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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 21h
Our government. Is being dismantled by franken-boomers
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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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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The nursing homes are gonna be LIT in about 40 yrs
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Listening to Half on a Sack while I drink my morning protein and take my calcium pill… This is elder Millenial middle age.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We should try letting smart people be in charge. Just for fun, one time.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vote @ginafortexas.bsky.social The lives of children quite seriously depend on it.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey, anyone remember this? Seems relevant. I used to be a PM for a company that built these PLC’s. Not really enterprise level alternatives to the brands of hardware listed here. Seems relevant. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
cisa.gov
Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure | CISA
U.S. organizations should review the TTPs and IOCs in this advisory for indications of current or historical activity on their networks, and apply the recommendations listed in this advisory to reduce...
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He has to signal to them that they need to love it when that increase comes. They’re just waiting for their cues.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve seen enough. Ms. Rachel 2028
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oreo Speedwagon
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Spending my early 40’s learning that straightforward pathways were always a mirage. Starting to understand old folks talking about life being a series of ups/downs and learning to appreciate both for what they are. It can be pretty rewarding digging out of a hole with the right folks around you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rumors are circulating that Republicans are pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to adjourn Congress before the midterms. Why? They do not want to vote on stopping the war in Iran, allowing prosecutions against the Epstein class, or banning federal funding of Flock cameras.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s not like these people would actually have real life sex with anyone they crank it to, anyways. They’d call them slurs for making the porn they themselves are patrons of. It’s all sexual repression-based self hate projected onto others who have the ability to just be normal.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m convinced Conservatism is almost entirely sex (and sexual repression) based. I’m 100% convinced that most anti-trans men have simply trolled Pornhub, cranking it to a hot chick before the camera panned down and they saw a peen and hate themselves for it instead of just moving on like a normie.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sometimes you just have to be like "no, not really"
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Another imbalance that's really reflected in the Hasan Piker freakout in that it is objectively worse to be endorsed by Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and Elon Musk, a completely out white supremacist
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bill Maher 2.0
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
At no point was this ever a discussion to Cottle. Her tone, temper, and actions were of a condescending know-it-all scolding and correcting what she viewed two inferiors (of which she clearly thought Jamelle was the worst) despite her bringing precisely zero factual analysis to the table.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This did not work out well.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I drive a truck in Texas and I support this 100%
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
stripes.com
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If the ballroom gets built, the next President should just start knocking down the Supreme Court building one day. Throw up some cubicles in the ballroom and tell them they can work out of there until a new one is built.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also, feeding your family a single meal for $20 isn’t a realistic budget for a huge number of people.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Seems like every story I read about DSA candidates overanalyzes the whole DSA vs. mainline Dem dynamic when it really comes down to “knocking on doors and asking other humans what they want from their representatives.”
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Who are we worried about not voting for AES? Is it DSA members?
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I was always a “there’s a bathroom on the right” CCR guy.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Another bartender at the place I worked in college thought Bodies by Drowning Pool was saying “Let the bicycle go” and now it’s the only way I can hear it.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Let the tonic and lime in…. It’s time.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Laundry and dishes….
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
These people have to stop referring to 3rd way as centrist Dems for a catchy headline. That’s not what they are.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My brain can never close parenthesis when I’m typing quickly.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There’s a show called Afflicted on NF where they follow people with mystery illnesses. One of the girls on the show will only eat white foods (boiled chicken, rice, etc. This immediately made me think of that.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you do this while holding a coffee, you can also tell people what to do.
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
All it takes it a touch of grey
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Fresh Prince
ALT: Fresh Prince
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We all saw the Shrek crystal. Clearly there are dozens, if not hundreds of dollars to be made.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ross Perot won a presidential election for Bill Clinton 34 years ago and James Carville is still taking credit for it
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Hot Squirrel Summer @fbird55.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I do this with diet Dr. Pepper and regular Dr. Pepper, too. Topping 90% diet with full-lead soda is the way.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17/07/2026
I just listened to a panel with David French and someone from the Brennan Center vociferously argue against expanding the Court. French said it would lead to “the dissolution of the republic.” About a third of the audience applauded. We need to get a policy culture that’s willing to do what it takes
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