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Drive_swiftly

@driveswiftly.bsky.social
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Maybe it's time to move into the woods... but I'll give it a shot over here first. Aspirational hiker and bad runner, politics and data nerd, beer enthusiast and carb disposal.

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Bumbles Bounce @bumblsbounce.bsky.social · 7h
But you'll never hear Joe Rogan or Bill Maher railing against right-wing Cancel Culture on their shows, because it was never about free speech. It was always about vilifying the left in furtherance of the right-wing agenda.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6h
This eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...
Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 8h
Yes but that account only exists to troll. Do not feed the troll bots. Block and report them.
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Ken Yee @yuweiquan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Often I laugh at the absurdities McSweeney’s, but this piece? It is one of a handful of McSweeney’s pieces that makes me a bit sober and contemplative about how fucked up things are.
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 8h
Omg cryyyyyying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 8h
I appreciate that PBS opted to depict an older wiser Martina instead of reusing a youthful image, but they could have glammed her up a bit with some feathers or something.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h
This is also why it’s a bad idea to signal to Trump now that you’re not really interested in holding him accountable if you retake Congress. It’ll be two years of statements and resolutions and people will think you’re either full of shit or totally inept.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13h
Okay
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20h
Lol. Lol. Whose national security do you think Trump cares about? Ain't ours...
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20h
Gross.
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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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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20h
Russia Russia Russia
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20h
When the walls are so thin you can tell your boomer neighbor has a Roku....
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 21h
Murdochs ex wife Wendy is best friends with and/or dated Putin. The oligarchs are fully in control.
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 21h
Kitchens in the basement, pans in the attic
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 23h
I mean it would all make sense if the intent was only to make women feel unsafe in public spaces. But that would be pretty evil...
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s a hallmark of how partisan and right wing the national media has become that we’re not having an urgent national conversation about the president’s mental fitness. Because this is getting worse.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is no reason to have chains on this girl. None.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More Trump administration corruption At the request of lobbyists Continental Strategy, Susie Wiles-Trump’s Chief of Staff-met a Putin aligned member of Bosnia’s presidential delegation at the White House Why is this significant Because her daughter-Katie Wiles-is a partner at Continental Strategy
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Even in *apartheid South Africa* white Zimbawean "Rhodesians" who fled black rule were known as "way back whens" for their absurd nostalgia for a mediocre state
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(And I do think the CEOs in particular should be held *personally* and *criminally* responsible for the activities of their companies and the consequences of their products. Their culpability should be commensurate with how much compensation, including stock value, that they receive from them.)
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government.
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N.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Keep in mind also that the “catastrophic event in the next 6-12 months” is more likely to be a catastrophic economic collapse when the AI bubble finally bursts than it is to be anything else.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
The New Yorker gets it: Gibney set out to "solve a mystery" with this film: “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” The answer: largely through a personal narrative that the film "does an excellent job of expunging." Exactly! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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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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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now? That was always the goal.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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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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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 09/10/2026
A 5-year old should never have to watch anyone, let alone federal agents, open fire on the person sitting next to them. My heart breaks just thinking about the terror this child felt. We need answers.
nytimes.com
ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 08/10/2026
ICE out of the Bronx. ICE out of New York. ICE out - now.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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kyle pellét @kpellet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The CEO of Starbucks used to run Chipotle. He moved Chipotle's HQ to Newport Beach specifically so that he wouldn't have to live in Denver. I'm going to guess he's doing this so he can work from Fashion Island instead of flying to Seattle all the time.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cornell rape victim and her lawyer receive death threats as an organised network of men tied to white nationalists and right wing groups tries to dox her. At least three women wrongly identified as Jane Doe. #OpDeathEaters
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Cornell rape victim and her lawyer receive death threats as case reopens under special prosecutor
Thomas Giuffra reports that Jane Doe has been threatened since she sued seven fraternity members for gang raping her Donald Trump has said he feels badly for the men, and a man with a record of attack...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
donmoynihan.substack.com
“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America
Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American model for elite capture of public resources and dollars steams onwards elsewhere
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What kills me is that other men actually look to these men and admire them. How can they all be such giant losers. Just the most sniveling, ass kissing spineless losers. Devoid of any self awareness or reflection. Just boring, unimaginative, craven ass kissing losers.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far white authoritarian party”
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026
While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim
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Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OK obscure folk music one: Schooner Fare's cover of Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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