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Wannabe Vulcan since 1966. "I have been a Stranger in a Strange Land." Retired Achiever. Thinks "grumpy old man" is a compliment on his self-restraint. Signal Amplifier🖇✊ Drops in a bucket? Enough drops break levees. Replies are tells. DMs rarely get one.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1h
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 27m
Nah... For Scotty, it's just Tuesday... 😉
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IsThatDonHeath? @donjheath.bsky.social · 43m
Far Side
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 10h
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Drew @drewnd.bsky.social · 9h
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 17h
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h
“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”
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ABC News Hands Massive Gift to Trump Family
ABC pulled a critical story on Don Jr. without explanation. I think it’s clear why.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21h
There's a reason Trump's FDA is pushing their review of the abortion pill into next year: The midterms. They don't want to tell women, before they vote in a few weeks, that they are about to lose their ability to obtain abortion medication. Vote blue, no matter who. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/h...
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FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year | CNN
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to s...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14h
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 19h
And they called those of us who warned that "we are being culled" alarmists.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 19h
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 19h
Indeed. Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel. The Avengers 1965-1968.
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah, I had one of those. No bloody Model 1...
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 22h
What is democratic backsliding?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cartoonist: David Horsey
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration 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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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
David Frum speaks out in support of Canada 🇨🇦
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life
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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
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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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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23h
This guy has been and still is my ‘human university’. By that I mean he’s taught, inspired and echoed my inner thoughts & theories more than any other human I’ve ever come across. Here he is talking about humanity’s “circling the drain”. His name — GEORGE CARLIN.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
If Flávio Bolsonaro becomes Brazil's president, he may dismantle nature and climate protections and allow illegal miners, loggers, and land grabbers to invade Indigenous territories.
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim news for the climate.
Like Donald Trump, he favors maximizing profits for extractive industries, environment be damned.
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 23h
Sooo... In other words this election elsewhere may well advance the coming climate change mass extinction events by a decade or two in the name of the Profit. Again...
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well...maybe not strictly Hollywood...
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 10/10/2026
On Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim’s 'Barbarella,' released on this day in 1968: buff.ly/eef2tSj
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Classic Corner: Barbarella — Crooked Marquee
It’s a grinning, gleeful performance, in which both actor and character convey the thrill of being a good girl who enjoys being bad.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"What's happening to children across this country right now is so utterly reprehensible. And we're going to be living with the repercussions of that for a generation." - NYC resident speaks on the INHUMANE treatment she has witnessed in CHILD immigration courts LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Igor reflects a lot of the commentary from inside Russia, in which this "deal" is basically viewed as a huge case of Putin pulling the wool over Trump's eyes for a massive tactical win over a man who is an easily swayed idiot (but "our" idiot).
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🤨 🫢 🤯 😖 🫣 😮‍💨
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Senator Warren Is 💯% Correct....
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Indeed. The dilemma and its danger succinctly summarized in 3 panels. 👍👏🫡
Background: William Marshall as Star Trek TOS Dr Richard Daystrom in "The Ultimate Computer."
Caption: The Multitronic Units 1 through 4 were not entirely successful.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Then allow me to share...
Background: a photo of an urban neighborhood.
Top caption: Just stick this sticker to your window and it all makes sense
Photo caption: an obvious sticker that says
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Franz Kafka
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
STOP DESTROYING OUR TREES!!!
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#pedopresident #Pedogarchy #Pedophocracy #25thAmendment #TraitorTrump #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #auspol #MeidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #DonaldTrump #Trump #TRUMP #FuckTrump #antifa #AntiTrump #fascistfelon #FightOligarchy #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo
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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mine in today’s @newyorker.com
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cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Indeed... " And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of silence." " -Simon &Garfunkel
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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