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@bah704.bsky.social
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Love the three (sometimes four, an interloper has arrived) ferals who have adopted me, my two fur baby dogs. Registered unaffiliated votes blue in NC. I would like to relocate to a bluer state or another country at this time. Covid conscious.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11h
I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
Pew Research poll: Trump approval 30% approve 68% disapprove That's the lowest approval of his second term.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
Sherrod Brown tells Scott MacFarlane about an Ohio farmer whose fertilizer costs jumped $100,000, wiping out his profit and threatening a fifth-generation family farm. “People feel betrayed.” Brown blasts Sen. Jon Husted for staying silent on tariffs, war, and soaring prices.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
I guess I’m in the minority for focusing on how Trump’s oil deal helps Putin while most are focused on how little it helps US oil/diesel prices.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
Gov. Spanberger on Trump's executive order on dyed diesel: “Who pays that deferred tax and when? Is it the farmer? Is it the vendor?” “If the president and his supporters in Congress actually wanted to meaningfully impact the cost of diesel, they would end the Iran war.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
According to VPAP, twice as many Virginians have voted early at this point in the midterms than 2022. TWICE as many. www.vpap.org/elections/ea...
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God @thegodshow.com · 4h
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18h
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Feral cat lover @bah704.bsky.social · 8h
A worker at my local post office has a prominent three percenter and a totenkopf tattoo on his arm. If I ever vote by mail again, I will take my ballot to boe or a polling place...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h
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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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14h
This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge gains 4) Repeat This is why we must get Big Money out of politics — and support the candidates who will fix the system.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
Blue Cross Blue Shield is being sued as a monopoly after the state found it's been in a conspiracy to restrict access to healthcare. Corporations should not have this much power. We need money out of politics, money in our pockets, and Medicare for All.
freep.com
Michigan attorney general sues Blue Cross, alleging illegal monopoly
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in "arguably the most consequential antitrust case" of its kind.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13h
ICC judge Navi Pillay worked on human rights violations in Rwanda and Myanmar, and more recently chaired the UN Commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. She received the news while in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, and joked about sharing the prize with Trump.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h
A win for voters! A judge ruled that the DOJ’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal.
democracydocket.com
Federal judge shuts down Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter roll crusade, even in states that cooperated
The ruling also reaches voter rolls that states voluntarily turned over. By vacating the policy itself, the court barred DOJ from continuing to use those already-obtained files as part of the nationwi...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
There’s always a tweet
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 11h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10h
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens
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Feral cat lover @bah704.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's disgusting and sickening...you have to be some kind of sick to watch, promote or approve of this
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There was a child in the car” Abolish ICE. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins explains in detail why her fraudulent donor had to create a shell company in order to send her his illegal payments JACKSON: And that's why Mr. Kao created a shell company to run his corporation, PACs, through to get to Sen. Collins's PAC COLLINS: And that's why he's in jail today
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Any nation that live streams executions is a shithole country.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House. Vote against all Republicans.
abcnews.com
Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some more simple morning Doga❤️ IG: @my_aussie_gal www.instagram.com/my_aussie_ga...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 $𝟒𝟔𝟒 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭🚨 Autocratic regimes are marked by massive corruption. Republicans are corruptly wasting billions of our taxpayer money on #IceLawlessness, like this fleet of useless & overpriced planes which was a giant kick back for a donor.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminder!
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4,000 people attended James Talarico's rally. He stayed to meet every single Texan.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Democratic Underground cartoon
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mike Rogers is watching you.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dawg I WISH
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
axios.com
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 An alarming breakdown of Pete Hegseth's rhetoric, which frames the military as moral crusaders superior to 99% of Americans while labeling media and intellectuals as traitors. The goal? A military isolated from society, recruited strictly from conservative colleges.
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Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he didn't commit, threatened w/ incarceration of up to 10 years & endured defaming of his name" Former Olympian charged w/ discredited Reflecting Pool criminal case asks for Dept of Interior watchdog probe of agency
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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