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Friend and writer, activist and mom. The blue triangle means I stand with immigrants. (She/her) #BlackLivesMatter #LGBTQ #IStandWithCanada

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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 2h
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My Visit to the Middle East: Four Takeaways
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 20h
Another reason to make sure no one builds a data center in your backyard.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 20h
Preach
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This impression is wildly accurate @nbcsnl.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Marry us
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#stclairashley absolutely correct…she is so well spoken
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THIS EVERY DAY ✊
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 23h
Millions of virtual Trump supporters in those buildings. Sad not sad.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 June 11, 1967: A White police officer shoots and kills a Black teen, igniting the Tampa Bay Riots— 4 days of violence that reshaped the city forever. Here's the story. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 23h
NYTimes framing, at least via the headline, of this a a societal shift rather than the effects of a fascist party’s intentional tactics is complicity.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Lewi Whalberg @anno1540.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
1/2 This photo must be seen by the entire world so people understand what Russia truly is. A mother is holding her child as tightly as she can, trying to shield them with her own body while Russia drops guided аerial bоmbs on Sumy.🙏💔
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11/10/2026
🔴 Zelenskyy: “It is possible to stop strikes on energy infrastructure as early as today, but Putin does not want to do so.” 🔗 united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I so appreciate Angie Nixon saying exactly what needs to be said.
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In case we needed another reason to oppose data centers being built in our communities...
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nadaburger.bsky.social @nadaburger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
by far the funniest thing I have read today...
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NEW EPISODE: Trump's election denier allies are begging him to take over voting machines and ballots, a judge shut down DOJ’s voter data program and ICE investigated hundreds of voter registration groups. I explain it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wm0...
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Election Deniers Beg Trump to HIJACK Voting Machines
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/10/2026
Trump isn’t good at keeping secrets, Marc Elias says. “Donald Trump usually tells us exactly how he is going to try to subvert democracy.” Your vote is a target. Keep watch: demdock.com/3TOn1e8
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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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...
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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Listen to every word
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
ICE can’t be reformed. It must be eliminated. #AbolishICE *
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Similar lessons being learned by the sciences.
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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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
This has to be an 8th Amendment violation. Don't forget that everyone in the US, even visitors, are protected by the Constitution.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026
Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauM
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NEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic Party
Zeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My oldest daughter, who is also an attorney, has said these things to me as well. When your life is built around the law, all of these blatant criminal acts must be even more frustrating.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
Don’t forget: billionaires are using their grip on social media and the news to convince us that peaceful protests don’t work, our vote doesn’t matter, and that both parties are the same. They’re spending billions on it.
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Florida judiciary is a laughing stock lapdog. Shameful public cover for rank corruption.
Headline from the Tampa Bay Times 10-8-26, reading “Hope Florida grand jury erred, judges rule, ordering report expunged”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Arizona Star is doing stand-out reporting on the plight of Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix (since he was 4). ICE paid $7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea, a repressive dictatorship with a history of torture, to send him and others there. Now he's been tortured. 1/2 tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Six key points on the ‘retaliatory’ arrest of a Phoenix man deported to Africa
The Arizona Daily Star has been reporting on the plight of dozens of people imprisoned at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, including one man who grew up in Phoenix,
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And now the Arizona Star reports: "Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation." The judge, a Trump appointee, cited news reports in his order. Journalism FTW! tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Florida Mom @floridamom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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An Experimental Nuclear Data Center on 9000 Acres of Public Lands in Utah
YouTube video by Caroline Gleich
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped set off the Delaney Hall hunger strike, is free. "I don’t have words,” he said while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...
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Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
ELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — “I don’t have words,” Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said, in Spanish, while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed i...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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