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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/10/2026
This week, our Hindu neighbors celebrate the Goddess Durga during the festival of Navaratri. 

Our neighbors will dance Garba, venerate the Goddess Durga with Sindur Khela, receive Tika from elders, set up Golu in their homes, and so much more.

Whether your family calls it Durga Puja, Dashain, Dussehra, or Navratri, may this festival mark a season of reflection and renewal.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
every time the media gets to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question they ask him to answer for something Hasan Piker said because they once did an event together. Yet the media never asks Republican candidates to answer for Elon Musk, the #1 Republican fundraiser this cycle and of all time. It's odd!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026
[cw: horrific] yes, give your credit card to the richest man in the world, who saw a user post an image of a toddler being tortured, and after the user was suspended, personally restored the man's account, verified it, follows it, and now pays the man who posted CSAM of a 2-year old to be on X.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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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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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICE is weaponizing their vehicles against anyone of us
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The Culture of Vehicular Attacks
The murder of Deona Marie Erickson in Minneapolis was the result of years of right-wing efforts to normalize—and even legalize—vehicular attacks.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ellison family consolidates dozens of media outlets: Cool, no problem, go ahead guys. Media coordinates to protest Trump's first amendment violations: Oh, that's antitrust! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026
What is JD talking about, “in my view”? It’s not a matter of opinion, it was the Oklahoma City bombing, he was 11, he would’ve known about it at the time, it was kind of a big deal.
The bombed-open side of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Putin has bought Trump with Russian diesel. Just before the US elections. Meanwhile, Russia keeps killing our children while they sleep at night. So Americans are now funding Russia’s war machine? I’m sorry, guys, but WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Radio Rwanda
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YESSSS AHHHHHH YESSSS
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 09/10/2026
A total unreconstructed clueless dimwit is in charge of DHS. Seems bad.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Q: Should there be term limits in Congress. Mr. Jackson? JACKSON: Absolutely I mean we have them in Maine. They work well. I definitely think Congress should have the same. Q: Senator Collins? COLLINS: No, I don't think there should be. I think that's what you have elections for.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump barely maintains a grip on a ceremonial sword, while swaying like an idiot among Saudi royals during what looks like a celebratory dance, with a look on his face like Bugs Bunny just dropped a jar of ether on the floor, all during a bribery visit from his first, extremely stupid term in office.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Witness: “Homey with the AR? He’s the one that let the shots go.” www.instagram.com/reel/DeP1p68...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed begs Trump to campaign in Michigan 😆
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson on whether Congress should have authority over the tariffs a president can impose: "That is the job of Congress. I really don't know why anyone, Republican or Democrat, would want to be in Congress and give all their authority to a president that is a narcissist."
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Charlie Kirk gets his wish. He said, in earnest, that executions should be televised and mandatory for children as educational.
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
propublica.org
American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
from his rally on friday in alabama (via reuters)
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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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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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump voters in 2016 were happy to admit that he's a corrupt liar. They just thought Hillary was more corrupt and dishonest. Don't know about this guy specifically, but a huge percentage of the conservatives "turning on Trump" now are gonna find excuses to see Dems as a bigger threat in 2028.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/10/2026
All of the pundits saying so confidently that polls are overestimating Democrats fail to mention that the polling error in 2025 in VA and NJ was twice as large as the average state poll bias in 2016 and 2024. Nobody knows direction of error ahead of time! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
The Epstein Class sticks together
Screenshot of a post from The Kobeissi Letter on X reading: “BREAKING: Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed to ‘SpaceXSI’ after President Trump changed the name of ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ to ‘Super Intelligence (SI).’ ‘No more AI. SI. It’s better,’ Elon Musk says.” Below the text is a photo showing Donald Trump and Elon Musk standing outdoors with a group of officials and tech executives.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Vivek spotted a kid in the crowd, decided to bring him onstage, and, well …
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A protester interrupted Trump's speech in Ohio, calling him a "rapist and a liar." 🔥 👏
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hassett emerges as the Trump White House's go-to Baghdad Bob: bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything Pedolf Shitler says is bullshit. He couldn’t tell the truth to save his worthless, shitty life.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026
“he’s a piece of shit, but he’s our piece of shit, and it’s our duty to eat it” is quite the message pulling into the final stretch
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a Gaza expert told Isaac Chotiner about his own family’s experience. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
I know that your wife and two of your kids were killed early on in the war.

Yeah. And later on, in July, 2025, my mother and my sister and her children were also killed. And when they were seeking refuge at my uncle’s house, he was killed, too, with his wife.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…" religionnews.com/2026/09/30/a...
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As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A suggestion for the Bulwark Pope: If the Chicago White Sox make the World Series, how could His Holiness not go to their first home game on Monday, Oct. 26. And the day before, on Sunday, he could celebrate Mass in Springfield, OH, to show support for the persecuted Haitians.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The competitiveness of the white conservative lasted exactly as long as artificial barriers to entry for everyone else did, what they lost to was the free market they pretended to care about because their entire success was based on not actually facing competition.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.
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