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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 49m

so daddy was literally a nazi eh

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 46m

Bullshit. If he wins in three weeks by more than 5%, he will absolutely run for President. And if he wins by 10%, we should anoint him the nominee on the spot.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1h

we're in the year 2026 and people are still asking if Andrew Sullivan is a racist or just keeps saying highly racist shit by accident for the last 45 years

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Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social · 54m

During the GOP primaries in 2000, George W. Bush stated that Senator John McCain’s adopted daughter, Bridget (Bangladesh born) was his biological illegitimate "black love child" from an extramarital affair. And here we are. There is no lie the GOP won’t make up

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

One of the reasons I think it's not worth expending any energy trying to convince Rs to vote D is you're more likely to convince a non-voter to vote for the first time than you are to get anyone to admit they made a mistake in the past

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not sure how to react to the fact that Ultron and I have the same sense of humor.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Whew this year’s COVID formulation is an asskicking. I would always rather have my ass kicked by a shot instead of a particularly dangerous virus, but if you plan to get it, make sure you build in recovery time.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Stopped a flood and saved our harvest, but I’m left with a lot of questions. #ZombiesRun

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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

how can you not want to read to a kid, you get to do all the voices and shit like what tf is wrong with these people

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This movie may actually be better than the book.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I stopped reading her stuff after a while though because honestly, she has this bizarre fascination with dick size that was irritating me.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I read this book. And several other of her STEM romances. They’re actually decent, but this is my least favorite of the bunch. And when I found out, it started out as Kylo Ren/Rey fanfic, it all made sense. (The master/apprentice ickiness.)

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They changed him into a postdoc. Sort of. But like a Big Bang Theory postdoc. Somehow the Stanford post office has a gigantic office and his own lab. Presumably, this was to solve the ickiness of him being a professor and her grad student. #TheLoveHypothesis

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ali Hazelwood was a neuroscience professor. The things she gets horribly wrong about academic labs therefore infuriate me.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only conflict is with tangential characters. The romance is FAR too easy. Oh, right. “Fated mates.” And yet I’m still reading 300 pages in. Even I don’t know why. Not QUITE awful enough, I guess.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

God, this book. All the bad (for me, YMMV) romance tropes. Billionaire. Stalled romance novelist who doesn’t believe in HEA anymore. Grumpy asshole/sunshine. Sex scenes are poorly written enough to make me flip pages to get past them, but then the story is superficial, too.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s a quintessential French experience when your institution is blockaded by protesting students. This is precisely what American students should have done when their institutions began capitulating to the Trump regime.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TLDR: Believe women. Believe us when we talk about horrific things that you see circulating in the news, but also believe us when we talk about our discoveries, our science, our interests, our understanding, our experience, our work. The world is quite literally better for everyone when you do.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

- the first person to observe octopuses using stones as tools to open shells. Nowadays, scientists use her methods of “restocking” in fisheries, so they can release fish back into the wild for their survival. Her work was lost in a shipwreck in 1843, but her story is out there (finally).

A woman’s hand holding a copy of a book “The girl who built an ocean” featuring an illustrated woman in a beautiful green dress making scientific drawings, and she is surrounded by a gorgeous green and rusty red undersea vista.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Witchcraft?! No, just a smart lady. She used her hands to build it, studied argonauts and realized they weren’t stealing shells - they MADE them. Let’s give her an award! Just kidding. Instead, she had to have a dude (Richard Owen) help present her findings. To be taken seriously. She was also —

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surely I’m done now. But nope! Jeanne Villepreux-Power. Seamstress turned inventor. She was obsessed with marine animals and thought “geez, kinda sucks that every time I want to study them, they swim away.” Sooo, she built the world’s first aquarium for scientific research. (What, like it’s hard?)

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

.. in mainstream science circles. So she organized circles herself - of WOMEN. She gathered groups of women at her college and took them (wait for it) “birdwatching”. (A first, scientifically!) No shotguns, just opera glasses. One of the most influential ornithologists of all time, yet few know her.

A woman’s hand holding a copy of the book Birdlore, featuring a woman’s illustrated face holding a pair of opera glasses to her eyes. She is surrounded by beautiful, colourful birds.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Want some examples? Eugenie Clark. She was clearly brilliant from the jump, but that didn’t stop her (male) profs from telling her to be a housewife. May as well just let go of this silly science stuff, right? Anyways, she went on to become Shark Lady, revolutionizing our understanding of sharks.

A woman’s hand holding up a copy of the book Shark lady featuring a bright blue cover with an illustrated woman, scuba diving next to a beautiful shark.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Instead, they saw her data and called it “girl talk”. (That’s a quote, btw.) So, she mapped it AGAIN. Point by point. In that tiny office. Lo and behold, she was right (duh), and the ridge did exist. Thereby supporting PLATE TECTONICS. No biggie. She wasn’t credited until years later.

A woman’s hand holding up a copy of the book Ocean Speaks, featuring teal green and blue undersea vistas, and a woman in a skirt floating above holding paper.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

remember when hollywood blacklisted will smith because he slapped chris rock for being an asshole

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lemme guess, then they showed you “It”.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That monster lives rent-free in my head, thanks mom and dad.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My parents let me see Alien in the fourth grade, so I probably win.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What I love is that she then goes on to call him “the most ordinary man imaginable.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Probably this, combined with the fact that the healthcare sector is still robust and women earn more healthcare-adjacent degrees by a wide margin.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pro-tip: Seasonal blips like this distort month-to-month changes in jobs, leading July to look particularly weak and August to look strong. That's why taking a three-month average is often your best bet.

Line chart titled "The fall then rise in teacher's jobs was mostly a seasonal adjustment glitch" showing jobs in local government education measured in thousands of employees. Employment remained stable around 8.2 million through September 2026 despite an unusual 52,000-job drop in July 2026 that appears to be a seasonal adjustment anomaly rather than genuine job loss. The series grew modestly from 8.15 million in September 2024 to 8.20 million in September 2026, with the July dip to 8.16 million representing a temporary statistical aberration that was largely reversed by August and September.

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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Captured by a rival and the dangerous Core is in their hands. The survival of the world is at stake! #Venture

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Cocoa Brown @seauxcocoa.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Went to this lil distillery bar by where the kid does practice cuz i had an hour to kill. I just wanted 30 mins of peace cuz my life real, real hectic right now. I just wanted to sir & scroll my phone while I sipped. Oh but no. Here come a man.

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Nene Leakes' Oh No! Real Housewives Of Atlanta

ALT: Nene Leakes' Oh No! Real Housewives Of Atlanta

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bullseye. this is very clearly obama’s doing

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we've seen how important student journalism can be with the reporting by the Cornell Daily Sun. but schools around the country regularly censor student journalists. (often illegally!) we have public records that show how this happens: www.404media.co/how-schools-...

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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a transphobic male senator, there is nothing more important to me than protecting women's sports. Here's why it never occurred to me that Jack Smith, a man, would choose to attend a women's college basketball game. by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

PS that substack writer didn't break this news, I shared it shortly after 1pm. Please subscribe to the worker-owned @autonomynews.co which is paywall-free, discloses all large donors, and doesn't have any male executives

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Autonomy News

A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication.

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