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Brian Edwards-Tiekert

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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 9h
I hear there's a fuel crisis out there, but the Blue Angels are lighting ~70,000 gallons on fire to terrorize my dog this weekend.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h
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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy Scheudenfriday! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Ad About Welfare Fraud Draws MAGA Backlash
Far-right influencers piled on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s former press secretary, over a campaign ad about Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Super interesting. The US has seen declining mechanic availability because local bike shops keep closing. They used to do repairs to get people in the door, and pay their bills with bike sales. The shift to online bike sales upended that. share.google/qtuwKuXFq6o3...
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Europe needs 105,000 bike mechanics as 121 million people prevented from cycling more, report finds | BikeRadar
New report suggests Europe is already short of 45,000 mechanics, which is impacting how people travel
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something I keep returning to is that one reason colleges have private police forces and 24-hour student medical centers is to keep horrendous things that happen at frats from generating public records. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now in the running for Streisand Effect of the Year pitchfork.com/story/ed-she...
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Ed Sheeran’s Tour Openers, Backing Band Resign After Macklemore Removal
The rapper was kicked off the tour following his call for a free Palestine
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
spirit halloween is JOINING the ed sheeran tour
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feels like we're at an inflection point where the political and professional costs of being anti-Palestinian eclipse the costs of being pro-Palestinian.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Basic question from the sidelines here: why would it be *bad* for China to take the lead in frontier AI development?
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Data Center Knowledge @datacenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Data centers pause; costs don’t. Around 1 in 5 interconnection requests never become load, stranding grid investments and shifting costs onto others. How should we handle “phantom” load and restudies? ⚡ Full story: www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power... #DataCenters #Grid #EnergyPolicy
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The Ripple Effect of Data Center Project Cancellations and Delays
Data center cancellations strand investments and trigger restudies. Who pays—developers, utilities, or ratepayers? Cases from Georgia, Virginia, and cloud.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thesis: AI will kill us all Antithesis: AI companies are actually just running out of money and need an excuse to slow down Synthesis: AI companies are worried they'll run out of money *before* they can kill us all.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Look: I like infill development as much as the next guy, but you can't say "we're going to reverse gentrification" and "rents collapsed" when all your chart shows is rents partially reversed a sudden spike but are still 15% higher than they were four years ago.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data center concerns re: water, noise, etc. are real, but don't explain why polls now show opposition runs higher than to, say, coal plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...
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Opinion | I Expected Tech Fatalism. Americans Are Putting Up a Remarkable Fight Instead.
Three-fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well this was a fascinating 400-year sprint through the tug-of-war between corporate and state power: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump-era ICE agent crossing the Mexico border as a criminal fugitive is something straight out the Department of Irony's Division of Poetic Justice
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You might be wondering if Dolly Parton had a song about burning down a prison. Yes she did. Source: YouTube share.google/2wKHIbmJync7...
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DOLLY PARTON - EVENING SHADE
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In a culture awash in songs about eternal love, we needed one about healthy breakups: the kind where you know you're richer for having loved each other and still want the best for each other and so you move on filled with love instead of damaged by its loss. youtu.be/lKsQR72HY0s?...
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Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The love for Dolly is so widespread and unimpeachable that it's got the president lowering flags to half-mast. She won a Grammy for a song about sexual harassment, created a country anthem for a movie about a trans woman's road trip, and personally funded development of an MRNA vaccine for COVID.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The stakes in the brouhaha over the Guardian letter on Iran seem very low relative to the level of acrimony.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sex is great but have you ever fantasized about the sewer electric and public works agencies merging so they never have to put holes in fresh pavement ever again.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For this, we lost The Missing Link. hoodline.com/2026/08/berk...
