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Gary Jan Aanetsen

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Scouser living in Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴 Liberal atheist watching the world turn to hell. Pro-european

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15h
Men at a Trump rally, punching a woman, beating up a woman. Trumpism, in a nutshell.👇
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 22h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It would be a shame if people started doing this, and make a small dent in their dodgy £72m fund...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🔥 “What did HIS health care book say? Did you read it? He doesn’t have one. I actually write my ideas down… he takes money from Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social eviscerates Mike Rogers on health care, and expertly makes the case for #MedicareForAllNOW
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russian commanders continue executing their own men, according to HUR wiretaps from the Kramatorsk front. When an infantryman stopped moving after barely 150 meters with crippling back pain, his superior dismissed it as malingering and told comrades to simply put a bullet in his skull.
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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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Gary Jan Aanetsen @garyaanetsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump sanctions the ICC, whose goal is to prosecute war crimes & then does an oil deal with a war criminal. Do people not remember what a world of no rules & great power rivalry led to? Speaking as a European who’s 2 grandfathers fought in both WW1 & WW2, I can tell you this shit does not end well
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“AGAIN”
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Traitors Alert: Two top Trump advisers, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, traveled to Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Russia-aligned government while simultaneously leading Republican efforts for the U.S. midterms.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Minerva47874627.bsky.social @minerva47874627.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This👇. Idaho might want to revisit their religious exemptions that have led to the deaths of at least three children who will never grow up to live their lives.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security: "[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why most women of social media choose the bear
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
​This is 2-year-old Tymofii and his 39-year-old mother, Nataliia Horbachenko, russia killed them both on September 19 with drone strike on their home in a village of Hlevakha in Kyiv Region 💔🕯 ​Nataliia leaves behind her husband and two young daughters. Little Tymofii would have turned 3 on Oct 17.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
. This also happened on 9/11: When US airspace was closed, Canada took in 33,000 passengers from over 230 planes... . . . local residents brought food, blankets and clothing. Across Canada, communities open their doors. 🇨🇦
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's not a real political party, folks It just isn't
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OTD in 1939 USSR sent congratulations to Nazi Germany for their conquest of Warsaw. Imagine today Russia being aligned with the German far right..
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Haaretz: A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel.

Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A young German man appears to give a Nazi salute at the AfD election-night celebration in Magdeburg on September 6, after the party’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt 😳
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Gary Jan Aanetsen @garyaanetsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A long watch, but worth it youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA?...
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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not just that assault either. Bloke in the white shirt sticks the boot in on another protester.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Imperialist Delusions and the Price of Fuel
Trump and Bessent tried to betray Ukraine. Now they don’t have any cards.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some 50 million pheasants are released into the countryside annually. Now DEFRA have opened a Call for Evidence on gamebird rearing, releasing & shooting, it’s vital that the public input - because you can be sure that the shooting industry will do so: consultations.defra.gov.uk/call-for-evi...
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Call for Evidence on Gamebird Release, Shooting and Welfare during Rearing in England
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking evidence on the environmental and animal health and welfare impacts of gamebird rea...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Wowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Manufacturers are rolling out models that heat up at times when power is cheap, fit into tighter spaces, and aggressively cut energy bills." via Abby Resnick www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...
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Heat-pump water heaters just keep getting better
Manufacturers are rolling out models that heat up at times when power is cheap, fit into tighter spaces, and aggressively cut energy bills.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: The Annexation Papers. What Trump/Lutnick Actually Demanded From Canada Behind Closed Doors, Why It Was Never A Trade Deal, And Why He’s About To Enter The Find-Out Portion Of The Program. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: The Annexation Papers. What Trump/Lutnick Actually Demanded From Canada Behind Closed Doors, Why It Was Never A Trade Deal, And Why He’s About To Enter The Find-Out Portion Of The Program
The snapback clause was the least offensive thing in that document. The verified list of American demands reads like articles of surrender. Now Carney is going to punch him in the mouth.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Staggering. Microsoft provided the US GOV emails, minutes, & invitations sent by (Dutch) civil servants without even redacting their names in the documents 🇺🇸 tech companies are required to share data with 🇺🇸 gov due to the Cloud Act in force in that country.” These weren’t emails TO Microsoft!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why destroy them, though? I mean, we can't really stop them from letting the AI read the books, but why not give them to a library or even Goodwill when they're done? WTF is wrong with these people?
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.
Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning BritainLiddle was a freedom fighter
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Still gobsmacking that Andy Burnhams response to the deaths from the climate crisis has been to pledge to try & stop the sale of single use barbeques. A monumental mistake. Time to do the right thing. Fund our firefighters & say no to new oil & gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Essex Police's full statement amid Farage no-show at Clacton poll count
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Essex Police's full statement amid Farage no-show at Clacton poll count
By not turning up, Mr Farage avoided embarrassing photos being taken of him next to Count Binface
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All the signs are that Burnham is determined to ignore climate breakdown and its devastating consequences for the UK, and to row back on climate action This is criminally negligent and despicable www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwaves
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