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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7h

for me? yes. the world? well,,,,

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 13h

had not realized Iran damaged or destroyed 81 US aircraft www.congress.gov/crs-product/... (11 crewed aircraft clearly destroyed plus 49 drones destroyed)

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We gotta walk down to/duncan idahwoo/we can make more of him

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

Statehood for DC on demand without apology

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 14h

❗Attention, union supporters ❗ We're asking Wizards and Hasbro to voluntarily recognize our union—and you can help! Sign our petition today and show our leadership that you want change in the gaming industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Win Without War @winwithoutwar.bsky.social · 16h

Win Without War's statement in response to the announcement that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed by the U.S. government:

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

Coulda sworn Mic Dicta died years ago

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

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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Patrick George @patrickgeorge.bsky.social · 18h

Last time I was back home in Texas, I clocked two Chinese-made EVs on Mexican plates within 10 minutes of leaving the airport. Guess I'll get that in Detroit soon enough too: www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

The automaker is expanding to Canada under a deal to bring tens of thousands of affordable EVs from China’s car companies to the country.

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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 19h

In their interview, Jack Posobiec asked Hegseth whether Nidal Hasan had any final requests. “Don’t care,” Hegseth said. “See him on December 3.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film

The Defense Secretary plans to telecast the military's first firing squad execution since 1945.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's response to a judge on the ICC winning the Nobel Peace Price is to sanction the entire court. Congress can and should push back. We can live in a world of laws or a world of impunity for presidents, and we're all better off in the former.

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 19h

CIP President and CEO @nancyokail.bsky.social says the Trump admin's sanctions on the ICC are "the broadest attack yet on the one permanent tribunal able to prosecute war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity." Read the full statement here: internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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Trump’s Sanctions on the ICC are an Assault on Justice & Security Everywhere - CIP

US Members of Congress should unequivocally condemn Trump's sanctioning of the International Criminal Court.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It's an older relic from the last Trump era but it has I believe found its time.

Obi-wan handing Luke Skywalker a lightsaber:

A more elegant weapon from a more civilized age

Luke turning it on:
ABOLISH ICE
ABOLISH ICE
ABOLISH ICE
ABOLISH ICE
ABOLISH ICE

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 21h

New statement from CIP President and CEO @nancyokail.bsky.social on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful affirmation of the value of multilateral institutions and the rule of law. It is also a well-deserved recognition of her work defending human rights and war crimes prosecution. The award brings renewed attention to the Commission of Inquiry’s finding that genocide was being committed in Gaza, sending a strong message that the finding and the people affected by it cannot be pushed aside by political pressure.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday ICE shot a man in NYC, while his 5 year old son was in the car with him. He did it under ongoing directives from Mullin, who @heinrich.senate.gov advanced out of committee and voted to confirm. No others votes by any of my Senators have made me more embarrassed to be New Mexican.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

7-0, lotta fun. Love the tenacity here.

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1 Prophesied End (FRA) 17
1 Teyo, Diamondblade Mage (FRA) 236
1 Teyo, Lightshield Expert (FRA) 204
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1 Shatterwing Pegasus (FRA) 21
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1 Grim Repriser (FRA) 136
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1 Something Worth Saving (FRA) 114
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1 Prudent Fateseer (FRA) 146
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If we weren't their farm team I think the Isotopes could take the Rockies

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vans on a yacht are tech deck shoes

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, the last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. It's hard to wrap your head around what we're currently accelerating toward.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The defining figure of the Trumpist state is the gleeful and inept executioner.

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Albuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

La Curva will bring 140 apartments near Old Town for middle-income families, with completion expected in 2028.

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Apartment complex for middle-income families starts construction near Old Town

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

basically every time I've needed to get writing done the past month I've just put this one and had it repeat over and over, pretty perfect for it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrK...

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The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure - Live

YouTube video by M U S T A R D

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"hard times make strong men" actually statistical error. Most hard times make starved peasants, who lack the capacity for successful use of force. Swiss Cantons Georg, who lives in a fortress and practices with a pike formation, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After a strong showing in the first round, Brazil seems likely to elect Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Jair, over incumbent Lula, despite Lula's success in delivering material results to Brazilians. @mpaarlberg.bsky.social explains why to @atherton.bsky.social internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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Q&A: Brazil's Elections and the Return of Bolsonarismo - CIP

To understand Brazil's election, look beyond material factors to shifts in media, ideology, and narratives hostile to left populism.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

300+ days of sunshine a year, fall is gentlest. The "Albuquerque box" phenomena makes balloon navigation more suitable (if you're aiming for mountains and northern New Mexico, August can be fine; if you're looking for White Sands and southern New Mexico, winter and early spring better.)

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026

Also, I want to highlight this part of the case for all the pilots and avgeeks out there. I’ve heard ICE is doing this with manifests from a number of sources, but this is, as far as I know, the first confirmation. Really shows the complicity of the pilot-in-command. This was an Omni flight.

In the latest court filing, ICE officials did not deny any of his claims, and appeared to confirm at least one of them, saying the charter flight's manifest—a printed receipt given to pilots listing all passengers and crew on a flight—
"served as the travel document."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you trap a machine in a puzzle until it solves another puzzle, only to continue indefinitely until it runs out of compute, that's a Butlerian Shahrazad

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Buddy you ever see a post so A Softer World you have to track down a graph-based quasi webcomic from the mid aughts for the punchline and then you find it and it's just maybe the meanest thing you could say to yourself/a friend anyway remember Indexed thisisindexed.com/2006/08/sorry/

thisisindexed.com

Sorry. - Indexed

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A core challenge of human relations generally and of pluralistic society specifically is being able to split the difference between hearing people express their fears as a concern about safety without sanctioning the impulse towards revenge, and the wider aperture on the story lets one do both.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The further one gets out from any Singular Day Tragedy, the more the aperture of the story told widens to include the aftermath, especially if the response to the tragedy is orders more magnitude of tragedy authored in the name of security but fundamentally animated by fantasies of revenge.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 07/10/2026

The booze business is entering the Era of "Ades" in earnest. But how did the nation’s undergrad baddies, Barstool Girl Dads, and divorced share-house extras all suddenly converge on sports drinks loaded with clear liquor this past summer? As I laid out today at Fingers, certainly not by accident.

fingers.email

The drink of the summer was vodka-spiked "ade"

Plus: One is the loneliest number (of Bud Light Seltzers)!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is actually interesting to see a real life early modern Mecantalist monarch, to see someone who actually just sincerely believes that worldview. Bit odd that he graduated from one of the most prestigious business schools in the world tbh.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/10/2026

open weights model? no I said open Waits model. it just makes vague growling noises and talks a lot about New Orleans.

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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I spent an insane amount of time making this to express how I feel about the past year. To every single person who has listened to @bloodwork.show, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Here's to another year.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today my toddler asked how tall the coin collecter for paid parking was and I said "one Meter"

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