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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
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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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nightmargin @nightmargin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Emo4Emus @emo4emus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RFK is a dummy and you are too if you believe his nonsense. No idea how we get through to these people.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Eric FJ @ericfj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is awesome.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Barchart @barchart.com · 23/08/2026
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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Dennis Kanenwisher @denniskdraws.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
remember when Meta completely lied about user engagement with videos when they were only counting the two seconds of auto play before the video was paused as someone actually watching?
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/08/2026
See recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in surfing competitions for dogs, via The Atlantic Photo: theatln.tc/gzIZZkl2
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026
literally impeach him just for this
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
from the bottom of my heart, 😑
Space industry experts have also questioned SpaceX's decision not to install a flame trench
- a duct-like apparatus used for most orbital launchpads that helps to redirect the fast moving gases and energy away from a lifting-off rocket. When asked why SpaceX was proceeding without a flame trench, Musk said:
"We're pretty confident this will work."
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Patrick Spauster @patrickspauster.com · 21/07/2026
Big news for nerds: The Department of City Planning updated their city planning children's book (original was put out by the LaGuardia administration in 1937) They are giving them away at upcoming Summer Streets events across the boroughs.
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
July 13, 2026 MILWAUKEE — Commissioners to the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church voted overwhelmingly (458-18) to declare White Christian nationalism and similar ideologies “a theological error” incompatible with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
pres-outlook.org
PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism 'Theological Error'
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What the actual fuck? Look, I'm sorry to keep saying this, but the president is clearly a dementia-ravaged necrotic husk of a man whose addled rants bear no actual resemblance to reality and I, for one, think that is concerning.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣 Ladies, please form a single-file line!
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting in the way of my love life | Opinion
A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.
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Emo4Emus @emo4emus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Imagine that
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That’s my mayor
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"More than half of those fired or removed by Mr. Hegseth from promotion lists have been female or Black."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We’ve opened the strait that was never closed, ceasing a ceasefire for a war that was never a war, stopping Iran from charging tolls because tolls are illegal, all so Trump can charge his *own* tolls because *his* tolls are legal. This will hurt affordability which is a hoax anyway
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/07/2026
"A better and more honest conversation on this subject would be welcome. But at this point, only the terminally naïve could think that Musk is interested in such a conversation. What he mainly seems to be interested in is making it okay to be racist."
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Elon Musk’s Race War Hobby
He doesn’t like brown people and he isn’t trying to hide it.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/06/2026
ugggghh
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/06/2026
'After Trump lost to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, [Brunson] wrote this on X: “YESSIR!!!! GET TRUMP’S DUMBA-- OUT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!”'
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026
“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”
marketplace.org
Why nurses' unions are fighting for AI guardrails
Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 24/06/2026
NEW: Former city Controller Brad Lander and Assemblymember Claire Valdez cruised to victory over mainstream Democratic opponents in a whopping victory for Mayor Zohran Mamdani in two U.S. House primaries on Tuesday night. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/23/m...
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Lander and Valdez Sweep to Victory in Win for Mamdani-Backed Candidates
Two mainstream Democrats fell to candidates backed by the mayor, as the marquee congressional primary in Upper Manhattan remained too close to call.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/06/2026
"The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled." Good to see research back up something I've been saying for years.
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Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
when you check her drivers license
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IT WORKED!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump's attendance
'It felt so dark yesterday, I was like, this is not the Garden that I know, the fan said
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/06/2026
It’s about to get hot, New York. Sometimes, too hot. Don’t let extreme heat sneak up on you this summer. Go to nyc.gov/beattheheat for more information on how to stay cool during heat emergencies.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD www.status.news/p/daniel-dal...
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The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Dale
CNN’s resident fact-checker has been absent from the network’s airwaves for more than three months, Status has found, raising questions about the sudden disappearance of one of its most familiar on-ai...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/06/2026
Circling back to the pasteurization bit. Louis Pasteur did not develop pasteurization to stop milk from killing us. He developed it to help wine stay fresh. It was others who realized if you took his technique and applied it to milk it made the milk safe to drink. Why?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/06/2026
Groimes, oim tekeeng some toime from moy treelion dollah IPO to ehnsoite some rehcial voilance
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026
On Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s daughter found her curled on the floor, bleeding during a dangerous miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant. Waldorf and her husband rushed to an Arkansas hospital, expecting emergency care. Instead, doctors said they could not intervene under the state’s abortion ban.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2026
Ossoff: "If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent, loyalist nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority."
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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
One way to think of this is that WE ALL FAILED miserably to hang Jan6 on Trump in 2024. Trump has given us a 2nd chance to do that, made all the easier bc 1) This is fucking corrupt as hell 2) GOP is already underwater 3) Voters already recognize Trump is corrupt. Here's our chance for a redo.
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