Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New 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 143144246203
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.lawfaremedia.orgThe Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls BanCongress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply. 7448198
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 12/09/2026every day i imagine there’s an extremely high-stakes meeting inside google between the forces of “we can’t keep showing these dogshit ai results” and “doing anything else would cost 20 trillion dollars” 1706
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 441050321
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 595165427122
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it 2848041282
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/08/2026The health research federal funding agency (NIH) is not going to fund research on how policy choices, like pollution levels, affect public health. You might not be interested in science policy but science policy is interested in you. Via @colesci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comNIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policyUS biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. 04212
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...kevinmlevin.substack.comWhat the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, VirginiaExpert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters. 823487
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...theatlantic.comThe War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries. 412250503
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it. 111411259
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways. 22680982174
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination” 10082412155
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x 1595227
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...actionnetwork.orgOppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political AppointeesOn May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is... 214080
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialKimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11/07/2026GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems. 603191955340
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/07/2026This is a BIG red flag. Ahead of the midterms, Donald Trump FIRED all members of the independent Election Assistance Commission—people confirmed unanimously by the Senate to make sure we have free and fair elections. We can't let Trump rig the next election.bostonglobe.comTrump administration fires members of independent election group - The Boston GlobeThe move comes as President Trump seeks to cast doubt on the outcome of the upcoming midterms and impose control over how ballots are counted. 1511412522
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon – Mother Jones A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights iconA piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance." 14453258
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime" 887278959765
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The bad ending isn't "civil war 2," the bad ending is that you get DOGE-level state capacity wrecking events every 4 to 8 years, because the Room Temperature IQ Coalition keeps booting Democrats out of office before they can undo the damage Repeat for the rest of this century 2154489
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23/06/2026OK, people. It takes 2 minutes to write a letter to Congress, a few extra if you personalize it. Russ Vought's attempt to take over ALL federal grant funding is anti-democratic and dangerous. We need MORE letters. Let's tip it over 2000 today. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...actionnetwork.orgOppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political AppointeesOn May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is... 6253166
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialSpace Force Commander Bone Spurs @sfcaptbonespurs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING 11962711163
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New guest post up on the ‘ol blog. Grateful for people who have the energy to write when I do not angrystaffofficer.com/2026/04/16/c...angrystaffofficer.comCitizen-Soldiers – not “Warriors”In a recent prepared statement by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in which he cut the War Department’s ties and affiliation with his alma mater, Harvard University, he made s… 518942
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Yes, and: #RFKJr & allies are making money on all this. Then we have Russ Vought who wants to tear down everything, Jay Bhattacharya and others who are still nursing grievances for their poor scholarship in 2020. Eugenics, nihilistic, religious zealotry and revenge are a heady dangerous mix. 17613
amwick.bsky.social @amwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Should've learned this in the 1970s or at least the 1990s. "Distributed grids, storage, efficiency, and interconnectors build resilience through redundancy and infrastructure depth rather than through armed management of scarcity."warontherocks.comThe Iran War and the Energy Lesson We Failed to LearnHow many energy crises will it take before we stop betting our economies on a fragile oil market? The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran quickly morphed from 021
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education. Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable. 17445721607
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialDavid Costello @davidcostello.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I worked for USAID in such shattered countries as Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. USAID aid benefited US interests and saved countless lives there and elsewhere. That’s what we, the USA, should best be known for – saving lives. Sen. Susan Collins was wrong to not fight for USAID #MEpolitics 11461107
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 31/03/2026so cool that this administration was handed the basis for more or less an economic renaissance and instead they decided to shoot the global economy in the gut—and then the head—before killing the freedom of navigation for shits and giggles 211848311
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026 20373622136
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026...news.mongabay.com‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdownWhen then-U.S. president John F . Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development in 1961, it was meant primarily to administer health and food aid around the world. In the… 19436
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Hard to win a war when your business model is selling your own war plans. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...offmessage.netExpose ALL Of Trump's War ProfiteeringIt can serve as a downpayment to the world on our commitment to restore accountable democracy to America. 351838752
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialRep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Americans support commonsense ICE reforms: Agents should: - be clearly identified - follow use-of-force standards - obtain judicial warrants Instead, Trump is fueling more chaos by sending untrained ICE agents into airports. 3124567
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all 618354508123
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke 135113043119
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money. 011950
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialJim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.no01.substack.comMarch, 19-21: God is a comedianA stiff drink is recommended 8631821409
amwick.bsky.social @amwick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.” 000
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.reuters.comAfghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group saysMohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die in ICE detention this year. 19561673349
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits. 41122842541
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Grievance Is All You Need .... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-... 911256
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_... 22253072692
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Breaking: Mikie Sherrill (D) wins New Jersey Governor race, defeating her Trump-endorsed opponent. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social) 953673617
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2025#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...actionnetwork.orgWrite members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an... 16468230
Reposted by @amwick.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents. 232884629