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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 3h

Actually it is the perfect exclamation point. Graham enabled this guy. This is on his head well. The hypocrisy is galling

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a related story, 76% of hispanic Americans don’t totally hate themselves.

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Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People tell me to "get a job" when I mention that I'm homeless. I was working full-time right before I had a mental breakdown that lead to me losing my job, housing, and possessions(and I have a job now even while living in a shelter). I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mt. Pleasant! YOU did that. WE are going to win.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is a point at which we’re going to need to have a real conversation about whether to hold rank-and-file officers accountable for facially illegal acts, and the National Guard convo there is going to be very uncomfortable for states who sent their guard members to DC.

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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Trump is turning into a centaur. Look at the hindquarters on this thing. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

Trump and his gigantic ass walking out of the White House with [checks notes] Mike Tyson

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Eric is one of the most knowledgable and hardest-working reporters on Capitol Hill. He's long been one of my go-to folks whenever I have questions about what's going on in Congress and what I should be on the lookout for before any major election. Any politics editors reading this, please hire him!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One thing that Ossoff does - thank god - is COMPLETELY abandon the weird liberal wisdom that you should never say your opponent’s name. He says “Mike Collins” about 30 times in this clip, not “my opponent” or some such, and the directness make his attacks exponentially more brutal.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]

It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]

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End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.

On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"republicans think guys like this need another tax break" is an easy line for dems to use

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NIKKEI: APPLE CUTS IPHONE 18 PRO ORDERS DUE TO SOFT DEMAND "Component orders for this month have been cut by at least 15% from the volumes originally requested due to weaker-than-expected market demand for the iPhone 18 Pro series." $AAPL

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An absolute master of the casual shiv.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump's racism is not new, but I do want to talk about something interesting. And that is the way American fascists have been using social media to try to splinter the black vote and dissuade Black Americans from coming to the defense of Haitian and Somali people.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Broward County showed UP, y’all! Absent Ashley knows we can win this race. That’s why she's spending millions telling lies about me on TV. And Rep. Jamie Raskin said it best. Want to go forward? Put it in D. Want to go backwards? Put it in R. #AngieForFlorida

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026

Together, the Bulwark community raised $575,000 for the Haitian Support Center, helping it provide basic necessities and support to families under enormous strain. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 08/10/2026

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026

Ross Douthat now writing a column for the Free Press is like Anna Wintour taking a new job with Access Hollywood and then getting to edit Tiger Beat.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’re going to need a new Pulitzer category this year for Best Leaked Audio of a GOP Senate Candidate

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/10/2026

PUT MORE COPILOT ON IT

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New: Speaker Mike Johnson will be in Lexington on Friday to fundraise with Republican candidate Ralph Alvarado in KY-06, per invite I obtained. This is a district Trump won by 15 points. Yet Democrats are making a play here. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 07/10/2026

NEWS — Democrats are sending money to the Texas governor’s race as polling tightens, per @nytimes.com. JB Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association are each putting $1 million behind Gina Hinojosa’s campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Read the whole thread. "A Nazi trillionaire is trying to buy a seat" seems like it should be a pretty easy Democratic campaign line in just about every race in the country.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history

Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress

Side mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary Grant

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

COOK POLITICAL: “.. We now estimate Democrats will pick up between two and six seats -- squarely within the range of four seats they need.” @cookpolitical.com www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A bit of personal news: I've joined Duke University as Writer in Residence in the Department of Cultural Anthropology. If you're in the Durham/Chapel Hill/Raleigh area, give me a shout!

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a terrific book; I listened to the audio version in September as research for a future novel. Smart, incredibly accessible.

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victorblackwell.bsky.social @victorblackwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are y’all tired of this YET!? An expert in Black Digital Media explains why the #hotellobby AI trend is a major transition in cyberculture.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With Orban going down and MAGA appearing to be collapsing in on itself, things were looking up for democracy. AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt was a setback, but it’s just one German state. Brazil heading for a Bolsonaro restoration really stings. Shows that this global struggle will go for a while.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: Democrats add more races to their list of potential "red-to-blue" flips More states halt gas tax Trump's emerging problem with Latino voters The big wins this week for Jack Smith's deputies Lots of enterprise reporting in DAY AHEAD macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...

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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. n.pr/4rNyBD2

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Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Raiders after his racist, sexist and homophobic emails were discovered. So he's at the right place.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 03/10/2026

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lots of blue on this chart from the New York Times

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026

The execution team went through at least seven needles trying to find a vein suitable for delivering doses of a lethal drug to Tennessee inmate Christa Pike, her lawyers said. Medical experts explain the possibilities of how she survived.

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How Did Christa Pike Survive Two Lethal Injections of Pentobarbital?

A catheter carrying the drug may not have delivered the doses to Ms. Pike’s bloodstream, experts said. The drug itself may have been degraded.

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