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Berkeley's Would-Be Tallest Tower Stalls as Developer Defaults on Shattuck Loan
Berkeley's tallest tower is still just a rendering — and now its developer has defaulted on the loan.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is there a training camp where they teach NYT headline writers to do Extreme Passive Voice? This makes it sound like the President's signature legislative accomplishment and defining war of choice are just things that happened to him and his Definitely Sincere Campaign Promise
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Rachel Becker @ra-becks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
By now, you've heard that the Trump administration took a major step today towards rolling back protections for some of the country's wilder, more remote forests — ostensibly to reduce wildfires. Research shows, it'll do just the opposite. calmatters.org/environment/...
calmatters.org
Trump wants more roads and logging in California forests. Here’s the wildfire risk
The rollback could open more than 4 million acres to development, even as research shows roads can increase wildfire ignitions.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This was a fascinating, sobering read. I was vaguely aware of the attack on the Coyote Creek substation. I didn't know there were *dozens* of similar attacks that followed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...
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The Blackout That Could Devastate America
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Someone refresh me on Minsky: what stage is Bubble Good, Actually www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...
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Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
As fears spread over a possible artificial intelligence bubble, some tech investors say: Bring it on.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today, Wiki Workers United US/CWA demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and sister projects! We are hopeful that the Wikimedia Foundation will honor their stated values and quickly come to the table.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
MAINE CHARACTER SYNDROME
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Plattner campaign demonstrated that we have a party in which 1) voters will enthusiastically support an anti-war progressive populist, and 2) credible accusations of sexual assault are disqualifying. Both are good and I am baffled that people are getting angry at each other on the internet.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The case against fireworks, presented on behalf of my dog Murphy
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ahhhh the story of the 2020s is the story of elites getting high on their own supply. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Feels like Trump 2.0 foreign policy is being run by a sycophantic AI HEGSETH: Let's overthrow the Islamic Republic CHAT47: Great idea, here are war plans that will 100% succeed KHAMENEI Jr.: Give us $300bn instead CHAT47: Brilliant! Here is a peace agreement that will 100% endure.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just another day on the 2026 internet researching labor rights under a Collective Sarmfaong Rekeement
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Democratic mayors defunded the police!" LAPD: <dispatches 10 armed agents of the state to shoot a Bernedoodle>
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A friend is home from oral surgery. Her sister went to the pharmacy for a bottle of Norco (opiate pain reliever) and they accidentally gave her a bag of Narcan (reverses overdoses). For reasons, she now can't get the drugs she was supposed to until tomorrow. Friends: *always* double-check the meds.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
On March 2, Malika's mother was killed by an Israeli strike. Her last act alive was using her body to protect 4yo Malika, who sustained burns, shrapnel to her face, and damage to her eye. I wrote about how this war is impacting children in Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Lebanon’s children face physical, psychological trauma amid Israel’s war
Experts warn of lasting trauma for Lebanon's children as war continues to shatter their sense of safety.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Honestly impressed the AUSA did the vouching where you could find it with Control-F "vouch"
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The irresistable escalation from railing against cancel culture as an assault on free speech to suing your critics for exercising free speech.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What a great day to have never issued any hot takes on the Maine senate primary.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
US Constitution, 1787: "Congress shall have the power [...] to declare war" US Actual, 2026: "the President can dstart a war and wage it for up to 60 days, at which point he if he wants to keep going he has to declare a ceasefire and count to three Mississippi before the next attack...
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
They were surprised swarms of small cheap aircraft could outmatch large heavily-armed vessels despite the fact that Star Trek Beyond came out 10 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
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War Games and Warnings on Strait of Hormuz Went Unheeded by Trump
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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am sooo glad that the folks at Re:Public and @wired.com published this investigation into Recreation dot gov and the bots sweeping up camping permits and the shady government contractor behind it all www.republic.land/wreck-dot-go...
republic.land
Wreck Dot Gov
The government recreation website was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.
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Brian Edwards-Tiekert @bedwardstiek.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I keep thinking of this story. The government of Israel + Trump administration were plotting to install as leader of Iran someone who is, among other things, a holocaust denier. I'm sure this will come up every time they accuse one of their critics of antisemitism? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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