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Carol M

@carolmulrooney.bsky.social
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Chemist, wife and cat lover. Sorry I don’t answer dm’s. Put something in your bio if you want me to follow back! She/her/hers

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
somehow it feels like there is still an impulse in mainstream media to downplay or minimize the MAGA movement's hunger to genuinely, actually, non-hyperbolically do physical violence to women Democrats (especially women of color, but not exclusively, as Melissa Hortman's death proves)
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h
From Jordan Wood: @jordanwood.bsky.social Elon Musk’s super PAC is about to cross $1,500,000 to re-elect Susan Collins. Her response so far: “I wasn’t aware.” Not aware? Senator, it’s a public filing. Stop gaslighting us.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 12/10/2026
This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.
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Babusya Bonkious @quackersncheese.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Immediately after Ukraine took out two of the five data centers run by the Russian tech giant Yandex, pro-Trump and pro-MAGA posts on American social media sites plummeted. The same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. Russia is engaged in MASSIVE election interference.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......
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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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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imo the goal is to throw putin a lifeline and accuse Ukraine of high American diesel bills by linking our attacks on refineries to the alleged russia's disrupted supplies to the US. Everyone's happy: russia doesn't have fuel to sell to the US anyway, but who is to blame in the eyes of Americans?
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
Millions of Americans are ready to get into election protection formation. Join us at the next No Kings Day to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the nearly 2,500 events planned for the next No Kings Day on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
ICC urges members to make sure it can continue despite US sanctions reut.rs/3VECn5F
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ICC urges members to make sure it can continue despite US sanctions
The International Criminal Court on Friday strongly rejected ​the sanctions imposed on it by the US government ‌and called on its member states to make sure it can continue to function.
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Defend Democracy @finalreckoning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Surprised to see @pressherald.com pick up this story. But maybe they felt they had to after Susan Collins spox said: "Sen. Collins was not involved in this decision." What?! It was in the appropriations bill! And she chairs the committee! That means she's was "involved"! #MEpolitics
Press Herald headline: Susan Collins’s committee bought trucks the Army didn’t want. Then campaign donations poured in.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
Posted 2:14 PM
Updated at 2:14 PM
Matt Sledge, Jorge Medellín
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TeddyBear @auntifafa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
violence against women is a feature of Trump GOP.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If LeBron or Taylor Swift posted this most recent El Niño historical temperature graph (current one in red) 500 million people would be in the streets. (And a hundred million lives would likely be saved in the next 20 months) #ClimateCrisis
Graph showing all the past El Niño temperatures on a monthly timeline with the current one in red way above all the others and still climbing.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
2. The corruption that went into Donald Trump's failed paramilitary takeover of the US government rolled into his second term, with the most recent results being persistent inflation, stagnant job growth and a war with no end in sight.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Agatha Frame @agathaframe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins' out-of-state PAC is spending big bucks to buy her another six years to do the oligarchs' bidding. Posting this convo between @troyjackson207.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social, with the good people here at Bluesky at my big sis's request. www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...
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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour
YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"gas prices have risen more in red states"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyEls van Veen O
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I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
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I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
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The Subsequent Mrs. de Winter @notrebecca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I want my tax dollars going towards healthy children.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
how this work out?
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 22/09/2026
“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley officially surpasses “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey as the longest-running #1 hit in history (23 weeks).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ A full-scale Russian invasion of a NATO state is extremely unlikely while Russia remains fully committed to war against Ukraine. But full-scale invasion is not Putin's only option to conventionally escalate against a NATO state. Read the full scenario: isw.pub/NarvaScenari...
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last night, russians k*lled two 3yo children — a boy and a girl — and their mom in their home in Kyiv region. russia's ongoing escalation against Europe is a direct consequence of the fact that Ukrainians had to spend last 12yrs finding new fresh arguments to explain our children's right to live.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Defund ICE. Take its entire budget and devote it to a Manhattan Project that can devise and implement sound guardrails for AI, and figure out how to stop what can and should be stopped in the way of superintelligence and recursive self-improvement. AI is far, far more dangerous than immigrants.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The prices for fuel on Trump's first day in office would be similar to the prices on Biden's *last* day in office. Remember that when the gaslighters in the Trump regime tell you Trump inherited the current high prices from Biden.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Elect the Democrat and then immediately give them unending shit where they’re bad and primary them if they don’t shape up and then also vote for them against the Republican if they still win. It’s not the most satisfying but it’s dead simple and obviously correct.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hillary was there 👇
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
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Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 09/09/2026
Because many Dems are staying silent on the issue or tacking rightward, we end up with that gap being filled with narratives that trans girls - CHILDREN - are a threat to other children. Ken Paxton, Talarico's opponent, wants to charge parents of trans kids with child abuse.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/09/2026
Oh, this is going to piss some folks off. They’ve repeated the lie so many times they thought nobody would check the receipts. We checked. Jeffries is the first Black party leader in congressional history, and the “bought by AIPAC” smear has been repeated like gospel. Here are the actual numbers.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Susan Collins, will you join us at one our three town halls this week? It'd be your first public town hall in 25 years.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you enjoy my content about Ukraine Its beauty, truth, and resilience - I’d be incredibly grateful if you support me with a cup of coffee ☕️ Your support helps me keep creating posts, videos, and podcasts that tell Ukraine’s real story. Thank you so much🤗 buymeacoffee.com/angelica.sha...
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How much do you really know about Ukraine beyond the war? I want to show you my Ukraine🇺🇦 Come with me inside one of Kyiv’s most fascinating museums And travel through more than 1,000 years of Ukrainian history - Watch video for free: buymeacoffee.com/angelica.sha...
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𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙭™ @thespacefox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
EVERYONE!!! PLEASE NOTE As much as we all know he's a Dumb (with a B!) ass chicken shit, he DID NOT MAKE A POST LIKE THIS. This whole screenshot is AI generated. From the captain to the Image!
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Angie Nixon is bringing all the fire 🔥 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD398sGt/
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A grand jury confirmed it: children's healthcare money went to political slush funds. Ashley Moody knew. She let it happen. Ashley Moody must resign. If not, let's fire her on November 3rd. Donate to ...
TikTok video by Rep. Angie Nixon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Rep. James Clyburn says he supports expanding the Supreme Court: "13 is a pretty good number. A baker's dozen would be a good number to have on the Court."
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Part 1 of a 3-part strategy. First, delegitimize real polls (that show Trump and his party struggling). Second, promote fake polls (that show the opposite). Third, deny election results they don’t like using fake polls as the “evidence” of election malfeasance. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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How Polls Can Help or Hurt Democracy
Attacks on legitimate polls and the rise of fake polls make it hard for voters to know what to believe.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
wow
Canada Dry logo changed to America Dry. Humorously
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Poll trutherism is the foundation of election denial www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections
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J. Philip Perna @jp5060.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When tRUMP says Social Democrats are communists (and all Republicans will repeat it), remind him that he loves communists...Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un. Please REPOST this until the Democrats see this and use it to respond to them every time they repeat tRUMP's statement!
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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