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Jeff Ament’s Army @jeffamentsarmy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#PJNerds #PJOTD Today in 1990, Eddie Vedder flew to Seattle to play for the first time with Jeff, Stone, Mike, and Dave Krusen at London Bridge Studio.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
espn.com
Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Once again, @propublica.org is doing the work that would normally be done by the government
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 02/10/2026
*stares directly at camera*
Brianna Wu @ 2h
@briannawusays

Genuine question. Does it bother decent people to see the
government referring to people like me with a slur? Or do
you like seeing us degraded by our own government?

Pete Hegseth
No fatties.
No trannies.
No beardos.
No weirdoes.
No wimps ....

@PeteHegseth · 19h

RAPIR

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Anna Busy Bee @annabusybee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My absolute favorite part. Jack Smith smirking after they rapidly lowered their poster that made absolutely no sense. This is one of the best "look at this dumbass" expressions I've seen in a minute. So satisfying.
Jack Smith smirking at a Senate hearing after a line of questioning that made absolutely no sense.
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RN Mayhem @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Justin Verlander says goodbye to his teammates and then holds his daughter's hand as he leaves the mound for the last time.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What did the Trump-Xi summit produce for the US? In one photo: nothing.
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Baja Arizona. We fight on. @bajaarizona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.gofundme.com/f/help-an-81...
gofundme.com
Donate to HelpDonRetire, organized by Erin H
My name is Erin and I am reaching out to our community today because of a heartbreaking scene I witnessed right … Erin H needs your support for HelpDonRetire
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Financial Times A7 exposé into the Kremlin's ability to permeate Western financial institutions with $7bn in forged financial instruments was the most important financial reporting of the last month. It was not pick up or reported on in US corporate media.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 24/09/2026
“That’s the danger, where it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
nytimes.com
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 23/09/2026
“This is pretty simple physics. This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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ElGrench @elgrench.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the bribe payments that Kao made to Susan Collins, very carefully laundered.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Amy Acton’s powerful new ad targeting Vivek Ramaswamy’s scams.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Look at that haul! Wonder who boofed that!
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Police in Illinois recover 650 rolls of toilet paper amid rise in homecoming week vandalism
Sifting through hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, one Illinois police department has issued a warning following a recent uptick in pre-homecoming week vandalism.
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 16/09/2026
A legacy that lives on. The Clemente family threw out the ceremonial first pitch tonight.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner on Thursday ruled Fortune’s death a homicide. Jackson police chief RaShall Brackney-Wheelock
theguardian.com
Man arrested over death of Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree
Police have arrested Jacques Ratliff for the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman who was found behind an empty house last month
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ElGrench @elgrench.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"While there is a high public interest in seeing trafficking charges prosecuted, the behaviour of the DEA in this case is so shocking and flagrant that the justice system must distance itself from it. To allow the proceedings to continue would be to condone it." www.cbc.ca/news/world/d...
cbc.ca
B.C. judge tosses drug case, says U.S. agents broke law and violated Canadian sovereignty | CBC News
U.S. federal agents pressured a Canadian into a money-laundering conspiracy while concealing their efforts from the RCMP, amounting to "shocking and flagrant" illegal behaviour and a violation of Cana...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
prospect.org
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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ElGrench @elgrench.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
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ElGrench @elgrench.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is nuts. And i'm not just saying that cause I'm a Sox fan.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting: For months, Katie Miller has denounced ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in nearly 500 posts. She did not tell her followers that she holds a more than $1 million stake in their top competitor, Elon Musk's xAI.
washingtonpost.com
Katie Miller held large stake in Elon Musk’s xAI as she slammed ChatGPT online
Conservative podcaster Miller, a former top aide to Musk, is the latest political influencer to comment on public issues without fully disclosing financial ties.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Siri, what is a protection racket?"
politico.com
Sam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defense
The previously unreported meetings have come as utility companies grapple the risks posed to the grid by autonomous hacks.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In NYT, criticism of the Leader's speech can only be published if it's from other Republicans, apparently.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ken Paxton’s former top cop: What motivates someone like Ken Paxton? I’ve been around him enough. He has two motivations in life: Money and power. I cannot accurately describe the amount of commitment Ken Paxton had to continue to participate in this criminal enterprise. He was obsessed with it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Alexander bros, who were convicted in March of running a decades-long sex-trafficking scheme, paid at least $250k to Alan (But-I-Was-Wearing-My-Underwear) Dershowitz to secure a pardon for them from Trump. Dershowitz, whose leading clients include Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and
nytimes.com
Brothers Seeking Pardons for Sex Trafficking Hire a Former Trump Lawyer
Documents appear to show payments were made to the lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz to pursue “executive clemency and judicial reversal” for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
This is who was on that Gitmo flight I tracked 12 days ago — a guy who did everything right to overcome the circumstances of his birth.
Gillian Brockell • @gillianbrockell.com
Looks like we're using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE's flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights. 1/2
An FR24 map showing an Air Wisconsin plane landing at Gitmo 
9:14 AM • Aug 28, 2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We are saying stop locking up children. There are humane alternatives that allow people to live freely while their cases are adjudicated.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
She’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accounts
Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.
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