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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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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
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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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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We do not hate this guy enough

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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Deal with it. 🕶️

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Dems getting better at this

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“ AI will be the biggest jump since the Industrial Revolution “ Uhm that was powered by slavery, rape colonialism and use of Asian labor and African resource la to build tracks of interconnected networks also yellow journalism So why are you falling for the gag again ?

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mama I love you, Mama I care Mama I love you, Mama my friend You're my friend

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are few things more enraging about British politics in the twenty-first century than the extent to which Westminster and the national news media are in thrall to bloated leeches like this. They are invariably tax evading, climate change denying, racist ghouls. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excellent reporting here by Rachel Lavin on the ongoing impact of racist riots and arson attacks in Belfast, digging into the data, and the human stories behind the numbers and trends.

irishtimes.com

After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?

At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home

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Mas @apyli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I fucking am damn good

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Few rightly recognize one of the most important and pernicious impacts of 9/11: how it changed our society’s very understanding and relationship to facts and truth. My new @wired.com essay: www.wired.com/story/conspi...

wired.com

How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist

Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 10/09/2026

😭🥹😭

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The transphobia to antisemitism pipeline at the BBC One of the BBC's most committed anti-trans activist presenters, live on air accusing a Jewish man of not being Jewish enough for his liking

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 05/09/2026

Students from more than 200 high schools across Colorado walked out of school Friday afternoon to protest federal immigration enforcement. Some clashed with pro-ICE counterprotesters in Denver's La Alma-Lincoln Park.

coloradonewsline.com

Colorado high school students participate in statewide walkout to protest ICE | Colorado Newsline

Participating high schools span the entire state, but students in the Denver area will gather for a larger demonstration at La Alma Park in Denver at noon.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I learned that lesson from, of all places, Star Trek TNG episode Q Who, when Picard begs Q to save them, Q does, and tells Picard "That was a difficult admission. Another man would've been humiliated to say those words. Another man would've rather died than ask for help!" Always stuck with me.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 05/09/2026

The tan suit is the headline, but this is actually a really cool story about a man coming to America after the worst tragedy and living the American Dream. He (and his sons) made 15 suits for Obama.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's fascists being given special treatment by the police again

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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A couple of weeks after the network of Thiel cash and fascists of which Orr is a member (with the collaboration of the UK media) lynched Jason Arday, Orr is caught funelling foreign cash to Reform. Arday's citations were never the story.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/09/2026

Whispers: food recalls while unsettling are actually a good thing, in the sense that it shows there's at least some food oversight. A world without recalls means we just die from foodborne illnesses en masse.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.

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Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

<Religious studies narrator> It did *not* used to mean something

On Language
‘Cult’ Used to Mean Something. Now It Applies to Taylor Swift and Trader Joe’s.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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That's HEDLEY! @hedleylamarr23.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yesterday I tested positive for COVID, after spending a couple of days thinking it was hay fever and then realizing it wasn't. Largely due to the expertise and decades of hard work by this man, I am at home, in decent shape and not going to end up dead or in the hospital. Thank you, Dr. Fauci.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026

important piece of how journalism works right here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...

The Post, a truly immoral scumbag tabloid that is simultaneously the most skilled tabloid journalism publication in America in a way that we can all learn from, ran the story, and then it was picked up over the next few days by other right wing outlets making essentially the same “hey this left winger is a rich kid” joke, and then yesterday the story was picked up by the New York Times, which had profiled Gordillo earlier, and once that happened it instantly became acceptable fodder for non-right-wing reporters and pundits. This is a textbook case of how to shepherd a shallow partisan smear into the mainstream news cycle. You may find it distasteful, but you should admire its efficacy. Any competent cutthroat political communicator must be able to replicate this process on demand.

(When I worked at Gawker, we frequently played a similar but less political role in this general process, by writing about stories that the Times was interested in but considered disreputable, which would then allow them to write follow-ups framed as “People are talking about this thing,” which provides them an entry point to feed their readers salacious news while still maintaining an analytical, hands-off pose. Once you understand this dynamic you will see it all the time.)

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💀norfölkology🎃 @norfolkology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Decapitated and dismembered with bone saws while still alive, but in a fun environment

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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