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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
Ultra-wealthy donors are spending a staggering $430 million to fight state efforts to raise their taxes. If they can afford to drop millions of dollars to keep their taxes low, they can afford to pay slightly higher taxes. They’re making the case for taxing the rich better than anyone else could.
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The $430 Million War Against Taxing The Rich
Ultrawealthy donors have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to convince voters to keep their taxes low via the b
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absolutely 💯
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Please remember to vote! Your voice matters. 🌊
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'll be tuning in for THAT. How about you?
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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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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 👇 👇 👇
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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHAT DO YOU MEAN “ASTONISHING” WHAT DO YOU MEAN “STARTLING” GET ME OUT OF HERE
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Daffy Duck's Wild Panic Attack
Alt: Daffy Duck's Wild Panic Attack
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In one summer. Oh well, I’m sure it’s fine…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The fact that we've used all the scientific and technological advancements of the space program to put weapons in orbit pointing back down at ourselves feels like a metaphor for something
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
KHOSLA: “This isn’t redistribution. It will rebalance a tax code that was already redistributing, just upward. "The alternative is to do nothing and watch a democracy with huge structural .. unemployment decide that capitalism itself is the problem." www.theinformation.com/articles/ref...
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Refounding America: The Tax Code Needs to Change in the Age of AI
Vinod Khosla is founder of Khosla Ventures and has spent the last 40 years in the business of innovation. He was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is an investor in OpenAI. Major tec...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/09/2026
“What concerns me now is the role EPA and other government agencies are playing and proudly touting: weakening the very safeguards designed to protect people from the pollution in the name of helping tech and power companies accelerate these data center build outs.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/c...
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A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy shit! This is gonna be good!
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Again, the president has a chance to lead by example here and have these centers constructed next to his shitty golf courses and his tacky senior center in Palm Beach
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data centers are noisy, they take out drinking water and emit tons of EMFs all in the same package. And possibly take out jobs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me
pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tech oligarchs could really set the example for the common folk by simply building their mansions right next to their data centers and then live in them with their families.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kara Swisher calls @Google @googlemaps @googleearth “NOODLE SPINED” “UNCTUOUS QUISLINGS” who “SOIL THEMSELVES” 🔥
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nightly funny or is it?...🤣😂🤣
They say the machines of the future will be as smart as people...
OK, but
WHICH people?
Because it kinda matters a lot.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
Paychopath
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Umm what do I do now? 😳
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
CaturDogDay sweetness….
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BellePause @craftcocktails.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Good metaphor..
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I support Zohran in demonstrating to the United States the appropriate treatment of all citizens.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
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BellePause @craftcocktails.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why can't we live in a world that has puppy rooms or kitten rooms to rent hourly, like @buzzfeed.com has????? There would be NO better therapy. #puppyinterviews #buzzfeed
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material. Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Surveee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}
A black and white poster with faded images of tall trees with full, leafy branches, above which appears:
“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material.
Oh wait, that’s what trees are.”
~ Surveee
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 19/07/2026
China just got a heliostat plant – a concentrated solar power (CSP) station using a large field of computer-controlled mirrors, [heliostats], to reflect the sun on to a tall central tower – to power 170k homes a year and save 130k tons of CO2. The US is getting a ballroom.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Lying about Mitch McConnell’s death to avoid a special election is election fraud.
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“I don't get political” translates to “This isn't hurting me yet and I don't care that it's hurting you.”
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Gary Rogers 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦⚛️🎨🖌️ @garyrogersartist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Einstein was right...
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bigbaddaddy.bsky.social @bigbaddaddy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This cartoon captures it perfectly. The GOP's decline from Lincoln's vision of unity to today's chaos reflects a reversal of evolution. What was once about principle and leadership has devolved into a race for outrage and spectacle. History will remember how far the party strayed from its own ideals
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”
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Ashleigh @vinylgeek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
41 years ago today Live Aid #OTD #LiveAid
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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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