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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10h

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

if an even slightly slur-free environment— slur-lite, let’s say, may contain occasional slur— is important to you then X isn’t an option. if that’s not important to you, maybe it could work, I’m not going to hang around longer to find out

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think of myself as a huge prude about this stuff but I do believe that language leaves its marks on you

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

last time I tooled around on a brand new X account it took me less than a minute to hit a high-octane slur, but I thought, hey, maybe John’s right and it’s changed. had a stopwatch going this time, 73 seconds

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Right, it turns out that instead of letting the Republicans set the terms of the debate, you can simply tell them and their enablers in the media to cram it. El-Sayed has been doing the same thing. It's long overdue.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't dooming, I don't think they really help him, it's just that one of the things these cretinous shitheads have learned is that you can just do the damage and then kinda sorta apologize later, and that's enough to get away with it

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word I, Robot Nixon

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 23h

Ruin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 21h

And this is why Silicon Valley advertises AI taking over social responsibilities (remembering anniversaries, buying gifts, making appointments, etc). AI culture is dudes who don’t know how to function in society and want chatbots to fill in for women as partners and secretaries

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve never liked Gavin Newsom so I appreciate that he’s done all he can to tank his presidential chances. Maybe go punch a baby just to seal the deal?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Greg Stoll 🌈 @gregstoll.com · 10/10/2026

Seen a lot of Republican anti-trans ads in Texas and it doesn’t feel great!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

nobody respects trump supporters, least of all trump

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026

Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said that some of its AI agents had taken unintended actions on federal, state and local websites, including submitting a false tip about a murder to a Philadelphia police hotline.

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Anthropic AI agents took ‘unintended’ actions on government sites

The inappropriate actions by its agents included submitting a false tip about a murder to Philadelphia police, Anthropic said.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

the supreme court: good news, donald!you are the untouchable god-king you always dreamed of being only one condition: you may not fuck with The Money donald trump: I will fuck with The Money if it’s the last thing I do

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. I wish Jeremy Horpedahl would post here instead of Twitter 2. The idea that Millennials are poorer than our parents at this age is both driven by a lack of updating from the 2010s and the fact that all media is clustered in like four cities where it's impossible to purchase a home.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This feels like something we've lost more broadly -- a consequence of privileging capitalist efficiency above all else (get me just what I want just when I want it)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

80% of the country is pissed off about something and they're blaming GOP incumbents for it, the worst possible strategy for a Dem challenger is to tell the base "I don't share your values" while also telling swing voters "I'm so out of touch I think 'men in women's sports' is a real concern."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026

Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I like how the GOP's position is that every single form of labor is trivial and pointless. The only "work" with any purpose or dignity is to be an owner, politician, or talking head. Everything else is contemptible and could be done by anyone with no training. Hence accountants just "do math."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whether it's Bill Clinton using tax-payer money to pay for the postage on letters back to people who wrote to his cat or Donald Trump steering hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to his son's companies, both presidents engaged in corruption on an unprecedented scale.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And we still can take this shit seriously! In fact, we *must* still take this shit seriously! If we don’t grind this kind of conduct into a fine powder and fire it into the depths of space then it is going to continue.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We definitely do not have to worry about this.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Out of Town @thepurley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

You write the paper to learn things! The writing is part of the learning - ahhhhhhhhhh

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."

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DavidJ @djedi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t understand how a president could have said this 90 years ago and here, 90 years later, it feels like not even a majority of Americans have learned this lesson.

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