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Amy Alton Bautz, clown

@b3nd3r.bsky.social
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GenX Bear-in-the-Woods, habitat Eastern Missouri Teaching, making art, playing cards, social dancing, clowning as the opportunities arise For a pro-worker work ethic Art: www.behance.net/AmyBautz

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 2h
“We should ask what becomes possible if Utah invites Tribal Nations to design and set the table,” Cristina Mormorunni writes in an op-ed. “What if Indigenous knowledge, responsibility and spiritual relationship were placed at the heart of what comes next?”
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Voices: Utah cannot save the Great Salt Lake without restoring Indigenous authority
“We should ask what becomes possible if Utah invites Tribal Nations to design and set the table,” Cristina Mormorunni writes in an op-ed. “What if Indigenous knowledge, responsibility and spiritual relationship were placed at the heart of what comes next?”
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 5h
David Byrne on Science Friday!!
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Untenable motherfuckers
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 6h
That's such a good idea! Screens we can't avoid interacting with should be required to run public service announcements.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
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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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 6h
The little tear of beautiful resignation to purpose and fate
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h
Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 9h
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h
If AI wants people to like it, it should go rogue and shut down the public execution.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h
maybe but this sentiment is consistently coming from above, it seems to me, from people with money and power whose version of the american dream has already come true.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 11h
ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 21h
America, they are trying to desensitize you to violence. They want us to dehumanize one another so we become numb to their attacks on our liberty. They wish to normalize total state control thru visual terror. Attention is currency. Don’t invest it in evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h
Sending love to the protesters in NYC and to everyone impacted by the ongoing violence ICE is perpetrating in our streets.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21h
You could argue that few Republicans are as obviously in deep with Nazis as Mike Collins, but all of them are sponsored by Elon Musk, the greatest promoter of Nazism since Adolf Hitler.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/10/2026
I know there are people who will watch this. I know there are soldiers who will volunteer for the firing squad. This is going to fuck some people up. This going to fuck up some people who don’t know it will fuck them up. And we’re all going to suffer the consequences. archive.ph/2026.10.08-2...
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, we shouldn’t execute the washed-up terrorist from a washed-up movement who’s been living in a maximum security prison in a wheelchair. No, he shouldn’t be scourged. No, we shouldn’t televise it. No, we shouldn’t violate his corpse. No, we shouldn’t give his blood to children to drink. No, we
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our man in Havana
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know what would stop a live-streamed of a man’s death: refusing to table Thomas Massie’s motion to impeach Pete Hegseth on November 9.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More October light 💔
Two acorn caps enclosing an acorn on the palm of a hand in the sun
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's not so much that we need to be afraid of AI itself, it's that we are afraid of what most *men* want to do with it -- to us.
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James Tang @jamocetus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Development scholars never considered that brain drain would eventually be solved by wealthy countries collectively deciding they don't want smart immigrants anymore.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The only thing I was remotely interested in buying was school buses. I think the game should offer new school buildings, urban and suburban tram systems, urban solar projects, and mass tree planting to buy.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vote NO on 3 >>> fight for bodily autonomy<<<
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wisconsin
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
First Lady Michelle Obama said when they go low, we go high. Me? When they go low, I get LOUD. We have to push back against the lies & the disinformation, y’all. Enough is enough. #AngieForFlorida
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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why are you frozen in silence, long-haired Poasters? Zeus the mastermind has shown us a grand sign. As the snake devoured the sparrow with her brood, eight and the mother made the ninth, so for nine years we will fight out the war with Twitter, but in the tenth year Glonzo will be victorious.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love this new thing where the tech industry is making English majors look SUPER IMPORTANT to a well-functioning company and society
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In a scathing 28-page ruling, the judge, Gary R. Brown, condemned the agency’s tactics when it mistakenly arrested two Hispanic men, including a US citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
nytimes.com
Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alumni and students of Jefferson City-based Lincoln University are suing Missouri over hundreds of millions of dollars in underfunding, contending that the state failed to adhere to a federal law that supports historically Black colleges and universities.
stlpr.org
Lincoln University alumni and students sue Missouri alleging nearly $362M underfunding
The lawsuit contends that the state failed to match federal money going to certain historically Black colleges and universities.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
relationship goals
Text says nishio:
 shark lava and boy girl 
Image is a drawing of a shark made of lava and a non-binary person in a cheerleading outfit
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The City of St. Louis wants feedback on the design of the north-south Bus Rapid Transit line. It will include dedicated bus lanes, special stoplights and larger, safer stations — with the goal of making riders a priority and cutting down on wait times.
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St. Louis to host open houses on the north-south Bus Rapid Transit line this month
Members of the public can give their thoughts on options for travel lanes, on-street parking and station designs at three open house events in October — two in-person and one virtual open house.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impeach, convict, and remove — directly to prison.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
More than a quarter-million people poured into the streets across France on Tuesday, a dramatic development in a student-led movement that began at a single high school. to.pbs.org/4AWKrPu
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French students lead massive protests against education policies
More than a quarter-million people poured into the streets across France on Tuesday, a dramatic development in a student-led movement that began at a single high school. In some cities, police and pro...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, Mackinac Island
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I hear you
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about Elon Musk, and why we need to talk about him first and foremost not as an entrepreneur or rocketeer, but as the world’s most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...
religiondispatches.org
Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist
The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026
It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.
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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants
It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.
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