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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 9h

I don't look at student evals anymore but for some reason I opened the pdf they sent today and the first comment I saw was "he cracks good jokes" and that was good enough for me

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Seinfeld: George Costanza Leaves on a High Note

ALT: Seinfeld: George Costanza Leaves on a High Note

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Got the house to myself for a few hours. Time to get wild. May finally crack open that 2000-page Sven Beckert capitalism book

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15h

How it’s going

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 19h

Look at our brows, they are so furrowed

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Every Jacobin article is either 'Coyote vs. Acme is Actually Very Leftist' or 'Women - are they Bourgeoise? (Yes)'

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't know if it's a reflection of bluesky being an ideological bubble or whatever but I've never been threatened with violence here and that was like a weekly event at the bad place

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fake baseball meets fake war department

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When you think you're slick but you're not slick

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, I've lived in his district for as long as Mike Johnson's been in Congress, and I've never seen one critical billboard. Now there are at least four on I-20, just between Shreveport and Ruston.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Here's the billboard you see as you drive into Mike Johnson's Bossier on I-20.

Billboard shows Mike Johnson and Epstein and says MIKE JOHNSON REFUSES TO HOLD EPSTEIN'S ACCOMPLICES ACCOUNTABLE

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I have sustained more injuries opening blister packaging than I have from decades of running

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

come and take it

smallmouthmessiah posted this on IG. It shows a big blue pickup truck with a graphic wrap on the tailgate. It shows an American flag that’s being pulled open like a butthole by row hands and inside that hole is a large mouth bass and a lake

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026

we gotta raise taxes. a lot.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Every morning the Texas GOP wakes up and asks, "How can we top yesterday's racism?"

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many bears to chase off in midtown Shreveport

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is what happens when you eliminate your Women’s and Gender Studies program.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's ironic that there are whole fields in the humanities whose research agendas are not being wiped out by big dumps from the plagiarism robot (university leaders and state legislatures are doing that work instead)

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I get blasted with local Texas commercial tv stations, a whole wall of them, while I do my little runs on the treadmill at the gym, and I gotta tell you, it's rare to see ads for Democrats but it's an endless wave of Abbott and Paxton ads

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a great ad (qualifier: for Texas) but I wonder how many persuadable voters actually see it, given Abbott's 5-to-1 spending advantage. Sometimes it feels like they make these ads just for Bluesky

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The best part is somebody actually wrote that down and he's reading it off a teleprompter

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There was an ad for a Norm MacDonald documentary on Netflix and I insisted we watch Dirty Work. My spouse was... mildly amused

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Are you telling me you bet on the fight in Rocky III and you bet on Mr. T?"

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If the guy who plays Lee in East of Eden doesn't win an Emmy there is no justice in this world saturated with tv slop

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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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James Greene, Jr. @jamesgreenejr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wife: honey, can you read to the baby? husband: grok, do a vulgar roast of the baby grok: hello baby, your mind is not fully developed yet husband: no, more vulgar, use a gilbert gottfried voice

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Dash Silva @dashsilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Melville’s editor checking in and touching base:

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very kind of you to say! Thanks for reading!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Would Ossoff be the best candidate for 2028? I have no idea. But I do know you're not gonna win if you don't go on the attack just like this.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Google the list of countries where the death penalty is legal and ask yourself if that's a list of countries you'd want to be on.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do wonder how much the Christa Pike thing led to a green light on this. It's been a central tenet of this regime's ideology that the military can and ought to do things that civilian government is too weak or incompetent to do.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you want to understand the historical roots and precedents for this, one of my colleagues, an expert on terrorism, wrote a book that is on point. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Book cover for Daniel Byman's American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

fraggle rock coordinates

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

FINE ok I will read the Malcolm Gladwell gun book but I will hate every minute of it

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