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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h

Another good one

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 09/10/2026

There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 10h

yes, i’m sure you could type “make Duke Nukem 3D British” into a prompt box, click a button and accomplish what will probably take me a decade. but you’d be missing the vital step of making yourself very mentally ill in the process

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10h

He's just like me FR

"Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread"

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22h

Subject of the rare political cartoon that's a banger 100 years hence

Anthony Comstock dragging a woman in front of a judge and saying "Your Honor, this woman gave birth to a naked child!"

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 23h

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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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10h

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18h

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

STANLEY KUBRICK: I invented the Army shooting a guy who couldn't even stand up as a cautionary tale about capital punishment. PETE HEGSETH: At long last we have decided to shoot a guy who can't even stand up from the classic war film PATHS OF GLORY bsky.app/profile/secr...

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

If you're in Colorado and need help...

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias

Screenshot of a FB post by meteorologist Greg Dee showing Waffle House locations closed in the panhandle

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Russia has shortages, long lines, and imposed limits. Ukraine has knocked out about 1/2 (!) of Russia's refining capacity. And they're going to export a million tons of diesel? Yes, Trump is again siding with Russia against Ukraine, Europe, law, and democracy. But that won't make fuel appear.

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Moscow Gas Stations Reimpose Fuel Limits as ‘Second Wave’ of Shortages Hits Russia - The Moscow Times

Fuel purchase restrictions are beginning to make a comeback in some regions as persistent shortages continue to dog the domestic market following months of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries, i...

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok this is the favorite commission for day 2. The prompt was "ghost rider as a mail carrier"

Ghost rider driving one of the new electric mail trucks

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Whistles work! New York, get some whistles.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Currently at the bathroom at NYCC having the worst shit of my life and someone outside of my stall says "Erica Henderson is here" and it takes me a few seconds to realize they mean the con and not the toilet

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 08/10/2026

Narrator: it is not, in any way, unclear

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the one hand this is absolutely fucking Hideous on the other hand like man are you SURE you want to open the door to livestreamed executions by firing squads? Like are you ABSOLUTELY certain you want what comes after that? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if the catholic church is going to insist on "consistent ethic of life" to the extent that integralism has closed the fucking pink house i think there should be some fucking consequences for our cultural elites for embracing pontius pilate

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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

strongly believe leo should excommunicate vance + court members for even countenancing the firing squad stuff.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"But what's causing it is unclear" pal, I think it's pretty fucking clear

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who buys ad time on this livestream is dead to me absent some reeeeeeal extenuating circumstances

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.

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CNN @cnn.com · 08/10/2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. cnn.it/4zgcsQc

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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Godspeed, ma'am. "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

bro this girl who teases me and uneases me all the better just to please me, who is precocious and knows just what it takes to make a pro blush, i think she's a spy working on behalf of the other girls to discover our secrets

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you see things on X that seem impossible for a human being to believe (like a desire to turn over parenting to AI), keep in mind that you can make money with raw attention over there.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“girl cats are mean” “girl cats are standoffish” “girl cats are —“ my girl cat is constantly trying to put her nose inside my nose so have you considered that it’s a you problem

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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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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh so a fundamental section of a necessary discovery was recognized by the woman interacting most with it .. not the credentialed “scientists” And it’s being shown that the person with privilege kept lying This isn’t common at all

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Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

ALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the abolitionist's dilemma

venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
right
punishment does not transform people
middle
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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