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CBF @cblessings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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fraumorris.bsky.social @fraumorris.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Whatever happened to punching Nazis? If it’s good enough for Captain America …

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve never liked Gavin Newsom so I appreciate that he’s done all he can to tank his presidential chances. Maybe go punch a baby just to seal the deal?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When they put genAI in schools 🤖🤬

Cartoon
Panel 1: A bald mustached guy: students, our school's values are integrity, honesty, keginiality, and taking care of the earth.
Panel 2: same: and to teach more about that I'm proud to present....
Panel 3: a huge robot with smokestack back, case that says Other People's Shit and a jug that says All the Water.
Guy: prodeasoe Deathgargle Von Stealyorshit McPoisonstacks III!

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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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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump accounts bought bonds tied to a Georgia coal plant. 57 days later,he exempted it from stricter pollution rules. His money is tied to a plant he can let pollute more. Families shouldn’t have to wonder whether their lungs lost to his wallet. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Long before Hollywood made “Argo” Canadian diplomats put their own safety on the line to help six Americans escape revolutionary Iran. ~ A Canadian Outlook

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 08/10/2026

Nidal is Palestinian.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 08/09/2026

The USPS is intentionally disenfranchising WA voters by delaying postmarks on mail-in ballots, resulting in a 32% increase in ballots invalidated as late in the 2026 primary compared to 2024. “In some rural areas of the state, up to 5% of the ballots were postmarked late.”

seattletimes.com

As Trump turns up heat to disrupt vote by mail, courts should resist | Editorial

Responsibility for elections belongs to the states.

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was a pleasure to sit for this interview about the strategic and moral catastrophe awaiting us all if the left abandons its focus on combating the repressive apparatus of the state.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is one consequence of the left not being clear about reducing budgets for state repression. Every Democratic Party politician going on about “training” and “body cams” and every Jacobin author vaguely saying the left should not talk about repressive budgets leads to this:

Daily ICE arrests soar for people with no criminal record and ice getting closer to goal of 2,000 arrests per day

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time you hear a pundit or a politician mindlessly lying to you that they need to support current spending on prisons to "win elections" (even though supermajority prefers shifting $ to social services), remember they are supporting a system fully oriented toward doing this:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026

It's not subtle!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026

It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The public supports shifting $$ away from bureaucracies of repression to social services. This is supermajority winning position for the left. Instead pundits are pretending we must embrace fascism b/c people were polarized around a slogan they don't like.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is no moral, empirical, or politically strategic argument for the left to support existing expenditures on the bureaucracies of repression. Anyone telling you candidates must pretend to support extant budget allocations between repression and care is not being serious. bsky.app/profile/equa...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With all the talk on the center-left about supposedly needing to commit to existing levels of repression by preserving existing police, prison, and surveillance budgets, everyone seems to be forgetting ICE's new detention budget is 60% greater than entire federal prison system.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There are people writing in Jacobin magazine who are telling socialists not to oppose police contracts for stuff like this giving money to people like this.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Giving this another boost. Getting buried in LA is expensive and Reggie really was one of the best in the scene. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A common tactic--including in the pages of Jacobin magazine--is to pretend to complain about the "slogan" of "defund" and to use that complaint to avoid conversation about common sense and popular policies like transferring $$$ from cops to health, education, and housing.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Almost everything you are hearing in mainstream news about the supposed lack of popularity of progressive policies on police and prisons is a lie. Shifting resources from police/punishment to social services is one of the most consistently popular policies polled for 40 years.

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Yeusepe @yucp.club · 10/08/2026

Please help out however you can. The west of Colombia, my home, was struck by a big 7.4 earthquake. I’m alright, but the epicenter was hit hard. People are missing and injured, and hospitals urgently need help. I’ll share updates as they come. Donate: www.cruzrojacolombiana.org/dona-dinero/

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Dona Dinero y Salva Vidas Cruz Roja Colombiana

Dona dinero a la Cruz Roja Colombiana y apoya nuestra labor humanitaria. Tu aporte económico nos permite salvar vidas y atender emergencias.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/08/2026

A bill in Congress aims to dismantle UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. It is part of a coordinated campaign to eliminate the possibility of justice for Palestinian refugees. Palestinians must resist before it's too late. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/a-ca...

mondoweiss.net

A campaign is underway to erase the Palestinian refugee question once and for all. Palestinians must resist.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This billionaire is accidentally making the case for why we need a wealth tax better than anyone else could.

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Harlan @harlanworld.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I urge you to read my article linked about about these "moderates" and the repression they advocate. Ask yourself if that unhinged violence is "moderate," and ask yourself if the groups making billions from the blood and suffering the policies cause are "moderate supporters."

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm not making any specific rec for how these groups are described, if indeed it is necessary to have a shorthand for them (corporate Democrats, right-wing Democrats, or further-right democrats, etc.) There are a lot, and such choices involve editorial judgment--that's my point.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We see this over and over again in *news* articles. And it's important to see: there is no need for a news organization to use that kind of editorializing term at all. Plenty of other terms could have been chosen with greater accuracy.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It was very important for these powerful interests that some of the worst, most unpopular, discredited, and extreme ideas are *characterized* and *Framed* as "moderate" or even "progressive." This is an extremely important part of propaganda targeted at low-information liberals.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In my copaganda book I told the story of how the now NYT SF bureau chief gratuitously inserted the word "progressive" to describe the far-right disgraced lawyer leading the recall of the progressive DA, even as she prepared to seek the DA office herself on a far right, evidence-denying platform.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And again, NYT lets "supporters" portray their support as genuine care for "electability" against far right. I cannot find a NYT article in which the framing suggests the truth: they support her for the substance of what she will deliver for them, not magnanimous care for all of us.

Ms. Craig’s supporters have argued that the congresswoman would be a safer choice for Democrats in November. “Electability is probably the No. 1 factor,” said Joe Radinovich, a Democratic strategist in Minnesota who is not involved in the race but views Ms. Craig as the better general-election candidate.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

To take one of many other examples, she's also an enthusiastic and avid supporter of sending money and weapons to a military committing a genocide (among many other crimes against humanity) according to international consensus. We can never let them normalize what that means.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And Angie Craig is a good example. I actually used her as an example before, because she supported giving Trump and ICE some of the most extreme and grotesque powers imaginable to evade due process and separate children from parents: equalityalec.substack.com/publish/post...

equalityalec.substack.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As with many NYT articles, NYT surgically excludes the kinds of salient details that would convey to readers exactly *who* we are euphemistically talking about in terms of the "supporters" of "moderates": some of the most unpopular and evil institutions: bsky.app/profile/equa...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today's article about the MN senate campaign contains a lot of shameful stuff, but one glaring thing to explore is why the paper has chosen the word "moderates" to describe people like Angie Craig and, more interestingly, the group of sociopathic monied interests supporting her.

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