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The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 9h

I'm betting that a lot of people who respond to polls saying they feel more unsafe in Toronto now are conflating the feeling of "I am physically unsafe and under threat in my environment" with "there was a homeless man on the sidewalk on my way to the Eaton Centre and I don't want to see that."

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Siri Dahl @siridahl.com · 10h

I am so fucking exhausted with this shit. My traffic and income have dropped exponentially due to meta’s censorship. I never post anything against guidelines, and despite that I’m not allowed to share a measly sfw linktree in my bio OR my highlights, but THEIR FUCKING CHATBOT IS SEXTING PEOPLE

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8h

watching Twitch Rivals, and man, there is something so joyful of having pro level commentary on mid tier and newer players. it feels so hype, like you have a chance to be a part of this world at the top level. Magic needs to do this. can you imagine how cool it would be to have commentary?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Main thing I’ve gotten from this trip to Europe is that a lot of leftwing discourse — “content” — on social media is not a good use of people’s time A lot of “call out” and not enough of “being in community”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

YES. So many folks just keep parroting "People want to maximize their profits!" Ok... isn't the whole point of money to buy goods & services? At some point we should look at what goods & services people want. And if they see shortcuts to get those things that don't require money.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 11/10/2026

It remains so weird that people don’t use Melissa Hortman’s name the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives gunned down in her own home???

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've been toying around a lot with the idea of libidinal rationality, which is when people act not according to strict rationality of maximising profit or returns or sustainability, but toward what provides them with libidinal satisfaction, which trumps everything else

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And I’m predicting now that we’ll end up finding out that the decline in nutritional density of food is a major contributor to increased obesity rates. When you’re starving for nutrition you stay hungry, even if you’re eating excess calories.

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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My mind is still blown by this. Not just how linguistically interesting it is that the Korean syllabary is so deliberately designed... ...but also holy shit they nailed it. It really only does take about 10 minutes to get the basics. I've been frantically looking for Korean things to read today.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you heard "Slow Ride" by Foghat on the radio in 1999 you were listening to a newer song than if you listen to "Fell in Love with a Girl" on the radio today. bsky.app/profile/augu...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The number of separatists in Alberta is very small, but every single one of them will vote in the separation referendum. It’s critical that everyone who doesn’t want separation votes as well, or else this could easily be Canada’s own Brexit moment. Don’t assume anything. Vote.

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 08/10/2026

Great CBC article on how first-past-the-post has distorted Quebec's democracy. The PQ, QS, and PCQ all committed to electoral reform during the election campaign. Now is the time to make that happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

Parti Québécois win with record-low vote share revives calls for electoral reform | CBC News

A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming PQ government has reignited a long-simmering debate over how the province elects its leaders.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Enter the Yes Agenda, a fascinating new project mapping 110 clean energy projects across the country. The country isn't lacking in clean opportunities, it's lacking the political vision for a 21st century clean energy system. www.yesagenda.ca

yesagenda.ca

Yes Agenda Project Explorer

Major clean-growth & resource projects across Canada — an interactive map, synced list, and shareable project cards.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A reminder that oil and gas represents less than 5% of Canada's GDP. Education actually represents a more significant chunk of our GDP. "O&G is the most significant part of the Canadian economy" is just PR spin from lobbyists that people have swallowed whole.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Jeff Abbott @jeffabbott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Self regulation they said

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fix your economy with this one weird trick

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you ever think about how Russia and America are on the same side about the ICC?

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.

wsj.com

Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court

The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 09/10/2026

David Climenhaga: “It’s no surprise the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks that Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. But it does clear the air to have it right out there, don’t you think?” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

thetyee.ca

Elon Musk Makes It Clear He Hates Canada | The Tyee

Good to know. Add his separatist urgings to all the other horse manure he extrudes.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So many questions, all of which speak to the credibility of the Carney government & its overall strategy for managing the Canada-US relationship. 1 “In a statement to CBC News, GAC did not deny that it had concerns with describing the U.S. as a foreign interference threat.” Why not? It clearly is.

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Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News

The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/10/2026

I keep telling people that even Newfoundland’s Progressive Conservative government has sent multiple letters to the federal Liberals asking to get a pharmacare deal because some other provinces have them, and Carney’s government will not do it.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Kat hits on something that i think needs to be stressed, which is that we tell men and boys that "no means no" but we really should stress that CONSENT CAN BE REMOVED AT ANY TIME. even an enthusiastic, sober yes can end in a no. CONSENT IS FLUID, NOT FIXED.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do like how every post about a woman we collectively dislike has dozens of comments about how terrible she looks “now.” It’s nice to be reminded, as we all grow older, that the fetishization of youth and the punishment for looking your age is universal, enthusiastic, and bipartisan.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is fucking exceptional, @anildash.com. “The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop.”

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An important corollary to the Surf Dracula tweet that I think should be talked about more, now that we're basically inundated with these types of shows, is that most of them don't get renewed, but even the ones that are don't turn into the weekly adventures of Surf Dracula in the second season.

Screenshot of a tweet from user @topherfluence: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get ot see him surf for 5 min in the finale"

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It has been called The Internet but 10 years ahead of its time. From 1982 to 1985, the NABU Network operated in Ottawa and was revolutionary. Operated over cable TV, it gave many their first glimpses of the connected world to come. This is the story. 🧵 1/8

Doug Henning in 1980s-style shirt and vest beneath the headline "computer magic comes home to television!" .

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Call it “mom populism”—an appeal that centers a full-throated rejection of school privatization and presents the GOP’s increasingly aggressive interventions into local school districts as “corruption schemes” intended to benefit big donors, especially the right-wing oilmen who hold such sway here."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.

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