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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Don’t throw trans people under the bus. It’s not hard. It’s also such a clear litmus test.

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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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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026

Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Star Wars Galactic Racer combines my two favourite elements of racing games: crashing into things and losing

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you’re in a staff meeting and you’re waiting for your friend across the room to open the meme you just sent

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I Don't Sleep Well (Title)

I Don't Sleep Well. The title is rendered in biological looking script. The action takes place in the cross section of an apartment, where the characters are in front of a large window with the angle such that we are looking down on to the street. Insect arms reach out to a woman, whose silhouette is replicated behind her. The moon shines down.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/10/2026

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Casting director: ok this is a role for a character who's hard of hearing and very rude Actor: what the fuck did you just say to me? Casting director: perfect

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

so called free thinkers when told that ethnic cleansing is not a debate topic:

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

michael stipe, singing 'it's the end of the world as we know it', karaoke revolution (score: 10,964), ps2 (2003) archive.org/details/offi...

michael stipe is in the foreground of the photo, kneeling on the floor, wired up for singing, karaoke revolution for the ps2 on the screen in front of him. in the background, on chairs, a couch and standing, are staff members of the official u.s. playstation magazine and r.e.m. bassist mike mills (he's the one closest to stipe with his legs crossed).

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 23/09/2026

Pretty good group costume idea: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Sheldon

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/silly-mood-89564928

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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’ll save you a lot of time to just reply with this

Did I just argue with a joke?
(Bearded man looking in mirror)
Part of a bluesky educational series

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 21/09/2026

upgrade to premium for an ad-free experience, now with ads

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This ad is a pro-trans dog whistle virtuously designed to mislead hogs. “Washington needs to stay out of it” the only thing Washington is doing is trying to impose a national ban, Washington staying out of it means “no ban”

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

in my cosmology we are all inside this inconceivable 4D horse

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

If you try to cook me in a big cauldron I’ll shake my ass so hard all the soup will splash right out, so don’t even think about it!

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Degenerate Geometry @acat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Trump has decreed that the new national anthem is an ai cover of Mambo No. 5 but retitled America No. 1 and it is "performed" by an ai simulacra of "one of our nation's greatest presidents, Benjamin Franklin. The money guy."

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️

real cat watching Disney's 'The Aristocats' on teevee, Dutchess is saying "you look lonely"

close up of cat in bisexual lighting with a bandage on its nose looking forelorn

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Ash Gravestoneman 🎃 @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Time to burn my Ed Sheeran cd

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

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