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@amwick.bsky.social
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Former Bomb Disposaleer turned suburban wife/mom and adopter of scrappy dogs. Cherishes democracy - have seen the other options up close.

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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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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026
For 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.
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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 12/09/2026
every 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”
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Brent 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.”
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Jen 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...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
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
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the 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
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/08/2026
The 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.com
NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
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What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Expert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No, 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...
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The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In 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.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can'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.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PHASE 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
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We'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...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On 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...
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
GET 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.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/07/2026
This 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.
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Trump administration fires members of independent election group - The Boston Globe
The move comes as President Trump seeks to cast doubt on the outcome of the upcoming midterms and impose control over how ballots are counted.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The 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...
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The Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Jack 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"
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The 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
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Ancient Loggie @ancientloggie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
OK, 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...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On 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...
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Space Force Commander Bone Spurs @sfcaptbonespurs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New 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...
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Citizen-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…
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amwick.bsky.social @amwick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
WTG Virginia!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Yes, 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.
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amwick.bsky.social @amwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Should'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."
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The Iran War and the Energy Lesson We Failed to Learn
How 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
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump’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.
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David Costello @davidcostello.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I 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
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
so 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
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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David 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...
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‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown
When 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…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hard to win a war when your business model is selling your own war plans. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...
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Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering
It can serve as a downpayment to the world on our commitment to restore accountable democracy to America.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Americans 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.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026
A 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
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
it'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
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This 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.
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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amwick.bsky.social @amwick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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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.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
He 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.
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Grievance Is All You Need .... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...
America’s science and medical research system may have been world-class before but did not have the institutional and legal safeguards to prevent a grievance-fueled takeover. This piece unpacks the COVID origins of that grievance and the imperatives for a transformation.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-188677740
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal 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_...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Breaking: Mikie Sherrill (D) wins New Jersey Governor race, defeating her Trump-endorsed opponent. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)
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Gregg 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...
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Write 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...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Almost 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.
An owl handler I met (although not the one in my anecdote) with his beautiful owl.
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