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🏳️‍🌈 Member of Woke 2.0 ⚖️ End US Oligarchy 💸 End Rent-seeking 🍉 Free Palestine 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 🧠 Free Therapy for All 🩻 Medicare for All NYC -> ATL ☕ gatherer@coinos.io

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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It’s time for Barack Obama to get over his reluctance to support Angie Nixon.
NPR article headline from 2024: Obama, in blunt terms, tells Black men to get over their reluctance to support Harris
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ya know, I’ve given Crocket shit for refusing to explicitly endorse Talarico, but do you know who deserves more shit? Janet Mills. First, she runs the worst campaign of all time, basically gifting the race to the nazi tattoo guy. now, she is refusing to endorse Troy Jackson. tf is wrong with her?
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No one told me cottage cheese was just ricotta cheese with boba! It’s tapioca starch! 🧋
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Photo of Amy Klobuchar with BROW FURROWED in a Dark Souls title overlay
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Troy Johnson @troyjohnson

You: "I'm only 35, I have my whole life ahead of me."

Sports Broadcaster: "Here comes the oldest player in the league. He's 32. A miracle."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: NEW YORK (AP) - Judge orders Trump administration to cancel taxpayer-funded TV ads that promote his political message.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I learned recently that 15% of the country is full blown fascist, they rejoice in the cruelty & think Trump is the greatest President ever, nothing he does can change that. The remaining 15% of the country who approve of him have incoherent politics and don’t know they are being lied to.
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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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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Romans called such efforts to distract a restless public “Bread and Circuses.”
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
erininthemorning.com
Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Reporter” this is such a Fox News hack question.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who benefits from a government openly trying to normalize violence committed by the state towards its own citizens?
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Billionaire class already know they are hated for benefiting disproportionately from this economy so they just do a bit of PR from time to time in an attempt to quell the masses. That’s all this is, PR.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I spoke to a Zoomer in his sophomore year of college. He said everyone uses AI for creating study guides etc. He also said it’s making the smart smarter and the dumb dumber.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Primary season is not over yet! Jimmy Gomez the AIPAC-shill do nothing democrat can be defeated Angela Gonzales-Torres should be California’s first DSA congresswoman!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
💯
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The spread of the US brand of Evangelical Christianity in Brazil is more at fault here than anything else.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear really cute blond himbo server at the Italian restaurant with massive biceps… may our paths cross again… may our fates one day enmesh… and if not, may you find the greatest of happiness and love…
Cat who must depart his beloved
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The National Guard said he was armed and facing them, we learned none of that is true and yet this story has received no national news coverage.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cousin just had a baby wasian girl named Naomi 👶!
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would rock some tweed pants rn
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.
A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The vast majority of Americans still have no idea that this regime is putting children on trial in kangaroo courts without representation or public defenders.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Endless building plot sized piles of rubble and each pile is a mass grave.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
pov: you have just spawned outside the town center and must now gather wood
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are the games that have had the biggest impact on my life. Civ 2 was actually my dad’s copy of the game. He never picked up a video game once in his life but he had Civ 2. Can you tell I was a huge nerd?
9 box covers of the most influential games played. Factorio, WoW, Skyrim, The Sims, Starcraft, Alpha Centauri, Civilization 2, 3 & 5
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s called resting bitch face
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LETS GO NYC ✊
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So if you are on probation you can’t vote but if you are convicted of 30 felonies you can run the country. Got it.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But what I still think is missing from the conversation is that there is a universal desire among the oligarchs to move to a post-labor society. All this AI and automation technology is ultimately about bypassing and further marginalizing the working class.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Democracy Now is the best outlet for serious coverage of AI
youtu.be
"Gilded Rage": Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump's AI Policies
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not just social policy, literally any policy.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case anyone thought the AI bubble was popping. It’s not, it’s still growing.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While I think Mamdani should have ordered Netanyahu’s arrest and put him on a plane to the Hague before anyone could react. The issue is that would have required planning and the NYPD would have leaked it.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May this be the beginning of the end for all this gambling horseshit.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
The cervical punch biopsy and colposcopy was easily the worst pain I’ve felt in my entire life.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tell me the system is broken without telling me the system is broken.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/09/2026
Mascot Doing Fentanyl Fold
Mascot Doing Fentanyl Fold
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kind of a big deal that the Republican Senate candidates are refusing to debate in Florida and Michigan and the Trump regime has not been asked a single question about it. What is the point of sending reporters to the White House if they can’t ask basic questions to begin with?
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Angie Nixon is tied with Ashley Moody right now but we have over a month to go!
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ɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s not a belief, this isn’t a religion, and it’s not broken either. It’s working as intended by those who designed it. Let’s be more precise in our language please. For example: “This is why so many Americans understand correctly that our political & economic system is not serving them.”
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