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Eric Koski

@ekoski1.bsky.social
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#rstats, climate policy, wireless, science, justice, human rights, 日本語, vegan ice cream. He/him

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7h
Reminder...
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 14h
Another big win for NYC Local Law 97, our “Green New Deal” law, as a huge co-op slashes its pollution by 60% (!!). Almost immediate financial payoff, too. ✅ lower energy bills ✅ good jobs ✅ less pollution Via energy efficiency upgrades! www.habitatmag.com/layout/set/a...
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New boiler tech cuts emissions at 220 Riverside Blvd.
A Manhattan condo board spent $600,000 on boiler and management upgrades to cut emissions by 60% and avoid Local Law 97 fines.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h
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God @thegodshow.com · 13h
Mentions of "Fauci" on X have mostly vanished since the data centers in Russia were destroyed by Ukrainian bombs. SMITE!💥
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
that’s right
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Supreme Court has held that you cannot require police to do shit. They can watch you die. Here's they watched a guy kill his children. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)
Castle Rock v. Gonzales: There is no procedural due process claim when a local government does not actively enforce a restraining order to protect its holder.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Sue L. @suecalifornia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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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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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And yet they not only don’t they do so, but they also go way out of their way to protect the ICE/CBP/HSI agents. Agents in masks killing people from out groups in the open with no consequences, facilitated by local police. It’s fascism.
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Noah Dahl @noahdahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The United States is increasing funding to Putin for his war against Ukraine."
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People who have kept being wrong about the war are still given platforms and listened to by millions
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember the 2019 Christchurch Call, a call by Western govts and Big Tech to "end the ability to use social media to organise and promote terrorism and violent extremism"? It was a response to livestreamed mass-murder by a far-right loner. Which platforms will stream Hegseth's blood + circus?
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Uusi Itävaltalainen @uusiitavaltalainen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
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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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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...
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PM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ lives
In bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sex trafficking rapist pedophile Andrew Tate had beastiality porn of horse and eel as well as videos of minors. A reminder that creepy racist scumbag JD Vance and the orange felon fought to bring him and his vile brother Tristan to the US to protect them. MAGA empowers monsters.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And of course, language repression is part of this too. Which is why it boggles the mind that there are folks out there who argue China has never colonized anyone. It’s acting like a colonizer *now*
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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The funniest part is I bet the kid could lift Vivek up, lmao Also, don’t let Republicans touch children for so many reasons
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Over the past 40 years, we have basically said, 'To hell with it. We don't have to change. We can adapt.' And then we have catastrophically failed to adapt.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think on most accounts of the decreasing marginal utility of money this would come out justified, we stan an effective altruist king 🤴
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
Man allowed to address UN General Assembly while subject to an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, sure why not
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to giving this talk tonight at the University of Tampa, on the subject of my next book!
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026
I am shocked--shocked!--that a manosphere influencer could be credibly accused and charged with rape.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/09/2026
you mean he’s gonna inflict surveillance and deskilling on the world’s poorest people?
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s mind-blowing that this guy helped fund the American president’s son’s wedding. Imagine Reagan’s reaction to this. The US has become a complete embarrassment, and voters have no one to blame but themselves for re-electing a corrupt pro-Russian traitor who attempted a coup
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So people come back around to those of us who have been pointing out the emporers' nudity all along and say, "How about THIS set of invisible clothes? Does that change your analysis??" >>
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just so we understand: “right wing wanker campaign to claim Doctors Without Borders are terrorists” means “the IDF is going to kill aid workers this week”.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.
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Juho Häyrinen 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺 @hayrinenjuho.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Let's hope nobody will try to acquire large quantities of tickets with no actual intention of showing up at the event.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/09/2026
not at all — I oppose policy designs that make climate problems worse and the unfortunately the LCFS program has become one of those it didn't have to be this way, and it's a choice policymakers continue to make in spite of the evidence
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Using Vegetable Oils for Biofuel Accelerates Tropical Deforestation and Increases Carbon Emissions
In a new paper, Tzu-Hui Chen, Rich Sexton, and I show that biofuels derived from vegetable oils have likely increased, rather than reduced, global emissions.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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VOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Burnout's no joke kids
A cat on a space and sky background that says "sorry i havent finished a project in months, i have been at war with myself"
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/09/2026
When children see smoke in the sky, wildfires on the news and emergency warnings on their phones, is their concern really “climate hysteria”? Or are they responding to the world they can see around them? From Kit Marie Rackley
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When the warning sounds, concern is not hysteria
Children’s climate concerns aren’t simply learnt from adults – they’re also shaped by what they experience for themselves
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Alexander—Thinkin' Texan (I discuss ideas, not people) @alexander001a.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
UCMJ Articles 90, 91, & 92: service members are only obligated to obey lawful orders. ​The Manual for Courts-Martial & DoD Law of War Manual (Sec. 18.6.1): Military personnel have an explicit legal duty to disobey an order that is manifestly illegal, such as an order to commit a war crime. #TheLaw
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Goodbye to the Least Apocalyptic Summer of the Rest of Your Life newrepublic.com/article/2150... via @newrepublic.com
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Goodbye to the Least Apocalyptic Summer of the Rest of Your Life
It’s been one disaster after another. And it may pale compared to what’s coming.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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