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Ben Alexander

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Dolphins, Marlins, Heat. Stetson U alum. Proud, Practical, Progressive, Atheist

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h
If I were an American president losing a war to Iran, I wouldn't work to boost the economy of an American adversary that has been helping Iran kill Americans. Just sayin'.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 22h
how the fuck does removing mature trees "restore the course's historic character" the trees have been there for decades?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h
Darline Graham makes the "China threat" the centerpiece of her campaign. Now WaPo discovers that her husband's business is entirely predicated on China trade, and that's what she lives off. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.
The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it's just such an insanely small dick energy kind of stuff, like bragging about his own IQ, if you have to tell people how great you are, you are almost always lying
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Opposed to the death penalty, me. But if I did see capital punishment as appropriate for the worst crimes -- Eichmann in Jerusalem, or Timothy McVeigh or Dylann Roof -- the profundity of the state taking life in reply demands sobriety and a basic distaste for the undertaking. Not a public carnival.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They're burning more money than they've pulled out of food stamps every month on concentration camps that don't do what they want concentration camps to do.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Political scientists have found that nonviolent rebellion is the most reliable path from dictatorship to democracy. Decades of research point to four steps that successful rebellions follow."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is handing China the lead in the century's most important technological breakthrough (renewable energy). And China is just taking the rest.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Buying Russian diesel will not moderate global diesel prices substantially (for obvious reasons). Also, for example, China and India produce more diesel than Russia. Russia was the one choice where buying the diesel violates our sanctions and undermines our national interests/Ukraine security.
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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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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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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy smokes. What on earth is going on here? This is not fact-checking! At best it's poorly-informed nonsense but it feels very much like calculated misinformation. #MEpolitics
PolitiFact tweet: Troy Jackson said that Susan Collins “put people like Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court that took away Roe v. Wade.”

Collins did vote for Kavanaugh but it’s misleading to draw a direct line between Collins and Roe v. Wade’s end.
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jim Carrey: So You're Telling Me There's A Chance
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan reut.rs/3VZj9aV
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Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan
Thomas Barrack, a top US diplomat in the Middle East, advocated for a firm run by his business partner to take part in the development of an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria, three people said, activities which appear to violate federal ethics rules.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...
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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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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
and Berkeley has pollen studies showing footprints at least 21k years old fully debunking that the first humans came here by the land bridge news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/05/t...
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Tests confirm humans tramped around North America more than 20,000 years ago - Berkeley News
Footprints preserved in mud in New Mexico were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social @juliefrancella.bsky.social regarding migration to N America, most recent study I found says Asians traveled here by boat 25-30 thousand years ago news.uoregon.edu/content/new-... and this too www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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New data suggests a timeline for arrival of the first Americans
New climate science outlines the likeliest windows of migration along the 'kelp highway'
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Game Show Host's Epic Rant: 'I Award You No Points'
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.
A tweet from Curtis Yarvin that says "what if Open AI solves the Jewish problem"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I find it interesting that both of the baseball players Donald Trump has advocated for and/or honored this year – Roger Clemens and Pete Rose – were involved in the exploitation of girls who were no older than 15 at the time. What a weird coincidence.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 08/10/2026
David Byrne turns Elon Musk’s own words into a proto-punk song on “Let Me Sell You a Dream,” the Talking Heads singer’s contribution to the Alex Gibney-directed 'Musk' documentary, out Friday. Listen ↓
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David Byrne Turns Elon Musk's Own Words Into New Song 'Let Me Sell You a Dream'
David Byrne turns Elon Musk’s own words into a protopunk song on "Let Me Sell You a Dream," the singer’s contribution to the 'Musk' documentary.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He was also the one who sent the 'there's "free pussy" upstairs' text. So tell me again about how better consent "training" will fix this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
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Man Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Was Designated as a Party Monitor
The fraternity filed paperwork identifying Jonathan Newell as a “trained event monitor” at a party where a woman said she was assaulted. He was accused of taking part.
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think I remember one of the Microsoft guys doing something like this on an episode Bizarre Foods, like the guy set up a whole food lab to distill the essence of an everything bagel
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio in Greece: “the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart... so we tore down our monuments…” Nazi, Soviet, and Confederate are the monuments the West tore down. Contra Rubio, defeating them is the achievement.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Monopolization: great for executives, terrible for everyone else.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/10/2026
EPA says will soon act to rescind Biden policy targeting methane leaks reut.rs/4hNwvye
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EPA says will soon act to rescind Biden policy targeting methane leaks
The US Environmental Protection Agency on ​Wednesday said it ‌is days away from proposing to rescind a ​Biden-era policy that ​sought to rein in ⁠large leaks of ​methane, a potent greenhouse ​gas, from oil and gas operations.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/10/2026
We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed theonion.com/we-need-to-take-trumps…
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We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed
Almost every day, the establishment seems to get it wrong trying to use Donald Trump’s words to paint him as a dire threat to our democracy. What so many fail to see—and what his supporters have long ...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Michael Che on SNL: That's Pretty Racist
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Ben Alexander @bigbennyfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lx8...
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Woodstock
YouTube video by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Topic
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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd like to live in a world where we had the Democrats that Republicans invent to scare their voters instead of the Democrats we actually have.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump told us that the trade deficit is the result of stupid policies by stupid presidents deanbaker22.substack.com/p/under-trum...
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Under Trump, Foreigners are Ripping Us Off More Than Ever: Trade Deficit Jumps in August
By Trump’s own measure, the economy looks really bad
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Benny Johnson is apparently under the impression that not *everyone* thinks he's a brainless lickspittle, so he's still churning out bangers like this
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the first OMB Director who, when you hear the President mention his name, you start pondering what illegal abuses of power will be coming soon. My guess: some systemic bribery efforts as well as punishments to blue states.
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