online

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eggers continues to make movies for what as far as I can tell is an audience that consists of me specifically

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“As of May 2026, the C.D.C. had 30 percent fewer employees than it did before the layoffs…Interviews with more than 30 current & former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs”

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"We're told some of the attendees were shocked the former Republican governor would host Raman, a democratic socialist. But after hearing her pitch for tackling L.A.'s problems, some who came in skeptical walked away impressed." www.tmz.com/2026/09/25/a...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Introduces L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman to Power Players

Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman ... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players, TMZ has learned.

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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's called a laryngospasm. This is how a Nolan Wells conspiracy theory will be inflamed.

Katie Phang
@katiephang.bsky.social
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NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner.

How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
2:00 PM · Sep 24, 2026
Everybody can reply

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What a sad fucking worldview to assume almost no one in politics believes in *anything*, they're all 100% craven cynics who will profess any belief for a dollar. And what a *stupid* fucking worldview to assume those same people are secretly hiding *egalitarian beliefs* under that craven cynicism.

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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will never be normal about this scene, Batman is the best.

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Different angles of the majestic Mount Fuji. Can't wait to be back again later this year.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The thing that's really bothering me about all this is that Talarico has a genuinely impressive track record on trans rights! The impulse that treats "very good, but not quite perfect" as though it were abject evil is such a poison

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Willy Loman @alonsoquixano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hitler's favorite boxer lied to save two jewish boys from Kristalnacht. Schmeling ultimately ended up saving them from the Holocaust. Talk is talk, it's what you do in this life that counts. www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/othe...

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Max Schmeling: Aryan champ, savior of Jews

On Friday November 9 2001 the 63rd anniversary of the Cristal Night was commemorated all around the world. This article was written on that occasion by the founder of the International Raoul Wallenber...

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 10/09/2026

Obama started supporting same-sex marriage in 2012, 3 years before the SCOTUS ruling, but lacked the power to make it happen sooner. Joe Biden was the one to convince him he should do it despite the potential political cost.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 09/09/2026

Looking for full-time, remote senior/staff or tech lead level work. TypeScript is my strongest suit, but I'm a flexible polyglot. Boosts for visibility appreciated!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This video made the rounds in December 2025. It's not a mountain on fire, it's ALPENGLOW plus clouds & snow. It was captured by an unknown videographer in the Meili Snow Mountains in Tibet, what the PRC calls "Yunnan province / Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture". Let's explore Alpenglow.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i’d like to report a mass murder

Perhaps it has been his guilty conscience regarding his position at MIT along with a hubristic overestimation of his own capacity for individually grasping the essence of any global matter that led Chomsky to saddle himself with the task of producing counter-propaganda rather than searching for truth; perhaps it was the idea of himself as an American statesman trying to advise policy rather than an international organizer that led him to prioritize a friendship with someone who could provide access to figures like Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon over consideration for his victims. Whatever the case, Chomsky's lasting legacy will be the impressive feat of having combined the worst aspects of just about every leftist and progressive tendency: anarchists' lack of economic theory and class analysis, Marxist-Leninists' defense of state atrocities and insistence on viewing politics as a global chessboard, and liberals' elitist disdain for the masses' ability to be trusted with interpreting information.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I usually avoid the term “virtue signaling” but tens of thousands of dollars (possibly much more!) got siphoned away from real aid charities and to various international criminal syndicates because people on this website wanted to publicly perform caring Not good!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/08/2026

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another area.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/08/2026

Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️

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Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

video of her comments tonight

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/08/2026

I’m putting out an official discourse warning for tonight. take shelter, prepare a firebreak, lay in supplies, etc etc etc

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026

Mamdani: "If a New Yorker looks at what ICE is doing and wants to see more of it, they should vote for Bruce Blakeman, who has created his own militia in Nassau County. If they look at what ICE is doing and they are shocked by the inhumanity and cruelty, they should vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm glad Francesca Hong put out a very good statement on unity and focusing on the fight to come, and I hope she takes some time off to focus on her true passion: hunting, slaying, and cooking the Easter Bunny.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.

Alexandria with her project for ISEF 2007. A young woman with square glasses, she stands in front of a cardboard display recounting her work on antioxidants.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Many DOGE kids were monsters. The most chilling DOGE story I've heard was the anonymous testimony of NIH officials who begged the DOGE children who were dismantling their work to spare some long-running cancer research projects whose great promise would be vaporized if they were interrupted. 27/

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

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