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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16m
This is correct. The government’s assault on Somalis and Somali Americans is perverse and wicked even for this gang
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 57m
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h
This is quite literally what happened to one of my grandparents in 1933. You know, in case we still have folks in the “it’s not fascism if it doesn’t meet these very specific, arbitrary characteristics based on my own refusal to accept responsibility to oppose it” crowd.
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 34m
The entire DOJ and the Pentagon needs to be purged. We have Trump and Putin loyalists. None of them are patriots
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1h
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h
There’s a reason that campaign finance reform was one of the first reforms after Watergate.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h
Photos: Gaza mothers endure endless lines as famine fears persist aje.news/r6by7h
Niyaha al-Masri, a 35-year-old displaced Palestinian woman from Beit Hanoon, waiting to receive food for her family at a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Bashar Taleb/AP Photo]Niyaha al-Masri spends six hours or more in a queue at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]Her husband, wounded in both legs in an air strike, “cannot go and fight with the others” for food, she says. What little flour they have is carefully rationed. Her eight children, aged three to 14, “dream of eating fruit”, but the family cannot afford any. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]In August 2025, the United Nations‑backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared a state of famine in Gaza – an assessment Israel denounced as a lie. By December, the UN had lifted the declaration, saying the "ceasefire" had allowed in enough aid over two months to ease the worst conditions. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 5h
Russia is intensifying efforts to assassinate European defence executives, spy chiefs have warned. Once considered off-limits, civilian targets are increasingly in Moscow’s sights as the Kremlin expands its campaign of “hybrid” warfare across Europe. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/unDMscw
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 16h
They are not pursuing the antitrust cases that will benefit the consumer but rather those that bruise Trumps ego
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 16h
The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 17h
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 18h
Same w Alberta separatist traffic
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h
It's a classic case of privilege dependence discouraging enforcement of rules. “Greek life [alums] are far likelier than their non-Greek counterparts to donate to their institution—with 54% of [Greek alums] donating... as opposed to 10% of nonaffiliated alums.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Abolish Frats (Gift Article)
As undergraduates, we led a movement to abolish fraternities and sororities. Our story shows how challenging it is.
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 19h
During the McCarthy hearings he would have called Senator Margaret Chase Smith shrill
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 22h
And Russia
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
static.klipy.com
Kobe Bryant: More
ALT: Kobe Bryant: More
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Never thought I will see the day where the US government, military and intelligence all working for the Russian government
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We are that country rn like Russia
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Are all conservative women taken from the same vat
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Government of personality
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some genuinely interesting ballot measures that are getting so little attention! Like these public banks. Check out our guide!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all.
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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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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/10/2026
Nuremberg trials defendants never signed up for it either.
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Is that because American leaders are violating human rights
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Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼‍🚀🚀🔆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET! @rocketgirlerin.northsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump's economic policies are to outrun the consequences from yesterday by creating problems for someone else to fix tomorrow.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here’s “Low T” Pete Kegsbreath practicing for his December 3rd livestream of his upcoming snuff video.
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🇵🇷The 10/13 Birthday Baddie🇩🇴 @bubblesnbuns.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Wake this up!!
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Russia will use that money to help Iran
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*Useful idiot* doesn't do this abject dunderhead justice
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 09/10/2026
If this isn’t impeachment territory I don’t know what is.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...
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DivaSocials @divasocials.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This entire thread! Send it to the pod bros and the pundit class
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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gon head and get you a mango lemonade from Popeye’s and put some gin in it. Tastes like “everything is gonna be alright” in a glass.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The US government is creating a snuff film
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MuMuMelon @bentosnbuttons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seconded!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great message: Respect for human rights and international law are foundations of international peace and order. I fear that those who should get the message won't. But, it remains true nonetheless and their deafness to it is why they are, in the end, enemies of peace.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Precisely.
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We don't know what's going on with the plague in Russia. But after COVID in Wuhan, we know not to trust dictatorships that tell us everything's ok. Turkey gets 7 million Russian visitors per year. Thailand gets 2 million. That's how this thing could spread. robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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