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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17h

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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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

The “lisan al-gaib” meme except is says “Evelyn normielib”

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 11h

Using @futi.live graphics to try to illustrate how Wilfried Nancy rewrote the MLS meta. Changed it from a deep-lying, long-ball league into the build-from-the-back, possession-dominant league we've got now. Most influential coach in league history.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 14h

DC's limited self-government is what's facilitated the year+ occupation of the city.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 16h

Also one of my best friends was also in my poetry program as a physics double major, now a lead tech at a medtech startup, truly a rare breed

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 16h

Thrilled to have the legal pretext to annihilate TKO tbh

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 16h

I didn’t realize it got worse on the “critical thinking is optional” scale than Econ but that’s on me, so naive lol

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 16h

I truly set myself a Life Challenge entering IT after majoring in English lmao 🥴

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21h

One reason social mobilization resonates at such scale in France is that the symbolism, imaginary and celebration of the revolution is so deeply rooted in the nation's political culture and DNA. And a student mobilization is particularly dangerous because they can stay out there a long time. 🤣

reuters.com

French student protesters vow to keep up their fight after scoring first win

The protests have snowballed into a wider movement, with more university students weighing in to express their anger over what they call a dysfunctional system.

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll need to check the data later but I’m pretty sure he only scored the one thunderbastard after taking like 40+ shots form that range lmao

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 19h

This sweet, gentle Brooklyn boy needs a new home. Lili is about 8 years old, and far as anyone can tell is a friend to all. Please reply or dm me if you have a lead.

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 19h

One of my Jewish family tree branches arrived through Galveston! I’ve never been to Texas but my roots run right through that state.

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 20h

Dear media organizations, especially small ones: if you publish a chart without a labeled y-axis, I will not consume your reporting anymore. No tolerance policy for this shit.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's like Ossoff and El-Sayed are in a competition to see which one can most brutally disembowel their GOP rival. Hot Jewish guy and hot Muslim guy tag-teaming against white supremacy: This is the America I love.

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Consider that Newsom will be among his opponents

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huh, why were we supposed to remember that again?

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Our soils look like death, and they ALWAYS look like death so that’s saying something lol

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Impossible, their entire personalities would crumble

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026

ICE has been showing up at and near polling places, and voting rights groups say it’s scaring naturalized citizens and immigrant families away from the polls. Help us keep eyes on the polls: demdock.com/3TR0Gga

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

LeBron James is a bad person, but apparently he is also stupid becuase Philly RIPS, if you don’t like Philadelphia that is a you problem

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Commissars for every tech company except, somehow, Microsoft

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

30% of all comedy rag jokes are bad and any form of antisemitism is inexcusable, I think that covers it all, at ease everyone

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huh, I wonder who that sign is for

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Source: 2024 fan sentiment survey that is as ownerless as the dust of the earth, having sprung from the ground fully formed

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagine if your legacy was More Annoying Gerald Ford

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t think he ever lived there lol, he commutes from Boulder

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

30% of all comedy rag jokes are bad and any form of antisemitism is inexcusable, I think that covers it all, at ease everyone

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, we’re fighting about The Onion today, huh?

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the one hand I do hate seeing X posts here, on the other hand knowing when people here are doing covert antisemitism there is now a safety issue 🫠

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seems particularly bad if you were saying this as an elected official that has sworn an oath of some kind

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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wondering if inviting a military attack on home soil is Treason, is anyone looking into this

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