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Retired, DC-based magazine editor. Future of journalism and politics paramount.

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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 21h
Wordle 1,942 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wordle 1,941 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hmmm
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wordle 1,940 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Love to beat the bot
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern reacts to the DOJ investigating the TV press pool for antitrust violations over its blackout in response to Trump's press ban: "The investigation is nonsense... It’s a weird way of telling the press how much he missed them.”
The investigation is nonsense. Trump may view the presidency as a business venture, but news outlets’ standing up for their constitutional rights has nothing to do with antitrust law, no matter what Laura Loomer says.

“Depriving Trump of the attention he craves is not a competitive harm and in any case, antitrust law has long recognized First Amendment exceptions even when there is anticompetitive impact. 

“Even more bizarre than the administration’s legal theory is that after all his ‘fake news’ rhetoric, Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to pressure the networks he calls the ‘enemy of the people’ to stay at the White House. It’s a weird way of telling the press how much he missed them.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sunday Telegraph: Donald Trump has just shown us, unambiguously, that he is Putin's man. Time to wake up to that fact. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Impeach, remove and prosecute
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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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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wordle 1,936 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Maybe a good day to play the lottery!
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Con job, again
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“A rational billionaire would see the merits of buying social peace. An enlightened one would acknowledge his debts to federal science, public education and chance.Alas, there are few such super-rich to be found.” Me on the demagoguery against Prop 40. as.ft.com/r/4f1869f4-5...
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California’s oligarch tax would change America
The goal of its framers is political rather than budgetary
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wordle 1,935 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The bot cheated!
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Prosecute them both
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Impeach and convict . . . Starting on Jan 3
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fuck Russ Vought . . . He must be behind this
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best part is when Rateliff takes the mic at 0:55. Watch Bruce watching him.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wordle 1,933 5/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ugh
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sigh . . .
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hmmmm
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The #failedTimes lets us down daily
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember who did this
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congrats, @normornstein.bsky.social . . . Very well deserved!
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wordle 1,931 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Beat the bot 2 days in a row!
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dammit
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Impeach/remove/prosecute
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ghouls
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just popped in to say that The Heritage Foundation isn’t a think tank, it’s a septic tank. Carry on.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck JD Vance. Racist ass
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WTAF
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly, tell me it's possible.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Send Kegsbreath to the Hague
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wordle 1,930 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Love to beat the bot!
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTAF
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The next president needs to dismantle all of this.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What does the drunk really mean?
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Her face said it all 🤣😆😂
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 28/09/2026
This should be both a brutal and honest account and an uplifting story about the heroic folks standing tall in the face of injustice.
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dammit, yes
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is hysterically funny
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course Mullin lies. . . Look who he works for
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Boomer Editor @boomereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This
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