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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 15m

Have we met his aunt yet? My money had been on Charlie’s mom.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 4h

"Veteran submarine laughs in the face of death." (salutes)

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 6h

Farage has run out of migrants, attacks on RNLI volunteers boomeranged, disabled people next on Reform UK list for blame ... "Farage has found a new section of civilisation to demonise - the disabled - just like Hitler really. And some of the comments are vile, truly vile" via Karen Maunder

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 4h

True! Great for mulled hot apple cider for a Christmas party!

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12h

Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 4h

Slow cookers seem to have been made for people who have 9 to 5 or ful-time jobs away from home. When we were both working, I'd start a pot roast before leaving for work, and it would be ready when we got home.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yeah, I guess so, but that’s still an astonishingly small number if it’s true. I have to believe that the actual global human population was much higher, and these are just the bloodlines that survived.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 6h

So, that’s 1280 people worldwide? That seems very… sparse.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 7h

In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

And remember, all of this is happening amid the AI buildout. AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive. An offensive waged by one industry, which put their guy Vance in the WH.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

People talk about AI not turning a profit and how it's a massive bubble—they're not wrong. But remember when Uber was willing to take tremendous losses FOR YEARS to engineer dependence and bleed out the competition?

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11h

It looks like a Jules Verne diving helmet!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h

Chills. Muskegon is FIRED UP and ready to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22h

men take note of who in this story comes out looking genuine and respectful and who comes out looking like a strain of syphilis that was granted a wish to become a real boy

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

slate.com

The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.

Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Won't someone please think of the hellocobber?!

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Time to pay the Piper, Asshole. Wood chipper, feet first.

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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump's decision to live-stream a public execution puts America in a very small and select company .. (cartoon Marian Kamensky)

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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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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cartoonist: David Horsey

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As long as the Canada geese don’t vote, we may have a chance.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If only they lived longer and could pass on generational knowledge, who knows what they could accomplish.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you, America! Money from diesel will help me kill even more Ukrainian children.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s all fun and games until he bites that lemon.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I hope they got banned from the game and lost all their purchases as well.

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Bacon Wrangler @baconwrangler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Jeremy gives fewer shits than a honey badger.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

😩😩😩

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/10/2026

This is the part that feels like going insane daily. "lol oh no we can't stop our product from doing crimes aren't we cheeky?" FUCKING JAIL FOR THE CEO THEN

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