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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 13m

Gruber is typically a careful and thoughtful writer. The idea that he would generalize his experience on X to the broader world makes me wonder if he hasn’t suffered some kind of brain injury recently.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly this. Who's got that one chart with the big red circles showing which accounts are forced into the feed and it's like Musk and all the RWers like Gunther Eagleman etc? This is such a complete bald-faced lie.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

We're living through New Gestapo on the streets and New Jim Crow in Congress and this dipshit is saying let's all go hang out on the Nazi app that features the CSAM Mechahitler. Guess we know exactly who this guy is

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

"I'm too smart to have my brain pickled by the X algorithm" is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to getting your brain pickled by the X algorithm

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15h

so cheerful and inclusive!!!

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 20h

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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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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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Valerie Plante had all three but couldn’t make bit change happen because it’s all controlled by Quebec City.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Part of the success of Mamdani-ism (?) is structural, no? Find me a Canadian mayor who can do like free childcare, or a Canadian premier whose caucus/voting base would go along for the ride. That said, he is still very much one of one…

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nope, pencil on paper ballot as always. Early voting was last Saturday/Sunday, super convenient and a lot of people probably wanted to vote early because the campaign was so depressing LOL

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Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On peut dire ce qu'on veut de Québec solidaire. On peut les qualifier de rêveurs. On peut dire qu'ils ne savent pas compter. Mais ce sont les seuls à n'avoir fait aucun compromis quant aux droits fondamentaux de toutes les Québécoises et de tous Québécois, de toutes origines.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We already do fight with robots for concert tickets!

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Isn’t the hockey arena relatively new? They need another arena?

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Especially since the neighbour offered to compensate them for their losses and any necessary renovations to their chimney, but they refused to engage with him because his letter use the term “within reason.”

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In case you want a second at-bat – I've always wondered if there was a story behind the choice of the name Yvette, which I've always loved. As a Montrealer, it always made me think of a French-Canadian woman who married a Jewish guy and became a brisket expert (I know a few real-life examples)

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think you’re right, and the net effect will be the opposite - way more piling on

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I felt like a genius, and made posters using AI and frame them”…

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Especially since his net worth is $400M. Like the cost of being even a little brave and not a total wet noodle is basically zero.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The only thing you can count on is at the full application of bill 101 to CEGEPs

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I would like the liberals screaming on social media about releasing the Epstein files to read the material that has been released where Jeffrey Epstein very deliberately talks about his plan to engineer right wing politics around transphobia in order to conquer greater society

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I will cheerfully admit that you didn’t say it was “worse” and I won’t even attempt to say that was implied. Maybe now you can let me know how charity-based spending “contradicts his own economic plan” while individual-based spending doesn’t.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Govt gives you money, you give to charity, charity buys stuff. This is worse for the economy than govt gives you money and you buy stuff?

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Biden in NYC today and Trump at the Pentagon

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

as is always the case when he's sitting and not talking, Trump had a hard time staying awake during the 9/11 ceremony (Finn Gomez/Getty)

pic of Trump sitting, slightly hunched over, with his eyes closed

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Indeed! Another important distinction: elites resisted blogs until they were effectively replaced by social media aggregators (nobody talks about distribution) and wikipedia until it became undeniable. Elites are all-in on AI! That's how you confirm it's slop!

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes famously no one recalls where they were on 9/11

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He's developed a real blind/soft spot for right-wing assholes in the last few years. The net effect for me is to drown out the increasingly infrequent signal (his sharp insights) with the significantly ramped-up noise (the right and centre-right commentators he 'platforms' unchallenged).

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Does money held on your credit card actually get transferred to the merchant for them to invest? I always assumed it never actually was posted to their account unless they had reason to charge you.

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Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

...que le fédéralisme ne fonctionne pas? Ça serait vraiment niaiseux. Quand le fédéral ne dépense pas assez au Québec, on s'en plaint. Et si le fédéral dépense trop, on s'en plaint aussi. Je ne comprends pas, aidez-moi. /2

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

docs.google.com

Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 31/08/2026

Quitting Twitter and Facebook has to become an imparative for Canada. (and, obviously, everyone else.) www.thestar.com/opinion/star... Gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Justin Ling: It’s time Canada logged out of tech platforms owned by Donald Trump toadies

If our institutions acted, they could hasten the ongoing exodus from services peddled by allies of the Trump administration.

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Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

En 2014, Éric Duhaime disait que Barack Obama était le « pire président de l’histoire des États-Unis et c’est de ça dont on va se rappeler ». Aujourd’hui, Duhaime n’a aucun problème à s’approprier l’image d’Obama. À lire dans mon journal de campagne👇 avezvousvotepourca.substack.com/p/decision-q...

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Same in Canada. Both google and Apple Maps.

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I miss sitting down at my desk in the morning and firing up a website

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is what happened in the siege of Sarajevo, which was said at the time to bring shame upon the entire continent.

5,434 civilians killed or missing, including 1,601 children
56,000 injured, including 15,000 children
55,000 - 145,980 expelled from the citylt!

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Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo @coolpapabell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meh, they were going to put it on the back burner anyway since popular support for separatism is stagnating. Trump offers an easy excuse, that’s all.

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