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Amyreg

@amyreg.bsky.social
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Children's librarian, mother of 4, You'll hear about lefty politics, SPN, Covid safety and how we do not value fanworks creators enough and need to be giving them both kudos & accolades.

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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The victim, Rosa said, was on the ground bleeding and being held down by the agents. A baby, she said, was in the car and was held by ICE agents until someone picked the child up."
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"A neighbor, Iris Rosa, said the shooting happened just as a nearby school was being let out. After hiding in a store for a few minutes, she said she went to look at the scene and said it looked like agents had shot into a car."
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 9h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 10h
I just found out I’m losing my main source of income because AI search has nerfed the revenue of my main client. I am, also, 2000+ miles from home doing photography I expected to pay for with that income. If you can help, I’m hoping to raise $1000 to help cover trip costs & the drive back west.
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Support Animal Photo Reference Repository
Support Animal Photo Reference Repository
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h
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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11h
Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h
i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.
Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.
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Sleeping Awake @sleepingawake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16h
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 15h
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
(DHS should be dismantled. TSA and the Coast Guard go back to DoT, FEMA returns to a stand-alone cabinet-level agency, while CISA and USSS move to DoJ, and INS (immigration, customs, naturalization, border) go back to the Department of Labor or DoJ).
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know what I don't see on the agent who shot a dad with a military assault rifle? THE BODY-CAM THAT THE TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROMISED TO PUT ON ALL ICE AGENTS.
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Charles’ slates rock! One click giving 100% to candidates directly via act blue—split evenly or however ya want *and* you can click to not receive emails from each campaign!
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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a lover of procreate and colored pencils I endorse this brush 🫡
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026
Osoff cast ressurect and then killed him again like 11 times
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Happy Anniversary
Closeup of purple petunia with 5 tiny white and green center blobs deep inside but still clear and most velvety texture.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
theintercept.com
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you're going to be a fascist, be a fascist. Have an ideology. Believe something. Know what you're standing for. Then I can at least hate you earnestly, for who you are and what you do. Instead? This continues to be the mood, is all.
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Grotesque. sin against human dignity number 2,765,543
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Spicy autofill is an even better name than stochastic parrot!! A+++
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 08/10/2026
Well. Hello. (Is that a debut at #7 on the NYT bestseller list? Why yes, yes it is!)
A screenshot of the Astarion cover next to a blurb, New This Week, and the #7
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why do all the AI bros have AI psychosis??
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"A couple quick follow ups, Mr. Secretary -- what the ever-loving fuck are you babbling about? When was the Pentagon recruiting soldiers with 'My Two Mommies'? And how fucking drunk are you right now?"
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very sad, very fucked up. THERE IS NO APP LIKE YOUR LAP
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Would also be nice if we stopped shackling critically injured, half-paralyzed people to their beds, against the objections of medical staff. Reminds me of the videos where cops handcuff limp, unresponsive people they've just repeatedly shot.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/10/2026
If we do not immediately eliminate the death penalty in the United States we are not only a barbaric nation but a willfully vicious and bloodthirsty one with a "pro-life" court whose hypocrisy puts Robespierre to shame.
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Christa Pike, Confused After Failed Tennessee Execution, Is at Center of Legal Storm (Gift Article)
Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do I know any people who are well connected in the Pittsburgh, PA art scene?
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 07/10/2026
Jeff Flake once estimated that at least 35 Republican senators would vote to remove Trump if the ballot were secret. A Democratic Senate could give them that chance. @andycraig.bsky.social
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lol in real life
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s hard to overstate how damaging this would be both for higher education and for the physician workforce shortage. But of course, that’s the point.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington State this fall would require families to pay for their daughters to have a genital exam or other sex test if they want to play sports AT ANY LEVEL, and the left is sleeping on it. I talked to KUOW:
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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November
Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling sugg...
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Amyreg @amyreg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wowza
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sascha @sascha.sh · 07/10/2026
I accidentally shot almost the exact same field of view of the Orion Nebula with two different setups just two years apart. 1st image: Seestar S50 in 2024 (2h exposure), 2nd image: ASI2600MC + Askar 111F (3h exposure) The difference in detail was quite interesting #astrophotography
The Orion Nebula shot on the Seestar S50The Orion Nebula shot on an ASI2600MC and the Askar 111F
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So you mean the company that's muddying the waters of reality on purpose has also managed to sell you a bullshit detector? For anyone who thinks all this is anything more than a shiny scam, you are Napoleon Dynamite electrocuting his nuts after buying a time travel machine off the internet.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 06/10/2026
Sadiqa Reynolds says her client Amina Seck is being released from ICE custody today.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By "a few folks in the media," does Secretary Kegsbreath mean Trump's own Navy Secretary who reported on all the attempted suicides by sailors stuck on the USS Abraham Lincoln?
Eight USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Attempted Suicide During Deployment in Iran War: Navy Secretary
“Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Hung Cao wrote.
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