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bellamoss

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Social science and political junkie. Aspiring digital artiste. Sometimes baker. Pro labor. Pro equity. <3

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'd be curious to see what happens immediately before that video; I wish the NYPD had made that public as well. But I have to say... on initial view, that looks indistinguishable from a carjacking, and if I'd been the driver I would also probably have floored it.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Calling Aileen M. Cannon "a judge who has issued several rulings favorable to the president" is like calling me "a lawyer who has lost several personal items"
From the NYT: Prosecutors could avail themselves of a grand jury in the Fort Pierce courthouse where the only sitting judge is Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who issued several rulings favorable to the president, especially in the classified documents case against him.
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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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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think most people, including those wishing Dearborn would get Bovino-ed or whatever, really did not comprehend the scale of what was happening. But it’s just who we are now. It was watching Chicago and Minneapolis on TV and Instagram, next it’s executions on tv. And soon, it might be your town.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here is a story I wrote about state violence, while we're all talking about it. I remember people saying they wanted certain minority communities to get the border patrol treatment as “punishment.” But that violence touches everyone. It is all consuming. Even when it’s targeted, it hits you.
thenation.com
Notes From an ICE Chaser
I followed agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is nuts that you can’t even ethnically cleanse a voter’s entire family without losing that vote to Dumocrats, must be terminal cases of TDS
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As I always say to my students (sometimes with this specific example) you really need to think about the size of the effect and not just the sign. “Do rich people move in response to tax increases?” is not the right question for policy. The right question is, *how much* do they move?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you’re not holding up other funding to extract a massive funding cut to DHS, you’re just talking
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We really don’t talk enough about how the editor in chief of CBS News has flagrant bigots in her ideological inner circle.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Peak OpenAI? So three OpenAI safety team members who were tasked with cooperating with the outside team probing the hugging face goof were fired apparently for what they told those investigators. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/t...
cnn.com
Fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were pushed out over ‘suspicious’ circumstances | CNN Business
Three OpenAI safety researchers say they were fired from the company and are openly questioning the reasons for their dismissals.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It wouldn’t matter if the guy were, but these guys lie about literally everything so gonna need to have them show their work to make sure they didn’t make their common intentional mistake of 8 times 8 equals migrant crimes
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 10/10/2026
Crediting her now that I know her bsky handle: I’m proud @ruggie13.bsky.social was able to do what she could when she saw this happen.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 09/10/2026
One of my former students just witnessed this on Orange Line in the DC Metro - ICE/HSI abducting someone from the platform of Stadium-Armory. She was scared. She didn’t know what to do. She shouted “ICE is here!” to warn others. I’m proud she did that. And she bore witness.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
he performs contempt in a way that you very rarely see Democrats ever do. like he just unapologetically declares that his opponent is beneath him and beneath the dignity of the office.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They know how illegal this is lol zeteo.com/p/trumps-whi...
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Christopher Rufo dug up a 2020 post from Mamdani to accuse him of anti-Italian discrimination, and will no doubt be as willing to denounce Trump for calling for more Italian-themed mob movies
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And removed sanctions from Russia on the same day.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“I’ll say I love her publicly, but the truth is I can’t fucking stand her,” the ally said. “But if she asks you to go on the podcast, or come over for dinner, you say yes, because Stephen Miller is the second-most powerful person in the world.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It would be dangerous and disqualifying to incite hostility, you don’t want people going around shooting at children who didn’t do anything
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How can Latino, Cuban-American Marco Rubio be so into this fascist racial purity stuff, even to the point of lecturing Europeans that their main security threat isn’t Russia, it’s the population becoming less white? Apparently because he’s not a son of Cubans, he’s a great grandson of Spaniards.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...
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PM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ lives
In bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is an excellent point. When pro-democracy, anti-corruption forces get power, they won't need elaborate new laws to start getting Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, and other tech oligarchs out of government. They've almost certainly committed fraud and other already existing crimes.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump said it, yes. The Kremlin is saying it too. Neither's word has value. I'll believe tons of fuel go from Russia to the US when I see it. But getting Russia to say this, hoping that'll ease prices for a bit, like Trump has touted foreign promises to buy American that don't happen? Plausible.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the well known shape of deterrence response btw— that certainty of punishment is a much greater deterrent than severity of punishment to the extent that a very rare but incredibly severe punishment is basically not a deterrent at all— explains a lot about our rape culture problem
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not for free right? So, let's do the math. 500,000 metric tons of diesel is about $500 million. A million worth $1 billion dollars. This looks an aid program for Russia and an effective disabling of US sanctions. This strengthens the Kremlin and is a threat to US, allied interests.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyway, declining to do enforcement in wards and districts where politicians don’t do what you want is election interference and coercion and the barest hint of it should be grounds for dismissal of anybody who approved it but instead it’s just standard practice.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/10/2026
I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
y'all know I hate originalism in all contexts 👇🏾 but originalism in the Eighth Amendment context is particularly ab-surd, not to mention directly at odds with the anti-originalist legal standard embodied in longstanding precedent bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Arlington County's local elected body has just sued to block construction of Trump's planned triumphal arch — arguing that administration officials bypassed a key review process in their push to begin work on the structure.
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Northern Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch
Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In 2025, ICE attorneys started refusing to identify themselves in immigration hearings, but doing this in actual federal court seems like a new step
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He says this whole cutting back on the one thing SpaceX does properly which is Falcon and Dragon, in favor of Starship which only made it to orbit (barely) after 14 flights which contrast that to the Saturn V which went to orbit on the first try. So much for private companies bringing innovation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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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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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Secretary of Defense is about to livestream an execution, what are we doing here.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I certainly hope that none of the companies working on AI ever succeed in creating actual machine consciousness, because none of those companies has any idea how to treat the humans who work for them in an ethical, moral, compassionate manner. Those companies will do far worse to conscious machines.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The antichrist is basically anyone who stands the way of MY power and wealth" suggests you never, not once, listened to a word of Mass www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals
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