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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

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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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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This mans' imagination is next level

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bangladesh captain gives a shout out to county cricket after win in Australia. No doubt Rob Key, who remarkably is still in his job, will be in touch to assure him its actually all crap

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Farage looks like a man who tried to nonchalantly jump over a low wall to take a shortcut, caught his leg on it and almost fell over, then tried to style it out while also looking accusingly at the wall, before walking off, trying to hide a limp.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In today's confirmation hearings for tRump toady, pedophile enabler, EPSTEIN victims nemesis, Ghislaine Maxwell protector & disgrace to the legal profession Todd Blanche as Attorney General, please vote:

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He's still much better at sports than he is at presidenting. #FIFA-Fiasco

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In twenty years' time, the politicians who fought Net Zero so they could buy the votes of idiots and pocket those sweet, sweet oil donations will be remembered alongside history's great villains. Actually, scratch that. Nobody before them ever gambled with an entire planet.

Chart showing mean summer temperatures rising from 14°C in 1884, to 16°C today, and rising to 21°C in 2056.

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Does anyone know if Andy Burnham likes cats?

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Can’t believe how UK media has failed to call out Pete Hegseth who used the D-Day commemoration to trot out a racist ideology the Nazis would have applauded. It takes an American historian Heather Cox Richardson to tell it like it is

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

JD Vance and the United States have no right to lecture the UK on law enforcement or how to police. Sort your own house out.

15 %
of civilians who experience
police threat of or use of force
during legal interventions are
injured.

-250,000
Up to an estimated 250,000
civilian injuries are caused by
law enforcement officers
annually.

r 800-

An average of 800 people are
killed by law enforcement in the
U,S. each year.

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

John A. Klinner Ariana G. Savino Ashley B. Pruitt Seth R. Koval Curtis J. Angst Tyler H. Simmons Benjamin N. Pennington Robert Marzan Jeffrey O’Brien Declan Coady Nicole Amor Noah Tietjens Cody Khork The thirteen lives lost.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Once you start seeing the eagerness with which some people want to cut others out of civil society, you can’t stop seeing it.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Good Morning Britain... So which of your #HumanRights are you willing to give up, on this fine day, because Nigel Farage & Kemi Badenoch say it's necessary 🤔 #ECHR

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

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The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember

How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Wire services are reporting that Gazza has been seen outside at the White House in his dressing gown, carrying chicken, lager and a fishing rod

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“But you’re the only one with a tomahawk” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The war will be over when I feel it in my bone spurs. #PutinPuppet

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/03/2026

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills

Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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