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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am a landlady. I'm v. keen to install air2air heat pumps in 2 small all-electric London flats I own, for which the tech would be perfect. My tenants enjoy low rent, they'd be happier still on low bills! I don't mind paying without subsidies. But Planning laws & management companies won't let me.
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Everybody who for whatever reason – treason, stupidity, money – wants to weaken Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia is acting clearly against its own nation, sovereignty, and security,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Warsaw Security Forum.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be clear I’m not calling on Zack to step down. Today he's indicated he shares some of my concerns on the Zionism motion & I welcome that. Now the party needs to come together to urgently make our processes more robust & inclusive & take action to show Jewish members our party is safe for them
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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
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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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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement": "You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other,
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The American president is working for the Kremlin. Russia lost the Cold War, and they are likely losing the war against Ukraine, but they have conquered the US. A massive strategic feat. This will be Trump’s enduring legacy: The president who sacrificed American independence to Russia. Willingly.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/2🧵 #Russia ⚠️Entry 26 in THE KRASNOV COUNT⚠️ #Trump 's ballroom was financed with Russian money, with links to Manafort and #Putin. Manafort was a key figure in Russia's documented interference in the 2016 US presidential election aimed at getting Trump elected. Full circle. ⤵️
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have the technology! #wheelchair
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
US is lifting sactions on Russia, and underscoring my cathegorization of US as a PARTNER of Russia. This is happening under the guise of a deal between the US and Belarus,...⤵️ @financialtimes.com @a-mackinnon.bsky.social @alicemhancock.bsky.social
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US to receive potash shipment from Belarus as relations thaw
Washington has begun to ease sanctions on Minsk in exchange for the release of political prisoners
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truth 👇
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe, the UK's richest man who bankrolled Brexit, then became an immigrant in Monaco to avoid British taxes thinks migrants not tax avoiding billionaires are to blame for all the UK's ills "Coming from the man who moved to Monaco to dodge a £4 billion tax bill" via Zarah Sultana
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moscow residents are providing some spectacular views today: the Moscow Oil Refinery burning at several points, thick smoke hanging over the city, and fires visible across the industrial area. Quite a backdrop for the final day of Russia’s parliamentary elections.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” — Elie Wiesel I’ve spent a lot of time playing music on the road, and have been performing with the “opening act” many times. Each
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview transcript
As Russia's war with Ukraine continues, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits down with Scott Pelley to discuss U.S. support for Ukraine, the war, the Oval Office meeting, and the latest attacks on civil...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.
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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm reading this about the USA and know it's #fascism.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And the claim that Harborne is suing Ben Habib over? That the 2019 election was a monetary stitch-up between Farage, Johnson & Harborne. If you haven’t read @thenerve.news’s independent investigation into those events, now’s surely the time.👇 9/ www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...
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Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?
Part two of the Harborne Receipts, the Nerve’s investigation into the billionaire's influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit p...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The US has a dark history of unaccountability.
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Will the organiser of the domestic terrorism that has started to blockage British ports, Danny Thomas, encouraging agitators, or the the band of merry thugs participating be traced down, charged & proscribed by the authorities in the same way apparent extreme left wing organisations seem to be"
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🇺🇦🚀 Zelensky: Our Ukrainian anti-ballistic system will be ready in the near future. American side will increase next year the production volumes of anti-ballistic Patriot missiles. And we expect that, in any case, God willing, the war will end, but we will still need them.
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”--US Senator Carl Schurz (R-MO), 1871.
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Kasey Jones @nikitairoh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 6/13 🚶‍♂️ Six weeks ago, Burnham walks into Downing Street. Same day our lawyers wrote to the Government. 👉 bsky.app/profile/dran... 🗣️ The reply: the carbon budget is "a matter for the Secretary of State". Yes, obvious. But the Govt withheld vital information that we asked for - on how he decided
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 4/13 🏛️ This summer, after a thinly attended debate, the Govt wrote law enabling the UK to still emit millions of tonnes of CO2 a year in sixteen years time 🙏 Thank you to MPs who turned up @mpwatch.bsky.social 💷 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world/p...
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Political opinion with John Milne MP: North Sea oil not a solution to energy security
See the latest news from Your World at https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌐 Rio 1992: rich countries promised to prevent dangerous climate change 🥵 34 years on, dangerous CC is here. 🤔 UK sets its carbon budget for the "safe" world that no longer exists. We are going to Court to change that 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... ♻️ See 🧵 👇 bsky.app/profile/dran...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What a surprise, NOT. US #BigTobacco funding Reform. "The stand is operated by We Vape, a group funded in part by US pro-tobacco pressure group Consumer Choice Center." We need to get #BigMoney out of politics www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform UK gives vape lobbyists funded by US group prime spot at conference
EXCLUSIVE: A stand bearing the slogan "Labour's inconvenience store" was placed at the entry of the conference, seen by thousands of people on their way in and out of the event
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Billie Wahlstrom @bwahlstrom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m surprised and disappointed that no one has the courage to release the Epstein files.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Note to #r4today No need to studiously avoid mentioning Farage. As FT confirms: “Does this affect Farage directly? Yes. The sting shows Farage meeting the fake father and son after the polls were published” And thanking them both for the proposed donation. Guilty. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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What are the latest claims against Nigel Farage?
A sting operation has abruptly overturned the Reform UK leader’s attempt to put financing scandals behind him
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
American workers are taking home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.
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greytdog @greytdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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hrobak67NAFO💙 SUPPORT 🇺🇦 💛 @hrobak67.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Proud parents watching & cheering! Make no mistake, russia's brutal imperialism is not a Putin issue, but rooted in their cultural DNA. It cannot be stated often enough: to remove russia (Moscow) as a threat, it needs to lose control of all its colonies, implying a dismantling of 🇷🇺.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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