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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 2h

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I suspect this post is correct, and also that X not only isn’t interested in stopping bots, it actively relies on them to help boost/validate the content Elon wants boosted.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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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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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lincoln Riley only managed 25 on them, at home, lmao.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These people are fucking psychopaths

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We give our media a lot of shit for the way they cover this administration, but I want to send Chris Cameron flowers for this.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Genuinely wonder if there’s someone in the administration threatening to sue the shit out of the Times (and others) if they dare call a spade a spade, or if there’s some other financial arrangement here. Because the alternative is somehow worse, I think?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalism? I hardly knowherism! (I’ll see myself out)

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If they don’t block every single one people in the DC area should take to the streets and protest their party leadership daily. Genuinely. No Kings, not Sometimes Kings.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Smartest thing GWB has done in his life is disappear and stay out of the news while another GOP president offered a different variation on “worst ever”

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, though it would piss off the base if they did so (myself included) because it would be hard to believe they’re strategically lying.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He has also likely not paid taxes since 2022, the last time he sold Google stock. He takes a $1 salary, and Google doesn’t pay dividends. He’s spent more to avoid being taxed than he has in taxes, and he’s “left the state” by spending 51% of his days a ten minute walk from the CA border.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It seems like Elon has no problem dictating how Grok responds to certain topics?

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok now I want teams to pair throwback uniforms with throwback mascot designs. How has this not happened

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These are pretty much all from that era!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Holy shit dude. Just tweeted it out huh

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an incredible concept and I cannot believe it took so long for someone to identify it

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is fair. I haven’t heard most of the billboard hot 100, and I consume a ton of music and content. Kind of sad that there may never again be a Mambo Number 5.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can remove “in big cities” from that statement. Establishment democratic politics at every level are terrible, and we need to embrace upstarts not beholden to the establishment

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The vote for Menéndez was a vote against Trump, not Hugin.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So they agree with corruption. That’s the point. They want to support Trump, a fundamentally corrupt president, and the GOP, a fundamentally corrupt party. With Menéndez, you’re voting for one corrupt guy to fight against a different, more corrupt and much more powerful guy. Not the case here.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure, but what’s rational about voting for Paxton here

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is huge. In the wake of Israel’s blatant, absurd lies at the UN today, it’s imperative everyone watch this film.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The idea that he doesn’t know his address, but does pump his own gas, seems impossible to square

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cutaways between the Israeli delegation clapping and the entire rest of the audience stone-cold are brutal.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone should tell him that his own soldiers acknowledge it’s genocide, and that they take exactly zero steps to protect civilians.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obviously at some point school is for learning facts and such, but that’s moreso higher education, in which you typically focus on one thing and strip away the rest to specialize.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My maybe hot take: School isn’t really for learning facts and algorithms. You’re going to forget most of what you learned. School is for learning *how to learn*. And that is precisely what AI strips away. Ban it.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has Spielberg ever made a true horror film? John Williams’s score really turns Jaws from horror into adventure, for better and worse. There are some horror sequences in War Of The Worlds (the second best 9/11 movie). Otherwise?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile Jensen Huang is out here literally saying these guys are full of shit and just want to duck repercussions from existing laws. Because they’re full of shit, and you shouldn’t take a single word they say at face value. Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vin is also great in The Iron Giant

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great work everyone

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Her claim without evidence that it would simply line the pockets of healthcare companies and their executives was wild. I’ve heard a lot of arguments against the tax (and think 99% are crap) but that one I’d not heard before and it felt pulled out of thin air. Explain plz @katieporterca.bsky.social!

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok hear me out: Robert Eggers directs a prequel about the first Cabin In The Woods sequence

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026

Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.

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