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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 20h

FWIW, I don’t believe that surveillance of my media and whatnot began with Orange Julius

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A must read. "Then, overnight, she became one of the more than 95,000 Black women who were fired or laid off from the federal government as result of massive job cuts implemented by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency"

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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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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Gustavo Arellano was on the WCS podcast he reminded that Kamala lost because she’s a Black woman FROM CALIFORNIA. It’s easy to forget that aspect of rural American hate

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh brother.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Four hours, and this explicitly political post couldn’t even get to 10 FB views, despite my 1600 or so friends/followers. Lie to me, Meta

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How political can the WNBA get? SO much going on this season! howardbryant.substack.com/p/postscript...

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Postscript: MAGA Fever

A calculated and dangerous path to popularity

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not the planet, or even the species that are horrific. For example, Americans are alone in seeing Donald Trump as strong. Ours is a shithole nation for real

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The LSD NO-No’s origin story has its roots in high school sports. Specifically, a Sandusky, Ohio tripping pole vaulter. In this vintage WCS episode, watch Kansas City media guy and SHS track teammate Jonathan Carter process what opened me to the possibility of Dock’s feat. (Forgive the subpar audio)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your co-sign matters, as you know this metaphor so well

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

White people believe with all the breath in their bodies in the goodness of other white people despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How’s that 90s Xzibit line go? Oh yeah: “I got niggas in LA sayin’, Fuck Giuliani!”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wild season in my work life. I only wish I could tell ya.

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/08/2026

You all should note the distinct lack of coverage about people suffering in Venezuela since the US illegally kidnapped Maduro and made the country a neocolony.

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the piker shit shows you dems know how to run an influence operation when they want and choose not to when they don't

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/08/2026

P.S.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today is also the six month anniversary of my father’s death. While I was fighting the Washington Post, I was deep in grief. I hate that I can’t call him to tell him the news that I got my job back. But Daddy, wherever you are, I did it. I stood up for myself like you told me to do. 😭

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think it’s obvious that the coordinated racist attack on Arday wasn’t just an attack on every Black academic, but on every Black person worldwide. That’s the critical story—not whether he plagiarized or how many miles he ran. They hounded him into the grave to uphold the myth of white superiority.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This album might be the last release that I can remember from my KFSR days. My memory is of a three-song vinyl ep, featuring “Wishing Well.” music.apple.com/us/album/wor...

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Workbook by Bob Mould on Apple Music

Album · 1989 · 17 Songs

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of Bouie’s greatest videos. He had definitely been saving this one up. Glad he mentioned that wokeness is a misappropriation of Black vernacular; a lot of y’all don’t be knowin

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There are high-up editors at prestigious publications who wrote or greenlit like dozens of “Moon Base to Open Within Six Years” or “Space Hotel Slated for 2026” headlines. Nothing happened to them. They just get to keep doing it. Wild.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For decades, America’s Camelot obsession struck me as harmful, but I hadn’t a specific reason why or how. Until now…

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stephen A. Smith is furious that the NABJ essentially assaulted him with an emoji. Or maybe the NABJ treated him like Stephen A. Smith treated Jemele Hill or Jasmine Crockett or Bakari Sellers or Cari Champion or domestic violence victims or people who wear hoodies or...

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Why the National Association of Black Journalists 'Personally Attacked' Stephen A. Smith, Explained

It's impossible to understand why the ESPN personality won NABJ's Thumbs Down Award without knowing the history, the mission and the series of events that preceded the decision.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What's amazing is that you know for absolute certain that within a few years, you'll see the medical gofundmes and obituaries of the writers and artists who made this movie possible in the first place. Much sooner, you'll see such as half the VFX studio laid off through an email.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Relax. It was a minor assertion; am not here to argue with accounts on the Internet.

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Couldn’t find anyone in Sacramento to drop acid with me today, so I shall be microdosing for the foreseeable future

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Love that Stavros is hilarious, but we’ve got to care a lot less about what the needy and performative clowns have to say

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The virus is now like an celebrity who’s lost their star appeal, but remains a real powerful player

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13/08/2026

i feel like this post and the hed really miss the most important part of this which is that the United States Federal Government convened a grand jury and presented a complete hoax to them, complete with graphic illustrating a wide-ranging conspiracy involving every liberal organization.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

"There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend." — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

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Donnell Alexander @donnellone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Normalize referring to the Iraq war as Trump’s folly.

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