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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

They should try jumping out of a plane without a parachute. I’m sure AI will build them jet-boots on the way down. Trust in the process, guys! Have faith.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

General observation that goes beyond this statement: I think corporate-speak is a blight, and not only politically unappealing but also has a tendency to (sorry) normalize the torrent of shit being hurled at us. There's a way to speak plainly and forcefully that isn't boorish OR sterile

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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

After someone said "Hail Satan," an Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city." www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1h

It's so funny that this was the post right below yours in my feed but Satanic curses are the thing they're worried about. bsky.app/profile/sent...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10h

Christopher & Georgianne Walken have been married 57yrs.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3h

who is gonna stop him? we have two center right parties; and when the one party that isn't as fascist has terrible things happen to the few good people in it, the rest of the party doesn't muster anything more than a Susan Collinsesque email statement they had chatgpt whip up.

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 3h

Leaving work to go home on a Monday, as told by Penelope

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h

meanwhile they’re trying to convince california voters to vote against a wealth tax. fuck off with that.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h

historically high spend and this is how much of his net worth it is

google search showing that $276 million is 0.0276% of $1 trillion and proving why we so desperately need a wealth tax

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 8h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 7h

BTW, the reason these guys get so offended when Trump etc is accurately called a racist/rapist/criminal is because they knew all of this and voted for him anyway. They know where the party they spent their lives defending is now and they’re afraid of how it reflects on them. That’s the whole thing.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 7h

If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had shown, in his entire career, even a tenth of the courage and care @ilhanmn.bsky.social shows every single day, I’d have more hope for this party and this country. Instead we have a corporate-padded coward writing mildly worded letters as we drive off a cliff.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This David Brooks?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Welp!? @geez3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thank you for posting this!

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Welp!? @geez3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh no! I hope everything is okay.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you're a reporter asking a candidate to denounce a foreign terrorist group simply because he shares the same religion, you are a gutter bigot of the worst fucking kind. Do they ask Mike Rogers to denounce Christian terrorists like Tim McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and Robert Lewis Dear? No? Huh

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was 94° at 10am in Bakersfield CA as workers cut and packed Asian vegetables into produce boxes. This fast paced work in an open field is grueling as it means a lot of bending and by the end of the day workers tell us their back aches. #WeFeedYou

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All that money electing politicians who will cut their taxes and slash benefits for everyone else. They’re definitely going to use AI to help everyone out though, they really mean it this time bsky.app/profile/rbre...

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here we see wild deer snails in their native environment.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ahab is shaking crying throwing up

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026

waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s long past time for the U.S. to get a new president.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026

Fmr ambassador of Poland to US.

Marek Magierowski • @mmagierowski
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It's about time to stop fooling ourselves.

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Former - ambassador to E & E
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026

It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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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
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

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What it's like to witness a botched execution

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A live-streamed execution will also serve as a threat to keep internal actors in line. In addition to being obscene, it’s a threat targeting us, in other words.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor

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