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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

This is a) a really great and specific policy proposal that b) addresses a real problem for government efficiency and c) also American democracy, by potentially reducing the clout of megadonors like Musk

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 18h

"Starlink gets turned into universal basic Wi-Fi after Elon's assets are forfeited" is an abundance vision i can get behind

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Man, it's actually really striking how much this is true. Not just about the Nixon thing, there's a handful of right-wing causes celebre that right-wing legal thought is dedicated to justifying, but like..... that is so very much what it is

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is looking like it is going to take 8 years to create a 10 year comp plan.

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kelabe.bsky.social @kelabe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

VOTE NO on I-638 And No on I-001 and 645

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If these marzipan dildos are really going to go with this line then I think they should explain what questions are being raised. They sound serious. What are they.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just the president cheering on his crowd as they physically assault a woman

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.

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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Notable that the state superintendent is endorsing the opponent of the chair of the #waleg House Education Committee

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 11/10/2026

Tax the rich. Fund public schools. Protect the millionaires tax in WA and vote NO on I-645.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

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Lennie Brisco County Jr @mburchett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chapelle’s Block Party is a TIME CAPSULE in that it shows a bunch of incredibly talented people at their peak and having a blast before they all went insane in various but equally depressing ways.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is correct, but...tomorrow's news today: This will 100% not happen & all the post-mortems will either be about (1/good) how it was individual personalities & not structural factors (e.g., Talarico if he wins) or (2/bad) how Dems' messaging & policies were too lefty (e.g., AES if he loses)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Stay tuned for @electioncheatsheet.org Seattle Election Fall 2026 updates!

We got a lot of feedback so we improved the website.

Election Cheat Sheet

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As described this makes no sense. If her father committed a crime (highly doubtful) he can’t be prosecuted because (1) it’s past the 10 year statute of limitations and (2) he’s dead. But this could be part of a *civil* effort to denaturalize Omar. That needs judicial approval and will go nowhere.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it really seems as though they’re about to disappear a congresswoman.

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BatManitou @manitouryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Elon immediately suspended this account that showed Nick Sortor’s recorded call to the mental health facility was AI-generated and is preventing community notes on the Sortor post," she posted on X. "It’s all hands on deck trying to make the fake Talarico story stick." Yeah, X is so fun!

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The right's evidence for a James Talarico mental breakdown debuted with a lot of fanfare this afternoon—and imploded immediately. A very special emergency False Flag for @thebulwark.com with @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-james...

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MAGA’s Talarico Mental Breakdown Conspiracy Implodes—Instantly

The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive

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squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

increasing numbers of things are going to increasingly polarize into two main directions: moar computer or anti-computer. a lot of thought is being put into how to make things moar computer, but less into how to make things anti-computer. but there's a big future in anti-computer.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 10/10/2026

Unless somebody kept the receipt and Kiewit has a really good return policy, imho the time for dunking on Pinehurst Station has passed. It's built, now we upzone the heck out of the area & take a bulldozer to the fence around the soon-to-be-former golf course so the rest of us get to use the spot.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Never forgive the people who voted to enable this. Never forget this. Never let them forget it.

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Female at Law @femaleatlaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Once more, Democrats need to stop appointing East Coasters to leadership. The natural leaders of this party are Dems from red states who despise the rabid maniac Republicans produced by red states, not the genteel "my friend across the aisle" normie Republicans who quibble about taxes

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

When I found out the oil companies knew and had predicted this outcome incredibly accurately was eye opening for me. Went from "we should generally take care of the environment whether this is man made warming or not" to "we've got to do everything we can and they must pay".

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Aurora project is fascinating. I've never been involved in a fight as bareknuckled as this. The folks on the advocacy side are smart, focused, and regularly pulling evening and weekend shifts on top of their day jobs to fix that piece of shit freeway dividing our neighborhoods.

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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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Unwellbutrin @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

america used to be so tolerant that they didn’t even ethically cleanse the mormons despite them mounting an insurrection against the united states and also being creepy sex perverts/obvious heretics

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Bobadilla Report documented extensive atrocities, torture, and tyrannical rule by Columbus that led to him being hauled back to Spain in chains, being stripped of his titles, and imprisonment. Of course Trump takes pride in "resurrect[ing]" him.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The proposition of sentience or intelligence is part of the AI Industry’s agnotology gambit. Just as Big Tobacco funded red herring research to flood public discourse with doubt, so this industry poses inane talking points as existential questions and even funds research into them.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

real existing people in the developing world were and are being killed by the destruction of usaid, which these people all supported, but people would rather discuss whether spicy clippy deserves his own state

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of these gets passed around every couple weeks, the conspiracy theorists all come out to crow about how their policies are popular and only not implemented because of (((money in politics))), then voters remember that this will come with tax hikes and inflation and go to people who speak Spanish

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 08/10/2026

Uh, did Julie Kang straight up lie to @ericacbarnett.bsky.social here? The photo shoot was at the end of June 2026, well after Kang had declared her candidacy and just a few weeks before ballots went out with her name on them.

Email from Sound Transit dated June 15, 2026 referencing a photoshoot on June 30

Photo of Kang family dated June 30, 2026 saying they participated in the photoshoot

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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